Talent Advisory

We review your key HR, talent management, and talent development areas. We work with your team to assess current processes, find strengths, and spot gaps. Then, we create a custom plan to align HR with your business goals, improving talent management and supporting lasting growth.

We take a holistic approach, meaning, even when we are focusing on a specific area, we make sure we understand your full HR approach and employee lifecycle. This way, we can ensure we find alignment, and support you with better insights.

Sound Talent Strategies' founder having a discussion with 3 key leaders, as they review a People Strategy framework.

What do you need help with?

  • Build the team that drives your growth.

    We help you develop a workforce planning strategy to:

    • Assess your current hiring and staffing process to find gaps and opportunities

    • Forecast staffing needs based on your goals and growth plans

    • Attract the right talent with a smart, scalable recruitment and hiring strategy

    • Develop onboarding strategies so new hires can be productive from day one

  • Ensure you are attracting, retaining, and motivating your talent with a strategic compensation and total rewards strategy.

    We help you craft a strategy that includes:

    • Review your current compensation practices to identify strengths and gaps

    • Develop clear, competitive compensation guidelines aligned with your goals

    • Build a total rewards strategy that balances pay, benefits, and recognition

    • Ensure your total compensation and rewards strategy is aligned with your talent management approach

  • Strengthen your workforce with a clear path for growth and a consistent approach to encouraging strong performance.

    We help you develop a strategy to better:

    • Assess current performance and advancement practices to identify gaps and opportunities

    • Develop a structured talent strategy that supports internal mobility and long-term retention

    • Define job roles and progression frameworks to guide employee development and career growth

    • Build a performance system that supports your people and scales with your business.

  • Effective leadership starts with well-prepared managers — and investing in their development early is a key factor to long-term organizational success.

    We help you develop a strategy to:

    • Assess your current manager development approach, with a focus on the new manager experience

    • Design a growth strategy tailored to the unique needs of first-time managers

    • Build clear development frameworks that support leadership readiness and long-term success

    • Create a new manager leadership development plan

  • Prepare your next generation of leaders to drive your mission forward and shape your future.

    We help you create a strategy to better:

    • Analyze current leadership capabilities to identify strengths, skill gaps, and development needs

    • Design a future-focused leadership strategy aligned with your organization’s mission, vision, and growth goals

    • Build targeted development frameworks to cultivate high-potential talent and support succession planning

  • Strong executives translate strategy into results — targeted development ensures they lead with clarity, influence, and measurable impact.

    We help you:

    • Assess executive capabilities — evaluate current leadership strengths, gaps, and decision-making effectiveness.

    • Define critical executive competencies — align required skills, behaviors, and mindsets with your strategic priorities.

    • Design personalized development plans — combine executive coaching, peer learning, strategic assignments, and board-level exposure.

    • Measure leadership impact — set KPIs, use 360 feedback, and track progress to demonstrate ROI and refine programs.

  • Ensure leadership continuity and avoid succession uncertainty by identifying the skills and people who will drive your future.

    • Define future leadership requirements — map the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and abilities needed for key roles.

    • Identify internal successors — create a prioritized pool of candidates for critical roles.

    • Develop targeted readiness plans — design stretch assignments, coaching, and learning pathways to close gaps.

  • Not sure which of the above works? Or maybe you are looking for a more tailored plan?

    That works! We’re always open to an introductory call to discuss what you are seeking.

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  • Organizations are accelerating a shift to skills-based talent strategies, which prioritize an individual's capabilities over traditional credentials and provide a more agile, data-driven approach to hiring, developing, and deploying talent.

    Workday Press Release, March 2025

  • Organizations are struggling to deliver on talent needs, and employee and organizational performance are suffering as a result.

    Gartner HR Institute, HR Leaders Are Discussing the Evolution of Talent Management at the Gartner ReimagineHR Conference, September 2024

  • Recent research reveals that companies without a structured talent strategy framework experience 40% higher turnover rates and spend 3x more on recruitment costs compared to organizations with strategic talent management practices in place.

    HRCloud, The Hidden Cost of Talent Chaos: Why 73% of Companies Struggle Without a Strategic Framework, September 2025

  • Studies show that companies where middle managers are guided by a clear sense of purpose tend to generate higher market shares, grow faster, and are more likely to be profitable, while fostering employee engagement and satisfaction.

    Organizational Dynamics, Global Talent Management in an Age of Disruption, September 2025