Clarity on your people strategy before you choose who joins the team
Big moves hinge on people. Yet leaders apply diligence to finance, market, and legal decisions, while leadership often goes unchecked. Apply that same rigor to protect the investment and ensure the team can deliver the brand vision.
Bring the path forward into view
Engage a structured process that answers leadership questions and provides practical guidance for high-impact people decisions.
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Assessment
AssessmentUnderstand what’s really happening inside your team
Assess your leadership and structure objectively. See what’s strong, what’s slowing decisions, and where capability is missing. Get a grounded picture of readiness and the clarity to act decisively.
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Design
DesignSee the future team before it exists
Turn assessment insights into the structure that will bring your vision to life. Define roles, reporting lines, and leadership tied to milestones. Translate ambition into an actionable plan to build the next version of your company.
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Alignment
AlignmentGet leaders moving as one
Once the plan is built, alignment makes it real. Facilitated working sessions unite founders, executives, and investors around shared goals, decision rights, and ownership by role. The result is a team that acts in sync and turns strategy into execution.
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Transition
TransitionEvolve leadership without disruption
Get support for sensitive shifts such as founder succession, CEO onboarding, or post-acquisition change. With a transition roadmap and coaching, protect culture, elevate performance, and guide leadership to the next stage.
Understand what’s really happening inside your team
Assess your leadership and structure objectively. See what’s strong, what’s slowing decisions, and where capability is missing. Get a grounded picture of readiness and the clarity to act decisively.
See the future team before it exists
Turn assessment insights into the structure that will bring your vision to life. Define roles, reporting lines, and leadership tied to milestones. Translate ambition into an actionable plan to build the next version of your company.
Get leaders moving as one
Once the plan is built, alignment makes it real. Facilitated working sessions unite founders, executives, and investors around shared goals, decision rights, and ownership by role. The result is a team that acts in sync and turns strategy into execution.
Evolve leadership without disruption
Get support for sensitive shifts such as founder succession, CEO onboarding, or post-acquisition change. With a transition roadmap and coaching, protect culture, elevate performance, and guide leadership to the next stage.
- Leadership Diligence Scorecard™
- Org Design & Role Definition Workshop
- Right Seat Audit™
- Scalability Forecast™
- AI Readiness Snapshot™
Purpose-built frameworks. Actionable insights.
Use a proven toolkit to turn insight into action. Gain perspective, align your priorities, and leave with a clear, actionable plan to move your vision forward.
Designed for every seat at the table
Whether you're leading, investing, or operating, each engagement offers insights and structure to support your goals.
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Founders
FoundersHonor the past, prepare for what’s next
Talent Advisory supports founders in evolving their roles without losing their unique mark. It helps define succession plans, reinforce leadership, and ensure the company's growth continues while preserving what they've built.
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CEOs
CEOsEnsure performance can scale
Talent Advisory helps CEOs grasp what’s slowing the plan, whether it's roles, decisions, or people, and what to change to maintain performance and momentum.
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Investors
InvestorsEvaluate leadership to protect investment and valuation
Through a rigorous evaluation of executive strength and potential, investors gain insight into the people dynamics that determine outcomes. Talent Advisory verifies leadership capability, aligns teams with strategic intent, and protects investment value.
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Operational leaders
Operational leadersInspire a unified, results-driven force
Talent Advisory working sessions equip senior teams with a defined operating model. By clarifying decision rights, responsibilities, and priorities, leaders align around what matters most, driving faster execution and reducing stalls.
Honor the past, prepare for what’s next
Talent Advisory supports founders in evolving their roles without losing their unique mark. It helps define succession plans, reinforce leadership, and ensure the company's growth continues while preserving what they've built.
Ensure performance can scale
Talent Advisory helps CEOs grasp what’s slowing the plan, whether it's roles, decisions, or people, and what to change to maintain performance and momentum.
Evaluate leadership to protect investment and valuation
Through a rigorous evaluation of executive strength and potential, investors gain insight into the people dynamics that determine outcomes. Talent Advisory verifies leadership capability, aligns teams with strategic intent, and protects investment value.
Inspire a unified, results-driven force
Talent Advisory working sessions equip senior teams with a defined operating model. By clarifying decision rights, responsibilities, and priorities, leaders align around what matters most, driving faster execution and reducing stalls.
Key information for leaders
People decisions with real weight raise deep questions. Advisory applies a process that reveals current realities, anticipates future needs, and offers tools for confident progress.
What can I expect from Talent Advisory services from ForceBrands?
Each engagement delivers tangible outcomes tailored to your culture and business goals: succession pathways, role definitions, organization charts, transition roadmaps, and a customized playbook. These are actionable blueprints that enable immediate decision-making, not reports that gather dust.
How does Talent Advisory relate to hiring?
It makes hiring decisions smarter and better timed. By linking business goals to structure and what’s happening inside the organization, it shows which roles are essential now, which can wait, and how each position supports performance. When new hires are part of the solution, the same partner moves directly into search or staffing with full context. It also prepares your people strategy for shifts (like AI) and impact on roles and skills.
Can we commit without losing momentum?
Yes. This work keeps the business moving while you fix what’s slowing it down. In a few fast-turn sessions, we map how the team operates today, flag gaps in roles or decision flow, and outline what to adjust next so execution stays on track.
How is Talent Advisory from ForceBrands different from conventional business consulting?
We’ve lived the same transitions our clients face. ForceBrands evolved from a founder-led consumer brand to a firm that now supports them. We’ve partnered with hundreds of leaders through the realities of launch, scale, succession, and change. That lived experience, combined with the rigor of structured assessment, makes our guidance practical and immediately useful. Because advisory and strategic hiring live under one roof, every recommendation connects directly to people decisions you can make and act on fast.
Resources for smarter leadership decisions
Why Leadership Assessments Are Essential to Maximizing Exit Value in Private Equity
The Three-Year Rule of Innovation
When Loyalty Becomes a Leadership Trap
Move faster in the right direction with the right team
A well-structured pause has tremendous power. Gain the perspective and tools to make people decisions that result in stronger teams, steadier growth, and lasting value.