Talent solutions, built around strengths

Growing companies need senior HR judgment long before they can justify a full HR department. Talent consulting gives you fractional access to experienced HR leadership: the strategy, the structure, and the people decisions that keep growth on track.

We work as an extension of your leadership team, with the experience, knowledge, and flexibility to meet your company where it is and scale as it grows.

• Fractional HR leadership scaled to your stage and budget
• Talent strategy aligned to business goals
• People processes, policies, and structure that hold up under growth
• Hands-on partnership through change, not a report and a handshake

How a company handles departures says everything about how it treats people. Our outplacement support gives departing employees dignity and real momentum: a strengths certified coach in their corner, a sharpened resume, and a plan for the next role.

It also protects the people who stay, and the reputation you have worked to build. As the only talent and outplacement firm with 100% Strengths Certified Coaches, we help people leave stronger than they arrived.

• One on one coaching with a strengths certified coach
• Resume optimization and positioning for the next role
• Interview preparation and job search strategy
• Support structured around each person, not a generic program

Every new leader inherits a team with history, expectations, and unspoken questions. Left alone, those questions take months to surface. Our assimilation process puts them on the table early, in a structured, facilitated format that aligns the leader and the team around how they will actually work together.

One of our organizational clients was weeks from letting a struggling regional leader go. After coaching, the leader was retained and became a valuable asset to the team. That is what early, expert intervention buys.

• Facilitated leader and team alignment sessions
• Coaching for the incoming leader through the transition
• Clear expectations set in weeks, not quarters
• Follow-up to make the alignment stick

Most development plans start with weaknesses. Ours start with what is already working. Every AvalonLane coach is strengths certified, and every engagement is built around identifying and leveraging each person's strengths so they can unlock their full potential.

The result is coaching people actually use: more confidence, sharper performance, and employees who grow inside your company instead of growing out of it.

• Strengths assessment and one on one debrief
• Ongoing coaching with a 100% strengths certified coach
• Development plans built on strengths, not deficits
• Team sessions that put complementary strengths to work

The jump from strong contributor to capable manager is the hardest promotion in any company, and the one companies prepare people for least. Our training gives new managers practical tools for the conversations that matter: feedback, delegation, coaching their own people, and leading through change.

It is grounded in the same strengths based approach as everything we do, so new managers learn to lead from what they and their teams do best.

• Practical skill building for first time managers
• Feedback, delegation, and difficult conversations
• A strengths foundation for leading a team
• Formats shaped to your organization and schedule

Changing roles, changing industries, or starting over: you do not have to navigate it alone. Work one on one with a strengths certified coach who helps you understand what you do best, then builds your search around it.

One client moved from engineering to teaching and called the coaching and resume work exceptional. Another landed a dream job and still uses the coaching advice years later. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.

• Strengths assessment and personal debrief
• Resume optimization that gets interviews
• Interview preparation and positioning
• Networking strategy you will keep using for years