TalentoHC launches consulting arm for human capital strategy

TalentoHC has launched Talento Consulting, a new advisory practice in Miami aimed at helping organizations connect workforce strategy, people systems, and business performance. The move broadens the firm beyond search and recruitment and adds consulting around transformation, M&A, organization design, analytics, and AI for HR.

Why it matters: - TalentoHC is adding a consulting business that links human capital decisions to business execution. - The new practice is meant to help companies improve workforce planning, operating models, and people systems during growth, transformation, and change. - The launch expands TalentoHC beyond executive and professional search into broader advisory work.

What happened: - TalentoHC announced Talento Consulting on July 22, 2026, in Miami. - The new practice is designed to help organizations build the people infrastructure, talent strategies, and human capital systems needed for long-term performance. - Talento Consulting will support business and HR leaders with strategy design, operational planning, and implementation. - The consulting arm is positioned as part of the broader TalentoHC platform.

The details: - Talento Consulting covers six core areas: Strategy & Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organization Design, Employee Life Cycle, People Analytics, and AI for HR & Workforce Strategy. - Strategy & Transformation work includes workforce planning, HR technology evaluation, change management, HR operating model design, and transformation planning. - M&A support includes human capital due diligence, integration planning, culture assessment, organizational evaluation, retention risk analysis, readiness planning, and employee communication strategy. - Organization Design work focuses on structures, roles, governance systems, job architecture, and operating models. - Employee Life Cycle support includes talent management, recruiting, onboarding, development, retention, succession planning, workforce transition, and total rewards. - People Analytics services include analytics strategy, HR dashboards, reporting infrastructure, AI-assisted insights, and executive-ready metrics. - AI for HR & Workforce Strategy includes AI readiness, governance, responsible use practices, HR use-case prioritization, and AI applications across talent acquisition, people analytics, workforce planning, HR operations, and employee lifecycle processes. - Talento Consulting engagements use an Assess, Design, and Operationalize framework. - The process starts with a review of business priorities, talent challenges, workforce data, organizational structure, HR systems, and internal capabilities. - Advisors then build strategies, roadmaps, tools, and frameworks. - The team also supports implementation, communication, reporting, manager enablement, and ongoing advisory needs. - Talento Consulting brings together advisors with experience in executive human capital leadership, governance, organizational transformation, technology, talent acquisition, M&A, and global workforce strategy. - The advisory team includes Mary Cheddie, a managing director and human capital advisor with more than 35 years of executive-level experience. - Cheddie’s background includes business and HR strategy, M&A, organizational transformation, AI, people analytics, leadership development, governance, and global workforce strategy. - The team also includes Laurie Villa, a managing director and human capital advisor with more than four decades of C-suite HR, board governance, and enterprise transformation experience. - Villa has worked across aviation, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and technology. - Steven J. Smith is the practice director for human capital consulting and brings more than two decades of experience in HR, recruiting, talent attraction, HR technology, people analytics, employer branding, retention, workforce planning, and employee lifecycle strategy. - Talento Consulting can connect advisory work to executive search, professional search, recruitment process outsourcing, staff augmentation, and broader talent acquisition solutions. - The company said the integrated model is intended to help organizations move from strategy to execution through one connected partner. - TalentoHC provided a website link for more information: human capital consulting services.

Between the lines: - The launch suggests TalentoHC sees demand for advice that sits between strategy consulting and talent delivery. - The integrated model could be designed to keep clients inside one platform from diagnosis to hiring and implementation. - By adding consulting, TalentoHC is positioning itself to influence earlier stages of workforce planning, not just fill roles after decisions are made.

What's next: - Talento Consulting will likely be used to tie workforce planning to hiring, organization design, and leadership needs. - The company is likely to push cross-sold engagements that connect consulting with search and talent acquisition. - Clients facing transformation, M&A, or AI adoption are the most likely near-term users of the new advisory practice.

The bottom line: - TalentoHC is betting that companies want a single partner for human capital strategy and execution, not separate vendors for consulting and hiring.