Workforce Strategy
Stop Guessing Where Your Next Employees Will Come From
Standard job postings only reach a fraction of the workforce.
We use a data-driven roadmap to uncover the 40 talent pools your competitors are missing.
The 'Post & Pray' Trap
'Post and Pray' is becoming less effective. Generic job postings cast a wide net, often missing the specific talent pools qualified for your roles. You face two extremes: a flood of under-qualified applicants or silence. This untargeted approach drains HR budgets and consumes staff time, yet often fails to deliver the talent you need.
Why Traditional Recruiting is Failing You
Losing the Wage War
Raising wages is often a temporary fix. Higher pay attracts candidates, but it cannot compensate for operational barriers like rigid scheduling or limited career paths. Competing solely on price creates a transactional workforce that leaves for the next dollar. Money brings them in, but it fails to stop the revolving door.
Chasing Silver Bullets
Chasing silver bullets fuels initiative fatigue. You pivot between media hype and culture washing, yet hiring and retention struggles persist. This cycle confuses activity with progress and ignores the structural root causes. Instead of layering on another fad, you need a strategic roadmap built on operational excellence.
Strategic Solutions for Workforce Growth
Helping you bridge the gap between vision and execution.
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Keynotes & Breakouts
​​​Inject energy and facts into your next conference. I cut through the quick-fix hype, challenging audiences to 'Turn 90 degrees' and adopt a new perspective. My keynotes deliver entertaining, data-driven insights and reveal the proven process successful companies use to find and retain talent.​​
Workforce Roadmaps
​​​Stop reacting to shortages. We lead your executive team through a rigorous planning process that fuses our local data with your knowledge of company and community strengths. Together, we identify the talent pools you can win and prioritize the root cause improvements needed to attract and retain them.​​
Proven Impact in the Field
​​​​"Ron’s presentation on workforce availability opened our eyes and changed the way we think. His presentation is entertaining and engaging, but factual and data-driven. Prior to connecting with him, we would never have considered some of the alternative labor pools that we deploy today.”​
Tom Pientok
President & CEO, Timberline Manufacturing
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I don't guess—I engineer solutions. I apply the rigorous principles of aircraft design to the complex problems of recruiting and retaining employees. My career spans the private sector and academia, overseeing units as diverse as Engineering, HR, Finance, and IT. I have presented to over 1,000 organizations, helping them translate complex labor shortages into actionable workforce roadmaps.
Data-Driven Workforce Strategies for a Changing Economy
Aerospace Precision
1. Aircraft-Optimized Labor Solutions
We design the world’s most complex fighter jets with absolute precision; why is finding and retaining talent so difficult? We “Turn 90 degrees” to take a new approach. We use aerospace principles, your workforce vision, current hiring gaps, and data from 3,000+ counties to build a sustainable path to workforce stability.
The Workforce Vector
2. Where to Find the Most Talent
A generic ‘We’re Hiring’ sign treats every prospect the same, ignoring the 40 distinct labor pools available to you. The Workforce Vector framework provides data for your county, identifying which specific populations you can realistically attract. Stop guessing and start targeting your limited resources to where you will be most successful.
Operational Excellence
3. Turn Strategy into Hiring Results
Sustainable results require more than vision; they require operational excellence. Mapping your selected labor pools against the 25 root causes limiting hiring success eliminates the systemic barriers to employment. This strategic resolution ensures your roadmap becomes a permanent solution, not a temporary patch.
Replace Hiring Hype with Data-Driven Solutions
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