Picture this:  You’re in Year 6 of a “quick” 4-year flip with your PE backed healthcare provider . Your board wants a 3x exit. Instead, you’ve got a rotating door of ops leads, a CFO sweating cash flow on a weekly basis, and a recruiting funnel that’s slower than your last ERP rollout. Sound like 2025? It’s not bad luck—it’s the dry powder trap . Private equity is hoarding $1.2 trillion  in undeployed capital (SuperReturn 2025), exits just crawled to their lowest point since 2023, and the...

What We're Digging Into: Recruiting, by nature, is inherently a subjective game. Lots of opinions, lots of guesswork, and few tools to really “test-drive” a candidate’s ability. So, how can we begin to improve our odds? Why It Matters: While its true nobody scores 100% with recruiting execs, by introducing data, you get much closer… When the stakes are tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, every percentage point in the right direction matters. Today, we pull back the curtain and share a...

What We're Digging Into:  Operating in a silo, a vacuum…. or really any other isolated structure is no way to run your talent function. Sure, there’s tons of work to do, but is it the right work? Why It Matters:  Many HR teams, along with unwitting executive teams still view HR as “nice to have”. This is largely because the programs and projects HR execs choose don’t really apply to where the CEO and CFO are focused—Business outcomes! The reality of business is clear: No two organizations are...