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Built for leaders
who move fast.

Talentism is a leadership advisory firm. For over a decade we've helped founders, CEOs, and executive teams at hyper-growth companies outperform. Not by working harder, but by building the clarity, systems, and people capability to scale without breaking.

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1,000+

Hyper-growth companies served over 11+ years

25%+

Higher average IRR vs. the VC industry average across our clients

167

Hours between coaching sessions, where our tools keep teams performing

Where it started.

Talentism was founded on a simple observation: the biggest constraint on company growth isn't capital, market, or product. It's the clarity and capability of the people leading it.

We built a methodology grounded in neuroscience and behavioral science, tested across hundreds of companies navigating fundraising, rapid scale, M&A, and IPOs. Over time, that methodology became a system. One that now powers executive coaching, AI management tools, organizational design, and leadership development programs.

Today, Talentism is the only firm that combines proprietary data from 1,000+ companies, a proven behavioral methodology, and AI-powered tools into one integrated platform for hyper-growth.

Jeff Hunter, CEO & Founder of Talentism

Jeff Hunter

CEO & Founder

“The biggest breakthroughs I've seen in high-growth companies never came from strategy or capital. They came from leaders who finally understood themselves clearly enough to get out of their own way.”

Jeff Hunter — on why Talentism exists

Meet the coaches.

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Trevor Hunter

Trevor Hunter

Head of Coaching

Trevor co-authored Talentism's core methodology and leads the Coaching business. He works with founders and CEOs navigating the hard demands of rapid scale, helping them build clarity and lead with intention at every stage of growth.

Works WithFounders & CEOs
SpecialtiesGrowth & transitions
BackgroundCo-author, Core IP
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Greg Kim

Greg Kim

Coach, Head of Product

Greg moved from senior operator to master coach and now works with C-suite leaders and executive teams in tech and FinTech. His focus is decision-making, team clarity, and the high-stakes transitions that define a leadership career.

Works WithC-suite, Exec teams
IndustriesFinTech, Product
BackgroundWayfair, VP of Product
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Devon Walker

Devon Walker

Coach, Account Manager

Devon has spent 15 years helping founders, CEOs, and GMs find their footing through hard transitions. Whether moving from confusion to clarity or from individual contributor to leader, she specializes in the moments when the old playbook stops working.

Works WithFounders, CEOs, GMs
SpecialtiesHard transitions
BackgroundFounder, COO
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The full team.

Operators, researchers, and practitioners. All built for hyper-growth.

Jeff Hunter

Jeff Hunter

CEO, Founder

Trevor Hunter

Trevor Hunter

Head of Coaching

Caitlin Cuskley

Caitlin Cuskley

Chief Operating Officer

Priyanka Subramanian

Priyanka Subramanian

Head of Training

Mark Savage

Mark Savage

Head of Projects

Alexa Palmerini

Alexa Palmerini

Head of Finance & People Ops

Tiana Olson

Tiana Olson

Head of Customer

Dave Levin

Dave Levin

Head of Partnerships

Morgan Hunter

Morgan Hunter

Chief of Staff

Joshua Walsky

Joshua Walsky

Co-Founder, Sage

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Why Talentism works.

Most advisory firms give you frameworks. We give you a system built on data, grounded in science, and designed to compound over time.

Proprietary Data

11+ years of pattern data from 1,000+ hyper-growth companies. We've seen your breaking points before and we know what comes next.

Behavioral Science

Our methodology is grounded in neuroscience and behavioral science, not management theory. We work with how the human brain actually operates under pressure.

Technology-Powered

AI tools that embed our methodology into your team's daily workflow, not just quarterly sessions. The Talentism system works in the 167 hours between coaching calls.

Scaling a company is hard

Leadership at scale feels like untangling chaos. Talentism turns that struggle into a clear, compounding growth curve where every insight builds on the last.

After
TIME PERFORMANCE TIME PERFORMANCE CLARITY

The principles behind the work.

Every engagement, every tool, every program is built on a set of convictions we've stress-tested across a decade of hyper-growth.

Clarity is a competitive advantage.

Confusion is expensive. Every hour a leader spends unclear on priorities, roles, or direction is an hour the organization loses. We build systems that make clarity the default.

Systems beat heroics.

Exceptional individual performance is fragile. Repeatable systems are durable. We help you build the structures that make great leadership scalable, not dependent on any one person.

Speed and quality aren't opposites.

The best-run companies move fast and make good decisions. The key is building the judgment and infrastructure to do both, not choosing between them.

People are the leverage point.

Capital, product, and market matter. But the ceiling on every company's growth is set by the clarity and capability of the people leading it. That's where we work.

A SYSTEM TO UNLEASH HYPER-GROWTH AT SCALE.

We've mapped exactly where orgs break at every stage of scale and built a system to get ahead of it. No other firm has this dataset, this methodology, and this technology working together.

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Executive Coaching

One-on-one. Transformational.

Engagements that help leaders at every level turn confusion into a clear path to deliver outcomes.

AI Management Tools

Always-on. Built for scale.

An AI thinking partner that helps every manager think clearer and move faster, available in the moment they need it most.

Organizational Design

Structure that enables speed.

The right structure is a competitive advantage. We help you design organizations that reduce friction and clarify accountability at every stage of growth.

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR COMPLEX PROBLEMS

Four integrated capabilities that reinforce each other, built to get ahead of the breaking points of hyper-growth.

Elite executive coaching integrated with Sage, Talentism's AI coaching layer, extending impact between sessions and keeping leaders on track toward clear business goals.

  • Human coach + Sage AI as one integrated system
  • Continuous between-session support via Sage
  • Performance contracts aligned to business goals
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Meet Sage, Your AI Business Coach

Multi-rater feedback tools calibrated to drive behaviour change, giving leaders and organisations actionable intelligence from real data.

  • Benchmarked against 1,000+ companies
  • Org-wide talent pattern visibility
  • Directly feeds coaching and L&D plans
Start with a 360 Behavior Scan

Scalable, evidence-based programmes for managers, people leaders, and enterprise cohorts. Built on the Talentism methodology, not generic content.

  • Manager and people-leader training tracks
  • Internal coach certification
  • Custom enterprise cohort design
Leadership & Development Overview
Coach Training Management Training

Structural redesign of how your org hires, onboards, and configures talent so your people architecture scales with your ambition, not against it.

  • Org design for the next stage of growth
  • Hiring systems built on data, not instinct
  • Onboarding frameworks that accelerate ramp
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Management Design Hiring & Onboarding

A SYSTEM FOR YOUR people strategy challenges success

No other firm has this data set, this methodology and this technology working together.

Executive Coaching

Our master coaches don't just respond to problems they read the signal ahead of the crisis, and design for what's next.

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AI Coach & Thinking Partner

Better management with less time spent. Our ai tools embed Talentism's proven methodology into your daily workflow
Assessments

Get an actionable view of strengths, blind spots, untapped potential and exactly what to do about it.
Learning & Development

Scalable, evidence-based programs for people leaders, managers and enterprise cohorts built on the Talentism methodology.
Hiring & Onboarding

Make smarter hiring decisions and turn new talent into high performers from day one.
Organizational Design

Our designs help you deliver your company's promises. Win with the one thing no one else has, your people.

Built on insights from 1,000 companies

Real-time behavioral intelligence

An end-to-end system.

From one-on-one executive coaching to AI tools that scale across your entire organization. Every offering is connected by the same methodology.

Executive Coaching

One-on-one engagements that turn confusion into clarity for founders, CEOs, and senior leaders.

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AI Management Tools

Sage and Prism: AI tools that embed the Talentism methodology into every manager's daily workflow.

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Organizational Design

Structure that reduces friction, clarifies accountability, and lets your best people do their best work.

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Learning & Development

Scalable programs that build leadership capability from emerging managers to the executive suite.

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Clarity Compass

A premium dual-track program for coaches and people leaders grounded in behavioral science.

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Modern Insights

Perspectives, research, and frameworks from the front lines of hyper-growth leadership.

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“It wasn't just coaching. It was a very well-designed system, with a framework for everything. It helped us up-level people, put them in the right roles, and even shape how our board operated.”

Martin Franchi

CEO + Founder, NinjaTrader

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Let's talk about where you are, where you're going, and how Talentism can help you get there faster.

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