executive decision support

When the pressure is on, we make the answer clear.

Ignite helps HR and Talent leaders turn fragmented people data, leadership misalignment, and stalled change into cleardecisions, aligned action, and measurable follow-through.
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Start with the moment you are in

The real issue is rarely just an HR project.

It usually shows up as executive pressure, fragmented people signals, leadership misalignment, or findings that have not turned into action. Ignite helps name what is actually stuck before anyone scopes a dashboard, workshop, report, or advisory engagement.

You need to prove HR impact to executives.

You may have activity, reporting, and good work underway, but the executive conversation still comes back to value, risk, tradeoffs, and what decision should follow.

Ignite helps translate people signals into an executive-ready decision story: what matters, what evidence leaders can trust, what ask is being made, and what follow-through should be tracked.

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You need to justify headcount, budget, or Talent investment.

Investment decisions get difficult when the story is built around activity instead of business pressure, evidence, assumptions, and consequences.

Ignite helps clarify the decision, sharpen the logic behind the request, test what evidence is usable, and frame the recommendation in terms executives can evaluate.

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Your people data is scattered, inconsistent, or not trusted.

Engagement results, attrition trends, performance signals, hiring data, talent reviews, and manager input often live in different places and tell an incomplete story on their own.

Ignite helps assess evidence readiness, identify what can be trusted now, and turn fragmented data into workforce intelligence leaders can use for decisions.

Assess the evidence gap →
Leaders agree something needs to change, but they are not aligned on what happens next.

Alignment can look strong in principle and still break down in execution. The gap may be success measures, decision rights, ROI logic, ownership, or the operating rhythm needed to keep the work moving.

Ignite helps leaders clarify what they are deciding, what success means, who owns follow-through, and how progress will be reviewed.

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You have survey or assessment findings, but action has stalled.

Findings do not create movement by themselves. The breakdown often happens after the report, when ownership is unclear, managers are unsure what to do differently, or leaders do not have a cadence for follow-through.

Ignite helps move from assessment to action by clarifying priorities, owners, behavior expectations, operating rhythm, and scorecard movement.

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Your HR team needs stronger internal consulting and analytics capability.

Sometimes the recurring issue is not one report, one workshop, or one project. It is the team’s ability to diagnose the business problem, interpret people data, advise leaders, and sustain follow-through.

Ignite helps build internal capability while doing the work, so your team becomes more credible, more consistent, and less dependent on one-off outside support.

Identify the capability gap →

Not sure which situation fits? That is usually the point. The Clarity Check helps identify whether the real constraint is the decision, the evidence, the sponsor path, leadership alignment, follow-through, or internal capability.

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Why Ignite

Not outsourced HR. Not another dashboard.
Not consulting without action.

- Built with the experience of former Fortune 200 HR and Talent leadership.
- A decision and activation partner for scaling talent and tech systems.
- Complement your HR team with a mechanism built around a decision or evidence.
- AI-supported synthesis, separate from expert judgement and confidence in recommendations.

Dive Deep, Go wide

Some problems get mixed up with other problems.

Ignite focuses on the point of decision pressure first, not with an ala carte HR service menu.

Prove impact

Build a credible story with trusted evidence and a clear recommendation for an executive audience.

Justify growth

Defend investments in Talent with sharper assumptions, data-driven decisions, and clearly defined trade offs.

Align leadership

Show your clarity with a future-focused purpose, success measures, ROI logic, decision rights, and follow-through.
How ignite works

From signal to decision to follow-through

Clarity Check
Clarify the real decision problem, evidence state, sponsor path, and action gap.
Translate data signals into a story that shows why it matters, what decision is needed, and what tradeoffs leaders should understand.
Turn the decision into action through workshops, scorecards, playbooks, operating rhythms, and advisory support.
Define what will be reviewed, who owns follow-through, and what internal capability needs to be built.
Begin at the beginning

The right next step depends on what is actually stuck.

Clarity Check

When a nudge from Ignite might unlock whatever issue you're facing.
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Executive Talent Scorecard

When HR needs a executive-ready story, scorecard, and recommendation.
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Change Alignment

Facilitate leadership navigation of purpose, success measures, decision rights, and follow-through.
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Assessment-to-Action Playbook

When actionable insights exist but movement has stalled.
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Talent Advisory

When getting a pulse on an organization and recurring evaluation, interpretation, facilitation, and partnership is needed.
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Insight-to-Action Diagnostic

When pressure is real but the right path is unclear.
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Look ahead

What better Talent decisions look like.

Ignite decision stories show low leaders move from fragmented people signals to clearer decisions and follow-through.

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Founders

Talent expertise, analytics fluency, and practical follow-through.

Josh Craver
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Josh helps CEOs and CHROs turn talent risk into impactful solutions. A former Head of Talent & Learning at the Guild and FIS, he’s led three organizations to ATD’s #1 talent ranking.

Scot Duffield
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Scot is a product and talent-operations leader who helps CEOs and CHROs action on people data insights. He combines Fortune 500 HR/talent management leadership with deep product experience from Amazon and Western Union.

FAQ

Questions leaders usually ask first.

If the problem is vague, the work gets vague. These are the questions we clarify early.

How is Ignitedifferent from traditional HR consulting?
When should we bring Ignite in?
Do you replace internal HR?
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