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...pinpoint your team’s talent risk across 26 unique data points.

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...begin reducing your talent risk in 90 mins or less.

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...retain and cross-train more than 98% of your company’s unique knowledge and “secret sauce.”

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...reduce your employee’s onboarding time by 50%.

Are retirements, overloaded experts, and talent wars slowing you down? We can help.

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If your company depends on technical talent – like scientists, analysts, mechanics or engineers – and you’re not sure whether you have enough of the right people with the right skills to meet your business goals, you need a knowledge transfer plan.

Our Consultants

The Steve Trautman Co. are global experts in talent risk management and knowledge transfer solutions. We are specialists in solving your day-to-day talent planning, talent shortage, and employee transition problems in your technical and professionally-skilled teams.

We reduce talent risk. Unlike the Deloittes or KPMGs of the world, our consultants start at the strategic level and then go deep—helping you manage risk down at the technical task level where your competitive advantage lives or dies.

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Steve Trautman

Steve wrote the book on knowledge transfer and now he has written the book on talent
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Teresa Canady

Supporting teams as they learn and use the Steve Trautman Co. talent risk management framework
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Bridget Jennings

Bridget Jennings comes to The Steve Trautman Co. after many diverse experiences in wide-ranging
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Marissa Martinez

Marissa started her career as a firmware and software engineer, where she learned words like
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Todd Hudson

With more than 20 years of engineering and plant management experience at European, Chinese and
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Latest Blog Posts

IN THE NEWS: This Year’s College Seniors See More Job Opportunities than Graduates in Previous Classes

It appears that the rumors are true. According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers Survey, “three-quarters of employers rate the job market for the class of 2024 as ‘good’ to ‘excellent.'” The combination of retiring Boomers and historically low unemployment has corporations all over the U.S. firing up their hiring machines and pulling …
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Are Our People Really Our Most Important Asset?

Last week’s post to this blog introduced the topic of managing talent risk and busted three common misconceptions around that. Let’s take on another. As business leaders, you manage many risks systematically and with great rigor. You manage risk of litigation with contracts and insurance, risk to operations with multiple suppliers and maintenance protocols, risk to health …
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Talent Risks CAN be Measurably Assessed and Managed – A Practical List

A common misconception I often find myself debunking is that risks related to “the people part” of business are somehow less quantifiable and manageable than other types of business risks. As we have begun to further shape and prove that a business’s talent risks can be methodically assessed, prioritized, and managed, we still worry about …
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As the pioneers in our field for over two decades, our scalable methods are yielding measurable results at scores of blue chip and global companies every day.

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