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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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Kelly Prime

Kelly has over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries including software development,
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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

5 Steps How To Solve Your Production Bottleneck Problem

Your company can only move as fast as your experts. I was reminded of this fact when I heard a story on NPR’s Marketplace. The host was profiling the Cup & Saucer Café, which has three locations in Portland, Oregon. The Manager, Aimee Drake is always looking to hire, but while wait staff are fairly easy …
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Managing Talent Risk: Beyond Head Count & Org Charts

  DEFINITION: Talent Risk is defined as the potential for gaps between your current technical/professional capacity – the people who perform critical tasks within your organization – and what you will need to staff your strategy 3 to 36 months from now. Talent Risk Management (TRM) itself is the process of assessing your current technical/professional capacity, aligning your …
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Streamlining Change Management

Change is inevitable, but it doesn’t need to slow you down. In this post, I’ll explore ways to teach workers how to do their jobs or new functions after a strategic or organizational change. Perhaps more importantly, I’ll also share how you can test that your employees have absorbed the learning clearly and consistently. But …
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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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