# Talentism

> Talentism is a privately held leadership advisory company founded by Jeff Hunter in 2013. It sells executive coaching, organizational design, 360-degree behavioral assessment, management and coach training, and Sage, an AI leadership advisor, primarily to founders and senior teams at venture- and private-equity-backed companies. Its central bet is that business performance improves when leaders treat confusion as useful evidence, diagnose the system around a person, and run concrete learning experiments instead of reaching immediately for blame or replacement.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** Westport, United States
- **Founders:** Jeff Hunter (CEO and Founder)
- **Team size:** About 42-43 LinkedIn-listed employees; LinkedIn company-size band is 51-200, and Talentism describes a network of 35+ certified practitioners.
- **Products:** Executive Coaching, Management Design, 360 Behavior Scan, Clarity Compass, Clarity Catalyst
- **Notable:** Founded in 2013 and developed a leadership methodology that the company says reflects 13 years of accumulated pattern data., Company reports serving 4,000+ leaders across 1,000+ high-growth companies., Company reports that 89% of new clients arrive through referrals.

## Products & services

- **Executive Coaching** — One-to-one coaching for founders, CEOs and senior leaders, using the Clarity Methodology to diagnose root causes, expose blind spots and turn insights into business experiments.
- **Management Design** — Organizational design work that maps leadership strengths and working styles before changing roles, responsibilities, decision rights and operating cadence.
- **360 Behavior Scan** — A multi-source behavioral assessment drawing input from colleagues and stakeholders to identify strengths, blind spots and a practical development starting point.
- **Clarity Compass** — An 11-week cohort training program for people leaders and independent coaches covering 11 interconnected models; the public 2026 price is $6,000, with an optional $2,000 certification add-on.
- **Clarity Catalyst** — Enterprise management training configured after diagnosis and combining live instruction, AI coaching and application to current work.
- **Sage** — An always-on AI leadership advisor designed to investigate a challenge, form a hypothesis and propose a concrete experiment, either alongside a human coach or on its own.

## Achievements

- Founded in 2013 and developed a leadership methodology that the company says reflects 13 years of accumulated pattern data.
- Company reports serving 4,000+ leaders across 1,000+ high-growth companies.
- Company reports that 89% of new clients arrive through referrals.
- Talentism attributes a NinjaTrader organizational redesign to a turnaround from a failed $500 million sale process to a $1.5 billion sale 18 months later, without new hires.
- Expanded from high-touch coaching and consulting into training programs, behavioral assessment and the Sage AI advisor.
- Built a vetted network of 35+ practitioners trained in the Clarity Methodology.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Talentism and Riviera Partners held a public conversation on leadership, hiring and organizational learning during AI adoption.
- **2026-07** — Talentism announced that a two-person marketing team migrated roughly 260 pages from WordPress to Kite AI in six weeks while preserving its SEO footprint.
- **2026-03** — Talentism promoted a free workshop on the human cost of misalignment and continued recruiting for Clarity Compass cohorts.
- **2025-07** — Talentism publicly described Sparky, built with Thinking Machines Data Science, as a Slack-based multi-agent coaching system; the company's current AI advisor is branded Sage.
- **2024-02** — Founder Jeff Hunter appeared on the Work For Humans podcast to discuss Talentism as a management system for unlocking human potential.

## Links

- Website: https://talentism.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talentism
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/talentismllc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/talentism

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Last updated: 2026-08-22