Because Businesses & People Evolve
Every Day, Everywhere in the World
About Us
Our Services
Talent Strategy & Co. researches, designs, and partners together with our clients, both large and small, multinational and domestic, to solve critical talent issues. Our unique approach to understanding talent challenges and opportunities is not only what differentiates us, but what makes us trusted partners throughout organizational evolution and transformation. We work closely with leadership teams to provide a broad range of talent advisory services and solutions and help organizations facilitate change in lock-step with their people, achieve their vision, and optimize cultural values, performance, productivity, inclusion, and mobility of talent. It's not about "why" - it's about "how" we create best-in-class people solutions with our client partners.
Strategic
Workforce Planning
75% of global 500 companies believe strategic workforce planning is critical to their organization's future, yet only 40% think their current people planning process is relevant and scalable. Talent Strategy & Co. brings the capabilities and expertise to take your people and your business to the next level through role segmentiation and gap analysis, environmental scanning, futuring, and action planning. We ensure you have best talent to meet the strategic goals and operational plans of your organization. It's about having the right people with the right skills at the right time. We understand your business first and then align your short and long-term strategies with a human capital strategy for current and future states of your business.
Leadership &
High Potential Development
40% of your people leaders are ready today to translate and cascade your business vision and strategy into reality so their people can thrive and grow the future of the business. The other 60% of your leaders are struggling to bring the vision alive. Talent Strategy & Co. meets our clients where they are today to co-create leadership development philosophies, competencies, and cohort and individually coached offerings that help your leaders bring the business vision and strategy to life for their people. Coaching becomes the norm for your leaders to grow their people and your business. Leader assimilation, integration, and 360 feedback debriefs guide your leaders to be greater drivers of their businesses and advocates of their team's accountability and performance. Individual development action plans are targeted for key leaders.
Team Assessment
& Effectiveness
Thriving teams enjoy 23% higher productivity levels and 51% lower turnover. High performance is rarely accidental—it is an engineered outcome. Talent Strategy & Co. helps leadership and cross-functional teams move past surface-level symptoms like slow execution, friction, and misaligned priorities to build resilient, high-trust, and outcome-driven operating rhythms. We evaluate teams as part of an interdependent system, not just an aggregation of individual contributors; conduct stakeholder surveys and anonymous assessments measuring psychological safety, role clarity, accountability, and operational drag, then conduct confidential discussions with team members to surface unspoken tensions, structural bottlenecks. Assessment data is tarnslated into high-engagement, facilitated working sessions designed to gain momentum in ways of working and ampliied performance.
Meet the Talent Strategy & Co. Team
Kristin Salerno
Partner, Global Talent Strategist & Integrated Talent Management LeaderKristin is a seasoned executive, talent strategist, and certified coach practitioner working with leaders in Global 500 companies over the past 20 years to partner in building organizational culture landscapes, facilitating transformation in their businesses, assessing and developing high potentials, successors, and leadership teams, and preparing workforces for change. She has led global talent mangement, leadership development, belonging and inclusion, employee engagement, and people business partner teams in multinational organizations including Nike, Starbucks, Sapient, Fidelity Investments, Alight Solutions, and National Veterinary Associates (NVA). Her consulting portfolio includes McDonalds Corporation, Korn Ferry, Rotterdam School of Management, NetApp, GE Healthcare, and Vertex, Inc. Kristin is a Leadership and Management Lecturer at Lake Forest College. She holds GPHR, Hogan, InsideOut Coaching, Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and DISC certifications, and a Masters degree in Human Resources from Boston University. Kristin researches intersections of leadership, global citizenship, and international experiences and is a PhD candidate at DePaul University.
Kristin has lived and worked in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands and speaks English, Italian, and Dutch. She travels extensively to meet people where they are and create long-lasting relationships.
Natalie Bryan
Natalie is an HR professional with over 20 years’ of employee relations, shared services, and talent management experience. A dedicated and knowledgeable executive director with strong attention to detail, ability to work independently or collaboratively, and proven track record applying sound judgment and leadership skills towards culture-impacting initiatives, process improvement, org. restructuring, contract negotiations and conflict management.
• Executive Experience – 20 years of strategic Human Resources management
• Leadership Capability – C-level management oversight over Director-level staff
• Compliance – Regulatory policies and procedures from concept to conclusion
• Industry experience – Multiple sector experience, including federal, state, and local government, non-profit, hospitality, and for-profit
• Strategic Relationships - Understands value of maintaining impactful bonds with organizations
• Principal Consultant and Owner of Dutchman Consulting Group
Principal, HR Operations, Human Capital Management, & AI Strategy
Danielle partners with organizational leaders to understand what's getting in the way of business performance, and identify practical ways to improve how their organizations operate. Her approach is business-first, evidence-informed, and grounded in practical application. She looks beyond presenting challenges to examine how leadership practices, decision-making, accountability, workflows, and organizational capabilities influence execution.
Danielle’s background spans organizational consulting, leadership development, and operational improvement across complex business environments. As a former Principal Learning Partner at Harvard Business Publishing, Danielle developed a strong foundation in translating research from Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School, and leading management scholars into context-specific solutions to business and capability challenges. She combines that research-informed perspective with experience in organizational needs assessment, enterprise capability architecture, governance design, change enablement, and operational improvement. Danielle holds an M.S. in Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness from the University of Texas, Dallas and certifications in Organizational Development Consulting, SCRUM Master, and Agile.
Principal, Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership DevelopmentDanielle Eldridge
Danielle Eldridge
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