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AI-Powered Talent Retention Blueprint
Two independent, four-week programs to address today's talent risks and build career structures that support retention over time.
Assess where your business depends on critical roles. Then, if career progression is the priority, build a clearer path forward for employees. Start with either program, or choose both.
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The cost becomes visible when someone leaves. The exposure exists well before that.
A resignation can affect customer relationships, operational continuity, productivity, and the workload of those who remain. Building the capability to anticipate that exposure is a different investment from responding after it becomes a problem.
What is keeping one key employee worth?
Enter the salary of someone in a key role and how long the position would likely stay open. The estimate updates as you type.
After deducting the salary and benefits you do not pay while the position is open.
If the Complete Blueprint helps you keep one person who would otherwise have left, it pays for itself about 4.3 times over.
What is in this number
| Hiring costsSearch firm fee (15% of salary), job posting, background checks | |
|---|---|
| Recruiting and onboarding timeRecruiter, manager and executive interview hours, onboarding | |
| Getting the work done while the seat is emptyColleagues covering 30% of the work for 3 months, the rest left undone. All work valued at salary plus benefits. | |
| Lost productivityBefore the person leaves, and while the replacement gets up to speed | |
| Less: salary and benefits not paid while the seat is empty | |
| Net cost of one resignation |
About $1,750 of the costs (job posting, checks, interview and onboarding time) is fixed and does not change with salary. No signing bonus is included. Coverage, lost productivity and ramp-up percentages are common planning assumptions, not measurements of your business. Not counted: lost revenue or customer impact, and the next person who leaves because of the extra workload. A planning estimate, not financial advice. The Blueprint fee does not include your team's time to take part.
Why This Program Matters Now
Retention risk is a business issue, not simply an HR metric.
The Business Risk
When a critical employee exits, the consequences can extend to clients, operations, project delivery, and the people who absorb the additional work. Leaders need a practical way to identify where that exposure is concentrated and act on it.
The Structural Challenge
Does your organization offer clear expectations, distinct levels of responsibility, and credible advancement opportunities for both leaders and experts? If those paths are unclear, employees may see fewer reasons to build their future with you.
The AI Opportunity
What if your leadership team could use AI to structure its thinking, examine retention risks, develop career paths, and prepare action plans without introducing a complex new system? AI helps with the work. Leaders remain responsible for the decisions.
choose your priority
Two Different Priorities. One Goal: Better Retention.
Two related challenges can put retention at risk. One is the immediate exposure created by reliance on critical roles. The other is the longer-term risk when employees cannot see meaningful opportunities to advance. Both deserve attention, but they call for different actions. Choose the four-week program that addresses your priority, or combine both.
Talent Risk Assessment & Action
Primary Question: Where are we exposed today?
Focus: Critical roles and current retention risk
What you'll build: Critical role assessment, flight-risk evaluation, and a targeted retention action plan
Business benefit: Better visibility into current talent risk and practical steps to address it
Duration: 4 weeks
Investment: $3,000
Career Structure & Advancement
Primary Question: Are employees leaving because they cannot see a future here?
Focus: Career opportunities and structural causes of turnover
What you'll build: Leadership and expert career paths, a promotion protocol, and an AI-supported rollout plan
Business benefit: Reduce the risk of losing employees because advancement opportunities are limited
Duration: 4 weeks
Investment: $3,000
Complete AI-Powered Talent Retention Blueprint
Address today's retention risks. Reduce tomorrow's reasons to leave. Take both programs for a coordinated approach to current exposure and the career opportunities that support longer-term retention. Save $1,000 compared with purchasing them separately.
$5,000
What YOU'LL build
Practical outcomes, applied to your own organization.
program 1 • FOUR WEEKS
Talent Risk Assessment & Action
Identify the roles whose vacancy would create meaningful business disruption, assess retention risk, and determine the actions leaders can take now.
Identify critical roles based on business exposure, not job title alone.
Evaluate signs of retention risk and the consequences of a potential departure.
Develop a targeted 30-day retention plan with responsibilities and follow-up.
$3,000
program 2 • FOUR WEEKS
Career Structure & Advancement
Give employees a reason to see their future with your company.
Create leadership and expert career paths with clear advancement criteria, then plan how to introduce them across your organization.
Use AI to design leadership and expert career paths, including appropriate role levels.
Establish a promotion protocol defining criteria and decisions for advancement.
Develop an AI-supported rollout plan to communicate and implement the changes.
$3,000
how it works
Four weeks, with guidance built into each step.
01 - Before the session
AI-guided pre-work
About one hour each week to apply structured prompts and prepare work on your organization's actual needs.
02 - live working session
One hour of guided work
Review, challenge, and refine the material you've developed. Four live sessions are included in each program.
03 - YOUR SCHEDULE
Flexible individual coaching
An additional hour of individual coaching each week is included in the program price and can be scheduled at a time that works for you.
Approximately 8 core hours: four hours of AI-guided pre-work and four hours of live working sessions. Plus four additional hours of individual coaching, included in the price and available to book within your schedule.
who benefits most
For leaders who want practical systems, not another initiative.
Designed for
CEOs and COOs who want greater visibility into their company's reliance on critical roles.
Business leaders who need meaningful career progression for managers and specialists.
HR leaders helping the executive team develop an approach that leadership can own and maintain.
What you leave with
For Program 1: critical role assessment, flight-risk evaluation, and an actionable retention plan.
For Program 2: dual career paths, an advancement protocol, and a rollout plan.
For either: practical experience using AI as a decision-support thought partner, with final judgment remaining with leaders.
Which priority matters most to your organization?
Choose one program or both. If you'd like to discuss which approach fits your situation, start with a conversation.
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