For CEOs and operating partners
Senior people leadership for sponsor-backed growth companies.
The five steps. Tap or hover a node; select one to see the path.
20+
Years building people functions
First
CPO of a private-equity-backed SaaS platform
3x
Growth of a professional services firm in three years
Board
Level work on EBITDA and enterprise value
The track record our founder brings to every engagement. About ScalePath
The gap
You outgrew HR. The CPO seat is not funded.
Integration stalls after close
Two entities, mismatched pay and policies, and nobody owning the people plan while the clock runs.
What it costs: the integration date moves, and the board hears it from someone else.
Compensation will not survive diligence
Three pay structures, no bands, and no equity philosophy a buyer or a regulator can follow.
What it costs: a diligence finding that trades against price.
Managers promoted, never built
Strong individual contributors now run teams, with no manager standard and no support behind them.
What it costs: regretted attrition in the roles hardest to replace.
What we do
Four ways to work with ScalePath.
Start here
30-Day People Diagnostic
Current-state assessment, a people risk register, an approved people roadmap, and a board-ready readout.
Fixed fee, credited toward a retainer
See the DiagnosticRetainer
Fractional Chief People Officer
Embedded senior leadership across five workstreams, reporting to the CEO with visibility to your sponsor. Six-month term.
Monthly retainer, six-month term
See the retainer optionsProjects
Fixed-fee projects
Compensation architecture, post-acquisition people integration, organization design, leadership assessment and succession.
Fixed fee per project
See all projectsAI Automations
People processes that run themselves
Workforce planning, talent planning, career pathing, onboarding, and M&A integration, automated inside your systems in 30 to 60 days.
Fixed fee, scoped on a call
See the five automationsHiring the role instead? ScalePath runs retained search for people leaders and plan-critical executives. See Executive Search
How it works
What happens after you call.
- 1
Call
30 minutes
You describe the situation. You leave with a read on what to do first.
- 2
Diagnostic
30 days
Assessment, risk register, and a roadmap. Or direct scoping if the problem is already clear.
- 3
Roadmap approved
One week
Three options, one recommendation, and terms you can read in ten minutes.
- 4
First fixes live
30 days
The first decisions land inside the first month. Then design, build, and embed at the pace of the plan.
- 5
Scorecard
Monthly
One page the board can read, alongside the rest of the pack.
Why ScalePath
An operator, not an advisor.
Board-level judgment
We have held the seat. EBITDA, enterprise value, and an institutional owner in the room.
Strategy through implementation
We write the plan and then build it. There is no handoff to a team you have to hire first.
Minimum effective process
Enough structure to scale the business, not enough to slow it down.
Before you call
Run the People Risk Scan yourself.
Twenty-five questions a CEO can answer in an afternoon, scored, with a key that tells you what to fix first.
Sample questions
- Can you show a pay band for every role in the company?
- Do you know your regretted attrition rate for the last four quarters?
- Who is the named successor for each of your top five roles?
- Would your contractor classifications hold up in diligence?
The firm
Founder-led, sponsor-literate.
A fractional people-leadership firm built by someone who has held the CPO seat under institutional ownership.
Insights
What breaks first after the deal closes
The people work that stalls integration is predictable. Here is the order it usually fails in, and what to own in week one.
For operating partners
Refer a portfolio company.
An independent read in the first 100 days after close, before the people plan hardens. Sponsor sees the same scorecard the CEO does.
Thirty minutes. No pitch.
Tell us what is going on. You will leave with a clear read on the situation and what we would do first, whether or not you work with ScalePath.