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For CEOs and operating partners

Senior people leadership for sponsor-backed growth companies.

ScalePath takes the Chief People Officer seat in businesses that have outgrown an HR generalist and are not ready to fund the full-time role. Lower risk, stronger leaders, better workforce economics, and a people function your board can trust.

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.

That gap is where value quietly leaks. Three versions of it show up in almost every call we take.

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.

Named deliverables, a fixed fee, and a monthly scorecard. No hourly billing and no open-ended retainers.

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 Diagnostic
Core engagement

Retainer

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 options

Projects

Fixed-fee projects

Compensation architecture, post-acquisition people integration, organization design, leadership assessment and succession.

Fixed fee per project

See all projects

AI 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 automations

Hiring 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. 1

    Call

    30 minutes

    You describe the situation. You leave with a read on what to do first.

  2. 2

    Diagnostic

    30 days

    Assessment, risk register, and a roadmap. Or direct scoping if the problem is already clear.

  3. 3

    Roadmap approved

    One week

    Three options, one recommendation, and terms you can read in ten minutes.

  4. 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. 5

    Scorecard

    Monthly

    One page the board can read, alongside the rest of the pack.

Why ScalePath

An operator, not an advisor.

We translate the value creation plan into people decisions, and people decisions into the numbers the board reads.

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.