Human-capital advisory

What is the hardest people decision on your desk right now?

Whatever it is, Altavise Advisors helps you get it right the first time.

Outplacement, severance and RIF planning, compensation benchmarking, employee surveys, exit interviews, leadership coaching and manager training. For HR and people leaders, and the executives making hard calls about their teams.

an employee's salary is what it can cost to replace them1
42%
of employees who quit say their manager or company could have prevented it2
70%
of the variance in team engagement comes down to the manager3

Sources: Gallup. 1. Cost of replacing an employee (roughly one-half to two times salary). 2. Preventable voluntary turnover. 3. Variance in team engagement.

Why people decisions go wrong

The numbers are precise about everything except the people.

Whether you're absorbing a big change, running a reduction, or fighting to keep your best team, the same pattern repeats: the workforce drives the outcome and is the least measured part of it. So the calls get made on gut feel.

  • Key-talent flight. The people who hold the value start looking the moment they feel uncertain.
  • Hard decisions left un-owned. Redundancy, comp, and structure get deferred, and the value stays theoretical.
  • Leadership and teams that never gel. Roles blur, decisions stall, and the operating model never clicks.
  • Culture and engagement drift. The daily reality quietly diverges from the plan.

The Altavise Advisors difference

We know because we measure, not because we guess.

Altavise Advisors was built on workforce data: surveys, retention-risk modeling, and org analytics. We bring that rigor to every people decision, so it's driven by evidence and tied to business impact, not gut feel or a generic playbook.

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What we do

One firm for the whole people side of the business.

The same data-driven, senior-led approach runs across the whole employee lifecycle, from hiring and pay to restructuring and retention.

01

Restructuring & Transitions

Outplacement, layoff and RIF support, severance advisory, and survivor team resets, handled humanely and defensibly.

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02

Leadership & Retention

Team and executive coaching, new-leader assimilation, and flight-risk scans to keep the people you cannot lose.

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03

Surveys & Listening

Engagement and pulse surveys, exit interviews, and 360 feedback, with a readout you can actually act on.

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04

Compensation

Benchmarking and pay-equity analysis, so you pay competitively where it counts, and can prove it.

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05

M&A & Integration

Pre-deal people diligence, the People Synergy Audit, and workforce transition after close, so the value you're counting on actually shows up.

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More than fifteen services across five categories, grouped by when you need them.

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How it works

Evidence first. Then execution.

1

Measure the real risk

We map where roles and teams overlap, model retention risk on your critical people, and pressure-test leadership fit, fast, and grounded in data, not opinion.

2

Prioritize what matters most

You get a clear, sequenced plan: what to fix first, who to protect, what it costs, and how much value is at risk if you don't.

3

Execute the hard parts

We stay through the messy middle, the transitions, the leadership work, the retention moves, and measure results as they land.

Who we work with

Built for companies without a big people function.

Big companies get big in-house teams for this. Everyone else is left figuring out the people side while running the business. That's the gap we fill: senior, hands-on, and priced for organizations without a 40-person people function.

  • Growing companies & founders who need senior people help without building a big HR team.
  • HR & People leaders who want data and an extra pair of senior hands on the hard calls.
  • Executives facing a hard moment, a restructuring, a key departure, a pay decision, who want it handled right.
  • Investors and PE-backed companies that want the people side handled with the same rigor as the numbers.

See it in practice

A full engagement, worked end to end.

We took a real engagement, a merger, and worked it end to end: retention model, org analysis, board readout. The situation was a merger, but the method is the same for a layoff, a restructuring, or a fight to keep your best people: measure the people risk, put a number on it, and act. It is the clearest way to see how we think, and what you would get.

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  • $3.8M of combined-firm value exposed to people risk, quantified.
  • $2.1M of annual value the deal could create.
  • $850k to protect the first and unlock the second.
  • Six deliverables, from a flight-risk model to a 100-day plan.

Altavise Signal

We watch the entire U.S. layoff market, live.

Our team tracks every public WARN Act filing and major layoff as it lands, mapped by company, size, and location. It is the same data engine we bring to your retention and restructuring decisions.

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Why teams trust us

Senior help you can rely on with the hard calls.

20+ years

Senior operators on the people side of business, not a junior bench learning on your problem.

Fluent in the numbers

People decisions held to the same rigor as the financial ones, and a case that stands up to a CFO.

Evidence, not opinion

Every recommendation grounded in workforce data and tied to a real number.

Discreet by default

Layoffs, pay, and exits handled with the confidentiality that protects your people and your name.

Wherever you are

Make the people side a decision, not a guess.

Whether you're growing fast, planning a hard change, or just trying to keep your best people, a short conversation will tell you where the risk sits and what it's worth.

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