Talent Planning, Done for You
You remember the leader who helped shape who you are. But no one taught you how to be that leader.
Promoting a great performer doesn't automatically prepare them to develop a team and lead effectively.
MyTalentPlanner gives every people leader the behavioral insight, practical know-how, time and confidence to develop each person to their full potential.
80%
Employee turnover comes from a bad hire
39.9%
High turnover in key roles like manufacturing
(30-40% average across industries)
44%
Incoming workforce is smaller by 30M than retirees
Three forces are quietly destroying SMBs’ ability to grow,
and they are already inside the business.
We surveyed and worked with thousands of Small to Medium Sized
Business Leaders-Here are the top business challenges they face.
As leaders, we often think turnover is driven by compensation or culture. But according to Harvard Business Review, a majority of turnover is caused by a bad hire. By the time you realize it, you’ve already absorbed the cost: lost productivity, recruiting fees, and the three to six months it takes the next person to get up to speed, which stalls growth.
(Source: Harvard Business Review)
Manufacturers annual turnover rate is 39.9% according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. But they’re not alone-contractors, field service teams and healthcare face similar turnover rates, especiallly in critical positions. When you’re running a business under 500 people, replacing even a handful of key roles every year slows growth, drains your margins, breaks your team’s momentum, and pulls your best managers away from the work that actually grows the business.
(Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
The generation entering the workforce right now is 44% smaller than the one leaving it. That means fewer candidates, harder searches, and longer gaps every time someone walks out the door. There are already 6.5 million open jobs in the US today, and that number grows every year as more experienced workers retire than new ones enter. For SMBs, manufacturers, and contractors etc. who depend on skilled people to operate, this isn’t a distant problem. The shortage is already here. The businesses building strong hiring and retention systems today will have the teams they need to grow. The ones waiting will be competing for people who have plenty of other options.
(Source: DemandSage)
MyTalentPlanner – Not a SaaS.
But an OaaS – Outcome as a Service.
You control the process and decisions, but MyTalentPlanner does the work for you. Here are several workflows that we have already automated with more breakthrough agentic AI processes on the way. SaaS became a job. OaaS does the job for you. Helping your people leaders do just that.
MyTalentPlanner Delivers Outcomes
Coming Soon
1. Automated Hiring Process
2. Key Accountabilities Process
3. AI Assisted Prep for 1:1 Meetings
4. AI Assisted Career Planning
More AI Workflows Coming Soon
MyTalentPlanner is consistently launching new automated strategy, talent and execution workflows to save you time and help build the team needed to achieve your dream.
Automated Hiring Process
Hiring Manager makes the decisions, MyTalentPlanner does the work.
Team Insights
Behavioral insights for each individual, team and company development
More AI Workflows Coming Soon
MyTalentPlanner is consistently launching new automated strategy, talent and execution workflows to save you time and help build the team needed to achieve your dream.
AI Meeting Summaries
Capture and summarize key meeting insights automatically.
AI Succession Planning
Identify future leaders and build succession pipelines.
AI Talent Insights
Predict risks, strengths and opportunities with AI.
AI Strategy Assistant
Get AI-powered recommendations for better decisions.
Backed by Small Business Success
Trusted Business Operating System-Everything EOS Does, Plus a Full Talent Suite, Proven by Real SMB Results
SMB leaders who mastered the people side of the business to cut turnover, increase productivity and
achieve their goals.
Low Accountability/Productivity
Increase ActOn plan completion rate from 70 to 94%
People Issues/Communication
Decreased production team turnover on the shop floor from 40% to 8%
Stuck “In” The Business
Increased working on the business by 55%
Curious where your team stands today?
Align your people and business goals
with a single, unified platform
Strategy without people is just a plan. People without strategy is chaos. MyTalentPlanner connects both-across every team,
every level. every week. Six pillars. One platform-everything moving in the same direction.
Provide strategic clarity to all employees and a bullseye to make all decisions
Empower your leaders/supervisors to invest in and care for their team members and build a high-performance team through a full suite of talent features
Enables leaders and teams to have honest, open and transparent (HOT) conversations to enhance communication, overcome generational differences, execute their talent plan and make the right talent decision the first time
Free leaders up to work “on” the business through automated workflows and proactive recommendations to improve team and company performance.
Make execution and accountability a strength of your business to accelerate growth and achieve your goals/vision.
Use metrics and dashboards to illustrate what is working and what to work on next.
MyTalentPlanner in Action
Most SMB leaders are replacing the same people, missing the same goals, and wondering why growth feels so hard.
MyTalentPlanner changes that-cut employee turnover to single digits, grow revenue, and build teams that perform.
>50%
Reduction in Employee Turnover
Retain the people you have, develop them faster, and build a workplace they don't want to leave before the talent shortage becomes a crisis.
>25%
Revenue Growth After Cutting Turnover
Fox Valley Metal Tech reduced shop floor turnover from 40% to 8% in 12 months, and the $300,000 in annual savings went straight back into growing the business.
94%
Average Action Plan Completion Rate
When your strategy connects directly to your people, goals stop getting set and forgotten, they get done.
1System
Connecting Strategy, Talent & Execution
MyTalentPlanner is the only SMB system with Strategy, Talent, Execution, Metrics, Behavioral Science and AI.
Most tools manage work.
MyTalentPlanner masters the people behind it.
Most platforms focus on meetings, strategy, or goals. MyTalentPlanner has all of that-strategic vision, goals, action plans, meetings, and metrics-everything EOS-based operating systems offer, and goes further: it is the only platform that adds a full suite of talent features, behavioral science, and AI to help you master the people side of your business to achieve your goals/vision.
Built for the toughest people challenges, including these industries too:
Create a Shop Floor Workforce Built for Growth
Reduce turnover, strengthen supervisors, and improve productivity with a people strategy tailored for modern manufacturers.
Build a Workforce That Stays, Grows, and Delivers
Reduce technician turnover, develop future leaders, and improve customer satisfaction with a talent system built for field service teams.
Turn Skilled Workers Into Long-Term Team Builders
Create a culture of growth, develop frontline leaders, and keep your best people on the job.
Thousands of SMB leaders have already cut turnover, fixed their hiring, and taken back their time. See what that looks like for your business.
It takes two minutes. No signup, no pitch-just a clear picture of
where your people strategy stands today.
Founder’s Note
Every business I have seen hit a revenue ceiling, hit it for the same reason-not from poor strategy, not the economy, but people challenges. I lived it myself, scaling a company from $5M to $30M in 5 years. The only way we were going to get there was by building a system to hire the right people, retain our team members, develop future leaders, and build a great culture and place to work.
That system became MyTalentPlanner Growth Accelerator System
It gives your managers the tools to hire with confidence, reduce high turnover to single digits, and have the right conversations that keep good people from walking out the door. It connects your people plan to your strategy, so goals don’t just get set, they get done. And it gives you back the time you have been losing to problems that the right system should have prevented.
If you are stuck in the people side of your business, this was built for exactly where you are right now.
Welcome to the MyTalentPlanner Community.
-Steve Van Remortel, Founder & CEO
Implementation Options
Select the implementation option that best fits your organization: receive guidance throughout the process from a trained Talent Planning Advisor in your area, implement it yourself with your team, or choose a solution somewhere in between.
Do It Yourself
Self onboard on your timetable with our Step by Step process.
Lead your team through this process with:
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
Explore our frequently asked questions to learn more about how our Growth
Accelerator System can help you.
Not in the traditional sense. Most SaaS tools hand you software and leave you to operate it. MyTalentPlanner is built as an OaaS (Outcome as a Service) platform instead: SaaS became a job, so agentic AI takes the job back. You still make every decision, but the platform runs the underlying admin for you.
OaaS is a model where AI performs the recurring work itself instead of just giving you a tool to do it. MyTalentPlanner currently automates four workflows with agentic AI: running 1:1 development meetings, explaining DISC and Motivators results with built-in coaching, tracking action plans and accountability, and drafting AI-assisted development plans from each person’s behavioral assessment. Automated hiring, team insights, meeting summaries, succession planning, talent insights, and a strategy assistant are on the near-term roadmap.
It’s a business operating and talent system built around six connected pillars — Strategy, Talent, Behavioral Science, AI, Execution, and Metrics — on one platform. Where a plan alone isn’t enough and people alone create chaos, MyTalentPlanner links the two so every team, at every level, is moving toward the same goals every week. The platform has a full suite of talent features integrated with people-science to help you win at talent by making the right hire, retaining talent, reduce high turnover to single digits and building high performance leaders and teams.
On core Strategy and Execution — 10-year vision, 3-year strategic plan, financial goals/KPIs, company OKRs, action plans, metrics, meeting cadence, and issue tracking — MyTalentPlanner matches what most SMB software already offers. The difference is Talent, MyTalentPlanner’s key differentiator: a future org chart and talent vision, multi-level talent plans (leadership, department, and individual), a 9-Box grid, DISC and behavioral science wheels, individual development plans, and performance reviews, none of which typical SMB software includes. AI & Intelligence extends that gap further with built-in AI meeting notes, AI coaching recommendations, AI goal suggestions, and AI behavioral science debriefs. One area where some other SMB tools currently have an edge is a built-in employee engagement survey, which isn’t yet part of MyTalentPlanner.
Small to mid-sized businesses under 500 employees, plus the advisors who consult them, across industries including manufacturing, contractors/trades, field services, financial services, medical, engineering, technical firms and other growth-oriented industries. We help SMBs excel at the people-side of the business to execute their strategy
Absolutely! MyTalentPlanner is highly customizable to fit your organization’s unique structure, goals, and challenges. You can tailor the platform’s features to different departments, teams, or individual needs for maximum impact. Every employee gets an individual MyPlan combining 1:1s, DISC/Motivators, a development plan, and a performance plan, while leadership sees Team Behavioral Wheels, a 9-Box, current org structure and other features at the department and organization level. On the platform side, third-party integrations, assessment integrations (such as TTI) and SMS notifications let it fit into tools and workflows you already use rather than replacing them outright.
MyCoach, the built-in AI assistant, explains each person’s DISC and Motivators results, it helps all employees understand their natural communication styles-whether they tend to be more decisive, outgoing, steady, or analytical. That feeds a broader Talent Tool Kit — job benchmarking, right hire, team development, succession planning, leadership development, conflict resolution, and career/life planning — all grounded in the same behavioral data instead of guesswork.
Absolutely. Our approach is to teach you how to fish, not fish for you and you choose the level of hands-on support: a Guided Experience with a local Talent Planning Advisor coaching you live (up and running in as little as 24 hours), a Blended Approach where an advisor steps in as needed (live in 48 hours), or a self-paced DIY path using the Talent Planning Book, how-to videos, checklists, and Help Center. Every path also includes a best practices library built from 30 years of experience and a talent planning process tracker that keeps your team on schedule. The goal is leaders who can run 1:1s, develop employees and performance conversations confidently on their own, not a dependency on outside help.
Yes, MyTalentPlanner connects individual goals with company objectives, ensuring alignment from top to bottom – through the Execution pillar. Sprint Goals set the target, ActOn plans cover work on the business and ActIn plans cover work in the business, and every plan rolls up into weekly meetings and metrics tied to that specific goal. Customers using this structure average a 94% action plan completion rate, up from a typical 70%.
Your company retains full ownership of its data at all times. MyTalentPlanner’s role is limited to hosting a secure, confidential platform where you organize, update, and act on your own strategy and talent plan.
Start a free trial and pick your onboarding path: self-guided setup can be complete in as little as 2 hours, a fully Guided Experience with a Talent Planning Advisor has you running in 24 hours, and a Blended Approach is live within 48 hours. The customer success team stays available afterward as you roll the system out to your team.
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