Internal talent supply chains, built for operations.
Forge helps operational companies reduce dependency on external labor markets by building internal talent supply chains for specialized roles. We design the program. Your team runs it.
Start a ConversationSpecialized roles sit open for months. The team covers with overtime. Contractors fill the gap at a premium. Recruiters burn bandwidth on repeat reqs. And the frontline workforce hits a ceiling and walks. Most operators have never put a real dollar figure on it.
Every unfilled specialized seat costs thousands per day in units, jobs, and prescriptions not moving.
The existing team absorbs the gap. Supervisors work 70-hour weeks. The cost shows up in burnout and attrition.
Frontline workers see no path up. They walk for a dollar-an-hour raise across the street. You lose the people who already know your operation.
Forge designs and stands up internal reskilling programs that move existing frontline workers into certified, specialized roles. We are the architects. Certified training partners deliver instruction. Your TA and L&D teams run the program at scale.
Curriculum framework, candidate selection model, role-mapping, success metrics. Built from a diagnostic that quantifies what your unfilled roles actually cost.
Training providers, certification bodies, internal mobility infrastructure. The right ecosystem for your specialized roles.
Operating model, measurement framework, and a trained program owner. Your TA and L&D teams run it from there. Forge steps out.
Each phase earns the right to the next. We never quote a price before the diagnostic, and we never recommend a program without a defensible ROI case.
Quantify the cost of unfilled specialized roles. Map your workforce against role requirements. Deliver a Go / No-Go recommendation.
Build the curriculum, vet partners, design the operating model, create the measurement framework. A complete program your team could run.
Launch the first cohort. Refine the operating model with live data. Train the program owner. Hand it off.
Expand to additional roles. Move into broader TA function redesign. Only when the pilot earns it.
Industry benchmarks for specialized roles. The diagnostic measures yours.
Jonathan is a TA leader whose career has been spent inside operations-intensive companies, designing and standing up internal reskilling programs from the operator's seat. The pattern repeats: specialized roles open for months, a capable frontline workforce stuck below them, and a TA function structured to fill reqs rather than build pipelines.
Forge Talent Systems exists because the work to fix that pattern, done with the operator's economics in mind rather than the consultant's, did not exist in a form a COO could actually buy. Forge is that firm.
Columbus, OH
A short, scoped diagnostic that quantifies what your unfilled specialized roles are actually costing the business. If the math does not pencil, we will tell you.
Jonathan@ForgeTalentSystems.com