Human-Capital Advisory

Your workforce is your biggest asset. We treat it like one.

From a merger to a layoff to keeping your best people, Altavise brings deal-grade rigor to the decisions that turn on your workforce. Measured, benchmarked, and tied to a number.

For PE firms, portfolio companies, and growing businesses, in a deal or out of one.

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 are integrating an acquisition, 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 difference

We know because we measure, not because we guess.

Altavise was built on workforce data: surveys, retention-risk modeling, and org analytics. We bring that rigor to integration, so your people decisions are driven by evidence and tied to business impact, not gut feel or a generic playbook.

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What we do

The people side of the business, deal or no deal.

We started with M&A integration. Today the same data-driven, senior-led approach runs across the whole employee lifecycle, for acquirers and operators alike.

01

M&A & Integration

Pre-deal people diligence, the People Synergy Audit, and post-close workforce transition, so the synergies you underwrote actually show up.

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02

Restructuring & Transitions

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

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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

Leadership & Retention

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

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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 organizational overlap, model retention risk on your critical people, and pressure-test leadership fit, fast, and grounded in data, not opinion.

2

Prioritize against the thesis

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

3

Execute the hard parts

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

Who we work with

Built for the lower-middle market, where there's no integration bench.

Big companies get big in-house teams for this. Everyone else is left figuring out the people side while running the business, whether they just closed an acquisition or are simply trying to keep their best people. That's the gap we fill: senior, hands-on, and priced for organizations without a 40-person people function.

  • PE firms & operating partners standardizing how the portfolio handles integration and talent risk.
  • Portfolio companies mid-integration that just closed and need the people plan yesterday.
  • Serial acquirers doing tuck-ins and carve-outs without a dedicated PMI function.
  • HR & People leaders at growing companies who need senior, on-call help without the headcount.

See it in practice

A full engagement, worked end to end.

We took a real lower-middle-market merger and ran the entire People Synergy Audit on it, from the retention model to the board readout. It is the clearest way to see how we think, and exactly what you would get.

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  • $3.8M of combined-firm value exposed to people risk, quantified.
  • $2.1M of annual synergy 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.

Wherever you are

Make the people side a decision, not a guess.

Whether you're integrating an acquisition, 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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