Build the leaders and the HR foundation your growth depends on.
Career Authority helps HR leaders develop new managers, R&D leaders and plant leadership teams with FlightPath™, and sets up HR for companies growing past their first 10 employees.
Schedule a 20-minute call ▶ Watch how FlightPath™ works Founded by a Fortune 250 HR executive, an HR-technology entrepreneur and a Duke-trained engineer · Hogan Assessment certifiedDevelopment tied to the business, not a training catalog.
Every engagement starts with an assessment and ends with a plan your leaders and their managers act on.
A development program you can defend
Assessment-based plans aligned to business goals, manager guides, and post-program survey data you can show leadership.
See how FlightPath worksManager Essentials bootcamp
Help first-time managers coach, give honest feedback and make decisions, in group or one-on-one sessions built on a researched leadership model.
Manager EssentialsTurn experts into leaders
Scientists and engineers moving into leadership get a clear read on strengths and derailers, plus coaching on influence and strategy.
FlightPath Pro CoachingAlign the team that runs the site
The FlightPath Team Profile shows blind spots, risks under stress and how motives fit the culture, then builds an action plan around plant priorities.
Team ProfileFractional HR
For companies of 10 to 100 people: payroll and HR systems, handbook, hiring and compliance set up by a former Fortune 250 HR executive.
HR support for growing companiesTake ownership of your career
Leaders and professionals can buy FlightPath directly: a Hogan assessment, a debrief with an advisor and a personal growth plan.
Get started onlineFrom insight to measurable change in four steps
Assess
Hogan assessment mapped to the person's role and level, with optional 360° feedback.
Debrief & plan
A certified advisor walks through results and builds a development plan tied to business goals.
Develop
Coaching, e-learning modules and a guide that helps the manager coach the plan forward.
Measure
Participant and manager surveys show what changed, so HR can report the return.
What organizations have done with us
After a CEO change and several mergers, SVPs and VPs received FlightPath with debriefs and development plans, followed by a team-level profile.
FlightPath Pro Coaching accelerated the development of senior managers through senior directors.
Emerging high-potential leaders and plant leadership teams were developed with FlightPath, including a newly acquired plant.
"It was the first time in my career I've gotten tangible guidance on how to take ownership of my career moving forward."FlightPath participant
"It made something abstract like career planning and networking a lot more simple and doable."FlightPath participant
Practitioners who have worked inside companies
HR leadership, HR technology, medical product development, engineering and finance in one team. Between us we've sat in the seats our clients sit in: the plant, the business unit, the HR function and the CEO's office.
Brent Peterson
40 years in HR and operations at Union Carbide, PepsiCo and BD. Created the first leadership standard and succession process for BD's 51-plant global network, where top-scoring plant managers improved 39%. Helped open Frito-Lay's greenfield plant in Salt Lake City and teaches safety leadership to manufacturers.
- MA, Human Resources, University of Minnesota
- BS, Industrial Psychology, Northern Arizona University
- Hogan Assessment certified · Six Sigma Green Belt
- Wharton Aresty executive education · author of Getty's Work
Darwin Hanson
Built, ran and sold a software company in talent acquisition and compensation. Brings the systems and data behind FlightPath and our HR technology work.
- Degree in Finance
- Accounting, global rewards, application development and executive management
- Has worked with 250+ companies in 35+ countries
Elizabeth Nelson, PhD
An engineer and researcher who knows how scientists and technical experts think. Designs FlightPath e-learning and helps R&D professionals step into leadership.
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke University
- BSE, Biomedical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Developer of the FlightPath e-leadership modules
Let's talk about your leaders.
In 20 minutes we'll look at where your managers, teams or HR function need support, and whether FlightPath or our HR services fit. No pitch deck.
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