As leadership decisions grow more complex and talent markets tighten, organizations are rethinking how they evaluate, deploy, and invest in human capital. Traditional hiring models — often driven by speed, instinct, or fragmented data — are proving insufficient in an environment where executive decisions carry immediate and long-term consequences. Leo Cummings, an associate at HSiQ, examines how Hunt Scanlon’s new talent intelligence platform is designed to bring rigor, foresight, and strategic clarity to leadership and capital allocation decisions.
Today marks the launch of HSiQ, a data-driven, AI-enabled talent intelligence platform that delivers real-time competitive intelligence, deep people analytics, and strategic leadership insights to enterprises across financial services, private equity, multinationals, and executive search.
With HSiQ, organizations will have access to a powerful new engine that combines proprietary data, original research, and market-wide benchmarking to inform strategic hiring, leadership planning, and succession decisions.
HSiQ is led by Richard Stein, whose 20-plus-year career spans building businesses, advising on human capital strategy, and delivering executive search and talent management solutions for leading global firms.
“Most companies don’t lose time and money because they hired the wrong person — they lose it because they hired too fast.”
“Most companies don’t lose time and money because they hired the wrong person — they lose it because they hired too fast,” Mr. Stein said. “Executive hiring isn’t a race. It is a strategy. It is chess, not checkers.”
Translating Intelligence Into Action
Mr. Stein said that “wisdom and experience layered with data insights create a multidimensional view that pure data alone can’t deliver.”
“Data reveals the ‘what,’ but experience interprets the ‘why,’ and wisdom predicts the ‘what next.’ Together, they transform information into judgment, foresight, and decisions that actually work in the real world,” he said.
Under Mr. Stein’s leadership, HSiQ will support clients with real-time competitive intelligence and advisory solutions that anticipate market movements before they show up in financials, enabling earlier strategic pivots and proactive positioning.
“Our team will focus on the new global talent roadmap where investment dollars are funding talent strategies, hiring patterns and growth strategies.”
“Our team will focus on the new global talent roadmap where investment dollars are funding talent strategies, hiring patterns and growth strategies,” said HSiQ co-founder Scott A. Scanlon.
“HSiQ will reveal emerging threats and white space opportunities, allowing firms to invest, divest, or innovate ahead of competitors. The ultimate goal is to improve decision quality and capital allocation, reducing uncertainty and increasing the probability of value-accretive moves,” he noted.
“In a world where firms compete fiercely for talent – foresight, clarity, and accurate intelligence gives the decisive advantage,” said HSiQ co-founder Christopher W. Hunt.
HSiQ Insights Lab was created to examine exactly this intersection – where data, technology, and human potential converge. As the workforce contracts, advantage will not come from doing more with less. It will come from seeing more of what already exists – and using it intelligently.
For more information on how HSiQ can help your business succeed, please contact us today.
Article By
Leo Cummings
Leo Cummings is Editor-in-Chief of Insights Lab, the people intelligence blog from HSiQ designed to make talent intelligence actionable. Leo serves as an Associate for HSiQ, providing robust industry research to support the firm’s research group.
