Workplace Psychology Meets Business Know-How
We help PE firms make smarter decisions about people.
Lodestone applies the science of Industrial Organizational Psychology to help private equity investors, boards, and management teams improve ROI and EBITDA — before, during, and after the deal.
Fastest Growing
Companies 2025
For discerning PE firms, people risk is financial risk. We make it measurable.
Human Capital Science
Industrial Organizational Psychology
Real Business Outcomes
Proprietary Methodology
Introducing
tEamBITDA™
The only integrated framework that connects executive assessment, leadership advisory, and team effectiveness directly to EBITDA. Built for PE firms that know the most important line item isn't on the balance sheet — it's sitting in the leadership team meeting.
What We Do
Every engagement. Every stage of the deal.
Human Capital Diligence
Before you close, know who you're investing in. We assess leadership team personality, capability, and risk — and audit existing HR practices for post-close opportunity. Honing confidence in your acquisition.
Executive Assessment
Built around your top three business imperatives. Using validated, scientific methods, we assess competencies, personality, and the risk of derailment — so you select for success, not gut feel.
Team Effectiveness
Bespoke team solutions — not off-the-shelf workshops. We use Hogan assessment data and custom executive sessions to build the alignment, communication, and trust that moves portfolios forward.
Individual Executive Development
Assessment data-driven, goal-focused, and time-bound. We target your most pressing 1-2 leadership challenges over 4-6 months — not prolonged, open-ended coaching. Better leaders create better business.
Human Capital Process Optimization
We audit, then we fix. Our portfolio-wide HC Audit identifies priority improvements across your companies. Then we professionalize — validated selection systems, performance management, retention. Directly to EBITDA.
Culture & Engagement
Culture isn't a poster on the wall — it drives retention, acquisition integration, and performance. We build the policies, programs, and practices that make values stick. And we measure it.
Our science is proven. Our clients retain us. Our outcomes show up in the numbers.
Ranked on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America — because what we do works, and PE firms keep coming back.
Reduction in entry-level attrition achieved for one client — 3x better than expected — through redesigned recruitment and selection systems.
"Lodestone's insights are worth their weight in gold."
Senior Partner · Top Private Equity Firm
Our Team
Scientists who speak PE.
Our consultants hold PhDs and advanced degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology — and have spent careers inside Fortune 50 companies, global PE firms, and portfolio companies. We don't just know the science. We know your world.
Founder & Managing Partner
Chief Talent Strategist & Principal
Consultant
Consultant
Our Story
Named for the world's first compass.
We're not a giant consultancy with generalist teams. We're a focused firm of Ph.D.-level scientists who work exclusively at the intersection of people and performance — and we speak fluent PE.
Ready to find your true north?
Let's accelerate your performance through smarter human capital decisions.
Whether you're in diligence, post-close integration, or portfolio optimization — we'll show you what the science reveals about your people and your returns.