8Blue Talent Partners helps entrepreneurial companies drive business performance and growth through the strategic development of people and teams.
What We Do
8Blue Talent Partners creates a customized “talent blueprint” for the hiring, development, and organization of people that is tailored to each company’s goals, culture and stage of development. Our 8BluePrints help our clients build high performance leadership teams that maximize their potential and the positive impact on the business as it scales and grows.
Executive Search
Find & hire impactful leaders
Team Recruiting
Quickly build new & larger teams
Executive Coaching
Partner one-on-one with key executives
Organization Design
Align to maximize resources & talent
Compensation Design
Design & review compensation and incentive programs
HR On-Demand
Acquire interim and fractional HR leadership & support
Succession Planning
Identify internal & external successors
Board Development
Build impactful Board of Directors & Advisors
Clients
8Blue Talent Partners works with leaders of fast-growing companies with an entrepreneurial culture and outlook. Our clients are predominantly founder-led and private equity or venture-funded organizations, as well as fast-paced, pivoting divisions of Fortune 500 companies. We work across all industries yet specialize in the consumer products and services, retail, lifestyle, and sports and wellness sectors.
Representative Clients
& Testimonials
"8Blue worked with me at The Body Shop to refine our organization design as we pivoted to an omnichannel business model, and helped identify key talent to ensure that our executive team was aligned and calibrated to achieve business goals. Personally, 8Blue helped me develop an action plan to refine my own leadership skills to be an effective multinational leader for an expanding global business."
Jason Feldman / The Body ShopPresident & General Manager - US and Mexico & Head of North America eCommerce
"8Blue has been an excellent partner as we have grown our team, helping us define the roles we needed and identifying the best ways to bring in top candidates and new team members. Their partnership with us has been critical as we prepare for future growth and put our team in place as we enter new markets."
Patti McKenzie / Good MeasuresVice President, Operations
"8Blue has been an informed, trusted talent advisor to Major League Soccer. 8Blue was a key partner guiding the redesign of our organization structure and has helped several key members of our executive team refine their management skills and become more effective, impactful leaders."
JoAnn Neale / Major League SoccerChief Administrative Officer
“8Blue served as an intelligent, strategic business partner who helped us define and map organizational roles and responsibilities and quickly build out our leadership team.”
Chris Kavanaugh / OneVision ResourcesDirector, Finance & Operations
“8Blue provided an expert, confidential partnership and insightful, external perspective on talent and leadership; a high-energy, intelligent resource that delivered tremendous benefits to me and our organization.”
Margie Dillon / Liberty MutualChief Customer Officer
8Blue takes great pride in the trusted, long-term partnerships we develop, our clients’ business growth and success, and the executives and teams we place and support.