We offer the best experience and tools in talent management consulting. Our clients agree that "our assessment tools and processes are the best". The part that makes us the most proud though is the statement that follows - "[your] insight and support are what we value the most."

We are located throughout the United States. Through our partnership with TTI Success Insights, we have an extended network of affiliated consultants in 90 countries at our finger tips. That gives us the ability to design and deliver services anywhere in the world without the added expense to you of flying across the globe. We think globally and act locally.

Carl Nielson, Managing Principal Consultant, has over 20 years of experience in the field of strategic human capital management and organization development including leadership development, team and professional development, coaching and talent acquisition. He successfully led a financial turnaround of a global nonprofit professional association and implemented human capital management best practices as Director of Human Resources for a large law firm that resulted in significant improvement in net profit, employee morale and talent retention. He also managed an across-the-board re-engineering project for the HR function of a Fortune 100 company resulting in millions of dollars in HR operational savings and increased HR effectiveness.

Today, Nielson has a diverse group of Fortune 500, Inc 2500 and family-owned business clients that he assists in growing revenue, strengthening leadership talent and cross-functional teams and hiring the best talent using state-of-the-art tools and processes.

Nielson has served on several volunteer boards in key strategic and leadership positions. He also gives back in the form of community service using his expertise to assist high school and college students with career coaching using Career Coaching for Students, a program he developed in 2005 as founder and Chief Discovery Officer of Success Discoveries, He has created several programs for Success Discoveries including Success Discoveries for Couples (SDC), a program for use in premarital counseling, couples retreats and as a self-directed program.  SDC has become a favorite unique and valued wedding gift for newlyweds. 

Nielson has been recognized annually for the past 10 years by TTI Success Insights, a global assessment company, for his active and continuous community service and is a member of TTI's Visionary Partners Forum.

Carl is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (DISC), Professional Motivators Analyst, Professional TriMetrix HD Analyst and is a certified facilitator of The Coaching Clinic for Managers. He is DISC certified, holds an IAC certification as a Relationship Coach and uses a number of organizational and business-focused personal talent assessment tools including the TriMetrix HD suite.

Rajesh (Raj) Tedla, Managing Principal Consultant and Vice President is a highly effective performance transformation coach. Mr. Tedla entered consulting after 13 years with GE where he worked in GE Lighting, GE Aviation and as senior vice president for GE Capital Solutions. While at GE he received the CEO Award for outstanding business performance. His experience spans leadership and organizational development, lean, six sigma, operational improvement, voice of the customer, executive coaching, marketing, process enhancements and customer insights. He has studied, researched, written, designed, trained, and consulted extensively for the past 23 years.

A skilled coach, consultant and mentor, Raj brings the wisdom, experience and proven processes to move executives, leaders, entrepreneurs and individuals to higher stages of personal awareness and effectiveness. Employing a multifaceted approach to individual development, he respectfully provokes and partners with his clients to create authentic strengths-based success from the inside and by their own definition. Raj is described as “personable, insightful, effective, motivational and results oriented” by his coaching clients.

What Mr. Tedla does with individuals he also does with the c-suite in organizations as a Growth Strategist by looking beneath the surface of their companies’ challenges and identifying six to ten initiatives that will kick-start their profit engines, ignite employee productivity and improve their companies’ overall performance.

Mr. Tedla's education and certifications include a BS (Mechanical Engineering), MS (Industrial Technology), MBA (Management), Graduate of Coach University and Corporate Coach University, General Electric Management Development Center – Several Leadership, Strategic Planning, Coaching and Change Management Training Programs His certifications include GE Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt, Master Blackbelt & Quality Leader, Growth Strategist, Certified Professional Behaviors Analyst (CPBA), Certified Professional Values Analyst (CPVA), Certified Professional TriMetrix Analyst, Certified facilitator for The Coaching Clinic, Certified facilitator for Career Coaching for Students, Train-the-trainer Certifications include Lean, Six Sigma, Change Acceleration Process (CAP, Change Management), Innovative Problem Solving, Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Voice of The Customer (VOC), Facilitation skills and Strategic Marketing.

Raj is very active in the community and participates in several non-profit organizations. He is currently board member for Hartford Public High School; Academy of Engineering & Green Technology (AoEGT) program in Connecticut. He is also the founder and chairman of ICAN Foundation, which is dedicated to helping underprivileged children in rural India to gain access to higher education and meaningful employment. Raj received TTI’s Chairman’s award in Jan 2010 for his outstanding services to the community. In 2006, Raj was awarded GE’s most prestigious “Gerald L. Phillippe Award," for his outstanding social contributions and community leadership. He also received GE's JJ Murphy Extra Step” Award in 2005 and 2007 for mentoring and coaching minority and women-owned small business owners and contributing to their continual business growth and success. In 2002 he received the GE Pinnacle Award.

Peter Donan. Peter is a leader in talent acquisition. His intensity and drive to source out candidates is only surpassed by his dedication to identifying and presenting only the best candidates to our clients.

Peter has been involved in employer workforce consulting with an emphasis on global HCM for over three decades. His work has produced numerous multimillion-dollar staff augmentation projects and generated requests for his time as a volunteer mentor, coach and guest lecturer at the university level.

Prior to coming to The Nielson Group, Peter built, led and managed global HCM/Payroll projects and trained hundreds of recruiting consultants and business development professionals supporting over 120 countries.
He was instrumental in the development of one of the largest privately held IT management consulting firms in NYC. Most recently, Peter established HCM divisions for two multinational consulting firms, implementing strategic global HCM/Payroll service offerings that included management consulting and strategic project augmentation in the Americas and EMEA region.

Originally living and working in the NYC and NJ area, Peter now lives in Boynton Beach, FL. Peter's diverse background and experience working with many cultures and strong project management skills are distinct assets that you'll experience first-hand.

Areas of Expertise: Human Resource Management – Executive Search, Technical Search, Interviewing, Selection, Strategic Planning/Search Implementation 

Jason Kleid, Managing Principal Consultant is an executive coach, sales strategist, team facilitator, and public speaker. He has been in the field of sales since 1971. His clients are throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

His experience in starting and growing two businesses coupled with more than 30 years of selling has contributed to his ability to help his clients overcome many of today’s business challenges. Much of his work focuses on helping sales leaders transform their strengths into HD quality. Jason has been interviewed by the Star Tribune, published in trade journals, written a white paper on the sales process for Techtextil Symposium North America and continues to publish articles in columns for his client’s newsletters. These articles focus on leadership, performance, enhancing communication, sales, best practice and executing winning strategies.

His certifications include: Certified Track Selling System Instructor (CTSSI) Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA), Certified Professional Motivators Analyst (CPMA), and Certified Professional TriMetrix® HD Analyst (CPHDA), Certified Emotional Quotient Analyst (CPEQA). Jason has partnered with corporations in many industries, both in the US and abroad. See pictures of workshops.