STEVE FITZGERALD
FIRESTORM GROUP LTD
WHO WE ARE
Steven Fitzgerald is the Chief Executive Officer of the FireStorm Group, an eclectic collection of enterprises spanning human capital consulting, art, and real estate. Professionally, he consults to enterprises on the topic of talent management, focused on the development of critical talent, executive succession, creativity, culture & change, M&A integration, and human capital strategy. He has conducted business across the globe, having visited over 50 countries in his travels. He thrives when faced with the hard-to-solve people problem.
The foundation for Steve’s practice is an executive career spanned 30+ years, where he held the top HR/Talent position at firms including Bridgewater Associates, Visteon, Vail Resorts, and Fairlane Credit. He also held executive roles at Silicon Valley outfits such as Sun Microsystems and Avaya. Steve credits his early years at Ford Motor Company (after coming out of graduate school at Michigan State) as being foundational in building early mental maps for the systematic development of talent in a 100+ year old enterprise.
Today, Steve splits his time between various ventures. He is also the owner and principal artist of FireStorm Clayworks, an award-winning art pottery focused on hand-thrown, raku-fired pieces. You can see his artwork here.
Sean Fitzgerald is a Partner of the Firestorm Group. He brings over a decade in human capital consulting, working with firms to develop and implement modern, skills-based, and change-ready people strategy. Sean works closely with organizations to meet the future of talent engagement, capability, and productivity head on. He specializes in developing innovative solutions based on proven methods and has delivered for firms across a variety of sectors including High-Tech, Crypto, Defense, and Telecom.
FIRESTORM CONSULTING SERVICES
Curators of High-Impact Human Capital Strategy
What We Deliver
High-Impact Diagnostics
- Talent Velocity Audit: Identify friction, leakage, and unrealized value in the talent lifecycle with a particular focus on talent acquisition and development.
- M&A Integration & Remediation: Culture alignment, rewards restructuring, and legacy acquisition cleanup. We help leaders integrate new and legacy acquisitions to realize EBITDA growth and organizational performance.
Strategic Architecture
- Skills-First Talent Systems: Advise internal talent and data teams on building specific, measurable, and high impact talent systems.
- Building a Change-Ready Executive Team: We lead executive groups through disciplined scenario planning to build the frameworks and resilience required to adapt to rapid market shifts.
- Culture-to-Strategy Alignment: Many organizations think that culture = mission and values statements. We go deeper, investigating how your culture needs to evolve to achieve specific business goals, and show you the roadmap to get there.
- Enterprise Transformation Leadership: Leading transformation is more than just change management; We help leaders build the capability to maintain momentum and use transformation to build an even more effective culture.
Strategic Advisory
- Fractional Strategic Advisory: Retainer-based access to the partners to ensure the strategic roadmap remains calibrated as the business evolves.
- Executive & Founder Coaching: Objective 1-on-1 advisory for C-Suite leaders.
