# Jack Ryan Advisory

> Performance and human capital advisory, founded in 2025 by Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan Advisory helps CEOs and owners, CHROs and heads of talent, private equity, family-owned enterprises and senior legal professionals diagnose where their organization stands, develop their leaders and teams, and make the decisions that matter most. "Guiding leaders. Maximizing value."

The work is organized around three questions leaders bring:

- Is your organization built to compete and win? (Organizational diagnostics: The Competitive Index™, Talent Playbook, Performance Advisory)
- Are your leaders performing at their full potential and ready for what’s next? (Leadership readiness and acceleration: Executive Readiness Assessment, Leadership Impact Snapshot, Executive Coaching, New Leader Acceleration, Performance Advisory)
- Is your leadership team firing on all cylinders? (Team performance and execution: Hogan Team Debrief Diagnostic, interactive workshops, Performance Advisory)

Performance Advisory: direct, ongoing access to Jack for counsel on the leadership, team and organizational decisions that matter most, offered as a six-month retainer with limited availability.

Contact: jack@jackryanco.com · Request an introduction: https://www.jackryanco.com/contact · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jack-ryan-advisory-llc/

## Core pages

- [Jack Ryan Advisory](https://www.jackryanco.com/): Guiding leaders. Maximizing value. Performance and human capital advisory that helps CEOs, CHROs, private equity and family enterprises diagnose where they stand, develop their leaders and teams, and make the decisions that matter most.
- [Solutions](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions): Diagnose, develop and advise: the Competitive Index™, Talent Playbook, executive readiness assessment, executive coaching, New Leader Acceleration, the Hogan Team Debrief, interactive workshops and Performance Advisory.
- [Who We Serve](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve): Leadership and human capital advisory for owners and CEOs, CHROs and heads of talent, private equity, family-owned enterprises and senior legal professionals.
- [The Competitive Index™](https://www.jackryanco.com/competitive-index): The Competitive Index™: a fast, data-driven organizational diagnostic across eight dimensions of competitive advantage. Proven inside GE and Rockefeller Capital Management.
- [Insights](https://www.jackryanco.com/insights): Perspectives from Jack Ryan and articles on leadership, talent, culture and organizational performance.
- [Meet the Team](https://www.jackryanco.com/about): The people behind Jack Ryan Advisory — founder Jack Ryan and a small, senior bench spanning leadership advisory, legal, the Competitive Index™, and operations.
- [Request an Introduction](https://www.jackryanco.com/contact): Start a conversation with Jack Ryan Advisory. Tell us the challenge in front of you and we’ll point you to the right work.

## Solutions

- [Executive Coaching Solutions](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/executive-coaching): Executive Coaching Solutions build the leadership capability to drive superior operating performance — coaching, readiness assessment, leadership impact, and new-leader acceleration.
- [Executive Readiness Assessment](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/executive-readiness-assessment): An Executive Readiness Assessment gives Boards, CEOs, and CHROs an objective read on whether a leader is ready for the next level — and how to get there.
- [Leadership Impact Snapshot](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/leadership-impact-snapshot): A concise, candid diagnostic of how your leadership lands with your team — with clear recommendations to sharpen your impact.
- [New Leader Acceleration](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/new-leader-acceleration): New Leader Acceleration is a structured program that speeds a new leader’s integration with their team, from CEO to middle management.
- [Talent & Leadership Solutions](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/talent-leadership-solutions): JRA Talent & Leadership Solutions: practical advisory that builds leadership capability, reduces talent risk, and accelerates performance for CEOs.
- [Interactive Workshops](https://www.jackryanco.com/solutions/interactive-workshops): Interactive Workshops: 90-minute sessions that equip leadership teams with practical tools to improve decisions, collaboration, and operating performance.

## Who we serve

- [CEOs & Owners](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve/owners-ceos): Confidential CEO advisory from a former GE Officer and Rockefeller COO. Sharpen leadership, succession, and executive readiness decisions with a senior peer.
- [CHROs & Heads of Talent](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve/chros-hr): Link talent to business outcomes and earn boardroom influence. JRA gives CHROs an organizational diagnostic, leader assessment, and senior advisory — from a former CHRO.
- [PE Portfolio Leadership Assessment](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve/private-equity): Independent, senior management-team assessment for private equity — read leadership against your value-creation plan in diligence and accelerate execution post-close.
- [Family Business Succession Advisory](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve/family-owned): Ready the next generation to lead and protect the culture that carries your legacy. Senior, confidential leadership advisory for family-owned enterprises.
- [Senior Legal Professionals](https://www.jackryanco.com/who-we-serve/senior-legal): Leadership development for legal teams that turns exceptional lawyers into enterprise leaders — general counsel succession and law firm leadership coaching.

## Articles

- [Engagement Is Not Capability](https://www.jackryanco.com/insights/engagement-is-not-capability): Engagement surveys measure how people feel. Executives are asking what the organization can do. Why that substitution fails — and what a capability instrument would have to do.
- [Succession Planning: Why It Is Hard to Do Well](https://www.jackryanco.com/insights/succession-planning): Six reasons succession planning breaks down — and a seven-step framework to build plans that actually hold, from Jack Ryan.
- [Four Grades Your Team Gives You Every Day](https://www.jackryanco.com/insights/four-grades-your-team-gives-you): The four foundational elements of leadership your employees are grading you on daily — and why the people closest to the market see them most clearly.

## Team

- [Jack Ryan](https://www.jackryanco.com/about/jack-ryan): Jack Ryan is the founder and principal of Jack Ryan Advisory, a firm he founded in 2025. He is a global business leader with over 35 years of experience in
- [Amber Kagan](https://www.jackryanco.com/about/amber-kagan): Amber Kagan is the founder of LevelUp Executive Coaching and Advising and a Senior Advisor with the International Center for Executive Options (ICEO). In t
- [Dylan McGarvey](https://www.jackryanco.com/about/dylan-mcgarvey): Dylan McGarvey is an MBA student in the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Class of 2027, where she is a Forté and Consortium Fellow. 
- [Samanta McAllister](https://www.jackryanco.com/about/samanta-mcallister): Samanta McAllister is an accomplished Senior Executive Assistant with over 20 years of experience supporting and driving executive-level performance in glo

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