Founder & CEO @ Lever Talent | Host of The Lever Show | Helping leaders develop talent strategies that leverage a tech-empowered future.

You’re capable of more than you could ever imagine.

I started my career impatient, driven, and a little naive. In my mid-20s, I was sprinting up the corporate ladder… and got fired.  

That moment forced me to get honest about what actually changes a team: clarity, standards, and the courage to hold them.

My belief is simple: as AI and automation take more transactions, the human work matters more. Technology multiplies what’s already there (judgment, trust, focus). Software doesn’t change a team. Cadence does.

In 2022, I followed that belief and started Lever Talent. I work with CHROs, CPOs, and HR or L&D leaders to align talent with the business so teams get better because of technology instead of being buried by it. We make it practical:

• Lead with Leverage: a manager cadence that makes expectations real (and conversations easier)
• MVV that sticks: values → rituals → behavior change
• AI, but usable: 30-60-90 change plans that turn pilots into ROI
• People-ops command center: fewer dashboards, better decisions

With technology, our leverage is limitless. Let’s build teams that prove it.

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Drew Fortin

Tracie Sponenberg

Chief People Officer, The Granite Group. Keynote Speaker. Advisor. Co-Founder. Community Builder. Connector. Introvert. Employee Experience Designer. Fiercely People First.

I write about my decades of experience working in and leading Human Resources, with a focus on frontline companies.  I also write about AI in HR, wellbeing, owning my own consulting business, helping companies with hourly employees and deskless workers transform from paper first to people first, and sometimes I write about my experience as an autistic executive over 50, and occasionally travel and coffee!  My work is laser focused on distribution and manufacturing and related industries. 

I'm a former Chief People Officer at The Granite Group, now Advisor and Fractional HR Executive with 25 years of executive HR leadership experience focused on aligning people strategy with business strategy in industries with deskless employees.

In addition to my advisory work, I'm a keynote speaker on technology, AI, leadership, branding and all things HR!

Founder, Chief People Officer

After a nearly 30-year career in the corporate world, I've started my own business, Tracie Sponenberg LLC!  Providing Fractional Chief People Officer Consulting,Keynote Speaking and Advisory services.

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