Transforming readiness into talent mobility.
Talent Impact In Motion
Readiness Is Currency.
At Capital Talent Development Group, we don’t manage struggle, we mobilize opportunity. We help employers, educators, and communities develop skilled-ready talent through strategies grounded in fairness, mobility, and actionable impact. Our work ensures individuals and youth are prepared for real advancement, and organizations have the workforce they need to grow, compete, and sustain.
At Capital Talent Development Group, we bridge the gap between talent and opportunity by aligning people, skills, and systems. Every partnership centers on purpose, fair access to opportunity, and long-term mobility. The real levers of adaptive talent development and economic transformation.
Our Service Framework
▫️Workforce Readiness & Pre-Apprenticeships
Preparing youth and adults with the skills, mindset, and readiness needed for critical growth, high-demand careers.
▫️Ethical Leadership & Organizational Alignment
Helping organizations adapt, adjust, and align teams using ethical, human-centered, and performance-driven leadership strategies.
▫️Retention & Workforce Planning
Reducing shortages, strengthening workplace stability, and building talent pipelines that create mobility for people and measurable impact for employers.
We use a data-driven lens to analyze skills, challenges, and opportunities to build customized solutions grounded in action, not theory. We know the real cost of talent shortages. We also understand the real value of readiness. When people, skills, and business needs align, communities rise.
Building skilled-ready talent, together!
Resilience Builds Credibility. | Adapt. Adjust. Align
Building Readiness That Drives Mobility
Alanna Nicholas is the Founder and Principal Talent Executive of Capital Talent Development Group and the creator of the Parachute Ready 3 A’s Framework: Adapt. Adjust. Align. A nationally emerging readiness model designed to prepare underestimated youth and adults for sustainable career mobility.
With over a decade of experience advancing workforce solutions across Ohio and beyond, Alanna developed the Parachute Ready Framework to address a persistent gap in workforce systems: the disconnect between talent potential and real-world readiness.
Grounded in the Adapt, Adjust, and Align strategy model, the framework helps build the emotional, behavioral, and practical skills required to succeed in critical, high-growth industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, construction, and community-based careers. The framework is reinforced by the Parachute Ready Ten, a set of guiding principles that emphasize resilience, discipline, self-awareness, behavior management, and consistent performance.
Alanna’s work is rooted in the belief that readiness is intentionally built. Through the Parachute Ready framework, individuals, employers, education, and workforce systems are equipped with tools that strengthen credibility, support mobility, and produce measurable outcomes.
Her mission is simple: Prepare people and organizations to move with readiness, resilience, and impact.
Alanna holds an MBA from Ursuline College, a Bachelor’s of Social Work (macro-practice) from Cleveland State University, and a Certified Public Manager designation from the Cleveland State University Ohio Public Manager Program.
Schedule a conversation today to explore how Capital Talent Development Group can help your organization shift talent mobility into meaningful, measurable results.