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
Parachute Ready!
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 and Align, a nationally emerging 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 3 A's Framework: Adapt. Adjust and Align to bridge the gap between talent potential and talent readiness. Two areas that are often overlooked in traditional workforce programs.
Grounded in the 3 A’s strategy: Adapt. Adjust. Align., Parachute Ready strengthens the emotional, behavioral, and practical skills individuals need to succeed in high-demand industries such as behavioral health, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and community-based careers. The framework integrates 10 guiding principles that emphasize resilience, discipline, self-awareness, energy management, and the gritty, nonlinear journey required for real mobility.
Alanna’s approach is based on the idea that readiness is not assumed but intentionally built. Her work prepares youth talent and adults to manage change, overcome obstacles, and build credibility through resilience, consistency, and performance.
The Parachute Ready 3 A’s Framework: Adapt. Adjust. Align is a valuable tool for employers, workforce development boards, and educational institutions seeking dependable, early skilled, ready talent.
Alanna is redefining what it means to prepare people for work, stability, and mobility, focusing on one individual, one community, and one opportunity at a time.
Her mission is simple: Prepare people and organizations to move with readiness, resilience, and impact.
Alanna holds a Bachelor’s in Social Work (macro-practice) from Cleveland State University, an MBA from Ursuline College, 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 into meaningful, measurable results.