Our Team

Dr. Mehltretter began his career in engineering and management before starting his consultancy in 1980 to focus where he saw a great need – organizational engineering, an unheard of discipline at the time, which is still in its nascency. He spent decades pioneering diagnostic tools and technology for sound organizational structure design and effective talent deployment.

World-renowned for his expertise in Requisite Organization, Dr. Mehltretter developed a measure for an organization’s talent deployment efficacy, the PeopleFit Integrity Index.

PeopleFit’s Integrity Index’s measurement process has uncovered nearly 10,000 incidents of people mismatched to roles, mismatched to their managers, as well as the mis-layering of organizational levels. Correcting these uncovered structural issues gives PeopleFit’s clients a competitive edge in the War for Talent.

Additionally, through PeopleFit’s internal Talent Mapping process, over 8,000 internal employees have been matched to roles that suit their capability. 

To the further delight of its clients, PeopleFit generally locates up to 36% of untapped potential within clients’ current employee base via its Talent Mapping process.

Through external-recruitment talent-assessment interviews, PeopleFit has helped to ensure several thousand job candidates have received “fit-to-role” placements.

PeopleFit’s Leadership Scan surveys the efficacy of an organization’s managerial leadership system, alerting organizations to their current level of execution risk. To date, hundreds of scans have been conducted, providing executives with comprehensive, targeted feedback on strategic risk, execution risk, and talent risk.

Academically, Glenn holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School, and an Ed.D. from North Carolina State University with a focus on Training and Development, where he conducted his thesis with the outside advisement of Dr. Elliott Jaques of Requisite Organization renown.

While advising executives on selection, succession, and mentorship, Heidi finds her greatest joy in unveiling the latent potential within employees and seeing their full potential realized.

With a summa cum laude bachelor’s and master’s degree in visual communications, Heidi’s early career was a mash-up of media and executive assessment. Since 1994, Heidi has conducted, reviewed and reconciled thousands of individualized candidate and employee assessments. In 2020, she took the helm of PeopleFit full-time as principal.

Building upon the executive leadership tools developed by her father, Glenn Mehltretter, founder of PeopleFit, Heidi harnessed technology to expand and modernize the company’s Talent Mapping and Leadership Scan Assessment tools.

Her visual communication roots led her to develop strikingly comprehensible data-reporting graphics to succinctly present strategic, enterprise-wide data to time-crunched executives.

Her extensive travels have embedded her within a broad array of cultures and sharpened her appreciation for both the value of diversity in driving organizational success along with the need for an explicit connective framework to allow for optimized execution.

Her work with PeopleFit endeavors to optimize each employee’s ability to give their gifts by not only matching them to roles, but also by shoring up the organization with a connective framework to tie everyone’s work together.

Michelle Malay Carter channeled her early career frustrations with corporate life into her life’s mission. Her tagline: “I’m Ok. You’re Ok. Let’s fix the system” points to the work at hand. Her passion is to engineer frictionless, “fit for purpose” organizations fueled by fully-tapped, fully-engaged employees.

She is a lead facilitator of PeopleFit’s science-based, systematic approaches which bring rigor and dignity to the naive and ignoble worlds of talent deployment and organization design. All of PeopleFit’s interventions focus upon creating properly-structured, work-enabling organizations, rather than focusing upon fixing employees.

A subject matter expert in talent assessment, work design, and Elliott Jaques’ Requisite Organization model, Michelle is an internationally-sought consultant, coach, author, speaker, board member, and advisor with engagements in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

She has long surpassed her 10,000-hour threshold in recruitment screening for executive level talent, interviewing thousands of job candidates in search of a role to fully tap their capability.

Michelle holds a BS cum laude in Journalism from Kent State University and a MA Liberal Studies – Organizational Development from North Carolina State University.

Jennifer focuses on executive assessment and Leadership Scan for PeopleFit, having completed hundreds of assessments and scans during her tenure.

Her curiosity and focus give her the ability to extract patterns from large sets of qualitative data and then deliver astute, insightful executive summary reporting. 

Her favorite data finding is that of untapped, potential employee capability hidden within client organizations. She considers it a day well spent when she can simultaneously offer a client untapped potential and offer an underutilized employee a more satisfying role.

Fluent in English and Spanish, Jennifer has leveraged her bilingual skills across various domains including customer service, accounting, and administrative positions, giving her a dynamic, well-rounded point of view.

Jennifer is an avid learner, recently completing a graduate certificate in Trauma Therapy and now pursuing a Masters in Counseling from Toccoa Falls College. These current pursuits tie past interests and current life experience together while broadening the scope of consulting Jennifer is qualified to provide.

Her academic success began as her high school valedictorian, followed by a BS cum laude in Psychology from University of South Carolina Upstate.

Our Advisors

Dr. Jacobs is a Senior Fellow in Executive Leadership Assessment and Development at The RBL Group. He previously served as the Leo Cherne Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, from 1996 to 2005, where he taught Strategic Leadership and Creative and Critical Thinking. During his tenure, he created the Executive Assessment and Development Program.

His career at the U.S. Army Research Institute spanned from 1974 to 2005, focusing on strategic performance and leadership skill development. Collaborating with Dr. Elliott Jaques, he tailored Jaques’ requisite organization structure to specify (a) critical performance requirements at the various levels of a requisitely structured organization, and (b) the critical cognitive skills which must develop over time to enable successful perfor­mance.  The structure identifies developmental targets over time and constitutes a theory-based template for development of leadership within large-scale organizations. His pioneering work began in 1957, developing leadership theories based on social learning and exchange theory.

Dr. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and degrees from Vanderbilt University. and is a recognized author and scholar. His accolades include the John C. Flanagan Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association Division of Military Psychology, and he is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

Warren Kinston is a pioneering thinker and researcher, whose work has delved into the essence of human creative achievement. With a keen interest in the underlying forces that govern our actions and relationships, his academic background in science and medicine from Sydney University set the foundation for a multifaceted career that has traversed psychoanalysis, consulting, and teaching. Kinston’s work has been characterized by a constant pursuit of understanding—a quest to uncover how individuals and societies can harness their potential for improvement and further development.

Central to Kinston’s contributions is the Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour (THEE), an innovative framework that encapsulates his extensive research into human values, decision-making, and organizational behavior. His flagship publication is an encyclopedic text, ‘Working with Values: Software of the Mind,’ which offers a systematic exploration of purpose and ethics within organizations and societies, highlighting his commitment to practical and applied research.

Through his dedication to bringing his work into the public domain, Kinston has focused on making his taxonomic research accessible online, inviting participation and collaboration for its continued development and application. His ongoing work aims not only to provide tangible frameworks for understanding the complexities of human endeavor and the societal structures, but encourage discourse and action that can positively shape our world.

Barry and Sheila Deane, founders of PeopleFit Australasia Pty Ltd, have made significant contributions to the field of Requisite Organization (RO). Barry Deane’s deep roots in engineering provided a strong foundation for his transition into leadership roles within the heavy engineering and mining sectors. His application of RO principles throughout his 30-year career has influenced numerous industries, including specialty chemicals, power generation, and air traffic control, among others. Barry is renowned for his strategic acumen and the ability to seamlessly integrate business strategies with operational effectiveness.

Sheila Deane’s expertise in Requisite Organization extends over two decades, where she has been pivotal in shaping leadership effectiveness and designing organizational structures that promote accountability and trust. Her journey spanned various roles in human resources and line management, impacting sectors from retail to heavy engineering. Sheila’s practical and rigorous approach has helped leaders build and implement systems that yield extraordinary results.

Their passion for the scientific underpinnings of RO drives them to mentor and support the next generation, ensuring the longevity of these principles in fostering trust and sustainability within organizations.

Michel (Mike) Desjardins, a co-founder and principal advisor at Quintave, brings a comprehensive background in managerial leadership systems, strategy implementation, and talent development. With over two decades of consulting experience across five continents and a wide range of sectors, Michel has successfully led 60 long-term, international projects. 

Michel has taught executive teams in several companies and countries the principles and processes of how to design and implement a talent pool system based on Elliott’s foundation discoveries about Human Capability. For the last 20 years, he has kept records of internal assessments at companies he advised and external CIP assessments he conducted himself. This incredible wealth of data is being analyzed against the real career progression of those individuals to assess the predictability of the original judgments of information processing on career development. Michel has targeted the results to be available by the end of 2025.

His science-based approach, based on the work of Dr. Elliott Jaques, uniquely combines practical leadership with management principles to support organizational leaders, enhancing their effectiveness and guiding them towards achieving their strategic goals.

One of PeopleFit’s earliest clients and now a trusted resource, Ron spent much of his career as a turn-around specialist for dysfunctional manufacturing units as well as small and large businesses, eventually running a half billion-dollar global specialty chemical business. 

He said of PeopleFit, “PeopleFit has served as a trusted business advisor to me and my teams for over a decade. The level of sophistication of their integrated approach to talent assessment, organization design, and managerial leadership and practices has made a significant contribution to our transition from zero growth to sustained double-digit growth over 5 years.”

When he retired as a global executive, he continued his involvement in organizational management as a board member of the Global Organizational Design Society (GlobalRO.Org).

He also has been a volunteer mentor and CEO coach to numerous startups with early-stage advice related to value proposition, business strategy, and fundraising.  Ron’s clients are spread across the world but he calls North Carolina home. 

Global Organization Design Society 

The GO Society, stewarded by Ken Shepard, has been a constant resource for PeopleFit and our clients. A treasure trove of information, connections, and insights for those working in the Requisite Organization space, it’s purpose is “to support the organizing of work in a responsible, fair and healthy manner in which people are well led and free to exercise their capabilities.”