Think BIG
Helping leaders and organizations scale for greatest impact
Go BOLD
Advising on the high-stakes human capital decisions that deliver transformational value
Look BEYOND
Challenging the status quo to harness untapped potential
Our Mission and Focus
We partner with Boards, CEOs and management teams to unlock organization value at the intersection of strategy, leadership and organization design. Everything we do centers around our goal of helping leaders through the transformative process of building high-performing, healthy, and scalable organizations.
Unlocking organization value demands taking a holistic approach in both diagnosing root causes and implementing practical, sustainable solutions. Our Organization Performance Flywheel model informs our approach—whether in the form of 1:1 executive coaching or enterprise level transformation efforts.
Our Core Solution Offerings
1. Leadership Advisory. Advising and coaching senior leaders to deliver sustainable results and maximize their impact through tailored assessment and 1:1 executive coaching.
2. Senior Leadership Team Alignment. Partnering with CEOs and their teams to shrink the gap between team formation and high performance by clarifying purpose, accelerating trust, and driving accountability around operating norms and decision protocols.
3. Organization Assessment & Performance Acceleration. Holistically assessing talent, organization design, and cultural assets and liabilities to recommend changes required to deliver against a chosen growth strategy or value creation plan.
4. Fit-for-Purpose Organization Design. Identifying critical organization design and operating model changes to support top leadership in building the organization capacity and capabilities required to scale.
5. Strategy Alignment. Guiding boards, CEOs and management teams in translating long-term vision into near-term priorities that create alignment up, down and across the organization.
Guiding Principles
To us, fortissimo is so much more than a musical annotation—it’s a mindset. To fully embrace this mindset and our mission, we are guided by the following core beliefs and principles:
Stay Curious. We never stop asking Why. Curiosity is our DNA; we are never satisfied with the first answer that presents itself. We encourage each other to dig deeper, look beyond the obvious, and find the nuance that underpins the more elegant solution.
The Best Ideas Win. A great mentor of mine loved to say “intelligence is randomly distributed in large groups” to mean that the best solutions are not the property of the biggest titles or the most years of experience. We believe great ideas and provocations can and should come from anywhere.
Fit-for-Purpose. Prescriptive, one-size-fits all solutions represents a good chunk of what gives our industry a bad name. Context is everything. Benchmarks are as seductive and they are dismissed for not being perfectly relevant. We bring tailored insights based on decades working in, studying and advising businesses of all sizes across a wide range of industries.
“Yes-And” Mindset. It’s the golden rule of Improv. “No, but” prematurely kills the scene. The best insights and solutions rarely come from taking an “either/or” approach. We challenge each other to explore the possibilities that come from seeing how two opposing ideas can both be true opens unforeseen doors.
The 54% Rule. Roger Federer won only 54% of all points played throughout his professional career. But it translated into winning 80% of all his matches played. This just-above-average metric is the track record of one the greatest and most respected athletes out there. We remind each other to not let perfection at the point level distract from winning in the bigger picture. And to have some fun along the way.
Our Team
Todd Fryling
Founder
Todd brings over 25 years of leadership and consulting experience in organization design, strategy deployment, talent management and leadership development. Over the course of his career, Todd has consulted to and coached C-suite executives ranging in growth stages from start-ups to Fortune 100 C-level executives in industries including healthcare, technology, and consumer goods and services. Todd specializes in advising senior leaders on ways to scale their leadership impact and future proofing their organizations through organization design, cross-functional ways of working alignment, and culture transformation.
Prior to founding Fortissimo Advisors, Todd helped build a successful boutique consulting firm from a 3-person all-purpose consultancy to a 25+ person, leading private equity human capital advisory firm. Prior to that role, Todd worked in Talent Management and Organization Effectiveness roles in successful, growth-oriented companies, including privately-held, Mars, Inc., and the private-equity backed technology services company, Asurion. Todd started his career at KPMG while finishing up graduate school, where he helped co-found a digital media business incubator, which specialized in helping entrepreneurs build their business plans and secure Series A & B rounds of venture capital funding.
Todd holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and an MBA in Strategy from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Psychology from Bucknell University. As a Nashvillian for the last 19 years, Todd serves on Nashville Public Radio’s Board of Directors and enjoys international travel, cooking, nearly any sport involving a racquet, and of course, most any kind of music.
Sandhya Johnson
Consulting Partner
Sandhya s a leader in developing innovative organizational development and human capital effectiveness initiatives. She has a proven track record of being an expert in talent development strategy planning and implementation.
Her broad-based experience of over 25 years includes all areas of human resources and leadership development with an emphasis in hospitality, manufacturing and client services work environments including Le Meridien, Ingersoll Rand, Citibank, Aon Hewitt, GAF Materials Corporation and Flowserve.
She has successfully met the challenges of assessing critical business needs and aligning individuals and teams to drive business performance. Her projects with clients such as Deloitte, AutoNation, Dillard’s, Dell, Department of Homeland Security, Motorola, Google Operations Center, Kraft Heinz, Roche Diagnostics, MoneyGram, Kendra Scott, Kraft Heinz, Purple, Group 1 Automotive, Rosewood Hotels, GM Financial, Essilor, PrimeSource Building Products, Tyson Foods, Child Development Schools, etc. are known for high quality output, nimble changes, and speed of delivery.
Sandhya has a MBA from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa (OK), Master’s Degree in Organization Development from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara (CA) and a PhD in the same field.
Clint Kofford
Consulting Partner
Clint Kofford, Ed.D., is a seasoned talent executive, coach, and author with 20+ years of experience driving change in Fortune 100 companies and private equity-backed firms. As VP of Talent and Learning at Mars, Inc., he redesigned global leadership development and led the cultural integration of Banfield Pet Hospital. At Nike, as Senior Director of Global Talent Management, he enabled the company’s shift to a new operating model. At Johnson & Johnson, Clint served as Global Head of Talent Development/Chief Learning Officer, where he redesigned the executive leadership programs and led a major organizational redesign in J&J’s $12B Immunology business. He has also served as Chief Talent Officer for companies backed by JAB, TPG, and CD&R, guiding growth and turnarounds at firms like Asurion, National Veterinary Associates, and Covetrus.
With a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and degrees from Vanderbilt and BYU, Clint co-authored Creating Meaningful Change, which helps leaders navigate change with greater impact.
Amee Olson
Consulting Partner
Amee Olson partners with executives and teams to drive transformation, lead change, and elevate organizational performance. Specializing in organization design, operational effectiveness, and leadership, she empowers executives to harness talent, foster engagement, and build resilient, high performing organizations.
With expertise in facilitating strategic dialogue and aligning the organization with business objectives, Amee collaborates with C-suite leaders on initiatives spanning culture transformation, scaling operations, enhancing productivity and process improvement. She identifies organizational strengths and gaps, delivering actionable insights that optimize structures, processes, and capabilities to achieve strategic goals.
Amee’s clients range from global Fortune 500 companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology to mid-size enterprises, startups, and nonprofits. Her diverse experience includes guiding teams through complex change initiatives and aligning leadership capabilities with long-term visions.
Previously, Amee held senior HR leadership roles at West Pharmaceutical Services, The Hershey Company, and IBM, where she led global teams and initiatives to drive organizational effectiveness, foster high-performing cultures, and enhance business outcomes.
Amee holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Social Policy from Bucknell University. She is certified in numerous assessment tools, including the Hogan Personality Inventory, Leadership Architect Suite, MBTI, Polarity Thinking, Business Acumen Gauge, and Vertical Development.
Contact Us
You can email to make an appointment at
info@fortissimoadvisors.com
Nashville, TN