Meander, Inc

Meander is a Winchester-based training and advisory firm for HR and people leaders who need to get comfortable with workforce data and AI. Its Talent Academy offers certificate programs, courses and team training packages on people analytics, applied AI for HR and presenting the case to the C-suite. The material is built by practitioners rather than career trainers, and it aims to give HR teams the judgment to turn workforce data into decisions leadership will act on.

The firm is built by Chris Mannion, a former Royal Navy aerospace engineering officer and MIT Sloan MBA who led supply chain and talent analytics work at Wayfair, where his team cut time-to-hire by more than half across a recruiting organization of over 400 people. Alongside the training side, Meander Advisory takes on selective, senior-led engagements in headcount planning, workforce planning and AI strategy, applying operations methods such as monthly re-forecasting so a company’s largest cost line gets planned with real rigor.

What to Know

• Advisory clients are typically growth-stage and private equity-backed companies.
• Mannion has spent about five years advising HR and Finance leaders at Fortune 500 and PE-backed firms.
• Practical guides are published on the website, along with workflow videos on YouTube.
• Past work includes headcount strategy for a large PE-backed carve-out spanning several HR systems.