Web & Digital
Websites, custom apps, digital marketing and ongoing support for small businesses and nonprofits.
IT consulting & staffing
Transform for the AI era with the right people.
Strengthen your IT team, improve how work gets delivered, and put AI to practical use. We bring senior leadership and specialist talent, with one accountable partner from planning through delivery.
Founder-led — built on 25+ years inside the enterprise IT systems you run, paired with global executive search through Talenton.
One relationship
Transforma proven way of working
Staffsenior people, in place
Nspired
IT consulting & contract staffing
Talenton
Executive & professional search
Strengthen your IT function. Build the right team.
Leadership, delivery and specialist talent, shaped around the work you need to get done.
Transform
Change how the work gets done.
Stand up, stabilize, or modernize your IT function — with someone senior in place.
Nspired brings embedded leadership and a proven operating discipline: clear governance, a predictable way of delivering, and a modern, AI-enabled toolset. We don’t just advise — we run it with you until it’s working.
- Governance
Intake, prioritization, decision rights, and cadence — the structure that keeps work aligned.
- Process
Agile delivery and predictable roadmaps — standard ways of working that scale without slowing down.
- AI-Enabled Execution
A modern, AI-accelerated toolset for planning and delivery — more output, higher quality, your people in control.
Staff
Put the right people in place.
From an interim leader to a specialist or a full team, we help you find people with the experience your work requires. Choose contract, contract-to-hire or permanent search to suit the need.
Plan your next hire with our free IT hiring brief
Contract
Time & Materials · multi-yearExperienced specialists for a defined need or an ongoing engagement. Agree the scope, onboarding and working arrangement before they join your team.
Contract-to-Hire
Hourly + conversion · Temp-to-permWork together before making a permanent hiring decision. Conversion timing and terms are agreed up front, so both sides know what to expect.
Permanent
Retained search · Agreed termsExecutive and senior search with Talenton, from defining the role through assessment and onboarding. Search scope and any placement guarantee are set out in your agreement.
Permanent & executive search — with Talenton
The roles we staff
IT LeadershipInterim IT leaders and transformation leads.
Agile & Project ManagementProject managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile consultants.
Data & AnalyticsData engineers, BI specialists, and analytics leaders.
Jira & Work ManagementJira architects, administrators, and engineers.
HR TechnologyDelivery leaders for HR systems and implementations.
Salesforce, NetSuite & ERPAdministrators and functional support specialists.
Strategic Sourcing & ProcurementIT vendor sourcing, contracts, and supply chain procurement.
Software EngineeringSoftware engineers for business applications and IT platforms.
IT Support & InfrastructureService desk technicians, support specialists, and team leads.
Process ImprovementBusiness analysts, process improvement leads, and automation specialists.
Cybersecurity & IT RiskSecurity leaders, identity specialists, and IT risk consultants.
Built the systems. Placed the people who run them.
Nspired leads technology delivery and contract staffing. Talenton brings executive and professional search. Here is work delivered by each firm.
Nspired
IT consulting & contract staffing
Transform + Staff
Carrier — an agile transformation built, Jira standardized globally.
Built the practice from scratch — playbook, governance, training — and consolidated sixteen fragmented Atlassian instances into one global standard across IT and Engineering. Led a four-person team, then handed the reins to the architect Carrier hired permanently. Transform and Staff, one engagement.
Transform + Staff + AI
Konica Minolta — a data team staffed, an IT group transformed.
Senior data and analytics roles placed, an IT-wide Jira transformation led, and a live reporting portal built for IT and business leaders. Product leadership, architecture and AI-assisted development under one accountable lead.
Explore the portal case study ↗
Talenton
Executive & professional search
Staff · RPO
GH Labs — recruiting built, trained, and run.
Stood up the entire recruiting function, then owned every hire — 50 placed in two years, C-suite and technical leaders included, at an 8.5-week average time-to-fill.
Staff · Executive Search
Ballmer Group — full-lifecycle search at scale.
Every search owned from launch through onboarding — 32 senior hires across three years.
Roles placed
Senior roles deployed recently across contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent terms:
Chief Product OfficerVP, Product & InnovationSenior Advisor, AIExecutive Director, DataSenior Director, Product DevSenior Data EngineerDirector of SystemsSenior Software Engineering ManagerData Visualization Engineer
Clients served
Global enterprises and mission-driven organizations, across both firms:
AmazonMicrosoftKonica MinoltaCarrierGE DigitalAT&T WirelessClearwireGates FoundationBallmer GroupPATHSPARK NSAD Data InitiativeGH Labs
In their words
I engaged Brad as a vendor partner for years to source new talent and to continuously help execute Agile transformation initiatives at every job … He has the ability to build credibility very quickly and follows through on all his commitments. I cannot speak enough to Brad’s character as a person. He is the same person inside and outside of work and has high integrity … Any organization would benefit from having him in all aspects — setting an example for others, working exceptionally hard, always has a positive attitude, focusing on the details, and following through on his commitments leads to predictability and reliability making it easy for any leader.
Matt is an outstanding leader and talent acquisition expert. He grew PATH’s recruiting programs to the next level improving quality, speed, and efficiency. Matt’s passion for and knowledge of the development sector are a true asset. His relentless pursuit of excellence and innate drive to develop and reward talent underpins his success. Matt is genuine, kind, and generous. He brings his whole self to work and models exemplary leadership behavior. Matt’s insatiable curiosity for next and best practices keeps PATH ahead of the curve. His work ethic can’t be beaten. Thank you, Matt, for teaching me so much as a talent acquisition professional, leader, and human.
Brothers · Two firms
Senior partners. Clear accountability.
Two specialties, one relationship — Nspired holds the engagement, Talenton powers the search beneath it. Aligned, and accountable together.
Meet our search partner
Brad MacLean
Nspired
Founder & Principal
IT & technology — consulting, the contracting vehicle, and delivery.
Matt MacLean
Talenton
Founder & Principal
Global executive & professional search — every level, every function.
We build it to run without us.
Senior leadership goes in now, a vetted network forms the team the work needs, and a permanent team is placed to own it for the long run — one accountable relationship, built so the function scales and keeps running, never resting on a single person.
We’re in the business of people.
We use AI to reduce repetitive work and help people do more with their expertise. People set the priorities, make the decisions and remain accountable for the result. That principle shapes how we lead teams, build technology and choose the work we take on.
Stewardship
Every engagement starts with your outcome mattering more than our invoice.
Integrity
We tell you the truth — including when we’re not the right people for the job.
Accountability
One relationship owns the result, and stays on it until it’s working.
Discipline
Operating rigor isn’t a phase of the work — it’s how all of it gets done.
Courage
We build for the decade, not the quarter, even when the honest call costs us.
Excellence
We don’t ship work we’re not proud of — in the code, the call, or the people we place.
Beyond the work
Compassion
In the end, it’s about people — not the technology. We look out for their interests, enable them, and leave them with more agency than they came in with. It shapes who we choose to work with, and it reaches beyond the enterprise into how we give back.
Web & Digital and Nspired Labs
Nspired Labs
AI projects for learning, creating and living well, with people at the center.
Dwankhozi Hope
Hands-on technology, website improvements and tools for an all-volunteer nonprofit.
“Collaborating with Brad has helped our all-volunteer organization work more efficiently with more impact.”
Tell us what you’re solving for.
No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation about what you need and whether we’re the right fit. You’ll hear back from Brad directly, usually within one business day.