Technology that serves people
Transform for the AI era with the right people.
We stabilize your IT function today and transform it for the AI era — senior people in place, a proven way of working, and AI that makes them better, never redundant. One relationship, one point of accountability.
Founder-led — built on 25+ years inside the enterprise IT systems you run, paired with global executive search through Talenton.
AI changes what’s possible. People and discipline make it happen.
AI is the biggest shift your IT function has faced — a real chance to move faster and deliver more. But the tools are only half of it. The advantage comes from what your people do with them: trading repetitive work for the judgment, problem-solving, and orchestration that move the business.
It’s also why most efforts stall — AI bolted onto the old way of working. The tools were never the hard part. The edge goes to the teams with the right people and a proven way of working, with AI making both better.
One relationship. Two ways we help.
One front door. The right mix of structure and talent for where you are — and where you’re going.
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.
Senior IT talent, brought in with the flexibility to start now and convert when you’re ready — every need running through one relationship. From a single interim leader to a full team, the people we place are senior enough to deliver from day one.
Specialized senior people in place, fast — impact from day one, with no ramp-up. Senior capability without the overhead or long-term commitment of a full-time hire — many of these engagements run and renew for years.
Bring someone in, see the fit and the outcomes in the role, then convert to permanent when you’re ready. The lowest-risk route to a permanent hire — you prove the person in the role before you commit.
Retained executive and senior search — the right leaders who build, scale, and stay. For the roles where the wrong hire is costly: a rigorous, fully guaranteed search that ends in a permanent placement.
Brothers · Two firms
One contracting vehicle. One point of accountability.
Two specialties, one relationship — Nspired holds the engagement, Talenton powers the search beneath it. Aligned, and accountable together.
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.
That’s not a slogan — it’s the whole model. We place people. We lead teams. We use the best tools in the world, including AI, to make those people more capable — never to replace them. The firms that treat their people as a cost to cut will win the quarter and lose the decade. We’re built for the opposite: treat people well, give them a great way to work, and the results take care of themselves.
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.
Built the systems. Placed the people who run them.
Across both firms, we’ve built the transformations and placed the senior people who run them — for global enterprises and mission-driven organizations. From a single interim leader to a fifty-person hiring program, it’s a model we’ve already delivered, not one we’re pitching.
Nspired
Transformation & interim leadership
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.
Konica Minolta — a data team staffed, an IT group transformed.
Three years embedded across their data & analytics team — product, principal data engineering, BI, scrum — plus a Jira transformation led across all of IT with the CIO. Now delivery lead, architect, and builder in one — custom AI dashboards for IT and business leaders, built without an engineering team.
Talenton
Executive & professional search
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.
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:
Clients served
Global enterprises and mission-driven organizations, across both firms:
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.
Ready to transform — with the right people in place?
Start a conversationThe same belief, whatever the budget.
Most of what I do is enterprise work. But the belief underneath it — technology should serve people — doesn’t care how big the budget is. I give real time to a few businesses and causes I believe in, with the same tools the Fortune 500 uses.
MenLiving
Nonprofit men’s community
A men’s community I help grow — consolidating their platforms and rethinking how they reach the men who need it, with AI doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
I have worked with many technicians. Brad is the kind you look forward to working with — engaging, creative, kind, and confident.
Shaun Emerson · President, MenLiving
Zen Parenting / ZenPop
Longest-standing client · 10 years
Ten years owning their entire digital world — site rebuilds, branding, the TeamZen community, the shop, and the tech behind the podcast and their thousand-person conference.
Brad’s support has been pivotal. He embodies qualities that make him a pleasure to collaborate with — kindness, conscientiousness, and reliability.
Cathy Cassani Adams · CEO, Zen Parenting
MacLean Brothers Painting
Family small business
My brother’s company. I built their site and help them punch above their weight online — family, and a good test of whether this stuff works for a real small business.
Visit →Arrowhead Montessori
Montessori education
The school my kids came up through — and where my daughter now works. I believe in how they develop young people, so I help keep their technology running in the background. Some of the most personal work I do.
Visit →I want to spend each day feeling inspired and doing what I love — helping others reach their goals, and giving back.
Brad MacLean · Founder
Giving back
For sixteen years I’ve been the volunteer tech lead for Dwankhozi Hope — the community school for about 600 children in rural Zambia that my brother Matt co-founded — keeping their technology running. It’s the clearest answer to the question this whole page is really about: what is the technology for?
“Brad has become an indispensable asset to our non-profit organization.”
Mark Russo · Co-Founder, Dwankhozi Hope
Visit →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.