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Selected Work

Jennifer E.
Mahone-Rightler

Founder & Chief Executive, RightStar Consulting Partners LLC  |  The S.A.L.E. Institute

I find the foundational fracture beneath the symptom, and I build the repair. Leadership is not a program. It is an architecture.

The Editorial Platform

The Architect

Volume I · Spring 2026 · The Inaugural Issue

The editorial voice of RightStar Consulting Partners and the S.A.L.E. Institute, written for the leader who understands that talent is the strategy, not the support function for the strategy. Volume I carries the first full public articulation of the S.A.L.E. Model and the Capacity Deficit framework.

  • I.In the RoomA letter from the founder
  • II.The S.A.L.E. ManifestoFour disciplines, one architecture
  • III.The Capacity DeficitCover feature: why your best people are quietly running out
  • IV.The Blueprint: The Decision Rights MatrixDecision science for serious operators
  • V.The Spiritual ExecutiveAn essay twenty years in the making
  • VI.Field Notes: AI and the Human HR FunctionFrom six years of applied enterprise work
  • VII.From the FoundationTwenty-five years of nonprofit governance
  • VIII.Directness as RespectA closing note
Read Volume I

The Published Record

Selected national press features and contributions.

Keynote Practice

Formats offered: keynote, co-facilitated working session, panel.

2026 · DeliveredMazda North AmericaKeynote, Women's History Month.
2026 · Scheduled, December 1Women's Automotive Network, Mexico SummitKeynote.
2025Women's Automotive NetworkPanel on Business Enablement.

The Practice

Leadership architecture, executive coaching, and facilitation.

Capability-based executive coaching and facilitation for boards, chief executives, and senior teams at decade-deciding moments: transitions, restructures, newly assembled leadership, and succession. Engagements open with a diagnostic rather than an interview, so the work targets the capability that is actually missing.

Twenty-five years of enterprise People leadership at Ford, Epsilon, Boeing, United Technologies, and CDW precede the firm. Certified Executive Coach, Crucial Conversations Certified Facilitator, Korn Ferry Certified Trainer, DISC Certified Facilitator, SPHR, Certified Diversity Executive. Sector is never a filter. Only altitude determines fit.

The Leadership Architecture Index™  ·  The Capacity Deficit™  ·  The Recognition Gap™  ·  RIDE Decision Science™  ·  The Team Readiness Diagnostic™