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Mike Hoffman (0:53)
Hi, I'm Mike Hoffman, editor in chief of Inc. And you're listening to your Next Move Audio edition produced by Inc. Capital One Business. In this season's audio edition, we're bringing you conversations from the youe Next Move Pop up studio at the Inc. 5000 conference this past October in Phoenix, Arizona. You'll hear Inc. Writers and editors interviewing the founders of some of the fastest growing private companies in the country. In this episode, Inc. Senior Editor Rebecca Dzynski talks with Dr. Sandy Fiaschidi, founder of Lodestone People Consulting, which ranked number 872 on the 2025 Pink 5000 list. Lodestone helps private equity firms and their portfolio companies strengthen leadership teams and build better people systems. Now, Rebecca starts the conversation by asking Sandy how she turns human behavior research into clear, practical decisions for leaders under pressure.
Dr. Sandy Fiaschetti (1:46)
I am Dr. Sandy Fiaschetti of Lodestone People Consulting and we are number 872.
Rebecca Dzynski (1:55)
Amazing. Tell me a little bit more about what your company does.
Dr. Sandy Fiaschetti (1:58)
We do human capital science for private equity firms and their portfolio companies or really any middle market and lower middle market company. So that's the official thing that we do. And I will say when people ask me and they're like, I still don't know what that means, I'll say we make management teams better and the people systems better in companies. So the companies are better. So there's science around behavior at work. And our firm is a bunch of people who studied behavior at work.
Rebecca Dzynski (2:30)
Yeah. And is your background, is it psychology?
Dr. Sandy Fiaschetti (2:33)
Yeah. So industrial organizational psychology is the field and that's what my PhD is in. That's what most of the people in our firm have a background in.
