Growth Story

The Walworth Group is a diversified industrial holding company with operations across the United States and Mexico. The company has grown by building and running businesses across borders, which made cross-cultural leadership and a clear executive structure central to running a larger, multi-country business.

The Inflection Point

Walworth was moving through a leadership transition that left executive roles loosely defined. Senior leaders were absorbed in day-to-day operations, which limited the time available for the work of running a larger, multi-country business.

As the company grew, financial reporting and cross-border communication were becoming harder to manage. Walworth wanted a partner who could go beyond filling roles and help define how the organization should be built for international growth.

What the Next Stage Required

Walworth needed a defined organizational design and structure with clear responsibilities, executive leaders with international experience who could operate across the United States and Mexico, and a talent roadmap that tied hiring to the company’s growth goals rather than current vacancies.

How We Helped

Strategic Talent Planning™

Facilitated a planning session with Walworth’s leadership, including executive interviews, organizational design, and the Predictive Index, to define the structure a larger, multi-country business required.

Organizational Design

Defined a structure that set executive roles and removed the bottlenecks created by leaders working in the day-to-day.

Executive Retained Search

Identified the priority hires the roadmap called for, including a CFO with international experience, a fractional CPO, and a CTO, and placed a President and a Controller within three months.

Business Impact

Walworth came away with a defined organizational design built for international growth and a talent roadmap covering its CFO, fractional CPO, and CTO priorities. 512Financial placed a President and a Controller within three months, and the executive roles were set clearly enough that senior leaders could step out of the day-to-day and back into running the business.

Client Perspective

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Working with Velveth and the 512Financial team has been one of the most impactful partnerships in Walworth’s recent history. They didn’t just help us find talent — they helped us find the right leaders. Beyond recruiting, they facilitated a Strategic Talent Planning Session that was a true turning point: they helped place each of our leaders in the right seat, pointed in the right direction, focused on what truly matters. And since then, they have remained a trusted sounding board — guiding us, challenging us, and showing up as a genuine partner in our growth. We are deeply grateful for this relationship.

Marcel Caldera, Chief Operating Officer, The Walworth Group