About Vitality TA

We Know How Hard TA Can Be. We Will Change That Together.

We know what it's like. The req list that never shrinks. The hiring managers who can't decide, or won't respond. The same hiring managers who turn around and blame TA for everything. We will change that.

20+

years of years of executive search and TA leadership experience

All levels

years of from field-level professionals to C-suite executives across every function

Every size

years of lean 2-person TA teams through multi-function recruiting departments

Construction

deep sector roots in construction, manufacturing and industrial services

The Founder

The experience behind
every engagement.

Talent acquisition is one of those disciplines where the difference between someone who has done the work and someone who has studied the work is immediately apparent to anyone on the receiving end.

Shawn Desgrosellier founded Vitality TA on a straightforward premise: that the organizations struggling most with talent acquisition are not struggling because their people lack effort or intelligence. They are struggling because the system around their people is missing the structure, accountability, and market access that the work actually requires.

Over more than two decades, Shawn has built executive search practices, restructured internal TA functions, placed leaders at every level from project manager to CEO, and worked alongside HR Directors and CHROs at the moment they most needed a trusted partner and a clear plan.

"The organizations I have worked with that perform at the highest level share one thing: they inspect what they expect. They measure what matters. And they build systems that run whether anyone is watching or not."

Shawn Desgrosellier, Founder

Shawn Desgrosellier

Founder & Principal, Vitality TA
Executive Search & TA Performance Partner

Construction Manufacturing Infrastructure Professional services TA strategy
 

Background

20+ years executive search across construction & industrial sectors. In-house TA leadership at multiple stages of company scale.

Scope of Experience

Field-level to C-suite. Lean 2-person teams to multi-function recruiting departments.

What Sets This Apart

Practitioner perspective in every conversation. Not a consulting framework — a working operating model.

Approach

Builds and stays. Documents and hands off. Independence is the goal — not retainer dependency.

Philosophy

Five beliefs that shape every engagement.

01

The problem is almost never the people.

The vast majority of TA underperformance is a systems and structure problem — not a talent or effort problem. Before any conclusion is drawn about a TA team's capability, the infrastructure around that team deserves an honest look.

02

Advice without execution is not help.

The consulting industry's standard model — diagnosis, recommendation, invoice — has produced a generation of HR leaders who are excellent at identifying what needs to change and unable to find anyone willing to stay in the room while it actually changes.

03

Honest assessment is the first service we provide.

If the situation does not call for a Vitality TA engagement, we will say so in the first conversation. The short-term loss of an engagement is not worth the long-term cost of a relationship that does not produce results.

04

Independence is the goal. Dependency is the failure mode.

Every framework, template, system, and process that Vitality TA builds in an engagement is designed to be owned and operated by the client team — not by Vitality TA. We have never told a client they needed ongoing support to sustain results.

05

Inspect what you expect. Measure what matters.

TA functions that operate without metrics are navigating without instruments. The measurement infrastructure that Vitality TA builds is not an administrative burden — it is the mechanism that tells a TA leader which lever to pull.

Honesty First

Things most firms would not put on their website.

Not sure where your TA function stands? Start here.

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