THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK

He watched great talent disappear for three decades. He built the tools to stop it.

Kent Nuttall spent more than 30 years helping organizations develop their people. In that time, he watched the same pattern repeat: talented professionals would produce extraordinary value—and leave jobs they were good at because no one above them could see what they were actually contributing.

THE MISSION OF TORCH SOLUTIONS GROUP

Somewhere in every organization is a person who produces more value than anyone above them can see. Not because the value isn’t real. Because the system to show it has never existed. Torch Solutions Group exists for that person.

Our mission is to move organizations from evaluation to evidence. From impressions to records. From “I think you’re doing well” to proof that you are. To make that possible, we built the Meaningful Competence® Toolkit. The My Value App delivers it to every professional who has been waiting for someone to see what they produce.

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THE STORY THAT STARTED THIS

Kent Nuttall, founder of Torch Solutions Group and Te My Value App

Kent managed a training coordinator who was doing extraordinary work. She was building systems to track programs and client relationships. She was cultivating connections inside client organizations to help grow the business. She was producing value that extended far beyond what her job title suggested.

Then one day, Kent’s boss asked how she kept herself busy. “She’s just a training coordinator,” he said.

He wasn’t being cruel. He simply had no evidence of what she was producing—because Kent had never found a way to show him. The value existed. The proof didn’t. She left not long after.

“I couldn’t find the words to make her real value visible to him in time.”

— Kent Nuttall

He built the Meaningful Competence® Toolkit so the next manager wouldn’t face that silence. And so the next professional would never leave without proof of what she’d built.

THE MEANINGFUL COMPETENCE® TOOLKIT

"The Meaningful Competence® Toolkit gives professionals five tools for identifying, measuring, increasing, and sharing their value—producing a continuous, manager-confirmed record that belongs to them and travels with them across every employer, every role, every decade."

The Meaningful Competence Toolkit. Shows the Metric Microscope, Value Detector, Individual Mesh, Competence Levers, and Relevance Microphone.

KENT NUTTALL, FOUNDER

Kent Nuttall, creator of the Meaningful Competence toolkit, speaking at a conference.

Kent Nuttall is the creator of the Meaningful Competence® Toolkit and founder of Torch Solutions Group. He spent more than 30 years in talent development working with professionals and organizations across multiple industries before building the system he realized was missing.

His Meaningful Competence® Consultant Certification program trains independent consultants and OD practitioners to bring that methodology into the organizations they serve.