The Expert Talent Blog
Summary: Super-charge your technical subject matters experts! Expertunity's Expert Talent blog helps L&D, HR and OD professionals increase the capability, confidence and impact of their organizations' technical superstars.
Written by Darin Fox 21 Jul 2026

Super-charge your SME talent

Super-charge your technical subject matter experts! Expertunity’s Expert Talent Blog helps L&D, HR and OD professionals increase the capability, confidence and impact of their organization’s technical superstars.

Editors of the Expert Talent Blog: Darin Fox, Dominic Johnson, and Alistair Gordon.

Latest

Stop the Brain Drain: A Talent Strategy for Deep Expertise The one-size-fits-all approach to talent strategy is no longer fit for purpose.

Understanding Expertship

Why experts need feedback, just like the rest of us. The use structured feedback processes – very often 360-degree or 180-degree multi-rater surveys – for leaders in our organizations, and as HR/OD we know how valuable these interactions are. But most organizations don’t use structured feedback for their technical experts. Why not?

What are enterprise skills, and why are they important for technical experts? Experts are known for their technical skills, but the very best experts have master enterprise skills as well.

Executive coaching for Subject Matter Experts: Why its time has come Long deployed by organizations to assist their senior leaders, qualified Expertship coaches can take mission-critical experts to the next level of influence and impact in a development format they embrace.

Leading teams of experts: the invisible scary truth Leading teams of generalists is challenging, but leading teams of experts - some of whom are more expert than their managers - is an even greater challenge.

9 out of 10 Technical Expert quits could be avoided. Every department head, leading a team of technical subject matter experts, has one thing on their mind: why are we losing our best people?

It’s annual review time: how do you turn around underperforming technical experts Performance conversations with highly technical experts can be extremely challenging. Here’s our best practice guide.

Opinion

9 out of 10 Technical Expert quits could be avoided. Every department head, leading a team of technical subject matter experts, has one thing on their mind: why are we losing our best people?

Are Managers Holding Experts Back from Adding More Value? The way in which leaders of experts motivate and coach highly technical experts makes the ultimate difference in the value those experts deliver.

Attracting and recruiting technical specialists: what does research and the market say? A technical brain drain from an organization can be catastrophic.

Can an organisation that doesn’t value its technical staff still be competitive? Reinvention, innovation, efficiency drives all have one thing in common - they are initiatives delivered by experts.

From the archives

Case study: How Expertship helped global healthcare provider GenesisCare drive an innovative new strategic approach to health care.

Case Study: Focus on expertship transforms employee development at Aon

The Geek Gap, & What to do about it Chief people Officers know that strategically their expert employee population is important. But what do we do with them?

What working with HFL/Expertunity in 2021 has taught me about coaching and expertship An intern’s first exposure to the difference between Leadership and Expertship.

292,000 data points can’t be wrong: here’s four recommendations for companies who want better relationships with their experts and individual contributors

Are Managers Holding Experts Back from Adding More Value?

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