Force Multiplier

Every year, more than 200,000 service members leave the military. Most of them land badly — not because they lack skill, but because the two sides can't read each other. The company can't read the record. The veteran can't read the posting. Dean spent 26 years in the Army building and leading teams, and then watched that translation problem waste people he'd served with.

So he went and fixed it from the inside. At Trek and at Clarios — two major Wisconsin manufacturers — Dean built the veteran hiring programs: the charters, the SkillBridge and PaYS channels, the manager training, the retention playbooks that keep a veteran past the first year. Not as a consultant with a slide deck, but as the operator who owned the outcome.

Force Multiplier is that system, delivered as software — with Dean still on the other end of it. The scan that reads any company's veteran hiring in 30 seconds, the registry data his team verifies by hand against federal sources, the plans sequenced so the free moves come first: all of it exists so that a company with no HR department and a Fortune 500 contractor can both do this right.

This is a business, and it's honest about that: the subscription and the engagements are how it keeps running. But the reason it exists is the other half of the ledger — every company that stands up a real program is a landing zone for people coming home from service. When you hire well, a veteran stays, a family settles, and your community gets the kind of neighbor 26 years of service produces. That's the multiplier.