The People Behind the Methodology

Built by practitioners.
Delivered by practitioners.

Forge Partners was founded on a principle: organizational diagnostics should be grounded in facts and lived experience.

Susan Chelle Dorn, Founder & CEO

Susan Chelle Dorn

Founder & CEO · Forge Partners, Inc.
About

Susan Chelle Dorn is the founder and CEO of Forge Partners, Inc. and the architect of the Stress Test™ and Strength Index™ diagnostic system. With over 20 years of hands-on transformation experience at enterprises including Roche, Genentech, Chevron, State Farm, and Warner Bros., she built Forge Partners on a single conviction: execution failure is organizational before it is operational. The Stress Test™ and Strength Index™ were not theorized in a classroom — they were built in boardrooms, pressure-tested across global transformations affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and refined until they produced a score a leadership team could actually act on.

Her credential stack is the precise combination the market is now demanding — Industrial & Organizational (I-O) psychology, change management, process improvement, project management, executive coaching, and adult education — held simultaneously, not sequentially. This is the foundation of Forge's methodology, and the reason no competitor can replicate it. Chelle serves as the firm's lead diagnostic architect, primary client advisor, and the certifying authority for every practitioner who carries the Forge methodology into an engagement.

Discipline Architecture
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Change Management
20 years leading enterprise transformation. PROSCI certified. The operating backbone of every Forge engagement.
Integrated in
The Stress Test™ & Strength Index™
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I-O Psychology
The academic foundation of the diagnostic. Brings behavioral science rigor to organizational assessment.
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Executive Coaching
C-suite fluency. Works at the level of the buyer, translating organizational data into leadership action.
Resulting in
A quantified score leaders can act on, track, and move
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Project Management
Structured delivery discipline. ITIL Foundation certified. Ensures every engagement is rigorous and repeatable.
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Adult Education
Powers the certification curriculum. Practitioners trained to a transferable, PMP-equivalent standard.
Delivered through
A certified practitioner network that scales the methodology
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AI Transformation
Organizational readiness diagnostics for AI adoption — the fastest-growing engagement category in the firm.

Senior Consulting Team

Practitioners who deliver in the room

J. Tyler Fisher, Senior Partner

J. Tyler Fisher

Senior Partner · Leader Development
"Leadership is a trainable skill set. With the right structure, challenge, and support, individuals and teams can consistently perform at a higher level." — J. Tyler Fisher, Ed.D.

Tyler's career began in high-performance athletics as a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Nebraska, Drake University and TCU, where he spent eight years developing athletes and teams under measurable pressure — an environment that informs his approach to leadership and organizational capability.

Tyler operates at the intersection of performance, behavior, and execution. With more than 21 years of experience across collegiate athletics, higher education, and corporate environments, his work is grounded in a single principle: leadership capability is built through disciplined development. He transitioned from physical performance to organizational performance 13 years ago, pairing applied experience with academic depth through a Doctorate in Educational Leadership (Ed.D.).

Tyler brings the same rigor to leadership development that defines elite sport. Leveraging more than 5,000 hours of coaching and facilitation experience, he designs and delivers programs that move beyond theory and into sustained behavioral change — strengthening leaders’ skills including self-awareness, decision-making, communication, and strategic execution.

Organizational Health Executive Coaching Talent Strategy Facilitation Theory to Practice Forge Certified

Interested in becoming a Forge-certified practitioner?

The Forge Certification Program trains and accredits consultants in the Stress Test™ and Strength Index™ methodology — to PMP-equivalent rigor. Applications for the upcoming cohorts are now open.

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