Every engagement begins with a diagnostic, because the question a client arrives with is rarely the question that needs answering. If we cannot help, we will say so in the first meeting rather than the fourth.
A diagnostic of the actual labor market, a target operating model the ministry can staff, and a sequencing plan that survives an election cycle.
Location strategy and capability tiering built on the honest total cost of distributed delivery, including the costs your current model does not book.
Country assessments built from employment microdata and payroll returns rather than survey sentiment. Slower to produce, and defensible when challenged.
Standing counsel to multilateral and donor institutions on program design, measurement, and honest evaluation of what the program actually achieved.
Closed-door briefings for boards and cabinets on the structural forces reshaping their labor supply. Small rooms, no slides for the sake of slides.
Legislative and regulatory testimony grounded in published, defensible, independently reproducible method. We testify to what the data shows, and to nothing beyond it.
Establish what is true before anyone proposes anything. Usually two to four weeks.
Name the real question and the decision it serves. This is where most engagements are won or lost.
Primary data, named method, workings shown. We publish the method whether or not you like the answer.
A recommendation the client can act on, sequenced and costed, with the uncertainty stated honestly.
If the diagnostic says we are the wrong firm for the problem, that is a useful answer and we will tell you plainly.
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