Six engagements. No packages.
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 say so in the first meeting rather than the fourth.
National workforce strategy
A diagnostic of the actual labor market, a target operating model the ministry can staff, and a sequencing plan that survives an election cycle.
- Labor market baseline from primary microdata
- Institutional capability assessment
- Target operating model and staffing
- Implementation sequencing and milestones
- Measurement framework and evaluation design
Global capability design
Location strategy and capability tiering built on the honest total cost of distributed delivery, including the costs your current model does not book.
- Location shortlisting against real wage series
- Capability tiering and work partitioning
- Fully loaded cost model including attrition
- Transition risk and governance design
- Five-year sensitivity under demographic scenarios
Labor market diagnostics
Country assessments built from employment microdata and payroll returns rather than survey sentiment. Slower to produce, and defensible when challenged.
- Employment and wage series construction
- Informality and participation analysis
- Skills supply and absorption capacity
- Sector-level demand decomposition
- Published method and reproducible workings
Institutional advisory
Standing counsel to multilateral and donor institutions on program design, measurement, and honest evaluation of what the program actually achieved.
- Program design and theory of change
- Results framework and indicator selection
- Independent midline and endline review
- Portfolio-level synthesis
- Board and committee briefing
Executive education
Closed-door briefings for boards and cabinets on the structural forces reshaping their labor supply. Small rooms, no slides for the sake of slides.
- Half-day and full-day board sessions
- Cabinet and ministerial briefings
- Bespoke scenario workshops
- Pre-read research packs
- Follow-on advisory retainer
Expert testimony
Legislative and regulatory testimony grounded in published, defensible, independently reproducible method. We testify to what the data shows, and nothing beyond it.
- Written evidence and submissions
- Oral testimony and questioning
- Independent expert reports
- Methodology defence
- Peer review of opposing analysis
How we work
Four stages, always in this orderDiagnose
Establish what is true before anyone proposes anything. Usually two to four weeks.
Frame
Name the real question and the decision it serves. Most engagements are won or lost here.
Analyse
Primary data, named method, workings shown. We publish the method whether or not you like the answer.
Land
A recommendation you can act on, sequenced and costed, with the uncertainty stated honestly.
Start with the diagnostic.
If it concludes we are the wrong firm for the problem, that is a useful answer and we will tell you plainly.
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