Practice

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.

Engagements

Scope and audience

#	Engagement	Scope	Deliverables
01	National Workforce StrategyMinistries of labor, finance, education	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 and evaluation design
02	Global Capability DesignMultinational employers	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 demographic sensitivity
03	Labor Market DiagnosticsGovernments, donors, investors	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, reproducible method
04	Institutional AdvisoryIGOs, development finance, donors	Standing counsel on program design, measurement, and honest evaluation of what the program actually achieved.	Program design and theory of change Results framework and indicators Independent midline and endline review Portfolio-level synthesis Board and committee briefing
05	Executive EducationBoards, cabinets, executive committees	Closed-door briefings 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
06	Expert TestimonyLegislatures, regulators, tribunals	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

Method

Four stages, always in this order

Diagnose

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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