We offer customized coaching and advising to regions and states looking to form authentically industry-driven, community-supported partnerships using the Next Gen Sector Partnership model.
Our team partners with select regions and states looking for strategic guidance on the step-by-step process of Next Gen Partnership-building. As coaches and advisors, our goal is to build capacity among regional teams to successfully sustain Next Gen Sector Partnerships and to help state leaders create the conditions for partnership success and impact.
Our Approach
We translate national best practices into applied, practical guidance and strategies. The Next Gen model has been applied in over 100 communities and 20 states around the country. Our team of Next Gen Coaches specialize in translating best practices and lessons learned from this national experience into actionable guidance that helps regions build effective and enduring partnerships.
We combine our expertise with yours. Our advising combines our field-tested knowledge of what works (and what doesn’t), with the unique context and conditions of each region and state. Our approach emphasizes partnering with state and regional practitioners to lay the foundation for sustainable partnerships and build capacity for long-term success.
We are grounded in real-world, field-tested experience. Unlike expert-driven consulting that emphasizes theory over practice, our team brings applied experience in the hard work of regional partnership-building in a wide range of contexts and conditions. Our coaching is practical and applied. We know we know what it takes to authentically increase stakeholder capacity to do hard work well.
We have advised over 100 regions around the country on the process of Next Gen Partnership-building, serving as:
Trusted advisors on the disciplined, step-by-step process of Next Gen Partnership Building. We guide regional teams through the process of building Next Gen Partnerships, customizing what we know works based on national experience with the unique context of each region.
Experts on “what works.” Our coaches and practitioner faculty bring field-tested experience in the art and science of building enduring, high-impact public-private partnerships.
Neutral, third-party facilitators who support regional teams in building true cross-systems buy-in and support for the Next Gen approach (vs. one among many, competing initiatives). We are process experts and skilled facilitators who can help lay the right foundation in the critical early stages of partnership set-up.
We have advised 20 states on strategies for aligning economic development, education and workforce development systems around the needs of regional economies and creating the conditions for high-quality, high-impact regional partnerships. We are experts in the unique roles states can play to foster the development of industry-driven partnerships.