Work With Me
I spent 22+ years building these systems from the inside — HCMs, skills intelligence, talent marketplaces, hiring platforms. If you’re making one of these calls and want someone who has actually lived with the outcome, here’s how I can help.
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How I can help
Skills Architecture & Intelligence
For CHROs, Heads of Talent and People Analytics leads starting — or restarting — a skills programme.
Designing what a skill means in your organisation, who owns proficiency, and how the data stays trustworthy enough to act on.
- Skills taxonomy and proficiency model
- Ownership and governance of skills data
- Data-quality rules you can actually run
Connecting Skills to the Business
For HR and business leaders whose skills data lives inside HR and goes nowhere.
Connecting skills to internal mobility, strategic workforce planning and hiring, so the architecture actually changes decisions.
- Use cases tied to real decisions
- Links into mobility, SWP and hiring
- Measures that show it is working
Technology Evaluation & Selection
For HR, IT and procurement teams choosing an HCM, skills, talent-marketplace or hiring platform.
An independent evaluation using the five-gates approach from my research — not a vendor’s demo script.
- Requirements built from your architecture
- Vendor shortlist and structured demos
- Honest trade-offs before you sign
Why work with me
Independent
Vendors can fund my research. They can’t buy my verdict.
Battle-tested
22+ years building and running these systems for real organisations. I know what breaks.
Research-led
Every recommendation traces back to published work — the five gates and the HR Tech AI Roadmap.
Pathways, not sales
I map honest trade-offs so you choose what fits you, not what sells.
Let's Talk
If any of this sounds like where you are, I’d rather have a direct conversation than a sales pitch.