WebStudy Foundation helps regions get the right people in the room, see what’s not lining up, and decide what to do first — so employers can find the talent they need and learners can move into real jobs.
We design and facilitate a structured process to help regions reveal what silos hide, align priorities around real job demand, and build the capacity to act before 2030 arrives.
CapacityWorks™ builds the regional capacity to keep pace with continuous change.
Think together. Act together.
A no-obligation exploratory conversation
about your region’s future
Workforce Initiatives Don’t Fail Early. They Fail Late.
40% of businesses can’t take on more work because they can’t fill the jobs they already have.
The workforce gap will not close because everyone is working hard.
It will close when employers, educators, workforce leaders, economic developers, and funders stop solving the same problem separately — and start deciding together what comes first, where, and when.
Employers cannot grow without qualified workers.
Educators and training providers cannot stay relevant if learners cannot turn skills into real jobs.
Every sector is responding.
Credentials. Career pathways. Apprenticeships. Skills-first initiatives.
Yet piling well-intentioned initiatives onto a fragmented system still produces a fragmented system.
What’s missing is a process that helps priorities converge around what employers actually need before decisions are finalized.
Regions already have labor market data, workforce plans, employer advisory meetings, grant initiatives, and strategic reports.
Fragmented initiatives are the symptom.
Disconnected decision-making is the cause.
The future isn’t waiting. Our systems are.
Every region already has knowledge. CapacityWorks™ helps regions connect it – so educators, employers, and workforce leaders can solve workforce challenges together.
CapacityWorks™ helps regions build the capacity to keep pace with continuous change. We bring educators, employers, workforce leaders, funders, and civic partners into a structured process that reveals what silos hide, connects what regions already know, and turns shared clarity into coordinated action.
Participants don’t simply attend another meeting. They experience a different kind of conversation – one where guarded perspectives become openness, listening replaces defending, patterns emerge, and fragmented thinking gives way to shared understanding.
From that clarity, action becomes possible. Regions leave better aligned, better equipped, and ready to solve workforce challenges together.
Decisions and Dollars Are Still Moving Separately
Problem #1: Separate decision-making.
Problem #2: Funding reinforces separate decision-making.
That’s why workforce initiatives are at risk of becoming late-stage coordination failures.
Traditional workforce funding was not designed for the speed, complexity, or interdependence of today’s labor market.
Too much funding still moves to individual programs before regions have aligned around what employers need, which learners are being prepared, and which solutions should come first.
Built From Both Sides of the Workforce Challenge
WebStudy Foundation was founded by Gisele Larose after decades of experience on both sides of the workforce challenge—employers seeking talent and educators preparing it. Colleagues in organizational development, educational technology and workforce development joined her in her research.
After years of studying why workforce initiatives struggle to scale, we reached a simple conclusion: the problem is not a lack of programs, funding, or good intentions. The problem is that organizations shaping the future workforce rarely make decisions together.
That insight led to a simple mission: help regions move from fragmented planning toward coordinated action.
We don’t facilitate conversations about alignment—we design the conditions that make alignment possible.
Our environment has changed. For a region to thrive, we need to expand what we’re capable of doing together.
Why doesn’t collaboration naturally happen?
Because people often leave meetings having talked—but not having changed what they understand nor what they will adapt or change.
CapacityWorks™ is a structured process where diverse conversations, guarded positions give way to openness.
Different perspectives become resources. Patterns emerge. Ideas connect. Fragmented thinking turns into shared clarity.
With clarity, coordinated action becomes possible.
Joined By Purpose. Moved By Choice.
