The workforce gap won’t close because everyone is working hard. It will close when workforce commissions, economic development agencies, post-secondary institutions, employers, and funders stop making good decisions separately and start making better decisions together.
WebStudy Foundation engages the right stakeholders around a structured process that turns regional coordination into real hiring results.
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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.
Credentials. Career pathways. Apprenticeships. Skills-first initiatives.
Every sector is responding.
Yet piling well-intentioned initiatives onto a fragmented system still produces a fragmented system.
Regions already have labor market data, workforce plans, employer advisory meetings, grant initiatives, and strategic reports.
What’s missing is a process that helps priorities converge around what employers actually need before decisions are finalized.
The problem is rarely a lack of effort. Employers, educators, and workforce leaders are making important decisions in parallel, often without a shared picture of future workforce demand.
 Fragmented initiatives are the symptom. Disconnected decision-making is the cause.
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.Â
Second, funding still flows to individual programs and initiatives before regions align around shared priorities.
Workforce decisions rarely happen in the same room.
We Move Regions From Siloed Solutions to Coordinated Action
Good ideas often stall at the boundaries between organizations. Employer demand reaches educators too late, workforce services miss hiring realities, and successful programs struggle to spread beyond their originating institution. Without priorities converging, initiatives risk stalling instead of scaling what works.
WebStudy Engagements bring employers, educators, workforce leaders, funders, and civic organizations into a structured process designed to align decisions before programs, investments, and talent strategies are locked in.
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.
