What we do
Sector Strategies & Industry Partnerships
Safal Partners helps states, regions, workforce boards, and associations develop and implement employer-led sector partnerships, aligning workforce investments with industry demand. Our experts create career pathways for workers that advance economic mobility and strengthen regional competitiveness.
Effective sector strategy execution requires more than convening employers. It demands a deep understanding of governance structures, expertise in data analysis, experience in engaging employers around collaborative partnerships, aligning training pipelines, and leveraging resources across workforce, education, and economic development toward shared goals. Our sector strategy services build the infrastructure and processes that make partnerships productive and sustainable.
Business Services Modernization
Safal Partners designs and strengthens the systems and service delivery approaches that state and local agencies, workforce boards, associations and community colleges use to respond to employer needs and build regional economic strength.
Employers require coordinated service delivery, streamlined access to resources, data-driven relationship management, and staff with business acumen. Our business services modernization work transforms how systems engage with and serve employers.
Talent Pipeline Design
Safal Partners designs comprehensive talent pipelines that connect education, training, and workforce programs. We create clear pathways from skills development to employment and career advancement.
Our team of workforce and education experts bring decades of experience coordinating stakeholders, aligning curriculum and credentials, integrating work-based learning, utilizing local, regional and state data analysis to make pathways work.
Performance, Accountability & Monitoring Systems
Safal Partners designs and implements performance management, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality improvement systems which help organizations meet compliance requirements while driving program outcomes.
Our team of experts offer clients field-informed, data-driven solutions and extensive monitoring and technical assistance experience that improves organizational accountability, performance, and efficiency.
Strategic Workforce Intelligence & Data Forecasting
Safal Partners provides clients with labor market diagnostics, supply-demand forecasting, program ROI analysis, and workforce intelligence that supports strategic investment decisions.
Effective workforce planning requires more than standard labor market information—it requires customized analysis, scenario modeling, and decision support that answers specific strategic questions. Our workforce intelligence services deliver actionable insights that guide program design, funding allocation, and policy priorities.
Target Populations & Economic Mobility Strategies
Safal Partners designs and implements strategies to improve employment outcomes and economic mobility for priority populations including veterans, justice-involved individuals, dislocated workers, youth, individuals with disabilities, and other populations facing barriers to employment.
Serving populations with barriers to employment requires specialized service delivery models, employer engagement strategies, and cross-system coordination. Our target population services build the infrastructure and partnerships that create effective pathways to economic opportunity and mobility.
Rapid Response & Dislocated Worker Reemployment
Safal Partners helps states, regions, and local workforce boards develop and implement rapid response systems that support workers and communities affected by layoffs, plant closures, natural disasters, and economic disruptions.
Effective rapid response requires immediate mobilization, coordinated services, employer engagement, and reemployment pathways tailored to dislocated worker populations. Our rapid response services build the infrastructure, playbooks, and partnerships that enable quick, effective responses to economic shocks.
Demonstrated Success
Safal is helping public and private sector clients quickly respond to the new and changing workforce demands created by an increasingly AI-powered world. As a workforce development leader our deep bench of workforce, education, technology, and data professionals offer domain expertise, the ability to integrate tech and AI tools, and ability to increase system alignment.
What We Do
We collaborate with clients to build a future-ready workforce by:
Solutioning for Skills Gaps – Utilizing expertise, deep data, and predictive AI tools we help clients forecast future workforce needs and create solutions for current and projected skills gaps.
Increasing System Alignment and Efficiencies – Bridging the gaps between industry and education by aligning K-12, Career and Technical Education (CTE), and post-secondary programs with workforce demands, ensuring graduates have relevant skills that match employer needs.
Improving Grant and Program Efficiencies – Helping policymakers evaluate the effectiveness of existing workforce and grant programs to best invest public funds.
Building Scalable Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning Programs – Designing, registering, and managing industry-led registered apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and other work-based learning programs to reduce employee turnover and accelerate training for key occupations.
Creating Technology-Enabled Training – Leveraging digital platforms, AI-driven personalization, and remote learning tools to build stakeholder knowledge.
Accelerating Workforce Resilience – Helping federal and state agencies prepare for economic disruption, automation and AI impacts, and shift resources to support dislocated and displaced workers into growing sectors.
Demonstrated Success
A few notable U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) projects include:
Expansion of registered apprenticeship programs
DOL-designated National Industry Intermediary to grow registered apprenticeship programs in cybersecurity and related tech fields. Included in the White House National Cybersecurity Workforce and Education Strategy.
Result – Built the first DOL-approved AI apprenticeship occupation model in the U.S.
Result – Registered nearly 3,000 apprentices in less than four years.
Next Level Now Collaborative
Safal leads DOL Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) hub for public workforce system compliance and performance assistance. We collaborate with state and local leaders across multiple agencies to improve services, quality, and outcomes for jobseekers and employers.
Result – Helped 46 states and 3 U.S. territories improve performance outcomes and meet Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) compliance requirements.
Result – Created first ever virtual Governance Training and Carer Coach Training for all six ETA regions.
Registered Apprenticeship Academy support
Built the first national online learning hub to accelerate stakeholder understanding, adoption, and compliant implementation of registered apprenticeship.
Result – Published 60 training resources, including microlearning modules, courses, rapid learning videos, and toolkits in less than 12 months.
Result – Users from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. have accessed training over 70,000 times.
Registered Apprenticeship Technical Assistance Center of Excellence on strategic partnerships and system alignment
Led the first national Center to accelerate the alignment of state and local workforce, education, and apprenticeship systems to increase opportunities for more Americans and improve multi-agency efficiencies.
Result – Executed first-ever national assessment of registered apprenticeship understanding and utilization by America’s front-line workforce and adult education professionals.
Result – Built first national CTE youth apprenticeship bootcamp model and toolkit.
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