WebStudy Foundation convenes employers, educators, and funders to agree on real workforce needs, share short-term costs, and turn good ideas into real hiring results.
We align employers and educators for a future-ready workforce.
WebStudy Foundation is a first-of-its-kind nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to aligning employers and educators.
We help regions move beyond siloed workforce efforts by using a creative process where employers, educators, civic leaders, and talent partners align around a shared strategy leading to a talent marketplace.
Workforce alignment is not just an idea; it is essential for a region’s long-term success.
Work is changing faster than the systems designed to prepare people for it. As hiring risk rises and learning becomes lifelong, regions can no longer afford to design programs, credentials, and pathways without shared visibility into future jobs. Alignment that once felt optional is now essential—and it must happen early.
When employers, educators, and workforce leaders are not aligned, talent pipelines break down, credentials lose value, employers struggle to find the right skills, and public investments fail to deliver strong results. Over time, this weakens regional competitiveness. But when systems work together, the impact is powerful. Employers gain confidence in local talent, educators build programs that match real workforce demand, students choose clearer career pathways, and regions grow stronger economically. WebStudy Foundation helps build this coordination in a structured and sustainable way.
We serve educators and employers who share the goal of preparing the future workforce but often struggle because they operate in different contexts. Workforce alignment is not just an idea; it is essential for a region’s long-term success.
Employers and educators look at different data models to evaluate effectiveness. Education tracks inputs (credits, courses, GPA). Employers tracks outputs (competencies, performance, readiness)
Hiring is risky when future job demand is unclear — and education can’t align to what it can’t see.
Without a shared, forward-looking view of regional job demand, systems default to familiar but weakening signals—degrees, job titles, and past models—raising risk for employers and limiting impact for learners.
Our solution aligns multiple stakeholders to work collectively on a shared goal.
Our convening process enables collaborators to develop shared understanding, build trust across organizations, and align around priorities that move regional action forward and sustainable.
WebStudy Foundation and Collaboration Arts joined forces to offer structured, regional convenings that move workforce discussions beyond informal conversation and into coordinated action. Multi-stakeholder dialogue is structured so educators, employers, and funders align decisions around future job demand—before programs and investments are locked in.
We bring employers and educators together to clarify projected workforce demand and align and prioritize programs that will have immediate impact on the real labor market needs of that community.
Our process ensures that alignment is not temporary or symbolic, but supported by ongoing accountability, measurable clarity, and sustained collaboration. This work is not a one-time gathering, it is the foundation of a long-term, disciplined regional workforce alignment strategy built for lasting impact.
WebStudy Collaborative Convenings are not presentations or panel discussions—they’re working sessions.
Participants don’t sit back and listen. They engage in a structured, creative process that enables participants to respond to carefully designed questions, surface real constraints and perspectives, and rank priorities while refining ideas in real time.
Promised Outcomes include:
The process combines video conferencing with collaborative engagement technology to ensure all voices are captured equally. Structured small group dialogue, real-time synthesis, and a skilled theme team distill diverse input into shared understanding as sessions unfold. The result is not a report about what participants think—it is a living record of what they decided together.
Founded by Gisele Larose and her husband, Curt Corbi, WebStudy Foundation was created to bridge the long-standing divide between employers and educators. Employers and educators are working toward the same outcomes—but not always in coordination with one another.
With experience across corporate training, talent development, and investing in learning management software for a higher ed consortium they recognized that workforce challenges rarely stem from a lack of effort but from a lack of alignment.
This realization led them to work alongside collaboration experts Lenny Lind, author of Virtuous Meetings, and Todd Erickson, principal of Collaboration Arts, whose decades of experience designing high-engagement convenings informed the approach now used by WebStudy Foundation.
We combine deep expertise in corporate learning and development with a strong understanding of higher education systems, supported by proven methods for designing and facilitating high-quality multi-stakeholder dialogue.