BRIDGING GAPS. EMPOWERING
PEOPLE FOR IMPACT.

Skillbridge is a unique, dynamic solutions provider and training firm with specialized expertise in capacity building for developing countries and underserved communities often facing poverty. We call our process of empowering individuals and organizations for measurable social impact in their communities Skillbridging.

“Many thanks for a great TOT session. The reviews have been very positive.”
-DFI client in Africa
“Very pleased--very interactive. The training captured technical aspect and was appealing and applied to day-to-day operation.”
-Train the trainer participant
“One of our most transformational studies” with “worldviews and mindsets changed tremendously.”
-US organization serving prisoners
"Insightful and eye-opening."
-Client lead’s description of working with Skillbridge
"It was a seamless experience - the team was very professional and accommodating of changes to the team's timeline."
-DFI project lead, Africa
"Professional, flexible, and accommodating!"
-Subject matter expert on client team
"It is a real pleasure working with the Skillbridge team. They are professional, knowledgeable and really believe in the impact of their work. The quality of the services provided is top notch with attention to detail. They helped me think outside the box and consider options to improve the user experience. I highly recommend working with them!"
-Global DFI client
"Skillbridge distinguishes itself through its personal, customized approach and genuinely wanting to make a difference."
-Global DFI leader
"The Skillbridge team has demonstrated commitment by going the extra mile to improve the SME user experience and paying attention to every detail."
-Client lead for expanding DFI project
"Highly tailored service makes you a core part of the project team."
-Senior Operations Officer and Project Champion, Global Senior Operations Officer
"Seamless and frequent communication with flexibility to work with the changing project timelines."
-Client project lead
"They strive to understand the project’s objectives and expected impacts and provide support toward achieving them."
-Training and client-facing team lead, DFI
In the Skillbridge

Poverty is a global crisis requiring everyone’s attention. Nearly 800 million people earn less than $2 per day, live in absolute poverty, and lack the minimal standards to sustain life. Poverty plagues developing countries and underserved communities in both its absolute form and relative to the environment. The psychologically-crippling focus on survival that people living in poverty experience reduces their ability to grow and progress forward. Global leaders are collectively trying to address this and set a 2030 deadline to end extreme poverty through the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG #8, Decent Work and Economic Growth, is key to alleviating poverty by supporting micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). According to the International Finance Corporation, MSMEs could provide 70% of the 600 million new jobs the world needs to end extreme poverty by 2030. This requires training, upskilling, and capacity building.

Skillbridge’s capacity-building approach provides solutions. Our well-versed and experienced team is qualified to upskill both MSMEs and equip the training professionals to upskill the MSMEs. We bring together a powerful arch of services, resting on guiding principles and pillars, to address the skill gaps and capacity building required to increase people’s professional capacity and employability and the growth potential of MSMEs. From there, citizens and businesses can empower developing countries and underserved communities. Skillbridge is sought out as a leader in capacity building and a partner to the world’s largest global developmental finance institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. We are honored to lead the way in advancing economic development, creating jobs, and improving lives. We bridge gaps to empower people for impact.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to empower individuals and organizations to achieve measurable social impact. 

This is the reason we exist.

Our Mission

At Skillbridge, we develop and strengthen skills, bridge gaps, and empower people and organizations passionate about serving developing countries and underserved communities. We are committed to going beyond identifying skills to bridging the necessary gaps to overcome complex obstacles during the journey toward measurable social impact.

We Skillbridge! 
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Why do projects fail?

Typical training efforts fall short of measurable social impact in developing countries and underserved communities. Projects fail when:

Focusing on one solution

Focusing on one solution for a need without going beyond identifying the necessary skills to understand the complexity of the gaps

Missing the quality

Missing the quality support and approach to problem-solving

Relying on learning methods

Relying on learning methods alone without accounting for the contexts for impact and sustainability

Failing to analyze

Failing to analyze the need or approach for necessary methodologies thoroughly

What We Do

SKILLBRIDGING
Developing & Strengthening Skills
Bridging Gaps
Empowering People for Measurable Social Impact

Capacity Building

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Skillbridging

The Journey

When a powerful arch is supported by strong beams and pillars, results can be achieved. At Skillbridge, our sequence of services is supported by guiding principles and vetted methodologies so we can achieve measurable social impact through capacity building. This is our Skillbridge, our approach to capacity building.

WE SKILLBRIDGE! We Skillbridge to make our projects successful by going beyond identifying the needed skills to bridging existing gaps.

Why are we so effective at Skillbridging? In addition to providing our select, passionate clients with a Skillbridge, we bring to the table our broad experience with a diversity of projects and our desire to ensure client success.

 

Hover over the image below for an explanation of each piece of the Skillbridge Journey.

The Skillbridge Journey image
Assessment Tools

We develop or enhance the assessment for projects, teams, organizations, or beneficiaries to gather and use meaningful baselines throughout capacity building to drive measurable results. We develop low-tech and cloud platform-based assessments.

Training

We develop and deliver tailored training solutions (for eLearning, blended, and in-person training) to train the trainers and participants using an interactive approach for strong learner application.

Coaching

We develop customized coaching programs for projects, teams, and organizations. We train your coaches to drive continuous improvement and achieve measurable results.

Strategic Action Planning

We develop and implement strategic action planning to drive measurable results from assessment through training and coaching to reassessment.

Measurement & Evaluation

We develop, enhance, or retrofit your measurement and evaluation strategy to measure high impact.

Sustainability Support

We provide enhancements or maintenance of Skillbridge services, event planning and facilitation, graphic and branding support, reporting, vendor management, sales enablement, and other continuous improvement services on a subscription basis.

Skillbridge Needs Analysis

Before embarking on the Skillbridge Journey, we identify gaps and opportunities by defining and analyzing performance needs. The output is a Skillbridge Needs Analysis, a complete report highlighting a clear way forward by identifying and prioritizing the most impactful actions to drive the project's success. Projects often skip the needs analysis, but for Skillbridge, it is the key that allows us to define the client's starting point and desired state. From there, we can confidently move forward onto the Skillbridge.

Support, Beams, Our Guiding, Principles

We have strong beams (guiding principles) supporting the Skillbridge Journey to achieve measurable social impact:

We understand that to be truly effective and transformational, Skillbridging requires an integrated delivery. The success of the Skillbridge Journey is only possible because of, in part, guiding principles that ensure measurable social impact through:

Quality, Your Needs... Training Methdology

Guiding the journey are our four pillars, built on quality and training methodologies.

Depending on the outcome of the Skillbridge Needs Analysis, we have a powerful sequence of services to meet the client's needs for measurable social impact:

Pillar 1

Pillar 1 is Define and Analyze Performance Needs. Pillar 1 is the most important, yet most often overlooked, pillar. We complete a Skillbridge Needs Analysis, highlighting a clear way forward by identifying and prioritizing the most impactful actions. We identify gaps and opportunities by defining and analyzing performance needs.

Pillar 2

Pillar 2, Develop & Design Curricula, is guided by the needs analysis, and the process guides us to design and develop your Skillbridge solutions.

Pillar 3

Pillar 3, Drive & Support Transfer of Learning, is about delivery. We drive and support the transfer of learning so that there is measurable social impact. Our Skillbridges are built for impact, scalability, sustainability, and inclusivity.

Pillar 4

Pillar 4, Determine & Evaluate Learning is critical, yet often overlooked. We translate data into insights, enabling us to refine strategies, identify successes, and learn from challenges. It is an ongoing journey to measurable social impact.

As we journey with you, we work with you.

Assessment Tools
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We develop or enhance the assessment for projects, teams, organizations, or beneficiaries to gather and use meaningful baselines throughout capacity building to drive measurable results. We develop low-tech and cloud platform-based assessments.
Training
X
We develop and deliver tailored training solutions (for eLearning, blended, and in-person training) to train the trainers and participants using an interactive approach for strong learner application.
Coaching
X
We develop customized coaching programs for projects, teams, and organizations. We train your coaches to drive continuous improvement and achieve measurable results.
Strategic Action Planning
X
We develop customized coaching programs for projects, teams, and organizations. We train your coaches to drive continuous improvement and achieve measurable results.
Strategic Action Planning
X
We develop and implement strategic action planning to drive measurable results from assessment through training and coaching to reassessment.
Measurement & Evaluation
X
We develop, enhance, or retrofit your measurement and evaluation strategy to measure high impact.
Sustainability Support
X
We provide enhancements or maintenance of Skillbridge services, event planning and facilitation, graphic and branding support, reporting, vendor management, sales enablement, and other continuous improvement services on a subscription basis.
Skillbridge Needs Analysis
X
Before embarking on the Skillbridge Journey, we identify gaps and opportunities by defining and analyzing performance needs. The output is a Skillbridge Needs Analysis, a complete report highlighting a clear way forward by identifying and prioritizing the most impactful actions to drive the project's success. Projects often skip the needs analysis, but for Skillbridge, it is the key that allows us to define the client's starting point and desired state. From there, we can confidently move forward onto the Skillbridge.
Quality Methodology, You Needs and Desired Outcome, and Training Methodology
X
Guiding the journey are our four pillars, built on quality and training methodologies. Depending on the outcome of the Skillbridge Needs Analysis, we have a powerful sequence of services to meet the client's needs for measurable social impact:
Pillar 1
X
Pillar 1 is Define and Analyze Performance Needs. Pillar 1 is the most important, yet most often overlooked, pillar. We complete a Skillbridge Needs Analysis, highlighting a clear way forward by identifying and prioritizing the most impactful actions. We identify gaps and opportunities by defining and analyzing performance needs.
Pillar 2
X
Pillar 2, Develop & Design Curricula, is guided by the needs analysis, and the process guides us to design and develop your Skillbridge solutions.
Pillar 3
X
Pillar 3, Drive & Support Transfer of Learning, is about delivery. We drive and support the transfer of learning so that there is measurable social impact. Our Skillbridges are built for impact, scalability, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Pillar 4
X
Pillar 4, Determine & Evaluate Learning is critical, yet often overlooked. We translate data into insights, enabling us to refine strategies, identify successes, and learn from challenges. It is an ongoing journey to measurable social impact. As we journey with you, we work with you.

Our Clients

Many of our clients share a commitment to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are part of a comprehensive global agenda to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure long-term prosperity and peace.

We find our passionate clients across the world as well as next door.

How can we begin the Journey together?

Our accumulated experience and ability to go beyond identifying skills to solving problems is strengthened not only by our 17+ years in the market but also by the rich diversity of projects we have undertaken to achieve measurable social impact.

Examples of our work and commitment to measurable social impact

Our clients’ success is our success. No matter our role, we strive to be an extension of our clients’ teams and are truly invested in the success of their projects. We bring the right experience and expertise to match our clients’ needs. We are committed to going beyond just identifying the needed skills to bridge the necessary gaps to overcome complex obstacles during this journey toward measurable social impact.

Examples of our work

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