State and local government
Making the hard choices to meet the mission
State and local governments are expected to do more with less even as expenses outpace revenue and the pace of change creates new demands for the workforce. Our state and local government consulting services help you navigate tough tradeoffs and build for what’s next with the resources you have.
How we help
State and local governments make a promise to the public to deliver the mission. That promise doesn’t end because the environment gets harder. Meeting it now means making strategic choices about how to organize, where to invest, and what the public sector workforce needs to succeed. All while keeping essential services running.
We help you make these choices with confidence. Our state and local government consulting services cover people, processes, technology, and data—because organizational challenges don’t exist in isolation. We start with what’s happening in your organization, building for efficiency, adoption and organizational capacity. The result is impact that shows up in how your people work every day.
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State and local government consulting services
Featured state and local services
Everything we do is grounded in the reality of state and local government. The goal? Shifting your organization from managing around constraints to operating at its full potential.
Organizational performance
Optimize the people, processes, and structural pieces essential to driving quantifiable leaps in productivity, quality, and efficiency across your organization.
Strategic planning and activation
We work with you to reset your strategy so that it holds up in a changing environment, drives action, and stays anchored in your mission.
Organizational change management and governance
We help you deliver the mission by driving change that aligns people, process, and technology, while strengthening accountability and enabling sustained performance.
Technology enablement
We maximize your investment in technology, ensuring that your people know how to use it and redesigning processes and culture to drive adoption.
Workforce planning
We assess workforce capacity and align people, roles, and capabilities so that your workforce is ready, no matter what’s next.
Emergency preparedness
We help state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies work leaner and smarter, strengthening preparedness, fine-tuning emergency operations, and developing your workforce.
The team was invaluable as a resource to support many organizational issues.
Public transit agency, 2025
As a leader, I was grateful for having the support of a team who understand business transformation and identity work.
State and local client, 2025
Exceptional communication skills, positive attitude, impressive attention to detail, so accountable, and just a joy to work with.
Public utility client, 2025
State and local government case studies
Here are a few examples of how we provide impact for our clients. From designing organizational structures to driving user adoption, our years of creative and strategic experience have helped public sector clients reach their potential.
State and local government insights
Keep your finger on the pulse of the trends impacting government agencies and state employees with actionable insights and best practices based on our proprietary research.
Client success
“By putting people at the center of a new organizational design for a Pacific Northwest transit authority, we engaged employees and built consensus on objectives that guided the entire design effort.”
– Madeleine Watson, Lead
1,500
Employees effectively transitioned to new structure
27
Design findings and recommendations
20+
Transit agencies
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