Your Frontline Defense Against
Workforce Disruption
We’re your Future-of-Work Navigator—partnering with your leadership to detect disruption early, equip your people with the tools to adapt, and protect your organization’s future from extinction.
Endangered Industries Advisors
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We are a specialized partner helping forward-thinking companies, institutions, and associations confront disruption before it compromises their people, performance, or positioning.
Your Organizational Intelligence Team
Our team integrates quietly into your ecosystem, offering the real-world outputs of three future-critical roles:
Together, we deliver the organizational intelligence, custom briefings, and workforce development experiences that leadership teams need to stay ahead. If you're waiting for disruption to show up in your quarterly report, it's already too late.
AI. Automation. Talent mobility. Changing values. This isn’t theory. This is your operational reality. Let us help you navigate it—with clarity, speed, and a plan.
The Signals You Can't Ignore
Over 75 million jobs are expected to disappear by 2030 due to automation, AI, and industry collapse.But no one's coming to warn your team—or help them pivot. Until now.
41%
of companies say they’re investing in AI, but only 12% have a plan to retrain their people.
68%
of college grads say their degree didn’t prepare them for the current job market.
56%
of associations are struggling to retain members under 35.
Industries We Equip for the Future of Work
We work with organizations at critical inflection points—when the workforce you have no longer matches the world you’re operating in.
Disruption-Prone Employers
Helping HR, Talent, Executive, and Operations leaders confront role obsolescence, AI-driven hiring disruption, and retention risks—while positioning their organizations to adapt faster, protect internal capabilities, and lead with clarity in a volatile workforce landscape.
Vulnerable Academic Institutions
Helping higher ed leaders equip their provosts, department chairs, and academic teams to navigate declining enrollment, program extinction, and shifting graduate outcomes—before reputational and financial risks take root.
Evolving Member Organizations
Helping association leaders protect their relevance, reimagine engagement, and strengthen their member pipeline—by equipping their networks to adapt to generational shifts, AI disruption, and new expectations of value.
Skilled Trade & Frontline Employers
Helping companies, unions, and workforce boards strengthen their talent pipelines, modernize training pathways, and safeguard essential roles—before automation, AI, and aging workforces create irreversible gaps.
Built for Disruption. Engineered
for What’s Next.
Every industry is facing external threats—from AI acceleration to shifting workforce expectations. But the organizations that survive won’t be the ones who react—they’ll be the ones who restructure early. That’s where we come in. At the core of organizational intelligence is a dedicated internal function built to monitor trends, interpret disruption, and activate timely, strategic responses. We help you launch that function—pre-built and sector-specific—through one of our embedded divisions.
Employers & Talent-Driven Organizations
Solution: Launch Your Workforce Strategy Division
For: Mid-sized companies, national nonprofits, startups
Supports: HR, Talent, Operations, Executive Leadership
Strategic Priority: Help your organization adapt faster, hire smarter, and build future-ready teams—without needing a giant HR department.
Your Division Includes:
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A Talent Strategy Futurist who identifies emerging role disruptions, labor shifts, and skill gaps shaping your hiring strategy.
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An AI Adoption Architect who scopes, vets, and maps AI tools to your business needs—without overwhelming your operations.
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A Workforce Transformation Liaison who serves as your go-to partner for executive briefings, planning sessions, and internal activation.
Higher Education
Solution: Launch Your Institutional Strategy Division
For: Liberal arts colleges, regional universities, community colleges
Supports: Presidents, Provosts, Deans, Academic Leaders
Strategic Priority: Equip your institution to align academic programs with labor market trends, improve graduate outcomes, and prevent costly cuts to essential departments.
Your Division Includes:
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A Program Viability Strategist who monitors academic-market alignment and identifies at-risk majors and emerging disciplines.
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An AI Curriculum Architect who helps integrate AI literacy and workforce-readiness tools across academic offerings.
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An Institutional Transformation Liaison who coordinates leadership briefings and provides strategic support on program design and enrollment positioning.
Membership Associations
Solution: Launch Your Center for Member Engagement & Advancement
For: Professional associations, member-based organizations, unions
Supports: Executive Directors, Strategy Officers, Member Services Leaders
Strategic Priority: Reinvent member value with future-focused insights, AI-readiness benefits, and programming that keeps your organization relevant across five generations of members.
Your Division Includes:
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A Membership Trend Analyst who tracks labor shifts, member engagement patterns, and industry forecasts.
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An AI Enablement Advisor who curates member-accessible tech tools and learning experiences to retain relevance and grow engagement.
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A Member Advancement Liaison who drives strategy sessions, communications rollout, and activation across key member segments.
Frontline Employers, Skilled Trades,
Labor-Driven Industries
Solution: Launch Your Workforce Operations & Strategy Division
For: Manufacturing firms, unions, workforce boards, trades-focused employers
Supports: Operations Leaders, Plant Managers, Workforce Development Teams
Strategic Priority: Protect frontline roles from obsolescence with proactive upskilling, operational AI integration, and real-time insights into labor market threats.
Your Division Includes:
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A Labor Market Futurist who monitors shifts in skilled trades demand, automation threats, and workforce pipeline risks.
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An AI Integration Advisor who identifies and supports the adoption of technology that complements—not replaces—your workforce.
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A Workforce Activation Liaison who coordinates rollout plans, employee briefings, and partnership alignment to ensure adoption across all operational levels.
How We Future-Proof
Your Organization
We integrate seamlessly into your leadership structure—so you don’t have to hire three new roles to stay competitive in a disrupted world. Our embedded team delivers continuous intelligence, advisory support, and future-of-work expertise strategy tailored to your organization’s evolving needs so that you can adapt, compete, and lead in a workforce on the brink.
Organizational Intelligence & Industry Foresight
Your personal command center for workforce trends, AI shifts, and competitor moves. We monitor what's next—so you’re never caught off guard.
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Workforce Risk Assessment – a proprietary diagnostic revealing role obsolescence threats, training gaps, and future-readiness benchmarks.
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Monthly Workforce Intelligence Reports & Industry Signal Tracking – customized briefs analyzing AI developments, workforce shifts, competitor adaptations, alerts on trends shaping your sector and implications for your internal strategy, and sector-specific vulnerabilities.
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Comprehensive Data Synthesization – We pull from your internal metrics—like turnover, hiring pipeline, training engagement, and even sales or service data—and integrate it with external trend analysis to deliver sharper, real-time intelligence your leadership can act on.
Embedded Leadership Support & Advisory Access
A strategic advisory team at your side—ready to brief, plan, and execute.
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Strategic Consulting Credits (10 hrs/month) – for executive meetings, board presentations, internal strategy reviews, or decision-making support.
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Dedicated Workforce Transformation Liaison – your point of contact, change partner, and internal advocate to manage deliverables and ensure alignment.
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Train-the-Trainer Intensives – future-of-work certifications for select internal leaders or board members to scale readiness across your organization.
Employee & Member Engagement Activations
Bringing future-readiness to the people you serve—without overwhelming your internal teams.
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Quarterly Future of Work Optimization Labs – live, topical sessions for your employees, members, or leaders on staying relevant in an AI-powered workforce.
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Sponsored Access to the Future-Proof Career Hub – digital access to curated insights, tools, and events designed to upskill your community.
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Strategic Communications Toolkit – internal rollout templates, talking points, and brand language to announce and sustain your new Workforce Strategy Division.
1. Job Roles Become Obsolete Without a Transition Plan
Employees in admin, service, and back-office functions will be blindsided by automation—and either quietly quit or loudly resist.
2. Hiring Fails Because Job Descriptions Are Already Outdated
AI-fluent candidates will bypass your company the moment they realize your hiring process—and team—doesn’t speak their language.
3. Your Managers Can’t Lead Through Disruption
Mid-level managers will fall into analysis paralysis or micromanagement without the strategic tools to lead teams through technological and structural change.
4. Your Best Talent Quietly Leaves
Your highest performers know what’s coming—and if you’re not preparing them, they’ll find an employer who is.
The Hidden Costs of Navigating Workforce Disruption Alone
5. You Miss the Signals of Collapse
Industries don’t die overnight. They erode quietly. If no one’s tracking early signals, you’ll only know it’s over after the talent’s gone and revenue’s flat.
6. Your Talent, and L&D Investments Get Wasted
You’re upskilling employees for today’s work, not tomorrow’s. Without recalibration, you’ll waste your training budget solving yesterday’s problems.
7. You End Up Paying for Consultants Who Only Diagnose—Not Deliver
Traditional firms will give you a report. We give you the intelligence, the programming, and the people to act on it.
8. You Lose Market Position—Not Just Employees
When competitors evolve faster—adapting strategy, structure, and skillsets in real time—your organization doesn’t just fall behind, it becomes irrelevant. And in a disrupted economy, irrelevance is often permanent.
Upcoming Briefings & Forums
Endangered Industries Executive Briefing
"The Future of Talent Strategy: Surviving the Next Wave of Workforce Disruption"
Date: July 10th, 2025 at Noon EST
A high-impact briefing on the collapse of legacy industries and the future of workforce strategy. Designed for
C-suite leaders, policymakers, and forward-thinking professionals.
Endangered Majors Forum
"Future-Proofing the Academy: How to Redesign Degrees That Matter in the Next Economy"
Date: July 10th, 2025 at 1:30pm EST
This event explores the growing disconnect between degrees and economic outcomes, highlighting how alternative pathways and market-driven models are reshaping the future of education and work.
Billion Dollar Blue Collar Industry Pulse
"Protecting the Skilled Workforce: Strategy, Signals, and the Future of Frontline Employment"
Date: July 10th, 2025 at 3pm EST
This event spotlights how trades, tech-enabled labor, and skilled entrepreneurship are powering a new middle class and redefining the future of work.