Gain competitive advantage

Our taxonomy, curriculum and practice help leaders steer complex workforce decisions in times of change and align people, fulfilment and performance for sustained growth.

Master the People side of AI

New technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, are making structured tasks more efficient. But we as humans, don’t always welcome change. Often we fear it. The leaders achieving competitive advantage from these new technologies are those who will succeed at putting their people at the centre of this shift. We have designed a programme to show leaders how to achieve this and to help their teams engage with these technologies for pursuing fulfilment at work.

A People-Centred Taxonomy

Our proprietary workforce taxonomy is anchored in established, industry-validated ontologies and our proprietary workforce data to provide insights on capability forward-mapping, benchmarking and progression.

Our people insights are fuelled by our bespoke talent discovery programmes and proprietary workforce knowledge graph and algorithm.

We provide leaders and their organisations with people-centric, not role-driven, team-level dashboards on engagement, mobility and capability. With this, leaders can map people, not work, to emergent roles and responsibilities.

People-Centred discovery

We engage leaders with their teams in structured, multi-touch programmes, to map purpose, skills and human capabilities to organisational goals and personalised pathways.

Our talent discovery programmes help leaders make informed decisions in times of change and their teams to align their purpose with their work and find fulfilment at work.

Informed Decision-making

We work directly with leaders on high-impact, multi-touch programmes to help them navigate workforce decisions at times of change.

In their work with us, team leaders:

  • Reframe leadership for complexity

  • Build human-centred, values-aligned leadership

  • Increase capability and engagement in transforming teams

  • Re-design organisational capabilities around emerging skills, motivations and adaptive capacity.

Organisational outcomes

This programme lays the foundations for a more equitable, adaptive and strategic talent leadership.

  • More effective workforce decision-making under ambiguity

  • Clearer role and team design, anchored in emerging skills and teams’ capabilities and purpose 

  • Greater alignment within teams - to roles, progressions pathways and organisational values and outcomes

  • More engaged teams - in their work and the organisation’s AI initiatives

  • More equitable, adaptive and strategic talent strategies.

This type of people strategy and technology can also:

  • Complement existing L&D frameworks, filling critical gaps in skills and roles mapping; personalised development and progression pathways

  • Improve company's awareness and positioning of the organisational values and longer term opportunities to attract, engage and retain their future leaders 

  • Empower employees to own their development, driving autonomy, confidence, trust and productivity.

Meet the Team

We met in 2028 and bonded over a shared mission: fair work for everyone in the age of AI and workforce disruptions.

We bring four decades of experience in workforce research, fair work and pay practices and emerging talent structures. Founders at heart, we are helping leaders to actively build the fair future of talent that they want to see in the World.

  • Founder, IKiGAi DATA

    What drives me is a passion for creating digital futures of first-class humans and not second-class robots. 

    I bring two decades of experience working on purpose-driven innovation and talent and I take energy from forging lasting partnerships with ambitious clients to build new solutions that dare to challenge the status quo.

    I have worked with clients across a range of industries, including International Development; Technology; Venture Capital; Education, Learning & Development; Financial Services; Entrepreneurship and Social Impact Investment.

  • Founder, WorkVue

    Zara is a s globally recognised advocate for workplace gender equality and CEO of Gapsquare, a pioneering tech company using data science and AI to close pay gaps and build inclusive workplaces, sold to FTSE 100 RELX. 

    With a background in human rights and a PhD in Social Science, Zara is Professor in Practice at the University of Bristol Business School. She has advised global organizations, spoken at international forums, and was honoured with an MBE for her contributions to fair pay and social justice.

  • “The session was introspective. The space created was emotionally safe. The session flow was seamless with a clear outcome. Addressing the challenges and navigating ideas, which I have applied as soon as I was back at work, with a person half my age, was enlightening. ”

    Team leader, Ikigai programme 2025

  • “It encouraged and inspired me to begin to trust that I wasn't alone, that I didn't have to manage it all alone, and that I would have all the support that I needed from those around me, if only I reached out for it.”

    Team member, Ikigai programme 2025