Ardcairn

Ardcairn delivers consultancy, educational and innovation services to clients globally. Drawing on founder Grainne Hamilton’s pioneering skills visibility and skills-based hiring work shaping standards, platforms and policies that have transformed the skills discovery and recruitment landscape, we use our unique approaches to empower high performance and positive change. These include our Skills Visibility Framework to discover, analyse and map skills, motivations and behaviours for high performance and career change, and our Mesh Method to transform and implement high performance cultures. Services provided include: hiring/deployment operations review and strategic management recommendations; skills, motivations and behaviours discovery, analysis and mapping for high performance / career change; micro-credential / digital badge programmes; masterclasses and online/hybrid learning experiences; collaborative design facilitation; concepts roadmapping and wireframing; skills audits and forecasting; executive coaching/mentoring. Services delivered include: conceptual input to the Open Badge Standard and the original blueprints for badge-based pathways to employment (Mozilla Discover Open Badges project) and Cities of Learning UK (DigitalMe/RSA); executive career coaching; skills, motivations and behaviours discovery, analysis, mapping for high performance in an energy company; Workplace of the Future, Future Ready Government and Open Culture masterclasses/conferences for Red Hat and the European Commission; roadmapping and strategic management recommendations for CIPD’s online learning & membership platform; ideation workshops on Future Readiness for government CIOs (The International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration). Contribution to Boards / task groups currently includes: global skills discovery task groups on credential data transparency and interoperability (various) for Credential Engine; the Digital Badging Commission.