The GL Consultancy provides specialist professional guidance, independent evaluation and tailored consultancy to help organisations and professionals develop the capabilities, systems and approaches needed to achieve their strategic and operational objectives.

Effective organisational capability development requires more than identifying training needs or delivering learning programmes. It involves understanding the competencies people require, establishing appropriate development pathways, evaluating performance against relevant standards and ensuring that organisational systems support effective and sustainable results.

Drawing on extensive international experience, The GL Consultancy works with employers, HR and workforce development professionals, education and training providers, qualification developers, awarding organisations and professional bodies to address these interconnected challenges.

Our services combine strategic understanding with practical expertise in competency frameworks, occupational standards, curriculum development, competency-based assessment, quality assurance and organisational capability development.

Organisations and professionals face different challenges when defining workforce requirements, developing capability and evaluating the effectiveness of existing systems and practices.

The GL Consultancy offers three complementary professional services designed to provide appropriate expertise, independent professional judgement and practical assistance across these interconnected areas of organisational capability development.

Each service addresses a distinct requirement, whether helping professionals strengthen their own work, providing objective evaluation of existing arrangements or supporting organisations in developing and implementing effective solutions.

Services can be commissioned individually or combined where appropriate, with the scope, deliverables and professional responsibilities clearly agreed for each engagement.

Receive personalised professional guidance, constructive challenge and expert feedback as you develop competency frameworks, competency-based curricula or assessment strategies and instruments.

The service helps you evaluate your work, address development challenges, consider alternative approaches and strengthen the quality of your professional decisions.

Practical Outcome: Improved draft competency-based outputs, supported by independent professional observations and recommendations for further development.

​Critical Friend Mentoring is available through three clearly defined options:

​Each session includes the agreed initial document review, individual mentoring discussion and follow-up review of the revised document.

Preferential mentoring rates are also available when one eligible mentoring option is purchased alongside a specialist programme.

Professional fees are determined individually according to the purpose, scope, complexity, evidence requirements and expected deliverables of each review.

​Following an introductory discussion, The GL Consultancy will prepare a tailored proposal setting out the agreed activities, deliverables, timescales and professional fees before an engagement begins.

Consultancy assignments are individually scoped and priced to reflect the organisation's requirements, the specialist expertise involved and the nature and extent of the work.

Following an initial discussion, a written proposal will establish the objectives, scope, deliverables, responsibilities, timescales and associated professional fees.

​All fees and engagement arrangements are agreed before work commences.

Explore each of our three professional services in greater detail to understand the support available, the intended clients, the scope of each service and the practical outcomes you can expect.

Select the service most relevant to your professional or organisational requirements.

If you would prefer to discuss a particular professional challenge, evaluate existing organisational arrangements or explore opportunities to strengthen workforce capability, The GL Consultancy welcomes the opportunity to understand your requirements.

​We can help you identify whether Critical Friend Mentoring, an independent review or tailored consultancy would provide the most appropriate support for your objectives and organisational priorities.