Review
We begin by understanding the operating reality — not as it appears on paper, but as it actually functions under delivery pressure. Documentation posture, workflow maturity, evidence discipline, and where friction is weakening confidence.
Skills Development Advisory
Operating clarity for organisations serious about skills delivery.
The Skills Consultancy works in the operating layer behind skills delivery — the systems, structures, and judgement that determine whether readiness, evidence, and assessment actually hold together. Founder-led. Senior throughout.
Reviewed personally by Dr Cherise Dunn — MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan · PhD, University of Cape Town
Leadership
Dr Cherise Dunn
MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · PhD (Medical Biochemistry), University of Cape Town
Founder & Advisory Lead
Dr Cherise Dunn leads the firm's advisory direction across readiness, evidence systems, assessment workflows, and delivery improvement. Her background spans workplace-facing training environments, retail-sector skills development, stakeholder engagement, curriculum-aligned programme support, and funded interventions that strengthen organisational capability. Under her leadership, the firm combines senior strategic judgement with practical implementation understanding shaped by real delivery conditions.
Dr Cherise Dunn on LinkedInHow we work
A deliberate process. A practical result.
Each engagement moves through a clear progression — from understanding what is actually happening, to designing what should be, to strengthening how it works in practice.
Design
With diagnostic clarity established, we shape a more coherent operating model — one designed around real organisational need, not a generic template.
Strengthen
We translate the diagnosis into practical next steps that improve how the organisation actually functions — not just how it is documented.
Services
Five advisory pillars. One operating logic.
The firm's work is organised around five interconnected areas — each addressing a distinct dimension of skills delivery, and each designed to be entered from wherever the organisation is today.
Pillar 01
Readiness, Accreditation & Quality Assurance
Helping providers and delivery organisations prepare properly by strengthening readiness, quality discipline, and evidence preparation.
View full detailPillar 02
Assessment, Evidence & Delivery Systems
Strengthening assessment workflows, evidence architecture, and delivery systems so quality can hold under scrutiny.
View full detailPillar 03
Skills Development Strategy & Operating Model
Shaping the strategic and structural foundations behind coherent skills delivery, programme logic, and operating design.
View full detailPillar 04
Employer-linked & Workforce Capability Advisory
Designing structures that connect learning to business need across academies and workforce capability functions.
View full detailPillar 05
Strategic Diagnostics & Retained Advisory
Ongoing advisory support for organisations that need sustained strategic clarity, independent review, and retained oversight.
View full detailWho this is for
Organisations that need more than administration.
If your organisation is approaching a regulatory review and your documentation posture, evidence systems, or delivery processes do not yet reflect the actual quality of your work — this firm is a relevant starting point.
If your internal assessment or evidence workflows feel fragmented, inconsistent, or difficult to defend under scrutiny — this firm works directly in that operating layer.
If your leadership team needs ongoing strategic clarity on delivery governance, not periodic project support — this firm offers retained advisory engagement designed for that relationship.