Advisory Services
Building Stronger Hospitality Workforce Systems
Hospitality workforce challenges rarely have simple solutions. They span employers, education, workforce organizations, industry associations, and communities.
DeShazo Advisory helps organizations understand those connections, bring the right partners together, and develop practical strategies that strengthen hospitality talent and career pathways.
How We Can Help
Different Challenges. Connected Solutions.
An employer may need a stronger talent pipeline. A college may want deeper industry partnerships. An association may be addressing workforce needs across an entire sector. A community may be trying to build stronger career pathways.
DeShazo Advisory works across those intersections.
Workforce Strategy & Regional Ecosystems
Help organizations and communities understand workforce conditions, identify strengths and gaps, align partners, and develop practical strategies around hospitality talent.
Work may include workforce assessment, employer and stakeholder discovery, talent-pipeline strategy, regional partnership development, and implementation planning.
Employer & Education Partnerships
Build stronger connections between employers and educators so learning, career preparation, work-based experiences, and employment opportunities are more closely aligned with industry needs.
Work may include employer engagement, education-industry partnerships, advisory structures, work-based learning, internships, and employment pathways.
Apprenticeships & Career Pathways
Develop apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, work-based learning, and career-pathway strategies that intentionally connect education, experience, credentials, and employment.
Support may include pathway design, employer engagement, education alignment, partnership development, and implementation strategy.
Education, Programs & Strategic Initiatives
Help organizations strengthen hospitality education, develop new initiatives, and bring partners together around emerging opportunities.
Work may include program strategy and development, curriculum and industry alignment, credentials, accreditation support, strategic facilitation, stakeholder convenings, and initiative development.
How We Work
Listen. Discover. Connect. Build.
DeShazo Advisory does not begin with a predetermined solution. Every engagement starts by understanding the challenge, the people involved, and the work already underway.
Listen
Understand the challenge and the perspectives of the people closest to it.
Discover
Identify existing strengths, resources, relationships, and opportunities.
Connect
Bring together the people and organizations whose interests can become shared opportunities.
Build
Turn those connections into practical strategies and programs with an actionable path forward.
The specific process varies by engagement. The principle does not: Build with people, not for them.
Start With the Challenge, Not the Solution.
You don’t need to know exactly what the engagement should look like before reaching out. If you’re facing a hospitality workforce challenge, exploring a partnership, developing a career pathway, strengthening a program, or considering an idea that requires organizations to work together, let’s talk.
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