👋 You own capability for the organisation. Let's build the architecture that lets you deliver it.
Capability, competency, skills and job architecture, designed to be used. Built on fourteen years in the discipline. No bloat. No theatre.
Most organisations don’t have a capability problem.
They have an architecture problem.
Terms get conflated. Frameworks pile up. Roles bloat.
Then AI arrives and exposes every crack. And you are the one accountable for the fix.
Capability
What a person can reliably do and carry across roles and contexts, not just in theory but in practice.
Competency
How performance is defined within roles, and what “good” actually looks like.
Skills
The specific abilities people develop to contribute effectively.
Tasks
Where work actually gets executed, and where AI, automation and judgement intersect.
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This is the work itself, not a reading list.
Each one is a lever for making work clearer, fairer and ready for what AI changes.
Capability Frameworks
Skills are transient. Capabilities are durable. Frameworks built to evolve with tech and strategy.
Competency Frameworks
How good performance is defined within a role, made specific enough to assess, develop and promote against.
Skills Taxonomies
Skills structured, clustered and connected so they are actually useful, not a static list.
Role Description Design
Clear, precise role descriptions that capture tasks, set expectations and align roles to strategy.
Job Architecture
Breaking job design down to its smallest parts, then rebuilding it for automation, augmentation and agility.
Task Design & Automation
What tasks actually need a human? What can we offload, augment, or kill off entirely?
I work with the scaffolding behind the world’s job data.
What people say about working with me
I care about doing good work. These are some kind words from people I’ve had the chance to work with.
Thoughts, frameworks, and experiments on how work is evolving... and where it’s heading.
Do you take on framework work?
Yes, through my employment at Acorn. I design and implement capability frameworks, competency frameworks, skills taxonomies and job architecture when a project aligns with what I'm working on.
Who do you work with?
The person accountable for capability. CHROs, HR Directors and OD leaders who need the architecture done properly, and the teams who live with it.
How do we start?
A short conversation about what you are wrestling with. If it is a fit, I lay out a clear plan from there.
What frameworks do you use?
SFIA, O*NET, Lightcast, ESCO and other taxonomies. I bend them to fit your reality, not the other way around.
Rethinking how work is structured? Let’s talk.
You are accountable for getting this right. I have spent fourteen years building capability architecture that holds up.
If you are facing a redesign, a build, or AI pressure on roles, let's talk.











