Expertise can’t be taught. It’s learned through shared practice.
We remove the separation between work and learning. Our Shared Practice Lab helps organizations grow expertise where it’s actually learned: inside the work, through mentorship.
See how our theory of workforce learning applies across sectors:
Conventional learning models focus on skills and information. But expertise develops through a social process, living in the hands, relationships, and practices of an organization. Whether it grows depends on the conditions the organization creates.
Our approach to building custom learning systems
A deep understanding of the theory behind our work allows us to build custom approaches to organizational learning across unique situations.
Organizational Practice is Curriculum
Instead of importing text-based curriculum, we treat the day-to-day work as the central curriculum. We architect conditions that improve learning from mentors in the organization.
Apprentices as Practice Researchers
Newcomers don't passively absorb information from mentors. We frame them as researchers, actively investigating the context surrounding decisions made by senior experts.
Mentors as Stewards of Practice
Senior experts aren't teachers with a structured curriculum. They are stewards of the organization's practice, providing access to learning and feedback on newcomers' inquiry.
The Shared Practice Lab
The Shared Practice Lab combines hands-on advisory with a learning platform, so expertise grows through mentorship inside your organization.
We guide your leaders every step of the way
From defining the practices that matter most to building a mentorship culture that sustains itself.
Your organization's practice, made visible
Newcomers research real work and reflect on key decisions, mentors respond, and leaders see what their organization is learning.
We thrive in environments dependent on front-line judgement
Our work has spanned across industry, K-12 education, and higher education. The more unique the organizational learning needs are, the more valuable we can be.
Horner Industrial
75 years of expertise and deep experience, but no system to carry it forward. We helped senior tradesmen form a self-governing Mentor Council — turning decades of tacit expertise into a system of learning that organizes and sustains itself.
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Warren Township
Warren sought the right university partner for 3 years. We built a credit-bearing apprenticeship system grounded in Warren's own teaching and learning strategy, scaling across subject areas in under a year.
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MathTrack Institute
Our first initiative: building MathTrack Institute to connect higher education to the actual practice of teaching mathematics, not just the subject itself — leading to 35+ licensed teachers through accredited partnerships.
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