Expand Your Reach. Strengthen Employer Partnerships. Build Work-Based Learning Pathways That Matter.
Higher education plays a critical role in preparing learners for meaningful careers. E2i Partners helps institutions connect with employers, showcase capabilities, and co-create programs aligned to real workforce needs — while honoring your academic mission.
A Moment of Transformation.
As learner expectations evolve and employers seek deeper alignment, institutions have an opportunity to lead with clarity, innovation, and applied expertise. E2i Partners provides the structure, visibility, and support to help schools thrive in this moment of transformation.
Why This Moment Matters.
Learners, employers, and communities are evolving — and your expertise and Research are uniquely positioned to guide that evolution.
Today’s environment is shaped by:
Increasing demand for flexible, relevant, career-connected education
Employers seeking stronger alignment between learning and capability needs
Growth in applied, experiential, and work-based learning models
Heightened focus on regional workforce development and economic mobility
A wider landscape of credentials and pathways learners can choose from
These shifts are not political — they are structural, and they affirm the essential role of colleges and universities in preparing the workforce of today and tomorrow.
Institutions that engage employers with clarity, purpose, and readiness will expand impact, strengthen relevance, and open new pathways for learners.
HOW E2i SUPPORTS INSTITUTIONAL READINESS
A connected ecosystem designed to help institutions build employer-aligned, work-based learning opportunities.
E2i Partners provides three integrated capabilities that support institutional growth and partnership success:
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Showcase programs, applied learning pathways, and institutional strengths to employers actively searching for partners.
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Frameworks to help institutions interpret employer needs, design or refine programs, and coordinate across academic and workforce teams.
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Demonstrate clear outcomes tied to learner readiness, skills, and employer capability requirements.
E2i provides the structure institutions need to collaborate confidently, innovate with purpose, and move at the speed of opportunity.
More Than a Platform — A Partnership Ecosystem Built for Real Opportunity
Through E2i, institutions gain:
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Early Insight Into Emerging Employer Needs
Enterprise clients share strategic capability needs with E2i — giving institutions visibility into industry challenges, capability needs, and upcoming opportunities before projects are initiated.
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Access to Employer RFPs and Calls for Projects
When enterprise clients engage E2i for workforce development solutions, institutions on the Platform receive direct invitations to propose programs, pilots, or collaborative models.
This is where insight turns into opportunity — enabling schools to connect their strengths to real industry needs.
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Best-Practice Forums That Accelerate Institutional Learning
E2i convenes institutions through peer learning cohorts, readiness workshops, and practice-sharing forums that help schools strengthen employer engagement models and scale successful pilots faster.
Institutions learn from each other — not in isolation.
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Support to Strengthen Institutional Readiness and Capability
As institutions expand their employer partnerships, E2i provides diagnostics, tools, and guided support to strengthen internal coordination, program responsiveness, and partnership execution.
This readiness enables schools to collaborate at the speed of business while preserving academic quality.
The System Isn’t Broken — It’s Misaligned. E2i Bridges the Gaps.
Discovery Is Difficult
Employers can’t easily find the right institutional partners. Institutions struggle to communicate capabilities in employer-friendly ways.
E2i Platform creates clear visibility and discoverability.
Collaboration Is Complex
Timelines, roles, and processes often misalign across sectors.
E2i’s Partnership Activator brings clarity, structure, and alignment.
Success Must Be Redefined
Traditional metrics don’t reflect today’s expectations for skills and readiness. E2i Performance Advisory uses E2i Precision to help institutions demonstrate outcomes employers value.
These challenges are amplified by declining enrollments — making clarity, collaboration, and capability more important than ever.
Expert Guidance to Help You Build High-Impact Employer Partnerships
E2i Impact Architects bring deep experience across higher education, industry, workforce development, and capability-building. They help institutions interpret employer needs, strengthen readiness, and design partnership models that create measurable outcomes for learners and organizations.
Impact Architects support institutions by:
Clarifying employer capability needs and translating them into academic pathways
Facilitating cross-campus alignment and internal decision-making
Guiding co-creation between academic and employer subject-matter experts
Accelerating pilot development and reducing friction in collaboration
Helping institutions demonstrate relevance and assess partnership performance
Bringing national insights from E2i’s employer ecosystem and calls for projects
This is not consulting in the traditional sense.
It is facilitation, translation, partnership design, and capability-building — grounded in shared expertise and aligned to real employer challenges.
Partnership Readiness Is the Foundation for High-Impact Collaboration
Working with employers at the speed of business requires internal alignment, clarity of roles, program agility, and the ability to articulate institutional strengths. E2i supports readiness through diagnostics, tools, and guided capability-building that help institutions collaborate effectively and confidently.
What Institutions Can Co-Create
Work-based learning pathways
Applied and experiential learning models
Custom workforce development programs
Microcredentials and certificates tied to employer needs
Cohort-based degree pathways for talent development
Leadership development for regional or enterprise partners
Regional workforce collaborations
With E2i, institutions and employers co-create outcome-based learning experiences that draw on both sides’ expertise and deliver real value for learners, organizations, and communities.
Ready to Strengthen Employer Partnerships and Expand Institutional Impact?
E2i Partners helps institutions lead with confidence, build meaningful collaborations, and prepare learners for what comes next.
