Global Workforce Intelligence Group, Inc.
About Us
The Problem
Every developed economy is running short of skilled workers, meanwhile skilled workers already inside its borders are underutilized and invisible. Canada loses $50 billion in GDP annually to immigrant underemployment. Germany has 617,000 unfilled jobs. The UK projects £120 billion in lost output by 2030. The talent exists. The demand exists. The market isn’t clear because no one has ever measured the friction between them.
Why It Hasn’t Been Solved
The data exists but has never been connected. The firms closest to it have a commercial interest in keeping it fragmented. And labour has always been priced as a cost: visa fees, relocation expense, tax compliance, processing time — never as an economic asset whose output can be measured and priced. That blind spot is why the infrastructure was never built.
What We Built
GWI is the first independent data infrastructure that quantifies workforce friction as a macroeconomic variable. The Index benchmarks that friction across corridors and policy regimes. The Platform gives CHROs, sovereign investors, and government policy desks a single terminal to model workforce decisions in real time. Advisory delivers the strategy to act on it. Workforce risk becomes priceable. Talent strategy becomes a measurable input to business performance. And the people already in our economies finally get to do the work they were trained to do.
Leadership
Judee Duran
Co-Founder, Global Workforce Intelligence Group, Inc.
Judee Duran founded Global Workforce Intelligence Group (GWI Group) to build an independent, neutral data infrastructure quantifying workforce-access friction as a measurable economic and capital markets variable. Headquartered in Toronto, GWI Group’s advisory practice serves enterprise, capital markets, and government clients, supported by a forthcoming institutional intelligence terminal and governance framework for industry-grade benchmarking.
Her conviction in workforce access as a quantifiable economic input was shaped over a career working at the intersection of corporate workforce strategy and federal-provincial policy mechanisms. While at lululemon athletica, she helped lead workforce mobility and directed the project during the period of the company’s recognition as a Significant Investment Project under the Canada–British Columbia Immigration Agreement — a federally announced facilitative immigration measure granting Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) exemption for high-skilled occupations, identified by the Province of British Columbia and jointly assessed by Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (publicly recognized May 25, 2023). The designation framed workforce access as a federally codified economic mechanism, representing the category of corporate-government strategic instrument that GWI’s methodology is now built to quantify and inform.
Across her career, Judee has worked with multinational enterprises, government bodies, and capital-markets-adjacent advisors on workforce strategy, workforce-access infrastructure, and capability transition planning. That body of work surfaced a structural gap: workforce-access friction is treated as an HR or operational concern, when it is in fact an economic and capital markets variable with measurable impact on capital allocation, foreign direct investment, and innovation outcomes. GWI Group exists to close that gap.
Judee holds an Honours BA from the University of Toronto, a Certificate of Immigration Laws from the University of British Columbia, a French Language certificate from the University of Toronto, and a Workforce Planning certificate from Queen’s University. Judee is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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