Strategy and consulting.

Unemployment insurance is changing. We can help.

unemployment insurance policy, operations, and technology.

Policy leadership + communication strategy + information technology + organizational perspective.

 

A curated weekly snapshot of relevant econ, labor market, and UI/workforce policy happenings and headlines — all the good stuff!

 
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Amy Simon is owner and founder of boutique consulting firm Simon Advisory.

She previously served as acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor. Her portfolio included unemployment insurance, workforce investment, trade adjustment assistance, and ETA’s regional offices. She also served as ETA’s Chief of Staff.

Prior to DOL, Amy worked in management and technology consulting supporting various federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

SERVICES

Marketing & Communication

 

Sample projects: map key industry or policy area stakeholders and influencers; distill and clarify client messaging to target specific stakeholders; simplify and clarify technical products for non-specialist audiences.

ORganizational Strategy

 

Sample projects: Conduct organizational leadership team interviews, draft comprehensive organizational assessment and build implementation roadmap; clarify organizational goals; internal or external opportunities, threats, obstacles or competitors; refine language around product offerings to best reach key stakeholders or partners.

Policy Writing & Speaking

 

  • American Enterprise Institute: “Unemployment insurance at a crossroads: Tracing program design during & beyond COVID-19” (paper and event)

  • American Compass: “Revitalizing the Federal Apprenticeship System” (paper)

  • University of Michigan Ford School: UI Reform: where do we go from here? Panelist, Worker Training and Retraining (event)

  • FraudKast: Discover What We Learned about Unemployment Insurance Fraud from the Pandemic (podcast)

  • American Enterprise Institute: “Pandemic Unemployment Fraud in Context: Causes, Costs, and Solutions” (paper and event)

  • US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means: Oversight Subcommittee: Investigating Pandemic Fraud: Preventing History from Repeating Itself (hearing and witness statement)