We facilitate direct conversations between governments, businesses and human beings.
You do not have to navigate complex systems alone.
At Talent Poole, we partner with businesses, public agencies and social-impact institutions to bring strategy, structure, and humanity to your work.
We help you:
• Use your data with intention, not overwhelm.
• Stay compliant while staying true to your mission.
• Build programs that actually work for the people you are meant to serve.
Our role is simple: we bring clarity, capacity, and calm to the parts of your system that feel tangled — so your team can focus on impact.
We Partner with Public, Private and Philanthropic Executives to help them steward their resources with integrity.
A few of our past clients include:
City & County of San Francisco Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, San Francisco Office of The Controller, PATH
Get first-hand feedback straight from the source
Talent Poole is a full-service community engagement, talent acquisition, and fiscal intermediary consultancy for governments, foundations, and nonprofit partners.
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We gather first-hand feedback from community members with lived experience,
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quickly pay consumers living wages for the invaluable knowledge they provide,
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and translate findings into equity-driven actionable recommendations
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so your department can design informed and effective programs that solve society’s biggest challenges once and for all*
*without the usual liability, overhead, or guesswork that drains resources and sabotages social progress”
“Partnering with Talent Poole ensured that Home by the Bay, our city-wide strategic plan, was “equity-driven, inclusive of broad-based inputs & that it prioritized the voices of people with lived experience”
-SF Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing
Over 500 unhoused individuals as well as providers and public sector departments provided feedback to help inform our most comprehensive strategic plan to date.
No more abstract theories or frameworks. Get first-hand user experience
So your department can design programs that make a real difference
for real people in your community
Here’s how we help:
Community outreach & engagement
Improve the funding, design, and implementation of your social programs based on real feedback
Fiscal intermediary services
Deliver fast, fair, and legal payments to your community members in exchange for policy lessons they’ve lived through to learn
Technical assistance & training
Add the latest protocols in community engagement, talent acquisition, and DEI to your department’s toolbox
Advisory boards & planning committees
Gather unbiased feedback from diverse perspectives to improve decision-making
Summarized feedback from currently & formerly incarcerated individuals. Collected as part of the Just Home initiative.
Real voices, Real people, Real Impact
Our partners wanted to establish more efficient pathways to reentry & housing for people existing in county jails.
We helped them learn what currently and formerly incarcerated people really want and desperately need.
“Graphic notetaking is just one of the facilitation tools we use to portray multi-faceted data from community stakeholders. It helps us honor the narratives and tell a complex story in a more creative way.”
Kelli Poole, CEO, Talent Poole Consulting
The Talent Poole Pillars
Local hires
We partner with your people, reinvesting 55% of project funding back into your zip code to create a positive feedback loop that benefits all.
Lived experience
We gather lessons from those who have learned by living so your office can design policies that don’t just look good on paper—they do good for your community
Living wages
We facilitate fast and fair payments to community partners in an equitable exchange for their expertise—all while reducing your office’s liability, admin, and overhead
