McColm & Company is committed to delivering the expert analysis and transferring the critical skills our clients need to successfully address tough security, peacebuilding, and diplomacy challenges, in the most complex international environments.
Leveraging our global, multi-sectoral network of high-level policy experts, researchers, and local partners, McCO delivers expert advisory, research, analysis, and training services to help senior leaders tackle a range of mission-critical challenges in the foreign policy, national security, and international development spaces. McCO offers a range of research specialties and training capabilities, including international relations, security, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, economic policy, workers and workforce, and rural revitalization. Our objective analysis helps improve the effectiveness of policy making by delivering insights and expert knowledge of local landscapes and drivers, including cultural, political, and economic dynamics. McCO's effective training programs strengthen the critical skills of policy makers to understand local dynamics, ask the right questions, and better predict the outcomes and impacts of their programs and decision making. |
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Select Projects and Results
- Conduct a programmatic assessment of a partnership program in South Central Asia for the U.S. Department of State to identify and determine public diplomacy outcomes.
- Design, deliver, and administratively manage a portfolio of Area Studies courses for the Foreign Service Institute at the U.S. Department of State. McCO successfully led a rapid transition to remote course delivery due to COVID-19, taking the entire course portfolio online for the first time in State Department history.
- Design, deliver, and administratively managed the State Department's mandatory Afghanistan and Iraq Familiarization courses providing mission critical pre-deployment training to USG personnel serving at Embassy Kabul and Embassy Baghdad.
- Designed and delivered a national security strategic analysis exercise for the Foreign Service Institute at the U.S. Department of State to train interagency leaders to craft robust policy responses to long term (15‑30 year) challenges to U.S. national security.