Policy and Diplomacy Practice

McColm & Company is committed to delivering the expert analysis and transferring the critical skills our clients need to successfully address tough policy and diplomacy challenges, in the most complex international environments. 

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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 ask the right questions and better predict outcomes and impacts of their decision making. McCO's Policy and Diplomacy practice is dedicated to identifying public policy options that increase quality of life, globally.

Dr. Nilofar Sakhi

Director of Policy and Diplomacy

Contact Nilofar to learn more about McCO's Policy and Diplomacy Practice

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Applications

Training

• ​Area Studies Training
• Cross Cultural Competence (C3)
• Curriculum Development
• Instructional Design
• Professional Training for Diplomats
• Remote Learning
• Scenario and Role Play Exercises​​
• Strategic Foresight Exercises
  

Advisory Services

• ​Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory
• Cross Cultural Advisory
• Policy Analysis
• Conflict Analysis and Assessment
• Executive/Leadership Briefings
• Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution
• Political Economy Analysis (PEA)
• Workforce, Economy, and Jobs

Insights and Case Studies

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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.​​