Where Economic Outcomes Are Actually Determined
Most workforce and small business challenges reflect decisions made long before problems surface. Taxley works with organizations committed to improving professional and skill-based capability rather than waiting to manage the results of failure.
of employers report persistent difficulty finding talent with the skills needed to perform effectively. (ManpowerGroup)
average cost of one bad professional hire once turnover, lost productivity, and retraining are accounted for. (U.S. DOL)
Small business failures stem from financial decision breakdowns (U.S. Bank)
These Challenges Will Persist Without Upstream Investment
Workforce shortages and small business instability are not resolving on their own. Without intentional investment in early professional capability, these patterns can repeat for decades. Taxley partnerships are designed to support measurable progress over time – strengthening the systems that shape outcomes before failure becomes inevitable.
Invest Where Capability Is Built
Taxley partners with organizations focused on strengthening early professional capability rather than responding after instability occurs.
Taxley partnerships center on one of the most underutilized levers in workforce development and small business stability: Enrolled Agent workforce capability.
Enrolled Agents are elite, federally licensed professionals positioned to guide high-stakes financial decisions that shape small business outcomes, household stability, and long-term economic resilience.
Partners invest in building and sustaining an ecosystem that prepares professionals who influence these outcomes every day.
Partnership with Taxley is not about scale for its own sake. It is about deploying resources where they have leverage – early, strategic, and designed for durable economic effect.
Strategic Alignment Partner (SAP) Pathways
Taxley works with partners across distinct but complementary pathways. Each plays a different role in strengthening the ecosystem required for long-term Enrolled Agent workforce development and small business stability.
Awareness & Access Partners
Schools and organizations that expand awareness of EA career pathways and connect individuals to opportunity while supporting informed decisions about readiness and eligibility.
What partners gain: insight into interest and outcomes, credibility through ecosystem participation, and early indicators that inform future programming decisions.
Strategic Funding Partners
Partners provide financial support to help build and sustain early EA and entrepreneurial development, including instructional capacity, scholarships, and ecosystem infrastructure. These relationships do not involve ownership or governance control.
What partners gain: reduced long-term investment risk, visibility into readiness and progression, and alignment with a rigor-driven, prevention-focused model.
Credibility & Field-Building Partners
Professional associations, industry bodies, and respected institutions that lend alignment, legitimacy, and visibility to a long-term workforce and small business stability model.
What partners gain: relevance to workforce transformation and professional standards, strengthened authority, and alignment with outcomes rather than advocacy alone.
Ways Partners Contribute:
Partnership pathways are not ranked or transactional. Each serves a distinct role in building durable capability and shared economic outcomes.
Partnership Begins with Alignment
Taxley partnerships are built through conversation, not applications or predefined packages.
If your organization is focused on: reducing long-term risk, strengthening economic stability, and investing where outcomes are shaped earlier, we welcome an alignment discussion.
Annual federal workforce spending focused on post-displacement remediation (WIOA)
estimated annual cost of poor financial decision making across households and small businesses (NFEC)
How Partnership Works
Taxley partnerships are designed for organizations aligned with long-term Enrolled Agent workforce development and small business stability.
What Partnership Enables
Partnership supports early professional capability building where workforce and small business outcomes are shaped.
Why this matters:
Building capability earlier reduces preventable failure and supports more stable workforce and small business outcomes.
How Partners Engage
Partnership engagement is strategic, informed, and focused on shared outcomes.
Why this matters:
Partners influence systems and outcomes without assuming operational responsibility.
Allocating Investments & Measuring Impact
Partner support sustains the systems required for high-quality, durable development.
Investment supports:
Impact is tracked through:
Impact measurement is designed to inform learning and stewardship rather than operational oversight.
Partnership scope and investment levels are discussed during an overview session and shaped around alignment and intended impact.
Next Steps
Request Alignment meeting
Partnership begins with a brief meeting to ensure alignment and clarify expectations.
Register for access
Once aligned, you’ll be invited to register to access your partner portal.
Engage in partnership
From your partner portal you’ll have the relevant engagement resources.