Emerald Sky

Placement is the beginning.
Not the end.

Emerald Sky is Emerald's 12-Month Consultant Engagement Programme — four pillars of structured support, development, and community, funded by Emerald. Emerald Red community membership is included indefinitely for all placed consultants, at no charge.

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The Four Pillars

Every placement. Every engagement. From day one.

Emerald Sky is not an optional extra. Alongside Emerald Assure's ongoing reviews, Emerald Sky supports every placed consultant for the first 12 months, with an option to extend both under subscription thereafter. Emerald Red community membership is included indefinitely for all placed consultants at no charge.

Emerald Surgery
Weekly Open Sessions
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Emerald Surgery
Weekly 30-minute open sessions led by experienced Emerald technology delivery experts. A structured space for placed consultants to seek advice, prepare for important meetings, or raise concerns before they escalate. Issues surfaced in Surgery don't become resignations.
Emerald Learn
L&D Programme
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Emerald Learn
Every placed consultant has an assigned learning pathway — technical development, certifications, interview readiness, LinkedIn, and CV development. Funded by Emerald from day one. Platforms include Microsoft Learn, Pluralsight, Kaggle, Hugging Face, freeCodeCamp, Full Stack Open, and The Odin Project.
Emerald Red
Professional Community
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Emerald Red
A vetted professional community for Emerald-placed consultants — peer network, mentorship, and shared learning across practice areas and geographies. A consultant who belongs to a professional community is more engaged and more likely to stay. Eligibility criteria in active development.
Emerald Empower
Social Mission
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Emerald Empower
Funded by a percentage of every Emerald placement margin — a structured commitment to increasing female representation in technology across Latin America. Mentorship, Academy pipeline development, and funded certifications. Fewer than 10% of LATAM software developers are women. Emerald Empower exists to change that.
Both Sides of Every Engagement

What Emerald Sky means — for clients and consultants.

Every pillar serves both sides of the engagement. The client benefits from retention and delivery visibility. The consultant benefits from support, development, and community. Neither comes at the expense of the other.

Emerald Surgery — For Clients
Issues surfaced in Surgery don't become resignations
A weekly structured space for consultants to raise concerns or ask for professional support without troubling you. Emerald deals with these challenges so you don't have to — delivery problems and disengagement are avoided.
Emerald Surgery — For Consultants
A space for the things you have nowhere else to take
30 minutes, weekly. Led by technology delivery professionals with direct experience of the environments you work in. Advice, preparation, concerns — whatever needs a second perspective.
Emerald Learn — For Clients
Consultants who grow, stay — at no cost to you
Emerald funds every consultant's learning pathway from its own margin. Progress is visible to the client throughout the engagement. Retention benefit at zero additional cost to the client.
Emerald Learn — For Consultants
Your development. Emerald's investment.
Assigned learning pathway from day one — technical development, certifications, interview readiness, LinkedIn, and CV. Funded by Emerald. Platforms: Microsoft Learn, Pluralsight, Kaggle, Hugging Face, freeCodeCamp, Full Stack Open, The Odin Project.
Emerald Red — For Clients
A community that keeps your consultant connected
Consultants who feel professionally isolated disengage faster. Emerald Red provides a vetted peer community across practice areas — reducing that risk without any involvement or cost from the client. Membership continues indefinitely beyond the engagement.
Emerald Red — For Consultants
The professional network you build once and keep forever
Working remotely for international clients can be professionally isolating. Emerald Red connects you with peers navigating the same environment — shared knowledge, mentorship, and community. Membership is indefinite and at no charge.

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For Candidates For Clients
For Candidates — Your Emerald Sky Journey
The Candidate Journey with Emerald

What Emerald Sky looks like in practice.

From the moment you are placed, Emerald Sky begins — and continues for the duration of your engagement. Here is what that means for you.

Day 1 — Placement
Emerald Sky begins
From day one, your Emerald Learn pathway is assigned, Emerald Surgery access is confirmed, and your Emerald Red registration is initiated. You are not on your own.
Ongoing
Sustained through the engagement
Emerald Surgery runs weekly. Your Learning Pathway evolves with your role and is reviewed at each Emerald Assure check-in. Emerald Red keeps you connected to a peer community who understand the environment you are working in — and any concerns are surfaced and addressed along the way.
Every Week — Emerald Surgery

A weekly 30-minute open session led by experienced Emerald technology delivery experts. Not a coach — someone who has been in delivery environments for a long time and understands what they ask of people.

What consultants bring to Surgery
Preparing for a difficult stakeholder conversation
Preparing for a presentation or meeting
A delivery concern they are not sure how to escalate
A technical challenge needing a second perspective
Career development questions
Anything they would otherwise have nowhere to take
Emerald Learn

Your Learning Pathway — funded by Emerald from day one.

Every placed consultant is assigned a Learning Pathway across Emerald's approved development platforms, reviewed and evolved at each Emerald Assure check-in — at no cost to the consultant or the client.

Technical, Cloud & Professional Certifications
Microsoft Learn and Pluralsight LMS access support certification tracks across AI, Security, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure and non-technical professional tracks in management and leadership.
Data, AI & Engineering Practice
Kaggle, Hugging Face, freeCodeCamp, Full Stack Open, and The Odin Project provide hands-on practice environments for data science, AI and automation, and modern software engineering.
Career & Professional Development
Interview readiness, LinkedIn profile development, and CV refinement — reviewed alongside your technical pathway at every check-in.
Emerald Red

A community of professionals who understand your world.

Emerald Red is the professional peer community for Emerald-placed consultants — a vetted network of technology professionals across practice areas, geographies, and career stages.

Working remotely for international clients can be professionally isolating. Emerald Red is designed to change that — a community of people navigating the same environment, building the same kind of career.

Emerald Red eligibility criteria are in active development. Consultants placed through Emerald are invited to register their interest.

What Emerald Red offers
Peer network: vetted community across Microsoft 365, cloud, data, and AI practice areas.
Mentorship: structured peer mentorship across practice areas and career stages.
Shared learning: knowledge exchange and healthy debate between technology professionals.
International context: a community that understands what it means to deliver for international clients from a LATAM base.
For Candidates

Ready to register with Emerald?

Register your interest and Emerald will be in touch about opportunities that match your specialism — with Emerald Sky from day one of every placement.

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For Clients — The Commercial Case for Emerald Sky
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Why Emerald Sky Matters Commercially for Clients

The cost of a failed placement far exceeds the cost of keeping a good one.

Most organisations measure success at the moment of placement. Emerald Sky's role begins where that moment ends — ensuring the consultant remains supported, developing, and engaged throughout the engagement, alongside Emerald Assure's ongoing delivery reviews. Every placement includes 12 months of both. For contract engagements, both run for the full contract duration. Clients who want to continue beyond 12 months — consultant support and delivery visibility together — can do so through Emerald's subscription model — speak to us for details.

No additional cost: Emerald Sky is funded entirely by Emerald. Not billed to the client, not passed on in the fee structure.
Early intervention: problems surfaced before becoming real delivery issues save clients time and stress down the line. Emerald Surgery gives consultants somewhere to take concerns before they escalate.
Retention by design: consultants with active development pathways and peer communities stay longer. The MVW track record — average tenure of 24+ months — is evidence of what structured post-placement support delivers.
Illustrative Cost of a Failed Placement — $70,000 Role
Re-recruitment costs$8,000–$18,000
Management time lost$12,000–$24,000
Delayed delivery impact$18,000–$40,000
Onboarding repetition$8,000–$16,000
Total cost of failed placement$51,500–$104,000
On a $70,000 role, Emerald's placement fee is a fraction of the illustrative figures above. The Delivery Confidence Guarantee covers a replacement search at no additional cost within 12 weeks. Emerald Sky is the programme that makes the guarantee meaningful.
$104K
illustrative maximum cost of a failed senior technology placement — the problem Emerald Sky solves
24+
months average tenure — consultants placed by Emerald's founder with structured post-placement support
45%
higher attrition rate across the technology sector — a structural retention problem Emerald Sky addresses directly
$0
additional cost to the client — Emerald Sky is funded entirely by Emerald
<10%
of LATAM software developers are women — the gap Emerald Empower is committed to closing
Emerald Empower

A social mission backed commercially.

Emerald Empower is funded by a percentage of every Emerald placement margin — a structured commitment to increasing female representation in technology across Latin America.

Mentorship: one-to-one mentorship of female technology professionals in Medellín.
Academy pipeline: working with Medellín's technology training ecosystem to identify and support female graduates entering the technology workforce.
Funded certifications: a Microsoft or cloud certification funded annually for female consultants in the Emerald Sky programme.
Tracked impact: female technology professionals supported through Emerald Sky reported annually — a named, accountable metric.
<10%
of LATAM software developers are women
26–28%
women in technology globally — the benchmark LATAM must reach
22%
of global AI roles are held by women
38%
more likely for women in tech to stay beyond five years with a mentor
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Every Emerald placement comes with Emerald Sky.

Emerald Sky supports every placed consultant for the first 12 months. Emerald Red community membership is indefinite, at no charge. Subscription extension available thereafter.

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