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The System Is Broken. I Built the Blueprint to Fix It.

I help organizations redesign workforce and reentry systems around household stability β€” not program activity.

Built from lived experience. Tested through systems change. Designed for measurable outcomes.

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The Crisis No One Is Solving

Most workforce and reentry systems are designed to move people through programs β€” not move households into stability.

Fragmented systems - disconnected workforce programs failing returning citizens
Fragmented Systems
Corrections, workforce development, and social services operate in silos.
Families navigate a maze of disconnected programs with no coordination.
The result? Activity without outcomes. Movement without progress.
The revolving door of recidivism - cycle of incarceration and release
Revolving-Door Outcomes
27% of people released from incarceration are reincarcerated within three years.
Without stable employment and household stability, the cycle repeats.
And it repeats across generations.
(CSG Justice Center, 2024)
Families left behind - the generational impact of incarceration on children and communities
The Wrong Unit of Change
Children of incarcerated parents are 6x more likely to be incarcerated themselves.
The system addresses the individual.
But the family is the unit that determines long-term success β€” and the system ignores it.

The problem is not just access. It is architecture.

The 2Generation Economy Framework

Most reentry programs focus on the individual. The 2Generation Economy invests in two generations simultaneously β€” creating a coordinated ecosystem where parents build careers and children thrive.

Here’s how it works.

The 2Gen Economy Workforce Ecosystem Framework diagram

Meet Khalil Osiris

Arrested at 16. Incarcerated for 20 years. Earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Boston University behind the wall. Released at 40 with a question most systems can't answer: What actually predicts transformation?

Today, Khalil is the Founder & CEO of Khalil Osiris Consulting and creator of the 2Generation Economy Workforce Ecosystem β€” a household-centered framework that redesigns reentry and workforce systems around stability, not compliance.

Twenty years taught him how systems fail people. Twenty-six years since release taught him how to redesign them.

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More about me
Khalil Osiris, workforce development thought leader and second chance hiring strategist, standing in a boardroom with city skyline β€” Khalil Osiris Consulting

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Impact by the Numbers

50+Years of Lived & Professional Experience
20Years Incarcerated
2Degrees from Boston University
26+Years of Consulting & Systems Work
1000sLives Impacted

The 2Generation Economy Workforce Ecosystem

Most reentry programs focus on the individual. The 2Gen Framework redesigns the system around the household β€” because stability is a family outcome, not an individual one.

πŸ’ΌPartner
Employment
πŸ‘ΆChildcare
Access
🏠Household
Stability
πŸ“ˆWorkforce
Systems
βš–οΈPolicy
Alignment
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How We Work Together

Choose the path that fits your organization's needs.

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Consulting & Systems Design

Redesign your workforce and reentry systems around household stability and measurable outcomes.

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Speaking & Training

Keynotes and workshops that challenge assumptions and deliver actionable frameworks.

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The 2Gen Framework

A household-centered model that changes the unit of change from the individual to the family.

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The Book

Stop Calling It Reentry: It's Reinvention β€” the case for redesigning how we measure transformation.

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Stop Calling It Reentry:
It's Reinvention

The language we use shapes the systems we build. This book challenges the reentry paradigm and offers a new framework for measuring transformation β€” one built on household stability, not program compliance.

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What Leaders Are Saying

"Khalil doesn't just consult β€” he architects. He helped us redesign our entire workforce pipeline around outcomes that actually matter."
β€” Workforce Development Director
"The 2Gen Framework gave our coalition a shared language and a shared metric. For the first time, we're aligned."
β€” Coalition Lead
"His credibility is unmatched. Lived experience plus systems thinking plus measurement discipline β€” that combination doesn't exist anywhere else."
β€” Policy Advisor