Your existing ecosystem
The knowledge, systems, tools and relationships already present in your organization.
For organizations and partners
Recognize more of what people can do
RIST partners with organizations to help people find and secure work, while widening access, enriching existing systems with the life-role dimension, advancing research, and changing how human capability is understood and valued.
Ricco is the science-based tool that supports this work: through guided conversations, it helps people recognize and transfer skills practised across their life roles, while generating structured data that strengthens research and existing systems.
A wider starting map
A whole-life skills layer
A guided process that makes capabilities developed across life roles visible, evidence-based and usable.
More of the person becomes visible
More capability becomes available to the work you already do.
Designed to strengthen what already works
RIST does not ask organizations to replace their existing methods, frameworks or relationships.
We work with partners to identify where Ricco can add a whole-life perspective, widen the initial skills map and generate new evidence about what people can do.
Ricco can be used alongside existing pathways or integrated with an organization’s tools, systems and frameworks.
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Reveal skills that conventional approaches may overlook.
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Help people see themselves as capable actors, not passive recipients.
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Generate richer evidence about how capabilities develop and move across contexts.
What this can change
When people recognize how their capabilities were developed, they can describe them with greater confidence and use them more intentionally.
This can strengthen engagement, self-efficacy and wellbeing — while giving organizations a richer understanding of the people they work with and changing the story they are able to tell.
Shared as anonymized, open-access evidence, the resulting data will support a wider ecosystem of research, tools and practice — and help build a new culture around life, work and human capability.
How we can work together
Different partnerships. One shared purpose.
Organizations can work with RIST to widen access, integrate whole-life skills recognition into existing systems, contribute to research or help the methodology reach new contexts.
Each partnership is shaped around its purpose, the people involved and the safeguards required.
Apply
Use Ricco within an existing pathway or participant journey.
Integrate
Connect Ricco’s whole-life skills layer with an existing tool, system, framework or methodology.
Advance
Contribute to research, validation, open knowledge or wider access.
A model designed around the partnership
A partnership with RIST may involve access to Ricco, implementation, integration, research, shared learning or a combination of these elements.
Public-interest organizations may collaborate with RIST to extend access and explore new contexts of use.
Private organizations may support and participate in the research through a dedicated subscription model.
The appropriate structure is defined together rather than forcing every partner into the same formula.
A cultural shift
Every RIST partnership can help move the culture from seeing life experience as a gap in a CV to recognizing it as a possible source of evidence, capability and contribution.
Ricco makes this perspective practical: it helps people find the skills they have practised across their roles and explore how those skills can be used in what comes next.