Driving Workforce Solutions
Leegate Consulting
Strategic Planning
Leegate Consulting works with you to stay in the know around the latest state and federal workforce policy and funding opportunities, and their impact on your business or training operations.
Research & Writing
No project is too small or big! Leegate Consulting has experience writing blogs, memos, research papers and more. It engages with clients to identify practical, scalable workforce solutions that deliver real results for businesses and their communities.
Facilitation
Kimberly Hauge, the Founder of Leegate Consulting, has professional facilitation training, and can work with diverse audiences to align around a shared vision and collaborative structures that drive action.
ABOUT ME
Welcome!
Kimberly Hauge is a workforce policy leader with over a decade of experience bridging education, workforce, and economic policy. Most recently at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship, she led national initiatives like National Apprenticeship Week and the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint, which launched nearly 200 new programs and created more than 7,000 apprenticeship opportunities.
Previously, Kimberly served as a senior policy analyst at the National Governors Association, supporting governors on workforce and economic opportunity initiatives, and as a program officer at Johns Hopkins’ American-German Institute, where she led international exchanges on apprenticeship models. She began her career as an education consultant at the OECD in Paris.
An experienced facilitator and policy communicator, Kimberly has presented on national platforms including the SelectUSA Investment Summit, NICE Conference & Expo, WiCys Annual Conference, and the ACT Workforce Summit.

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About Leegate Consulting
With more than a decade of policy expertise at the intersection of workforce, education, and economic development, Kimberly Hauge launched Leegate Consulting in 2025 to facilitate public-private partnerships in identifying and implementing practical, scalable workforce solutions that deliver real results for businesses and their communities.
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Let’s collaborate!
Have questions or have a project in mind? I’d love to hear from you!