The labor market is facing unprecedented challenges, with employee shortages now affecting a wide range of sectors. These changes demand new strategies from organizations and consultants alike. This workshop aims to equip participants with innovative tools to address these issues, focusing on the concept of internal schools. These structures help companies and consultancies to bridge the gap between academic training and organizational needs, mitigate recruitment risks and foster career progression and internal mobility. Practitioners, consultants and academics will share their experiences, followed by discussions on the implementation of internal schools, their relevance to consultancies and common traps to avoid. Participants will gain practical knowledge that will enable them to improve their consulting practices, help their clients develop the human potential of their teams, and explore how consulting firms can use internal schools to build stronger, more resilient teams.