Headway
Blending social insights with data for
We transform complex social insights and detailed data analysis into strategic guidance.
Competence Areas
Comprehensive solutions across research, advisory, transformation, and certification.
Analytics & Foresight
- Data Gathering and Analyses
- Impact Assessment & Evaluation
Strategic Advisory
- Strategic Guidance for the Public Sector
- Leading with Sustainability and Governance
- Driving Business with Purpose
- Empowering Civil Society
Support & Acceleration
- Institutional Reorganization
- Talent Alignment & Organizational Growth
- Process Optimisation
- Digital Transformation
Research Tools & Frameworks
- Compliance Consultancy
- Accreditation
- Certification
- Continuous Improvement
Our Featured Tools
These tools are developed and applied within our Analytics & Foresight, Strategic Advisory, and Support & Acceleration work, ensuring methodological rigour is directly connected to real-world decisions.
Impact Twin
Measuring what an intervention actually caused. Impact Twin uses the Synthetic Control Method to build a data-driven counterfactual — a “synthetic twin” of the treated unit — estimating real, defensible impact for policies and programmes where a controlled trial isn’t possible.
Explore Impact Twin →Data Quality Framework
Know what your dataset can really support. DQF is Headway’s analyst-led data quality framework — turning survey and behavioural datasets into audit-ready evidence, analysis-readiness guidance and recruitment decisions, before weak comparisons become reporting problems.
Explore DQF →Measuring Automatic Associations and Unconscious Bias
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a behavioural research method that measures how quickly people associate concepts (for example, gender–career, migration–threat, technology–trust). These reaction-time patterns reveal automatic associations that are often not captured through surveys or interviews alone.
Explore IAT →Assessing Regional Welfare Disparities in Europe
Reframing Welfare Index is a set of composite welfare indicators aiming to measure and assess regional welfare disparities in Europe. Social and individual welfare is more than just material wealth at the individual and social levels. It is a holistic aspiration of modern societies that reaches into the social, economic, political, financial, cultural, and environmental character of a society that allows all individuals to realise their full potential in a fair and just way.
Explore Reframing Welfare Index →Recent work & collaborations.
A selection of Headway projects across research, advisory and delivery, highlighting how we work with partners in different thematic areas.
Behavioral Research Infrastructure for KMOP’s Gender-Career IAT
How Headway designed the platform, data quality framework, and analytical monitoring behind KMOP’s Gender–Career Implicit Association Test (IAT)
AccessCareer
Enhancing Inclusive Access to Career Counselling
PRIMACENTERS
Local employment centers to support migrants’ socio-economic integration in the primary sector
WISER
Women-centred Intervention for Social Entrepreneurship Resilience
NATURELAB
Nature based interventions for improving health and well-being
BENEFITS
Building Economic, Needs-Based and Environmental evaluation Frameworks for Inclusive Transformation of Social services in Europe