Proven Group applies sabermetric-style analytics to workforce performance — surfacing the metrics that predict long-term organizational value, with particular precision for experienced workers whose contributions rarely appear on a standard performance review.
Just as sabermetrics replaced batting average with on-base percentage, Workforce Optics replaces conventional performance metrics with measures that actually predict organizational value — for workers of any age, with particular insight for experienced employees.
"The government can't do all this work. Nonprofits can't do all this work. We need the business community involved."
Proven Group translates the dense policy landscape of senior employment — state aging initiatives, workforce development funding, federal program requirements — into decisions that employers, workforce boards, and regional organizations can act on today. Our Workforce Optics framework applies the same data-driven logic that transformed professional sports scouting to the workforce challenge that is reshaping the Mountain West economy.
For two decades, Matt Lewis helped institutions make complex decisions simple. School districts. Hospital systems. Tribal workforce coalitions. Rural employers across the Southwest. The skill was never the finance — it was translation: taking something that looked like a wall of regulation and finding the door.
In 2018, he turned that same ability toward one of the most misread workforce challenges in the country: an aging workforce that organizations do not know how to value, and a policy landscape that no one had made readable for the employers who needed it most.
Based in Trinidad, Colorado, Matt built Workforce Optics from the ground up — drawing on applied research in rural workforce participation, aging demographics, and the sabermetric methodology that transformed how professional sports evaluates talent.
His FINRA Series 65 license requires fiduciary responsibility — he is legally and professionally obligated to put the client's interests first. His Series 24 supervisory principal credential means he has enforced performance measurement compliance across hundreds of offices. Both inform how Workforce Optics is designed: to protect the organization and the worker, not to rationalize predetermined conclusions.
If you work in workforce development, senior services, regional economic development, or HR — and you've been watching the same workforce challenge without a good way to measure it — we should talk. No obligation, no pitch. Just a conversation about what you're seeing and whether Workforce Optics might help you see it more clearly.