Curious to learn where research could help your organizations?
An affordable starting point to establish research needs and current opportunities.

Summary: Le Shaw evaluates organizations’ available data and research needs/infrastucture to uncover insights/opportunitites and provide actionable recommendations.

Objective: Identify organizations’ pain-points and ethical ways to leverage theri current source of information, highlighting what is missing to tailor research and quality data output that is usable.

Total project duration (ETA): 8 weeks

Service fees: TBD

Take your business to the next level with customized scientific studies.
Safely gather data/insights to guide your business and look good while doing it.

Summary: Le Shaw develops customized scientific studies, matches organizations with a curated team of scientists to rigorously and ethically gather meaningful data/insights, and provide tailored business, marketing, wellness, and research recommendations.

Objective: Ethically supply relevant high-quality data to businesses, that meets their goals.

Duration: 37 weeks

Service fees: TBD

Bonus: Includes Tier 1 Badge.

Go deep and discover the goldmine of business insights you are sitting on!
Safely gather data/insights to guide your business and look good while doing it.

Summary: Le Shaw develops an in-depth customized scientific study or slate of studies, matching organization with a curated team of scientists to rigorously and ethically gather meaningful, extensive, and/or highly specialized data/insights using mixed-method surveys and/or laboratory experimental designs, and then provides comprehensive tailored business, marketing, wellness, and future research recommendations.

Advanced sex research, ethically supply relevant high-quality data to business, and transform public opinion about the industry. Break new grounds with the most immersive, in-depth research projects and analyses, covering multiple interconnected topics or studies (1-3).

Deliverables: Extensive research report with business, marketing, wellness and future research insights and recommendations on how to leverage scientific findings.

Service fees: TBD

Bonus: Includes Tier 2 Badge.

Get feedback, meaningful insights, and potential endorsement from experts about your products and services to improve them and use during promotion.

Summary: Le Shaw builds a panel of experts (e.g., clinicians and or researchers) or surveys to assess organizations’ products and services in order ot improve their business, marketing initiatives, and potentially receive endorsements of their offerings.

Deliverables: Verbatim and report summarizing key insights and results with recommendations for potential use in product development and marketing.

Service fees: TBD

Misinformation and prejudice frequently drive discriminatory policies, restrict access to essential resources, and reinforce social and systemic inequalities faced by sex workers.

There is an assumption that someone who is hired and works for an adult company, has inherently, a positive opinion and accurate information about sex workers. By educating staff and management, we can improve the inclusivity and safety in workplace cultures for sex workers in the adult industry.

Service fees: TBD

Empower your company with the tools to enhance the well-being, productivity, and satisfaction of your creator communities while aligning with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Le Shaw offers consulting and assessment services for adult industry companies seeking to better understand and support their content creator, performer, and model communities. By leveraging academic expertise and industry insights, these services identify gaps, recommend improvements, and foster sustainable, ethical relationships.

Deliverables: Comprehensive assessments report and actionable insights through direct engagement with creators, performers, staff and management. Provide consultation on fostering ethical partnerships and inclusivity while helping develop performance metrics and benchmarks for community engagement improvements.

Service fees: TBD

Le Shaw recognizes that not all companies have the resources to operate a corporate responsibility function. To help, we will establish credible CSR initiatives that resonate with their stakeholders, advance societal impact, and align with your brand ethos, without adding operational burden.

Le Shaw provides Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) services by identifying and vetting NGOs aligned with client companies’ values and goals, facilitating meaningful partnerships, and managing ongoing relationships, meetings, and impact reporting.

Deliverables: Conduct comprehensive research to identify NGOs that align with the client’s mission and values. Facilitate introductions and manage engagement between corporate clients and selected NGOs. Oversee ongoing partnership logistics, including organizing meetings, tracking progress, and preparing detailed impact reports.

Service fees: TBD

In alignment with ‘nothing about us without us, empower your company by engaging your stakeholders meaningfully, ensuring your projects and operations are ethically sound, inclusive, and reflective of stakeholder needs. This contributes to better relationships, improved public perception, and proactive issue resolution.

Le Shaw provides the adult industry the opportunity to create and/or maintain Community Advisory Boards (CABs) comprised of stakeholders, specifically sex workers employed by or affiliated with their companies. These boards provide a platform for continuous feedback, ensure ethical practices, and guide companies in centering the voices of those most impacted by their decisions.

Deliverables: recruit members, establish guidelines and expectations, conduct meetings, consultation and reporting.

Service fees: TBD

Based on the notion that “a happy model is a productive model,” the strategy behind this service is to provide a multi-phase approach that combines stakeholder-driven research, expert insights, and practical solutions. By collaborating with field-specific specialists, the service ensures that the solutions are both evidence-based, customized and applicable to the organization. Additionally, the development of customized resources positions participating companies as ethical and proactive leaders in the adult industry.

• Phase 1: Research evaluation of stakeholder wellbeing needs
• Phase 2: Conduct expert-led research
• Phase 3: Recommendations & actionable solutions
• Phase 4: Resource development

Deliverables: Identify, evaluate, and address the critical wellbeing needs of stakeholders, enabling companies to create a supportive and sustainable working environment. This leads to improved stakeholder satisfaction, ethical reputation, and operational effectiveness.

• Basic wellbeing evaluation package: 1-2 months
• Advanced research & recommendations package: 2-4 months
• Full-service resource development package: 4-6 months.

Service fees: TBD

This initiative offers in-person/virtual educational workshops to company employees, focusing on fostering understanding, reducing stigma, and promoting inclusivity regarding sex work. The goal is to create a more informed, respectful workplace culture while enhancing the company’s ethical reputation.

By delivering the training in person, this allows for additional consulting, Q&A opportunities and group discussion. By leveraging expert facilitators and incorporating perspectives from sex workers, the program ensures that employees develop empathy and a nuanced understanding of sex work.

Deliverables: Educate employees about sex work, dismantle misconceptions, and build a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusivity. This initiative aims to enhance internal workplace dynamics while boosting the company’s external reputation for ethical leadership.

Recognition: “Sex Work Awareness Certified” badge to participating companies, signaling their commitment to education and ethical practices.

Service fees: TBD

Given the unique challenges sex workers face, such as occupational stress, physical strain, and stigma, offering wellness programs and retreats provide an opportunity to support their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Companies offering these retreats as a workforce benefit can demonstrate their commitment to the well-being of their stakeholders, fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Based on the notion of “a happy worker is a productive worker,” le Shaw will provide curated retreat experiences featuring workshops, wellness activities, and peer support to address the unique challenges faced by sex workers. Partnering with companies to sponsor participation helps them to showcase their commitment to sex worker health that potentially will enhance recruitment.

Workshops:

• Mental health, meditation, and stress management.
• Physical wellness: pelvic health and injury prevention.
• Financial literacy for long-term planning.

Deliverables: Promote health, stress management, and financial sustainability for sex workers while positioning participating companies as advocates for holistic workforce care.

Service fees: TBD

Laws and regulations vary between regions and many sex worker lack awareness around legal literacy and rights for sex workers and adult industry companies.

To help navigate the complex legal landscape surrounding sex work, le Shaw provides workshops, webinars, and e-learning courses that empower sex workers, staff and companies to understand legal frameworks, advocate for rights, and ensure compliance with labor protections.

Example Topics:

• Understanding local, national, and international laws.
• Advocacy for labor rights and protection against discrimination.
• Digital rights, platform policies, and privacy laws.
• Contract law for content creation and freelance work.

Deliverables: To equip participants with knowledge and tools to navigate legal challenges, protect their rights, and operate with confidence in a complex legal environment.

Service fees: TBD