Daaiyah Salaam is the Founder and Principal of Artesian Solutions Group, a strategy and evaluation firm specializing in workforce development, program evaluation, and data-driven decision-making for public sector, education, and community-based organizations. A native of Albany, Georgia, Daaiyah brings more than 15 years of experience helping institutions design, evaluate, and scale initiatives that strengthen talent pipelines and advance community and economic development.

Daaiyah’s work sits at the intersection of workforce development, education systems, and public administration. She has led and supported workforce strategies for municipalities, technical colleges, community-based organizations, and national partners, with a focus on aligning education and training systems to real labor market demand. Her experience includes designing workforce pilots, building cross-sector partnerships, supporting employer-driven talent pipelines, and helping organizations move from proof-of-concept to sustainable implementation.

In addition to her consulting practice, Daaiyah has held senior leadership and analytical roles in higher education, including serving as Director of Institutional Research at Columbus Technical College. In this role, she led applied research, survey administration, performance measurement, and strategic analysis to inform institutional effectiveness and student success outcomes. As a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, she applies continuous improvement methodologies to strengthen program design, operational efficiency, and evaluation practices.

Daaiyah previously served as a Senior Policy and Strategy Analyst supporting the U.S. Department of Defense’s Chief Talent Management Office, where she worked on national workforce and hiring reform initiatives aimed at modernizing how the Department attracts, develops, and retains talent. Her work included leading workforce pilots across multiple functional communities, engaging senior leaders and hiring managers to identify skill and competency gaps, supporting intermediary partnerships to expand talent pipelines, and contributing to the development of data-informed strategies to address systemic workforce shortages across the Department. This work strengthened her expertise in large-scale systems change, cross-sector collaboration, and translating policy into implementable workforce solutions.

Daaiyah holds  Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Community and Economic Development from Albany State University and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Administration at Valdosta State University, with a focus on managing the public sector and advancing effective, inclusive systems.

At the core of Daaiyah’s work is a deep belief that sustainable community and economic development requires intentional investment in people, aligned systems, and data-driven decision-making. Through Artesian Solutions Group, she partners with organizations committed to building stronger workforce ecosystems, more effective programs, and lasting community impact.

Daaiyah is a proud mother of a Tuskegee aerospace engineering graduate and a young, vibrant princess scientist in the making.