Welcome to LACE Partners.
We are the leading management consultancy specialising in HR, workforce and payroll transformation.
Your project is unique. Let’s shape it together.
About us
Based in the UK, we operate globally and across industries, helping over 500 organisations tackle their most complex people challenges.
From strategy and advisory to hands-on execution, we offer expert, unbiased guidance across business and technology—free from vendor conflicts.
What sets us apart? Our collaborative approach. We work closely with clients to drive successful outcomes, reflected in our outstanding satisfaction scores.
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Our customer satisfaction score (CSAT)
Our CSAT score reflects the percentage of satisfied clients, tracked monthly and at project completion. Updated December 2025.
NEW CAMPAIGN
Rewired HR – The new ecosystem
HR must do more with less, becoming the driver of responsiveness, agility, and value.
Next events
We regularly run both online and offline events, webinars, networking opportunities and more. Find out more on our events page.
Our latest whitepapers
Becoming skills-powered
How to build a skills-based organisation that drives agility, performance and talent mobility.
From implementer to influencer
Discover how HR is evolving from a reactive support function to a strategic influencer in business transformation.
Less stress HRIS - Part three: Beyond launch
Part three of our Less stress series focuses towards optimising your HR technology system.
Less stress HRIS - Part two: Beyond basecamp
This paper explores eight essential areas for setting up your HRIS for long-term success.
Less stress HRIS - Part one: The road to the Cloud
A guide towards a successful HRIS implementation, ensuring high employee adoption and stress-free project management.
Optimal payroll starts with the foundations
Laying the foundations for an optimal Payroll function.
The efficiency paradox
Boosting productivity in the face of economic constraints.
How to build your HR operating model to support business success
Our new guide will help you assess your current setup, explore different HR models, and build your HR operating model tailored to your organisation's needs.
HR Shared Services Trends 2024 Report
Our latest HR Shared Services Trends report outlines 2024 key trends including AI, service delivery technology and function capability.
CPOs: From HR to workforce transformation
Download our free whitepaper for insights on aligning people strategy to business objectives and more.
Five steps to successful EX
Download our free whitepaper for practical advice on the power of employee experience in delivering business value.
Insights
We believe that great work comes from great insights and we have a dedicated team that sits at the helm of the business, feeding into new and innovative thinking and shaping our service offerings.
In the Spotlight – Episode 5 – Andrew Wilkinson and Sally Talbot
How have businesses reacted to their resource plans during the global pandemic? How important will employer brand be post the current crisis? What creativity in resourcing has this global pandemic delivered? Andrew Wilkinson from Peoplescout and Sally Talbot from Per...
What is your duty of care to returning employees?
In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners sat down (virtually) with Paul Griffin, Head of Employment at Norton Rose Fulbright, to talk about some of the challenges HR teams are facing from a legal perspective as organisations return...
Have you identified your next generation of leaders?
How has the covid-19 crisis impacted the search for leaders? How have views on leadership and identifying leaders changed during this time? Is 'trust' the new frontier for businesses when it comes to empowering their leaders and line managers? Which leaders have...
In the Spotlight – Episode 4 – ‘Adapt the workplace’ with Mark McLane and Nikki Squelch
How do you adapt the workplace to meet your colleagues' needs in this current climate? Do you have a hybrid wellbeing offering? How do you make home-based workers feel fully included in wellbeing programmes? What are your plans for holiday rollover and how do you deal...
Working from home? You should think about digital adoption – six tips for implementation success
A recent McKinsey article reported that ‘we have vaulted five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption in a matter of around eight weeks’. With the event of Covid-19, workforces have suddenly been required to adapt to remote ways of working. Many need...
What legal duty of care do employers have post covid-19?
How much of what the government has set out for returning to work are 'rules' and how much are 'guidelines' for HR teams and employers to deliver on? What happens to those people with childcare arrangements that are concerned with going back to work? ...
Is your operating model future-ready? Take the ten traits test
Bringing AI to change without making change less human. Part one
Adoption drives value: Setting the foundations for success
What is a CPO? With Keniro Miller
The human shadow of automation: Navigating AI anxiety in the modern workforce
SWP Summit: Moving beyond the Bs in strategic workforce planning
My career in Reward with Jenny Craik
When transparency stops being a threat: Is 2026 the year reward gets exposed?
The end of the graduate career ladder? How AI is reshaping early-career talent
Why the workforce stalls and how a skills strategy can solve it
Starting your AI in Payroll journey: How to get the data foundations right
The AI + Human Network: The real shift in HR has already started
How can smart incentive design drive performance?
How can CPOs build greater influence in the C-suite?
Early careers in the future of work: an analyst’s perspective
Get ahead of SSP reforms – a practical guide for UK employers
SWP Summit 2026 – all you need to know ahead of the conference
From service centre to strategic engine: The future of HR Shared Services
The death of the job application: Is AI at fault?
How to gain maximum value and efficiency through payroll outsourcing
When change feels personal – navigating tough times
What does M&A get wrong about people and how can it be fixed?
HR strikes back: How can HR use AI to respond to the rise in AI generated tribunal claims?
Rewired HR in reality: Bringing the future operating model to life
Our culture is what makes us who we are.
Having a good culture is beneficial for us as a business, for our clients we work with, which helps us to deliver a better service. We are committed to our sector, steeped in knowledge and expertise and collaborative – we are supportive of each other and that enables us to get the best out of everyone.
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