Workforce transformation

Build or refine job architecture, career frameworks, or move towards a skills–based organisation. We work with your business stakeholders to define the future of work in your organisation, linking it to your Organisation design and Strategic workforce plans. 

Apply advanced analytics and scenario modelling to anticipate future workforce needs, identify critical gaps, and build practical, sustainable workforce plans. 

Align the organisation to your business needs including target operating models, organisation structure, role definition, culture and ways of working.

Go beyond reporting to embed people analytics as a trusted, strategic capability. We help you connect fragmented data, deliver credible insights, and drive evidence-based decisions which impact business outcomes.

Set the integrated people agenda early, engage the business, assess impacts, and deliver change with clarity and pace. We provide scalable tools, playbooks, and upskilling to ensure consistent, high-quality results. 

We build capability – not dependency – so your teams become self-sufficient, with the tools, frameworks, and mindsets needed to sustain and embed the transformation. 

 Support your organisation, leadership and individuals to adapt to, and thrive in, the new organisation. 

We offer both, so let’s clarify:

• HR transformation = transforming the HR function
• Workforce transformation = transforming the workforce to enable business strategy

HR transformation focuses on redesigning and optimising the HR function itself – its operating model, processes, technology, and service delivery.

The goal is to make HR more efficient, data-driven, and aligned with business needs. Typical activities include implementing new HR technology, creating shared services, improving people experience, and building capabilities within HR teams to act as strategic advisors. It’s about enabling HR to deliver greater value to the business by modernising how the function works.

Workforce transformation, on the other hand, looks beyond HR to the entire organisation. It’s about aligning people, skills, and organisational structures to meet evolving business priorities.

This includes strategic workforce planning, talent and skills design, organisation design, and embedding workforce insights into every stage of business change. Workforce transformation ensures the right people are in the right roles, future skills gaps are addressed, and people-related risks don’t derail transformation programmes.

Both are critical, but they solve different challenges. HR transformation strengthens the function; workforce transformation ensures the business has the capability and capacity to deliver its goals.

We use advanced analytics, scenario modelling, and evidence-based decision-making to deliver measurable outcomes.

Our approach provides clarity on workforce needs, enables faster and more responsive planning cycles, and drives targeted interventions to close critical gaps.

We focus on embedding capability so your teams become self-sufficient, ensuring sustainable transformation. 

Project timelines vary based on scope and complexity, but our modular approach and accelerators mean we deliver impact in weeks, not months. We tailor our support to your needs, ensuring rapid and sustainable results. 

• People and HR strategy – read more

• Organisation design 

• Talent, skills and workforce design – read more

• Strategic workforce planning 

• People workstream implementation 

• People analytics – read more

• Mergers and acquisitions – Workforce support 

• Change management  – read more

• AI services – read more

We stand out through our blend of transformation, skills, and workforce analytics expertise.

Our deep vendor insight, market knowledge, and rapid delivery (giving results in weeks, not months) set us apart.

Our proprietary delivery methodology –  the LACE Way –  truly differentiates us.

1. WE UNDERSTAND YOU – getting to know you and what drives you.

2. WE CO-CREATE – working with you to create the right solution for your business.

3. WE DELIVER – supporting deployment and ensuring adoption.

4. WE SUSTAIN – success to us means you no longer need us, building capabilities along the way.

Learn more about our approach here.