Workday Services and Sales Partner

The Workday partner
that stays in the room.

We plan, deploy and manage Workday for organisations that expect it done right, working as an extension of your HR, Payroll and Finance teams.

We work for you. With the SI, with Workday. Focused on you.

Free Integration Health Check - ten dimensions of risk

Free Adaptive Planning Health Check - system of record, or export button?

Free AI Readiness Pulse - are you ready to switch Workday AI on?

Free WSP Value Check - are you using what you paid for?

Independent Workday consultancy

One team, every stage.

One team, start to finish: first business case through to deployment, optimisation, support, AI readiness and staffing. Senior throughout, independent by design, and accountable for the outcome at every stage.

Services before sales. We’d rather tell you what you actually need than sell you what we’d like to.

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Client engagements across all services

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Enterprise clients across UK, EMEA and North America

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Workday Staffing placements made: Permanent, FTC and Contract

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Workday Certifications across our team

15 years, five service lines

Advisory, Deployment, Optimisation, AMS and Staffing, across every Workday domain, in 35 countries, for organisations from 500 to 150,000 employees.

Trusted by organisations across every sector

Financial Services & Insurance

Professional Services

Retail & Consumer

Energy & Utilities

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Technology

Higher Education

Public Sector

Core Solutions

One framework,
five service lines.

Whatever stage you’re at, the engagement fits one of five service lines, spanning every Workday domain and the whole lifecycle.

Advisory

Independent guidance before and as you commit, shaping every decision downstream.

Deployment

Design, build, go-live: named consultants who stay through delivery.

Optimisation

Post go-live improvement, making what you’ve already built earn its keep.

AMS

Ongoing support from the consultants who built it, or new interventions for improvement.

Staffing

Expert Workday talent, permanent, FTC or certified contractors to augment your team.
Across every domain

HCM

Payroll

Reporting & Analytics

Financials

Adaptive Planning

Integrations

Extend

Data

Security

The whole lifecycle

Most partners cover two or three stages. We cover all six.

And we can staff any of them. Light-touch assurance through to full programme leadership. You choose the depth.

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Strategy

Phase Zero, business case, vendor and partner selection, roadmap.

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Delivery

Functional and technical design, configuration, data, testing.

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Go-live

Hypercare, business readiness, change management and adoption.

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Phase X

Config review, new SKUs, process redesign, ROI realisation.

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AMS

Named onshore and nearshore support, releases, continuous improvement.

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AI readiness

KDD assessment, data and governance foundations, EU AI Act review.

The problem

Most organisations aren't getting enough from Workday.

The system is rarely the issue. It’s the readiness, data and design underneath it.

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No named resource

Support tickets land with whoever is free. No continuity, no context, no accountability.

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Offshore dependency

Slow responses, communication gaps and inconsistent quality from rotating offshore teams.

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Post go-live stall

The implementation ends, the system goes stale, processes drift and ROI never lands.

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Data & integration debt

Integrations built fast and left unmaintained. Data quality erodes; AI ambitions stall.

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Disconnected planning

Finance, HR and Operations on separate spreadsheets. Adaptive Planning is rarely used well.

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AI readiness gap

Workday ships AI features fast. Most organisations aren’t ready, and the gap keeps widening.

What clients tell us · our answer

The frustrations we hear,
and what we do about them.

What clients tell us

”Our SI delivered the system. Nobody helped us work out if it was right for us.”

Our answer

We sit on your side of the table, customer-side advisory from Phase Zero through go-live and beyond.

What clients tell us

”We never know who’s on our AMS account. Someone new every few months.”

Our answer

Named onshore consultants assigned to your account. They know your environment. No rotation.

What clients tell us

”We switched on Workday AI and got noise. Nobody said our data wasn’t ready.”

Our answer

AI readiness before activation. We audit data, process design and governance first.

What clients tell us

”We went live two years ago. Nobody has helped us get more from it since.”

Our answer

Phase X optimisation and continuous AMS improvement. Greenfield to maturity, one relationship.

What clients tell us

”We went live on Adaptive Planning, but Finance, HR and Operations still all plan in separate spreadsheets.”

Our answer

One connected model across Finance, HR and Operations, built with your team, not templated.

Signature Solutions

Packaged answers to the problems clients hit most.

Five packaged offers, each built around a problem clients hit again and again. Buy a defined outcome rather than a day rate.

@Activate

AI READINESS

Ideas are everywhere. Activation is rare. We assess readiness across your key decisions and build the foundations before you switch features on.

@Embed

WORKDAY SUCCESS PLAN DELIVERY

Recommendations are everywhere. Delivery is rare. We turn WSP reviews into tested, delivered change in your tenant.

@Plan

WORKFORCE & FINANCIAL PLANNING

Data is everywhere. Proper leverage is rare. We connect HR, Finance and Operations in one Adaptive Planning model built around your business.

@Integrate

INTEGRATIONS AS A SERVICE

Integrations are neglected. Optimisation is rare. We manage your full landscape end to end for a fixed subscription or price.

@Resolve

AMS (APPLICATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE)

Most AMS is a ticket factory; log, triage, escalate, repeat. We do it differently: the same team that knows your tenant owns the issue end to end, so nothing gets stuck in a handover.

Start free

Five diagnostics, ten minutes each, no sign-up: AI Readiness Pulse, WSP Value Check, Integration Health Check, Adaptive Planning Health Check and Support Health Check.

Results

Outcomes clients can measure.

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Reduction in budget cycle time at Jupiter Asset Management, following Adaptive Planning deployment

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Saved every planning cycle, redirected to analysis not admin

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Improvement in forecast accuracy following the connected model build

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Typical onboarding to embedded AMS, full system access and SLAs agreed

“Lucas Kennedy’s experience significantly reduced delivery risk. They anticipated our needs and added to the design before we knew to ask. They led us to a solution that suited us and made the most of the product’s strengths.”

Head of Finance Business Partners, Jupiter Asset Management

Our Latest Updates

Let's talk about your Workday programme.

Pre-decision, mid-implementation, optimising, or preparing for AI. Tell us where you are and we’ll give you a straight answer.

Let's talk about your Workday programme.

Pre-decision, mid-implementation, optimising, or preparing for AI, tell us where you are and we’ll give you a straight answer.

01 · ADVISORY

Independent guidance before and as you commit.

We have no software to resell, so the advice stays honest. We’d rather tell you what you actually need than sell you what we’d like to.

Delivery management

Foundations & KDDs

Configuration & build

Data migration

Integrations

Test

Go-live & hypercare

Change & adoption

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Independent advisor, on your side

We sit on your side of the table, with no software to resell. Fixed price for a defined piece of work, or time and materials while the question is still forming.

Led by a senior team — client-side, partner and ex-Workday

Our leaders have sat on the client side of a Workday programme, worked inside Workday partners, and worked for Workday themselves. That’s judgement built from every seat at the table.

★★★★★

“The advisory team gave us honest, direct guidance. They didn’t oversell the technology.”

CPO

Professional Services

02 · DEPLOYMENT

The person who scoped it is the person who builds it.

Recommendations are everywhere. Delivery is rare. We deploy Workday end to end, working as one team with our Advisory practice, with resources across the UK and EMEA and expertise from every side of the table — customer, partner and Workday itself.

Delivery management

Foundations & KDDs

Configuration & build

Data migration

Test

Go-live & hypercare

Change & adoption

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Deployment partner, not a subcontractor

We lead delivery end to end — design, build, integrate, test and go-live — working as one team with our Advisory practice, so the strategy you signed off on is the delivery you get. Backed by consultants who’ve deployed Workday from every seat: as the customer, the partner, and Workday.

100+ certifications

Across every Workday domain and SKU

Our team spans the UK and EMEA with deep bench strength. Ex-Workday, ex-partner and customer-side experience, certified across HCM, Financials, Payroll, Adaptive Planning and integrations.

★★★★★

“They made calls that cost them time, not us. That’s when we knew they were actually on our side.”

Programme Director

Global Financial Services

03 · OPTIMISATION

Most organisations aren't getting enough from Workday.

Go-live is the start of the return, not the end of the project. Most partners are gone before real value shows up.

Value & ROI

Config review

New modules

Process redesign

Reporting & analytics

Release management

Adoption

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Hands-on until it lands

We do the work with your team, not to one side of it. Fixed price for a defined optimisation, or day rate while the backlog is still forming.

60%

Reduction in budget cycle time

At Jupiter Asset Management, after Adaptive Planning.

★★★★★

“They made sure our finance team genuinely owned it after go-live.”

CFO

Mid-Market Business

04 · AMS

Named people, real continuity, and a tenant that keeps improving.

Support from the people who built it. UK-based with nearshore support from Madrid, and it already knows your configuration.

Onboarding & handover

Named nearshore team

BAU & enhancements

Release management

Reporting support

Integration monitoring

Service reviews

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Your named support team

Named consultants and agreed service levels, monthly. Scale the service up or down as your tenant and your team change.

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Client satisfaction

Measured across engagements.

★★★★★

“When I call, I speak to someone who already knows the answer.”

HRIS Manager

Technology Company

05 · STAFFING

Certified Workday talent, placed fast.

Sometimes you need people rather than a project. Fifteen years of Workday recruitment, and a network we use ourselves.

Permanent

Contract

Fixed-term (FTC)

Staff augmentation

UK

EMEA

North America

Workday certified

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

People into your team

Permanent, contract or FTC placement, or day-rate augmentation. We flex to how you need to hire.

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Placements made

Permanent, contract and FTC across UK, EMEA and North America.

★★★★★

“I worked closely with Lucas Kennedy during the Workday Services Programme at bp and they helped me hugely. They were proactive, they cared and we ended up with 35 of the team via LK recommendations. Truly excellent!”

Sian Beacham, Programme Director

bp

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