More than 100 enterprise clients across 35 countries, from 1,000 to 150,000 employees.
“Lucas Kennedy has been an invaluable partner, providing expert staffing, advisory and consulting for our Workday programmes. Their support was key in integrating twelve acquired businesses onto our platform and driving a global organisational restructure. They also played a pivotal role in implementing new SKUs like Help, Peakon and Talent Optimization. Their expertise in Workday’s AI capabilities, such as Skills Cloud, has been instrumental in aligning talent strategies. Lucas Kennedy also helped build our award-winning HRIS team, honoured with the 2023 Workday Rockstar Award.”
“At the time one of the largest big-bang deployments of Workday globally, across 70 markets. It also included setting up a new HR services organisation as part of a broader operating model modernisation. At peak Lucas Kennedy placed 35 consultants into my team. They were proactive, well networked, and both flexible and competitive on commercials. Their approach of providing proven, high-calibre Workday individuals has led me to repeatedly work with them. They act with integrity and pace, which is exactly what you need when delivering complex transformation programmes.”
“We partner with Lucas Kennedy for both Workday staffing solutions and as an implementation partner on several key Workday initiatives. Their consultants have supported and in some areas led, critical initiatives and have consistently operated as a seamless extension of the HR Tech team.
The Lucas Kennedy team continuously demonstrate a professional, delivery-focused approach and have a very strong understanding of Workday methodologies whilst understanding and accommodating our expectations.
Overall, we have found them to be critical to delivering our roadmap and are always dependable and easy to work with across complex Workday programmes.”
Roles played: staffing partner and delivery partner
Critical initiatives supported — and in key areas, led
Operating as a seamless extension of the HR Tech team
Engaged across multiple Workday programmes, ongoing
“Working with Lucas Kennedy has been a genuinely collaborative and positive experience. They truly understand our business, our goals, and the pace at which we’re growing.
Their communication is excellent, and from a staffing perspective, they know the talent landscape incredibly well, which has helped us find the right people at the right time.
On the consultancy side, the support has been equally strong. Their consultants have seen many of the challenges we’re facing before and have guided us through them with confidence and clarity.
We’ve had a really strong partnership to date, and I’m looking forward to continuing it.”
Communication rated excellent throughout the engagement
Talent-landscape expertise: the right people, at the right time
Consultants bring hands-on experience through familiar challenges
A strong partnership to date, with more to come
“Lucas Kennedy’s AMS support is effectively integrated into our support model as the final level. This provides strong technical expertise in Workday and engaging with the business when required to ensure end-to-end resolution.
The AMS support team demonstrates a high level of seniority and expertise, resulting in reliable, high-quality delivery. Their commitment is reflected in the consistent on-time delivery of planned activities and alignment with agreed objectives.
Additionally, they actively upskill our internal team through knowledge sharing and sometimes shadowing, strengthening internal capabilities over time.
Embedding these resources in our model brings flexibility, accelerates response times, and reinforces overall service credibility, contributing to a high-performance support structure.”
AMS support embedded as the final level of our support model
Consistent on-time delivery, aligned with agreed objectives
Internal team upskilled through knowledge sharing and shadowing
Embedded resources accelerate response times and reinforce credibility
Start with a free diagnostic, or a straight conversation about where your programme stands.
Pre-decision, mid-implementation, optimising, or preparing for AI, tell us where you are and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Sometimes you need people rather than a project. Fifteen years of Workday recruitment, and a network we use ourselves.
Permanent, contract or FTC placement, or day-rate augmentation. We flex to how you need to hire.
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!”
bp
Support from the people who built it. UK-based with nearshore support from Madrid, and it already knows your configuration.
Named consultants and agreed service levels, monthly. Scale the service up or down as your tenant and your team change.
Measured across engagements.
“When I call, I speak to someone who already knows the answer.”
Technology Company
Go-live is the start of the return, not the end of the project. Most partners are gone before real value shows up.
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.
At Jupiter Asset Management, after Adaptive Planning.
“They made sure our finance team genuinely owned it after go-live.”
Mid-Market Business
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.
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.
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.”
Global Financial Services
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.
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.
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.”
Professional Services
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