At Lucas Kennedy we believe business has a responsibility beyond commercial success. Our commitment to people, community and responsible practice runs through everything we do.
At Lucas Kennedy, we believe every child deserves a safe, happy and healthy childhood. Yet many children, young people and families across the UK continue to face significant challenges, including poverty, hardship and uncertainty. We are proud to support the work of Action for Children, a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable children, young people and families build brighter futures.
For more than 150 years, Action for Children has provided practical support, emotional care and vital services to those who need them most. Through a range of programmes and community-based services, the charity works tirelessly to help children stay safe, supported and able to reach their full potential.
Children, young people and families supported each year
Services delivering practical and caring support across the UK
Years of protecting vulnerable children
Supporting vulnerable communities through our work with Action for Children. Promoting diversity and inclusion in the Workday talent ecosystem. Supporting Workday certification for professionals looking to enter the market.
Transparent commercial models. Named consultants. Client-first decision making embedded in how we operate. Certified by Workday and accountable to their partner standards.
The LK team takes on an annual physical challenge to raise funds for Action for Children. Recent challenges have included 10K runs and cycling events.
We attend and sponsor HR technology events across the UK, including Workday Rising and HR Technologies UK, raising awareness and funds alongside our industry presence.
Every donation helps protect vulnerable children and families across the UK. Whether you give once or set up a regular contribution, it makes a real difference.
Get in touch to find out about upcoming fundraising events or to make a donation through our JustGiving page.
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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