Why Lucas Kennedy

Small enough to stay close. Senior enough to deliver.

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

The honest comparison

A typical large partner, versus us.

How we do it

Working as part of your team.

Three commitments we hold to on every engagement, whatever the service line. We work for you (not the SI, not Workday) and we’re focused on outcomes, not hours.

Commitment

We own the outcome, not just the work.

Integrity

Honest when it's easy. Honest when it isn't.

Adaptable

We adapt. You don't have to.

Guided by

Client at centre

Depth of expertise

Delivery excellence

Trust & transparency

Speed & responsiveness

BETTER OUTCOMES

The numbers behind the claim

15 years of focused Workday delivery.

15

Years in Workday ecosystem

416

Client engagements across all services

787

Placements: permanent, contract & FTC

35

Countries served: UK, EMEA & NA

5

Five service lines, every Workday domain, the whole lifecycle.

100+

Workday certifications held by our team

80+

Consulting team members, permanent & associates

500-150K

Employee range served, SME to global enterprise

98%

Client satisfaction, measured across engagements

100+

Enterprise clients supported

Client success · Global Asset Management firm

Outcomes clients can measure.

“LK were genuinely part of our team throughout, not external consultants checking in. They understood our business and protected our interests.”

Programme Director

Global Financial Services

An Adaptive Planning deployment for a listed asset manager, connected models replacing spreadsheet cycles, then a move into embedded AMS support.

0 %

Reduction in budget cycle time following Adaptive Planning deployment

0 + hrs
Saved every planning cycle, redirected to analysis, not admin
30- 0 %
Improvement in forecast accuracy after the connected model build
0 weeks
Typical onboarding to embedded AMS, full access and SLAs agreed

Seen enough? Let's talk.

Tell us where you are in your Workday journey 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.

Send us your CV and we’ll be in touch!

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.

787

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

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.

98%

Client satisfaction

Measured across engagements.

★★★★★

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

HRIS Manager

Technology Company

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

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

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

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