Best fit
Organisations facing capability risk, role redesign, workforce transformation, or planning processes that are too static for the environment they're operating in.
Future of Work Activator | Consulting
Workforce Planning Consulting
Advisory work for leaders who need workforce decisions grounded in strategy, not just headcount.
Some workforce issues need more than a workshop. They need a partner who can help frame the problem, interrogate the evidence, and keep the strategic logic intact while decisions are made.
This consulting work sits inside Future of Work Activator, the practice formerly known as Kienco. It's designed for organisations that need strategic workforce planning to become concrete, credible, and actionable.
Typical engagements
Strategy facilitation, planning design, executive alignment, environment scanning, scenario testing, and targeted advisory support around difficult workforce decisions.
What you leave with
Sharper workforce choices, a clearer planning method, stronger alignment across leaders, and practical next steps rather than abstract recommendations.
Where consulting helps
The strongest use case is when the workforce problem is strategic, cross-functional, or politically awkward.
Some teams already know they need a workforce plan but can't agree on the assumptions. Others know the operating model is changing but haven't translated that into capability, role, or supply implications.
- Resetting a stalled workforce planning process
- Designing a workforce-planning approach that fits the organisation
- Facilitating executive trade-offs around future capability
- Working through AI, automation, and operating-model implications
Engagement shapes
The work can be designed around one decision, one program, or an ongoing advisory relationship.
Some engagements are tight and focused: a planning sprint, an executive offsite, a strategy workshop, or a short diagnostic. Others are longer-term and support a broader transformation program.
- Targeted advisory on one high-stakes workforce question
- Facilitated planning and strategy sessions
- Diagnostic and redesign of workforce planning practices
- Ongoing strategic advisory for future-of-work and capability questions
Supporting capabilities
Environment scanning and workforce analytics strengthen the decisions underneath the plan.
Where needed, the consulting work can bring in deeper scanning, signal interpretation, data framing, and practical insight generation so the organisation isn't making workforce bets in a vacuum.
Ways to work on this
Choose the right starting point.
Develop internal capability first
If the main need is shared method and language across leaders, the masterclass can be the better first step.
See the masterclass ->Use a keynote to start the conversation
For some organisations the first move is to align leaders through a keynote or workshop before deeper consulting begins.
See speaking ->If the workforce challenge is messy, strategic, or genuinely uncertain, that's the point.
Bring the problem as it is. The work starts by getting clearer on what decision needs to be made and what evidence should shape it.