Bringing clarity to workforce complexity.
Helping organisations design practical governance, operating models and workforce capabilities that connect HR, Procurement, Finance, Legal and Operations around better workforce decisions.
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Strategy
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Governance
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Compliance
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Operations
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Supply
Setting the direction for your external workforce.
Your workforce strategy should define why your organisation uses external workers, in what situations, and under what terms. It is shaped by your business goals and the regulatory and market pressures influencing your sector.
Bringing structure and accountability to your external workforce.
Governance defines how decisions about your workforce are made, by whom, and on what basis. This helps to ensure consistent oversight, clear ownership, and the insight needed to manage it effectively across the business.
Protecting your organisation from external workforce risk.
Compliance defines how your organisation meets its legal, regulatory and contractual obligations when engaging external workers, covering everything from worker classification to right-to-work checks. It reduces exposure to fines, reputational damage and operational disruption.
Managing your external workforce from engagement to exit.
Operations defines how your organisation attracts, engages, manages and offboards external workers. The end-to-end processes that determine how well your external workforce functions in practice.
Accessing the external support your business needs.
Supply defines how your organisation sources external workers, through the channels, markets and supplier relationships available to you. It depends on the skills you need, the speed you need them, and how well your supply chain is set up to deliver both.
Not sure where to start?
Most organisations know they have workforce challenges. Fewer know where those challenges really originate.
Concerto® helps you assess the visibility, governance, capability and decision-making foundations that support your workforce ecosystem.
Choose the capability areas that matter most to you and we’ll show you where you sit today, what good looks like and where different stakeholders see the organisation differently.
Because improving workforce outcomes starts with understanding where you are now.
Assessments start from £800 and include a facilitated results review and tailored report. If you choose to work with us, we’ll credit the cost of the assessment against a future engagement.
Leave your details and a Concerto® consultant will be in touch.
The RedWizard Mission
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“We exist to help organisations bring clarity to workforce complexity, turning fragmented decisions into coordinated ecosystems that improve performance, reduce risk and build capability.”
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder & Director, RedWizard Consulting
Inspiring, client stories:
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External workforce visibility is more achievable than you think
Three functions sat around the same table for five months, all with concerns about the external workforce, none of them able to agree on where to start. This is the story of what was actually getting in the way — and what it took to get things moving.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder & Workforce Governance Advisor
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Your extended workforce is only as good as its governance
For three years, competing suppliers collaborated openly inside a carefully built COE. Then a single procurement decision undid almost all of it. Here's what we built, what broke it, and what it means for your programme.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder & Workforce Governance Advisor
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Before Governance Comes Clarity
Most organisations don't struggle because they lack governance. They struggle because they haven't agreed what they're trying to govern. A simple analogy explains why clarity comes before governance and why foundations matter more than frameworks.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder & Workforce Governance Advisor
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Why finance leaders don’t own the number they sign off
There's a number on your P&L that you almost certainly sign off without being able to tell me what's inside it.
Laura Handley
Compliance & Capability Advisor
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External workforce visibility is more achievable than you think
Three functions sat around the same table for five months, all with concerns about the external workforce, none of them able to agree on where to start. This is the story of what was actually getting in the way — and what it took to get things moving.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder & Workforce Governance Advisor
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