Turn business ambition into a practical workforce capability system - connecting technology to skills, critical roles, workforce planning and investment decisions so leaders can define how work will be delivered, see risk early and act with confidence.
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Cello Consulting offers a blend of big-consultancy expertise with inhouse senior HR leadership experience, a bespoke service working directly with a senior adviser and transformation expert who develops your teams and creates tailored workforce solutions your organisation can own and sustain.
More about Cello ConsultingLeading strategic HR, capability and talent initiatives that drive business value
Flexibly designed to cater to your needs, from light touch diagnostics to transformation delivery
Bespoke modules integrated to create a workforce capability system
For Chief people Officers, Transformation, Strategy and Programme Directors: most teams don't lack data - they lack the ability to make good decisions. These are the questions we hear first, and the ones that Cello exists to answer.
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Flexible, tailored services to support HR and business leaders.
We take time to fully understand you and your workforce capability management challenges, so that transformation outcomes are both bespoke and effective. The diagnostics measure your maturity across workforce capability modules and the extent to which you conduct workforce management as a system. We offer a free high level diagnostic, a whole system deep dive and module specific diagnostics.
See how we work →Using insights from our workforce capability diagnostics, we work with you to define your exact requirements, your maturity ambitions and where your red lines are. This agnostic approach considers internal and external resource, technology, development and data requirements, ensuring the solution is tailored specifically for your organisation.
See how we work →Workforce transformation programme delivery. Workforce transformation plan implementation, working with your internal stakeholders and co-ordinating external technology and data partners. We enable you to be an intelligent customer, orchestrate, lead and assure transformation progression and maximise benefits realisation and your return on investment.
See how we work →We work intimately with HR leaders, EXCO leaders and your People teams through the design and implementation phases, offering bespoke development workshops and guides on Workforce Capability Systems. We also mentor and coach Exec leaders to support visioning, mindset work and workforce transformation delivery success.
See how we work →A fractional strategic workforce advisory service on a retainer for Chief People Officers and their direct reports. This enables instant advice, assurance, solution design and decision support at short notice.
See how we work →Everything Cello does answers one question, 'how can we define and deliver the right capability at the right time, every time, derisking strategy execution and driving performance?'
Our Workforce Capability System comprises of six integrated functional modules that, together, enable insights for effective decision making and workforce strategy design.
A validated capability map and future-back demand logic that drives critically, SWP demand and investment choices.
A proportionate, governed capability architecture (adopt, adapt or build) that enables assessment, SWP and development.
A capability-led planning method that produces timely, costed and owned resourcing strategies and interventions.
Review of business and HR strategies and workforce plans to design and assure current or new workforce strategy for your organisation.
Strategy decode and value-driver exercise with Exec level and capability leaders, to discern the value contribution of roles to strategy.
A cross-functional series of planning and governance events over defined time horizons, enabling integrated business planning and improved governance.
Whether you are building a complete workforce capability system or focussing one module at a time, we blend systems and design thinking with transformation best practice through the DESIGN methodology.
Twelve questions, about 10 minutes. An indicative read on your workforce and capability planning maturity and where to focus first; the start of a conversation, not an audit.
We provide awareness and development workshops and guides, as well as a mentoring and executive coaching service, to support the development of your HR teams and business leaders. This enables workforce capability planning, creates essential insights and enhances decision quality.
Chris Woodward spent nineteen years as a British Army officer before specialist consultancy experiences at KornFerry and Capgemini. Chris was then headhunted to advise the OECD Secretary-General on strategic HR matters and lead strategic workforce planning at Babcock International.
He founded Cello to do one thing well: help organisations make better decisions about their people.
You work directly with an experienced senior advisor with in-house HR leadership, transformation and strategic advisory expertise who earns trust quickly and stays close throughout.
Every solution is shaped around your strategy, workforce and context, not repackaged from a standard consultancy playbook.
Cello turns fragmented workforce data and difficult organisational questions into clear insights, confident decisions and practical priorities.
The focus is on measurable organisational outcomes and work that can be implemented, not impressive presentations that gather dust.
We develop your people, transferring knowledge and building internal capability so the benefits continue long after the engagement ends.
Chris was part of my team that delivered an organisation-wide strategic HR review. Great thinker and team player. He was at the heart of our development of a transformation plan addressing all HR functions. He played a key role in our innovative thinking on cultural change, an agile HR operating model to align strategy with action and fresh approaches to reward and employee engagement.
Start with a conversation. No pitch, just a clear-eyed look at whether your organisation has the capability to deliver its strategy.
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