Workforce Transformation Consulting

We redesign roles and skills when your strategy, technology, or operating model changes, and we plan how people move into the new work. Led by the organizational psychologists of Daniels Consulting Group.
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Definition

What is workforce transformation consulting?

Workforce transformation consulting redesigns an organization's roles and skills when its strategy, technology, or operating model changes. The work answers four questions: which roles change, which skills the new roles require, who can move into them, and how the organization supports people through the transition. BD Emerson delivers this work with our Andersen Consulting colleagues at Daniels Consulting Group, a firm of organizational psychologists and experienced business professionals whose services include talent management, change management, and leadership development. An engagement covers workforce impact analysis, role and skill redesign, talent assessment against future roles, reskilling and workforce transition plans, retention of critical people, and manager enablement. Typical triggers are a new strategy, a move to shared services, a major system implementation, a merger, or the adoption of AI in daily work.

Services

What workforce transformation services are included?

Workforce impact analysis
Role and skill redesign
Talent assessment
Reskilling and transition plans
Critical talent retention
Manager enablement

Workforce impact analysis

We compare the work people do today with the work the future organization requires, role by role. The analysis shows which roles stay the same, which change, which are new, and which end, with headcount and location for each group.

Role and skill redesign

Each changed or new role gets a profile that states its responsibilities, decision rights, required skills, and measures of success. Roles are designed around the future process and reporting structure, so job descriptions match how work will be done.

Talent assessment

Organizational psychologists assess current employees against the future role profiles through structured interviews, assessment tools, and performance evidence. Leaders see who is ready now, who can be ready with development, and where to hire.

Reskilling and transition plans

A plan for each affected group sets the skills to build, the learning method, and the order in which people move. Workforce transition plans cover selection, timing, communication, and support for employees whose roles are ending.

Critical talent retention

We identify the people whose knowledge or relationships the transformation depends on and assess the risk that each will leave. Leaders then act on that list with defined future roles, career conversations, and retention arrangements where they are warranted.

Manager enablement

Managers carry most conversations about role changes, so they need preparation. We give them the facts about each role change, guides for individual conversations, and coaching on questions about pay, career paths, and job security.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Analyze workforce impact

We map current roles against the future strategy, process, and structure, and we size the change for each group. Leaders start with a shared, role-level view of who is affected and how.

02

Redesign roles and skills

We write future role profiles with business leaders and HR, and we define the skills each role requires. The profiles become the standard for assessment, hiring, and development.

03

Assess talent and plan transitions

Employees are assessed against the future roles, and the results feed selection decisions, reskilling plans, and retention actions. Each affected group gets a transition plan with a named owner.

04

Enable managers and track progress

Managers receive briefings, conversation guides, and coaching before announcements. We track role fill, skill attainment, and retention of critical people, and we report them to the executive sponsor.

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Is your workforce ready for the change ahead?

Speak with BD Emerson and Daniels Consulting Group about the roles that will change, the skills you will need, and the people who can move into them.

Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for workforce transformation

Led by organizational psychologists

Daniels Consulting Group's organizational psychologists lead role design and talent assessment. Decisions about who moves into which role rest on structured evidence about skills and potential, gathered the same way for every employee.

Roles tied to the operating model

Role profiles are written from the future process, structure, and technology. Each profile states the decisions the role owns, so the workforce design and the operating model stay consistent.

One plan with the program driving it

Workforce change usually follows a system implementation, an AI program, or a merger. BD Emerson runs those programs, so the workforce plan shares milestones with the work that makes it necessary.

How We Work

How we run workforce transformation

The same sequence runs every workforce engagement, whether the trigger is a new strategy, a new system, or a new operating model. Each stage produces something your HR and business leaders keep and reuse.
Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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Our practitioners hold security, privacy, cloud, and AI governance certifications, and the people who earned them do the work on your engagement.
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