Welcome

Via Lucis is a specialist consultancy that helps organisations understand and optimise how they attract, deploy and govern talent across both permanent and contingent workforces.

Collectively we bring over 75 years of experience across Talent Acquisition, HR, workforce strategy and contingent workforce management, with hands on work for, with and alongside more than 300 organisations.

Through our Workforce Clarity Diagnostic and follow-on advisory work, we reduce inefficiencies, mitigate compliance and people risk, and build Workforce, Talent Acquisition and HR capability that scales with your business.

In today’s dynamic business landscape, success hinges on your most valuable asset: your people – whether they are your employees, off-payroll resources or supply chain.

Staying ahead of your competitors in the talent space is hard if you don’t have the right strategy and people in place and getting it wrong can have a significant impact on your company’s performance.

At Via Lucis Consulting, we help all types of organisations to make the right staffing decisions while saving money, increasing efficiency and avoiding the pitfalls at a local, regional or global scale.

We work flexibly with our clients to suit your needs – there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach from us – and will provide the service that delivers the best possible impact for your organisation.

Some of the problems we help you solve

Some examples of the types of challenges we can support you with are below.

This is not a comprehensive list of our services. If you have any uncertainty around your existing Talent Acquisition/Management approach, management of non-permanent workers, third-party talent providers or systems, then we can support you in evaluating what you have and what you really need.

• No single view of your workforce model
  • Decisions about permanent staff, contractors and partners sit in silos across HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Technology and Delivery, so no one owns the full picture.
• Rising external spend with unclear value
  • Contractor, interim and consultancy costs are growing, but it is hard to show where that spend is buying real value and where it is simply compensating for gaps in planning, process or capability.
• Slow or inconsistent hiring and workforce planning
  • Hiring feels hard and slow, workforce plans are thin or absent, and it is not clear whether the constraint sits with managers, process, channels, systems or workforce design.
• People and compliance risks that are hard to quantify
  • Off payroll exposure, screening, policy gaps and inconsistent people practices create financial, legal and reputational risk that is difficult to explain clearly to boards and investors.
• HR and TA working hard on symptoms, not causes
  • HR and Talent teams are stretched dealing with issues in performance, behaviour, retention and engagement that are often rooted in how work, roles and capacity have been designed.
• Third-Party Suppliers
  • If you have an existing RPO / MSP / Neutral Vendor and want to make sure that you’re getting value for money. Ensuring your Screening providers are doing what they say they’re doing. Deciding if an internal or outsourced model is right for you.

The Workforce Clarity Diagnostic is our starting point for addressing these issues in a focused, time efficient way.

Why Clients Choose Us

• Impartial & Independent – We have no ties to providers, so our advice is always objective.
• Diagnostic-Led – Every engagement begins with a tailored assessment to identify root causes and prioritise interventions.
• Outcome-Focused – We align our work to measurable business results, not deliverables for their own sake.
• Experienced pattern spotters, not theorists – Between us we have worked with more than 300 organisations across sectors and ownership models. We recognise recurring workforce patterns quickly and can distinguish between what is normal, what is risky and where you genuinely stand out.
• Board level workforce insight – We are used to working with CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs and investment committees on people, cost and risk, converting complex workforce issues into decisions and trade-offs that leadership teams can act on.