The ability to continually adapt and transform is critical to the future success of every business. Our transformation and change capability supports organisations to navigate change, simplifying the path ahead and focusing on tangible actions to deliver long-term, sustainable change.

Managing transformational change in any organisation requires the alignment of people, policy and processes to drive performance in operations or projects. Our transformation and change management specialists work hand in hand with you to shape, design and implement business change. 
 
Whether getting a client fit for growth, solving a performance challenge, enhancing customer experience or realising net zero ambitions, we provide services to help you design and mobilise this business-critical activity.   
 

Strategy through to delivery 

Our networks, cross-sector knowledge and specialist technical expertise enable us to create structure around a change or improvement. Creating an actionable and scalable strategy to respond to your organisation’s objectives and outline a set of change outcomes to lock in the commercial and strategic impact you seek.  
 
By helping you embed transformation, we support you to achieve successful, sustainable change through your people while increasing ownership of the change. 

We have a range of services that support you to achieve diverse outcomes: 

  • Organisational capability and performance: Define, mature and change how client’s structure themselves or how they arrange capabilities to deliver their business outcomes.
  • Transformation planning and delivery: Build structure, focus and governance around forward plans of transformation, creating clarity and confidence in change outputs and route to embedment. 
  • People-led change: Mobilise and embed change within an organisation through targeted people engagement, change planning and team support. 
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Freeports Programme

Alongside our partners PA Consulting, WSP has acted as a key advisor to the UK Government’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the development and set-up of the UK freeports programme. Announced in early 2021, freeports seek to address embedded issues of sub-regional economic underperformance, while boosting the UK’s international trade and providing a platform for industrial innovation, especially in renewable and future energy systems. Our team has provided advice and analysis across a wide range of topics, including industry sector prioritisation, business case, economic impact assessment, implementing tax incentives and measuring tax benefits, as well as planning policy and complex site development. The work has required ongoing interaction with both the national government and individual freeports.
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National Highways net zero and PAS2080

WSP was the lead advisor to National Highways in developing and implementing an ambitious roadmap to net zero by 2050. The plan delivers strong action from the outset and draws on WSP’s experience in environmental science, management consultancy and engineering expertise. We brought together a collaborative project team and worked with our client’s Board and Executive Committee, through to the practitioners who would lead the implementation of the plan. This collaborative approach helped to create a plan which is both ambitious and deliverable and which positions the Strategic Road Network at the heart of delivering net zero. As part of a follow-up to the plan, our transformation experts helped National Highways become the world’s first roads organisation to achieve the PAS2080 global carbon management standard.  

Environmental social governance and net zero transformation

Whether you have a mature programme or you’re at the start of your net zero or ESG journey we can help you decarbonise and unlock the value of ESG to deliver sustainable growth. We take a data-driven and evidence-based approach to ensure you understand the need and adopt the right operation and culture to deliver via leadership, governance and systems. Our technical expertise in carbon management guides this work across carbon quantification, delivery life cycle, procurement and commercial, and aligns with industry governance and accreditations like the PAS2080. 

Transformation and change are part of a growing team of advisory services specialists

WSP is diversifying and investing in advisory services like transformation and change management to respond to the evolving needs of our clients.  We provide consultancy grounded in our deep technical expertise and informed by a culture of collaboration, flexibility and curiosity that delivers an exceptional client experience. Our networks and diversity of expertise, combined with unrivalled local insight and geographic scale, enable us to deliver innovative advice that is actionable and scalable and respond to the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow as well as today. 

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Reducing carbon is not just the right thing to do, it's become an existential driver for anyone in the design, construction or operation of buildings or infrastructure. Organisations require a coordinated effort to close the strategic gap.