Most HR executives of today see HR transformation as the vehicle to re-align their organizations onto the right business path and deliver services in an efficient, effective, and compliant manner. As people and talent issues are widely recognized as critical to business success, practices such as workforce management, talent retention, and employee engagement have increasingly become a CHRO’s top priorities. HR leaders are at the forefront of embracing change and aligning their functions with the overall business goals.

At the helm of this transformation, a large number of HR managers are seeking help from consulting firms that leverage disruptive technologies such as real-time talent analytics, big data, cloud computing, AI, and more, to streamline HR management functions spanning the complete employee life cycle. These functions include hiring and onboarding, personnel and benefits administration, compensation, payroll, compliance, performance management, succession planning, and career development. By investing in HRM strategies and technologies, companies are realizing new ways of driving business value in employee-facing processes and improving acquisition and retention of key talent while rationalizing fragmented systems that are difficult to maintain.

To help HRs navigate the HR consulting universe, a distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, VCs, CHROs, and analysts including HR Tech Outlook’s editorial board has selected the top HR consulting services companies. The companies featured provide an outlook on how their services help in alleviating the burgeoning HR challenges. We present to you HR Tech Outlook’s “Top 10 HR Consulting Service Providers 2018.”