Transformation. Accelerated.
THE GAGE METHOD™
Workday Doesn't Fail.
Readiness Does.
Most Workday implementations stall not from software limitations, but from organizational unpreparedness. The GAGE Method™ bridges the critical divide across Ground, Align, Guide, and Embed - turning complex enterprise rollouts into predictable, high-adoption transformations.
3-minute diagnostic : Instant readiness score : Zero obligation
FOUR Stages of The GAGE Method™
Engineered specifically for enterprise Workday stakeholders navigating pre-deployment friction and stalled go-lives.
The GAGE Method is the four stage approach BryantGage uses to get an organization ready for Workday. Find where the organization breaks. Get every leader telling the same story. Put the right message in front of the right audience. Make adoption hold after go-live.
HOW THE WORK GETS DONE
You Share What
You Already Have
We've built custom technology that combines 25+ years of Workday practice with your program materials to produce finished, on-brand deliverables. A BryantGage practitioner reviews every one of them prior to your approval.
No starting from scratch. Our hybrid engine fuses purpose-built automation with senior Workday practitioner expertise to turn fragmented inputs into executive-ready assets.
STEP 01
Share Materials
Upload existing discovery notes, legacy process maps, or raw configuration exports. We meet your team exactly where you are.
Branding, business process definitions, requirement scopes, design session notes and recorded workstream meetings.
STEP 02
Tech Applies Practice
Proprietary toolsets synthesize your inputs against proven GAGE architecture, standardizing structure and mapping gaps in hours.
Your materials are combined with 25 years of Workday implementation experience, best practices and expected outcomes.
STEP 03
Practitioner Reviews
Senior transformation strategists stress-test every recommendation, validating business context and executive feasibility.
Every deliverable is checked by a consultant against your source documents before it reaches you. No invented facts.
STEP 04
Finished Work
Receive board-grade roadmaps, architecture blueprints, and decision models delivered in days, not consulting quarters.
On-brand documents in days, ready to send, publish or take into a steering committee.
EXECUTIVE ALIGNMENT - WHO IT SERVES
Two Leaders Carry A
Workday Go-Live
The HR leader owns whether people can work on day one. The systems leader owns whether the design holds. The method answers to both.
The GAGE Method unites the two stakeholders accountable for total ROI.
FOR THE CHRO & HR LEADERSHIP
Adoption Velocity & Human Storytelling
Ensure your workforce embraces new Workday modules on Day 1 without productivity shock. We replace generic change kits with persona-tailored adoption engines and eExecutive Sentiment Narratives that can be used to define the architecture of your entire program.
- Role-based sentiment tracking across all business units
- Executive communication storylines and stakeholder decks
- Contextual self-service enablement reducing ticket fatigue
- Cultural readiness metrics tied to operational KPIs
Outcome Focus: Zero adoption churn, high Day-1 digital engagement, and unified board-level reporting.
FOR THE CHRO & HR LEADERSHIP
Your team does not become the bottleneck
Gaps arrive as design decisions, not as go-live surprises on HR's desk.
Managers can answer their teams' questions on day one.
One story across every site, not nineteen versions of it.
Adoption numbers you can take to the CEO.
A template library and brand kit your team keeps after we go.
Employee, manager, HR and Finance communications are written separately, in your organization's voice and terminology.
FOR THE CIO & IT LEADERSHIP
The design decisions are documented and traceable
A business process gap register comparing current state to Workday out of the box.
Requirement traceability and a RACI for every decision.
UAT support and a design decision log.
Change impact coded by audience and location.
Built on AWS to meet HIPAA and security requirements, so it passes IT security and procurement review.
Dr. Kory Epps is Workday certified in HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Learning and Absence. The gap analysis is run by someone who configures the system.
FOR THE CIO & IT LEADERSHIP
Traceability, Security & Zero Config-Drift
Protect your integration architecture with auditable, reproducible governance. We establish clear data validation gates, automated security role mapping, and zero-defect deployment pipelines.
- Complete configuration traceability from sandbox to prod
- Automated security group audits & segregation of duties
- Real-time data integrity & tenant reconciliation validation
- Standardized cutover protocols guaranteeing zero data loss
Outcome Focus: Zero adoption churn, high Day-1 digital engagement, and unified board-level reporting.
EXECUTIVE ALIGNMENT - WHO IT SERVES
Two Leaders Carry A
Workday Go-Live
The HR leader owns whether people can work on day one. The systems leader owns whether the design holds. The method answers to both.
The GAGE Method unites the two stakeholders accountable for total ROI.
FOR THE CHRO & HR LEADERSHIP
Adoption Velocity & Human Storytelling
Ensure your workforce embraces new Workday modules on Day 1 without productivity shock. We replace generic change kits with persona-tailored adoption engines and eExecutive Sentiment Narratives that can be used to define the architecture of your entire program.
- Role-based sentiment tracking across all business units
- Executive communication storylines and stakeholder decks
- Contextual self-service enablement reducing ticket fatigue
- Cultural readiness metrics tied to operational KPIs
Outcome Focus: Zero adoption churn, high Day-1 digital engagement, and unified board-level reporting.
FOR THE CHRO & HR LEADERSHIP
Your team does not become the bottleneck
Gaps arrive as design decisions, not as go-live surprises on HR's desk.
Managers can answer their teams' questions on day one.
One story across every site, not nineteen versions of it.
Adoption numbers you can take to the CEO.
A template library and brand kit your team keeps after we go.
Employee, manager, HR and Finance communications are written separately, in your organization's voice and terminology.
FOR THE CIO & IT LEADERSHIP
The design decisions are documented and traceable
A business process gap register comparing current state to Workday out of the box.
Requirement traceability and a RACI for every decision.
UAT support and a design decision log.
Change impact coded by audience and location.
Built on AWS to meet HIPAA and security requirements, so it passes IT security and procurement review.
Dr. Kory Epps is Workday certified in HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Learning and Absence. The gap analysis is run by someone who configures the system.
FOR THE CIO & IT LEADERSHIP
Traceability, Security & Zero Config-Drift
Protect your integration architecture with auditable, reproducible governance. We establish clear data validation gates, automated security role mapping, and zero-defect deployment pipelines.
- Complete configuration traceability from sandbox to prod
- Automated security group audits & segregation of duties
- Real-time data integrity & tenant reconciliation validation
- Standardized cutover protocols guaranteeing zero data loss
Outcome Focus: Zero adoption churn, high Day-1 digital engagement, and unified board-level reporting.
METHODOLOGY ARCHITECTURE
Four Stages, From
Design to Hypercare
Each stage has one job and a set of documents that prove it is done.
The GAGE framework eliminates implementation blindspots by aligning organizational readiness with rigorous Workday technical deployment across four orchestrated phases.
Ground: Find where your organization breaks, before Workday finds it for you
Current state meets Workday out of the box, process by process, while there is still time to decide what changes.
Align: Get every leader telling the same story, in your organization's voice
Sponsors, site leaders and champions work from one narrative and one approved set of terms.
Guide: Put the right message in front of the right audience, at the right moment
Every audience gets what it needs to act, on the date it needs it, in the format it will read.
Embed: Make adoption stick, and keep the change asset after we go
Cutover, hypercare and the handoff are planned as part of the program, not after it.
ENTERPRISE WORKDAY SELF-ASSESSMENT
Twenty Questions About
Your Program - Will delete Maintaining as original for now
Evaluate your transformation across the four critical pillars of the GAGE framework. Benchmark your enterprise readiness in real time before scheduling your executive readout.
Five questions for each stage. Answer for the program you are running today. Your score stays in your browser until you choose to send it.
Stage 1: Ground & Baseline Readiness
Stage 1 of 4 (5 Questions)Complete Your Assessment
Final StepReceive a detailed breakdown of your Workday program readiness across all 4 pillars, plus benchmark insights from enterprise peer deployments.
Assessment Dispatched to Rita
Your 20-point GAGE scorecard is on its way to your inbox. Rita Bryant will review your score profile and follow up with tailored guidance within one business day.
ENTERPRISE WORKDAY SELF-ASSESSMENT
Twenty Questions About
Your Program - Under Revision
Evaluate your transformation across the four critical pillars of the GAGE framework. Benchmark your enterprise readiness in real time before scheduling your executive readout.
Five questions for each stage. Answer for the program you are running today. Your score stays in your browser until you choose to send it.
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ENTERPRISE WORKDAY SELF-ASSESSMENT
Twenty Questions About
Your Program
Evaluate your transformation across the four critical pillars of the GAGE framework. Benchmark your enterprise readiness in real time before scheduling your executive readout.
Five questions for each stage. Answer for the program you are running today. Your score stays in your browser until you choose to send it.
BryantGage Change
Readiness Diagnostic
Ground. Align. Guide. Embed.
Twenty questions about the people side of your transformation.
Your score stays in your browser until you choose to send it.
Ground — Design
Establish sponsorship, understand the impact, and give the change clear ownership.
Align — Build and test
Coordinate communications, learning, testing, and readiness across the program.
Guide — Deploy
Prepare managers and employees to navigate the change with confidence.
Embed — Hypercare and handoff
Transfer ownership, improve support materials, and measure adoption after launch.
ENGAGEMENTs
Three Ways To Use
The GAGE Method
Flexible engagement models configured for enterprise scale, immediate tactical relief, or full lifecycle transformation leadership.
Every engagement is scoped to your program. Fees are quoted after a scoping call.
RAPID ASSETS
Single Deliverables
Pick the documents you need and keep your current team in place.
Targeted execution for specific program gaps. Get polished, battle-tested assets delivered without requiring a long-term advisory commitment.
Gap register for one pillar
A communications set for one wave
Job aids for a group of tasks
Sponsor narrative and talking points
MOST POPULAR
Monthly Support
A set number of hours each month across all four stages, with a standing weekly working session.
Continuous fractional advisory and GAGE sprint guidance to steer internal champions through active Workday deployment cycles.
Rolling comms calendar
Steering committee reporting
Readiness risk register upkeep
Deliverables on request inside the hours
FULL TRANSFORMATION
Full Program
The whole method at a fixed fee, from design sessions through hypercare and handoff.
End-to-end change management leadership embedding the complete 4-stage GAGE Method directly into your enterprise PMO architecture.
All four stages
Named consultant on your program
Full deliverable library at close
Template library and brand kit handoff
The method is published in full. The prompts, templates and deliverable recipes behind it stay with BryantGage.
PROVEN IN PRODUCTION
Built and run on a live Workday implementation at a national pediatric healthcare system.
Client name available on request.
BryantGage was co-founded by Rita Williams and Dr. Kory Epps. Client name available on request.
ENGAGEMENTs
Three Ways To Use
The Method
Flexible engagement models configured for enterprise scale, immediate tactical relief, or full lifecycle transformation leadership.
Every engagement is scoped to your program. Fees are quoted after a scoping call.
RAPID ASSETS
Single Deliverables
Pick the documents you need and keep your current team in place.
Targeted execution for specific program gaps. Get polished, battle-tested assets delivered without requiring a long-term advisory commitment.
- Bespoke Change Readiness Scorecards
- Executive Steering Committee Decks
- Role-Based Impact & Training Matrices
- Go-Live Cutover Communication Kits
MOST POPULAR
Monthly Support
Continuous fractional advisory and GAGE sprint guidance to steer internal champions through active Workday deployment cycles.
- Dedicated Senior GAGE Method Strategist
- Bi-Weekly Readiness Pulse Checks
- Continuous Stakeholder Resistance Triage
- Ongoing Asset Production & Review Cycles
FULL TRANSFORMATION
Full Program
End-to-end change management leadership embedding the complete 4-stage GAGE Method directly into your enterprise PMO architecture.
- Full G-A-G-E 4-Stage Governance Architecture
- Executive Alignment & IT/HR Orchestration
- Enterprise Change Champion Network Setup
- Post-Launch Value Realization Metrics
EXECUTIVE DISCOVERY SESSION
Thirty Minutes And
One Document
Send one document from your program, a business process definition, a requirements list or a set of meeting minutes. We will show you what the method produces from it. If that works, I would love a slot on your calendar.
Direct line for urgent transformations:
Rita Williams
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant | Workday Transformation & Change
EXECUTIVE DISCOVERY SESSION
Thirty Minutes And
One Document
Provide one active project artifact, statement of work, or deployment roadmap. In a focused 30-minute working session, we will run it through the GAGE Method engine to pinpoint structural risk exposures and provide immediate, actionable remediation steps.
Direct line for urgent transformations: Call 678.471.4138
Rita Williams
Co-Founder & Principal Consultant | Workday Transformation & Change
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