At Helios, we’re driven by one clear purpose: to help you achieve real, meaningful results with Workday and VNDLY. Whether it’s optimizing your workforce strategy, streamlining global deployments, or enhancing your operations, our certified experts deliver outcomes tailored to your unique needs.
What Guides Us
We don’t follow generic playbooks. Instead, we’re guided by values that shape every engagement:
Authenticity First
You’ll never get vague promises or empty buzzwords from us. We bring genuine dialogue, transparent collaboration, and practical solutions designed for your reality.
We Keep Our Word
When we commit, we do so completely. We follow through with determination, integrity, and accountability, every single time.
Results, Not Just Effort
We’re outcome-driven. Every solution we craft is designed to deliver measurable results. Because checking boxes isn’t enough for us, or for you.
People at the Heart
Investing in people—yours and ours—is core to our approach. Through mentorship, skill-building, and clear pathways to growth, we help you and your teams thrive.
Innovation That Matters
As certified Workday and VNDLY experts, we constantly push boundaries to create tailored, innovative solutions. Because true innovation solves real problems—it doesn’t just sound good on paper.
Together Means Something Here
We see ourselves as extensions of your team. Your goals are our goals, your challenges are ours to solve—side by side, step by step.
Leadership
Trevor is an experienced leader with significant expertise in leading global projects and programs, establishing and leading program management offices, project initiations, solution design, planning, resourcing, financial control, procurement, contract management and organizational change management. Trevor is known for bringing calm to challenging situations and finding solutions to complex problems.
Trevor Lee
Nick is a pragmatic senior HR technology leader with 25 years of experience designing and implementing complex HR solutions. In his 12+ years of leading Workday HCM implementations, Nick has built global solution architecture expertise in HCM Core, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Advanced Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence Management and Scheduling. A master at business process design, Nick thrives on complex global projects that require real experience and expertise to meet the needs of end users around the world.
Nick Stevens
Charley has 28 years of experience delivering enterprise business and technology solutions, with the past 12 years focused exclusively on Workday. Along the way, Charley has built, motivated, and provided high-level leadership to top-performing teams to deliver complex, innovative solutions for our clients under the strictest deadlines. In addition Charley continues to provide Workday Solution Architecture expertise for our customers, and is passionate about staying at the forefront of emerging Workday technologies in order to help customers expand and optimize their Workday investments.
Charley Opstad
Lori is a global People leader known for developing talent to enable and accelerate business results. While leading high performing People teams across various industries and geographies, Lori has excelled at building strong business partnerships and leading large organizational transformations while enhancing leadership capability and the employee experience. Her value driven and technology enabled approach has resonated with leadership teams as she drives alignment between business objectives and People strategies to maximize impact.
Lori Partain
Tim brings over 30 years of sales experience in HCM, payroll, and finance, with a strong track record of driving strategic growth and ensuring client success. He has led sales teams at both large SaaS organizations and rapidly growing BPO firms, consistently delivering impactful results. Over the past 11 years, Tim has focused his efforts within the Workday ecosystem, identifying opportunities that enhance value for clients. Tim’s expertise will be instrumental in advancing Helios to the next level among Workday partners.
Tim McCuddin
Since joining Helios in 2021, Christy has been instrumental in the growth of Helios' Consulting team. Christy leads the team of consultants and is responsible for the successful delivery of client engagements. She brings over 15 years of software implementation and consulting leadership experience, of which the last 7 have been on SAAS platforms. Christy has a wealth of knowledge in creative problem solving, cultivating high performing teams and identifying project approaches to drive stakeholder value. Prior to Helios, Christy grew a professional services team from the ground up.
Christy Kusilek
With over 15 years of experience in Human Resources, including 8 years in the Workday ecosystem, Stephenie has built a reputation for delivering best in class solutions while fostering the growth and development of others. As a prior HR Technology leader tasked with building teams to deploy and support Workday globally, she knows all too well the challenges and opportunities associated with the Workday talent pipeline. In addition, Stephenie is known for her skills in orchestrating large-scale, cross-functional programs and guiding organizations through transformative periods of change.
Stephenie Wagner
With over 20 years of HR experience, including 8 years with Workday, Carrie provides strategic insights and practical solutions for business challenges. She specializes in all HCM Workday modules, with a passion for HCM Core, Recruiting, Security, Talent, and Compensation. Carrie excels in supporting clients from pre-contract through implementation, post-go-live enhancements, compliance, and building internal Workday teams. Her collaborative approach helps clients optimize their Workday investment by anticipating and mitigating challenges.
Carrie May
Our Board
Leighanne has spent her 25-year career operating at the intersection of people, career development, and technology. She currently serves on the board of directors for Guild Education, Legion Technologies, and Jobcase, in addition to Helios. She is also a senior advisor for Opportunity@Work and contributes as an advisory board member for Landit and League. Previously, Leighanne was Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Workday where she led the organization responsible for developing integrated business strategies.
Leighanne Levensaler
Joseph is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School (HBS) and co-leads the school’s initiative: Managing the Future of Work. He is the principal author of "Dismissed by Degrees: How Degree Inflation is Undermining U.S. Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class" and "Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America’s Middle Skills", both of which explore the value of degrees. Prior to HBS, Joseph founded the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, which was acquired by Deloitte in 2013.
Joseph Fuller
Ryan is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners and the primary author of "A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College" and "College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education". Ryan’s commentary on education and workforce regularly appears in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inside Higher Education, Fortune, HR Dive, and VentureBeat, among others. Ryan also co-founded Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships in the U.S., and University Ventures.
Ryan Craig
Lauren is an Associate at Achieve Partners. Prior to joining Achieve, Lauren worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in their Digital practice focusing on building solutions at the intersection of business and technology. Her work spanned the topics of online learning, future of work, eCommerce acceleration, and digital marketing across education and consumer/retail clients. Lauren is also passionate about mentorship and works with high school students in NYC's public schools through the iMentor program.
Lauren Goldman
