Workplace Futures Group
From Shared Spark to Strategic Strength
Workplace Futures Group (WFG) is an umbrella organisation behind some of the UK’s leading workplace providers.
Through its four specialist companies WFG provides a full spectrum of workplace solutions.
With long-term relationships at its core, WFG supports some of the UK’s most successful businesses.
It takes a values-led, innovation-first approach: As a certified B Corp, it prioritises quality, impact, and integrity in every project – and looks for partners who do the same.
WFG’s mission is simple:
“To help clients – be they occupiers or providers – achieve and maintain competitive advantage through the workplaces they use, rent, or sell.”
Modus leads on high-end office fit-outs and design
Ambit handles complex refurbishments and technical builds
Two focuses on smaller, agile fit-outs with a people-first approach
Platfform delivers tailored, sustainable furniture packages that bring each space to life
Each company operates with its own leadership and delivery structure – but WFG brings them together under a central R&D and innovation framework.
Havio’s involvement supports the group as a whole, as well as individual businesses and internal teams.
From Spark to Strategy
Like many great partnerships, this one began by chance.
A mutual contact made the introduction – someone from the world of R&D who knew both teams and thought we might get along. They were right.
WFG’s COO Tim White and Havio’s MD Jack Rumbol quickly discovered a shared mindset – both led by values as much as business goals.
They hit it off straight away. From the realities of managing risk on complex fit-outs to the subtleties of shaping culture across multiple businesses – they were speaking the same language.
They realised that WFG and Havio were a natural fit. The timing was right. The values aligned. Was there an opportunity to work together?
And like most of our engagements, this one didn’t start with a fixed brief or an off-the-shelf service.
Jack brings a natural instinct for listening – really listening – and intuitively spotting mutual opportunities. He often ends up proposing a role that wasn’t on the table, but makes perfect sense once it’s said out loud.
With WFG, that meant exploring a way to be a strategic ally – offering sharp, experienced Health & Safety thinking as a way to strengthen systems, empower people, and support long-term growth.
A natural fit
Great relationships start with a click.
And it quickly became clear that Jack and Tim’s organisations, goals and outlooks were just as aligned.
Jack Rumbol has been leading Havio for some time now, and isn’t resting on any laurels.
He’s continually shaping a role that’s uniquely his – part strategist, part listener, part problem solver. The kind of role that doesn’t always exist until someone like him steps into it.
You can’t always use a checkbox list to assess risks or spot problems.
Sometimes, you just have to feel in your gut when something’s not right, investigate, and peel back the layers to reveal it. You need the ability to see what others don’t.
That’s something Jack’s got in spades. He’s intuitive. Observant. He listens more than he talks (and we have to say, he does talk a lot too!)
He can walk onto a site or into a meeting and spot the thing no one’s picked up on yet. The gap. The blind spot. The tension or dynamic that’s dragging things down.
That’s why, amongst other things, he’s Havio’s H&S Diagnostic expert. He can probe deep, zoom out, take it all in, and then quietly point to exactly where the shifts need to happen.
And that’s really what sets Havio apart – Jack leading a team that thinks, listens, and works with people.
They’re on a mission to change the way Health & Safety is seen – not as a burden, but as a force that can drive real performance, with people as the solution.
Tim White is the kind of leader who doesn’t need the spotlight – but whose influence is everywhere.
With over 30 years in the construction industry, he’s seen every type of challenge you can throw at a business: cultural, operational, and environmental. And he’s met them all with calm clarity.
He started in design, moved into project management, and quickly rose through the ranks at Modus before stepping into his current role as COO of Workplace Futures Group.
But Tim’s not your typical group exec. He’s still hands-on with clients, still tuned in to the detail, and still deeply involved in the work.
You won’t find him micromanaging or heavy-handed with the rulebook.
You’ll find him quietly pushing standards higher across quality, compliance, and culture. He’s a systems thinker with a long view, but he never loses sight of the human side of leadership.
Tim recently hosted a “Breakfast Briefing” at Footprint+ alongside Modus and WFG’s Juliet Price, discussing how ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is shaping asset performance and sustainability metrics in design and delivery.
His approach is thoughtful, principled, and blisteringly effective.
Havio’s Role
Our engagement began with a light-touch advisory remit: strategic oversight and input at a senior level, delivered through a flexible retainer.
We provide 3 days per month Retained H&S Support to support the H&S Manager across all business units, this could be undertaking site reviews, attending monthly H&S Meetings, updating documentation, helping implement a new process etc.
Importantly, we don’t lead on inspections. Those are still delivered through trusted freelancers. Our role is strategic, integrated, and scalable – designed to strengthen what’s already in place, not replace it.
This is an exemplar of the kind of relationship Havio does best. We’re never here to impose, take over or replace. We’re here to integrate, advise, and strengthen. Our clients are long term because they want to work with us, not because we’ve tied them to us.
For a large group like WFG – operating across multiple businesses, sites, and scopes- Health & Safety can’t live in a silo. It has to be embedded, agile, and connected to commercial outcomes, and that’s what we bring.
Looking Ahead
Jack knew from his first conversation with Tim that WFG was Havio’s kind of client: committed to better workplaces, full of ambition, and serious about doing things the right way.
WFG had their day-to-day compliance needs already covered. They were ready for high level strategic H&S support – insights delivered to be practical, credible and actionable.
This partnership is still young. There’s space for it to grow – into more embedded work, closer project involvement, and shared learning across the group.
Because when the fit is right – when values, ambition, and mutual respect align – good things can follow.
We’re honoured to have the opportunity to support WFG’s safety ambitions today...
…and help them shape the kind of growth they’re planning for tomorrow.
