Top 10 Microsoft Viva Consulting Firms in North America (2026)

The Top 10 Microsoft Viva Consulting Firms in North America for 2026

Microsoft Viva is Microsoft's employee experience platform: Viva Connections (the intranet and communications hub inside Teams), Viva Insights (personal, manager and organizational productivity analytics), Viva Learning (a learning hub that aggregates Microsoft Learn, LinkedIn Learning, third-party providers and internal content), Viva Goals (OKR management), Viva Engage (the community platform that succeeded Yammer), Viva Pulse (lightweight team surveys), Viva Glint (organization-wide engagement surveys) and Viva Amplify (executive and corporate communications). Every module sits on Microsoft 365 — SharePoint Online, Teams, Microsoft Graph and Entra ID — which is why the partner you choose determines whether the program drives measurable engagement or becomes shelfware inside a year.

This list ranks ten Viva consulting firms that North American buyers shortlist, grouped by archetype: a SharePoint-native Microsoft 365 specialist, the global systems integrators, national Microsoft pure-plays, learning and engagement specialists, a Dynamics-led firm and the governance and FastTrack-oriented partners. EPC Group leads the list because Viva Connections, the module most enterprises deploy first, is a SharePoint information-architecture problem before it is anything else, and that is the firm's core practice; it is measured against the same criteria as every other firm, and the firms that fit other scenarios — global multi-region rollouts, learning-content strategy, organizational-psychology-led engagement surveys — are named for them.

Every fact about a competitor below comes from that firm's public statements. We do not publish competitor pricing, headcount, revenue, ratings or review counts.

How the Ten Were Selected

1. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint depth — Viva Connections is a SharePoint home site with a Teams surface; a firm's SharePoint information-architecture record predicts its Viva outcomes.
2. Module coverage — whether the firm delivers the full suite (Connections, Insights, Learning, Goals, Engage, Pulse, Glint, Amplify) or specializes in one or two.
3. Microsoft Solutions Partner designations — Modern Work at minimum; Business Applications and Data & AI where Viva meets Dynamics 365 or analytics.
4. Change management and adoption method — employee experience programs fail on adoption, not configuration; a firm needs a named adoption method, community-management model and executive-enablement track.
5. Privacy and compliance posture — Viva Insights and Glint handle sensitive people data; the firm must know Purview labeling, aggregation thresholds and the regulatory regimes that apply.
6. Regional delivery — North American presence, including Canadian coverage where the buyer needs it.

What Microsoft Viva Consulting Covers

A complete Viva program has six workstreams, and a firm that cannot describe its method for each is selling licenses rather than outcomes:

• Information architecture and the home site. Viva Connections inherits the SharePoint home site, hub structure, global navigation and audience targeting. A designed architecture that mirrors how the organization actually works — business units, regions, roles — is the difference between a dashboard people open every morning and a default page they never see.
• Dashboard and card design. The Connections dashboard is built from adaptive cards — HR self-service, IT tickets, shift schedules, approvals, third-party systems through SPFx and the Adaptive Card Extension framework — targeted by audience so a frontline worker and an executive see different cards.
• Analytics with privacy by design. Viva Insights produces personal insights (private to the individual), manager insights (aggregated, with minimum group sizes) and organizational insights for leaders. The consultant's job is to set the aggregation thresholds, exclusion rules and Purview controls so managers never see what belongs to the individual.
• Learning content strategy. Viva Learning is a hub, not a library; the value comes from what is connected — Microsoft Learn and LinkedIn Learning by default, third-party providers by license, the corporate learning management system by connector, and internal SharePoint content curated into a catalog.
• Goals and community operating models. Viva Goals needs an OKR cadence owned by executives; Viva Engage needs community owners, a posting cadence, moderation and a storyline strategy for leaders. Both are operating models, not settings.
• Listening and communications. Pulse for team-level check-ins, Glint for organization-wide engagement surveys and action planning, Amplify for multi-channel executive communications with analytics — sequenced so leaders act on what employees say.

The Rankings

1. EPC Group

Best for: Enterprises that want Viva deployed as a SharePoint-native Microsoft 365 program — Connections built on a designed information architecture, Insights configured with privacy controls, and the suite governed alongside Teams, SharePoint and Copilot — particularly in healthcare, financial services, government and energy.

HQ: Houston, TX · Founded: 1997 · Archetype: SharePoint-native Microsoft 365 specialist

EPC Group is a Microsoft-first consultancy founded in 1997 and headquartered in Houston, with U.S. offices in Dallas, Chicago, San Antonio, Washington D.C. and Kansas City, delivering across the United States and Canada. It is a Microsoft Solutions Partner holding all six designations — Modern Work, Business Applications, Data & AI, Security, Infrastructure and Digital & App Innovation — and its employee-experience work rests on 6,500+ SharePoint implementations, the information-architecture practice that Viva Connections depends on. The firm has completed 11,000+ enterprise engagements and has served 70+ Fortune 500 organizations. Founder & Chief AI Architect Errin O'Connor is the author of four Microsoft technology books (Microsoft Press; Sams/Pearson), and the firm is a G2 Leader for seven consecutive quarters.

Its Viva practice grew out of the intranet, SharePoint Look Book and Workplace Analytics programs that preceded the suite, and it treats the eight modules as one governed platform: a designed home site and hub architecture before Connections is switched on; Viva Insights aggregation thresholds and Purview sensitivity labels set before manager insights are enabled; Learning content licensing and catalog curation as a workstream; executive enablement before Goals reaches the wider organization; a community-management model for Engage; and Pulse, Glint and Amplify sequenced so leaders act on what employees report. Copilot readiness is part of the same program, because the SharePoint permissions and labels that govern Viva also govern what Copilot can ground on. Delivery is senior-architect-led — the architect who scopes the program leads it, with no offshore hand-off — and engagements are fixed-scope, priced after a scoping call.

Where it wins: Viva Connections on a designed SharePoint architecture rather than a default home site; Insights and Glint deployed with privacy and compliance controls for regulated industries; the suite governed together with Teams, SharePoint, Purview and Copilot; named, redacted primary-source engagement records in the EPC Group Evidence Center.

Trade-offs: U.S. and Canada delivery only, so a global rollout that needs on-the-ground EMEA or APAC teams belongs with Avanade or Sopra Steria; the firm is a Microsoft-platform consultancy rather than an organizational-psychology practice, so a program whose center is survey science and engagement research may pair it with a specialist such as PA Consulting.

Fit: the organization runs Microsoft 365, the intranet and Connections are the first move, and the buyer wants the same architects from information architecture through adoption. See the Viva employee experience service and the Microsoft Viva Insights overview.

2. Avanade

Best for: Global, multi-region Viva rollouts where one consistent Teams, SharePoint and Viva experience must land in dozens of countries, with enterprise change management at scale.

HQ: Seattle, WA · Founded: 2000 · Archetype: Global systems integrator (Microsoft-only)

Avanade is the Accenture–Microsoft joint venture, Microsoft-only by charter, and its Modern Work delivery is strongest at scale — multi-country Microsoft 365 rollouts for multinationals that need one consistent employee experience everywhere, and employee-experience programs built on Viva inside a wider Accenture transformation.

Where it wins: multi-region delivery for global rollouts; Viva and employee-experience programs at scale; the closest alignment to Microsoft product engineering of any firm on this list; enterprise change management.

Trade-offs: offshore-blended delivery with a junior tier below the architects on most engagements; long contracting cycles; over-scaled for a single-region program that wants a named architect end to end.

Fit: a Fortune 500 organization standardizing employee experience across continents, or one already inside the Accenture ecosystem.

3. Quisitive (Catapult Systems)

Best for: Viva Connections built on a strong SharePoint intranet, and industry-specific Viva programs in healthcare, financial services and government, from a national U.S. Microsoft pure-play.

Archetype: National Microsoft pure-play

Catapult Systems brings long-standing SharePoint expertise that translates directly into Viva Connections deployments; Quisitive, which acquired Catapult in 2021, brings industry-specific employee-experience work in healthcare, financial services and government. Together the combined firm covers the intranet-to-Connections path and the regulated-industry configuration that follows it.

Where it wins: SharePoint intranet depth feeding Connections; industry-specific Viva in regulated sectors; national U.S. delivery.

Trade-offs: Viva is one practice among Modern Work, Azure and Business Applications rather than the marquee; buyers should confirm which entity holds the contract.

Fit: a mid-market or upper-mid-market organization whose intranet needs rebuilding before Connections goes live.

4. ProServeIT

Best for: Viva Learning programs — content curation, catalog design and integration with the corporate learning management system — with strong Canadian and cross-border coverage.

HQ: Toronto, ON · Archetype: Learning-and-development specialist

ProServeIT's Viva strength is Viva Learning: sourcing and licensing content, curating the corporate catalog, integrating the existing LMS, and connecting learning to Teams so it happens where people work. Its Toronto base gives Canadian buyers in-country delivery with cross-border North American reach.

Where it wins: Viva Learning content curation and LMS integration; Canadian delivery.

Trade-offs: the learning module is the specialty, so a full-suite program that centers on Connections architecture or Insights privacy design pairs it with a SharePoint-native firm.

Fit: a learning organization that wants Viva Learning to replace scattered portals with one catalog.

5. PA Consulting

Best for: Viva Glint and Pulse programs where organizational psychology, survey design and action planning matter as much as the platform.

Archetype: Engagement and organizational-psychology specialist

PA Consulting combines organizational-psychology expertise with the Microsoft Viva platform — survey design, engagement measurement and the action-planning cadence that turns Glint results into management behavior.

Where it wins: Viva Glint and Pulse with real survey science behind them; leadership action planning.

Trade-offs: the engagement modules are the focus; Connections architecture and Insights configuration are better led by a Microsoft 365 specialist.

Fit: an HR leadership team whose first Viva goal is a credible engagement-measurement program.

6. Sopra Steria

Best for: Multinational Viva governance and cross-border employee-experience programs, particularly for European organizations operating in North America.

Archetype: European multinational integrator

Sopra Steria's Viva work centers on governance across borders — consistent employee-experience standards, data-residency and works-council considerations, and program governance for organizations that span Europe and North America.

Where it wins: cross-border governance; multinational rollouts; European regulatory context.

Trade-offs: North American mid-market buyers see less of Sopra Steria than of the U.S. Microsoft pure-plays; delivery is enterprise-scale.

Fit: a European headquartered enterprise extending its Viva program to North American operations.

7. Hitachi Solutions

Best for: Viva integrated with Dynamics 365 Human Resources and Customer Engagement — combined HR-system and employee-experience deployments.

HQ: Irvine, CA (U.S.), with global delivery · Archetype: Dynamics 365-led Microsoft specialist

Hitachi Solutions' center of gravity is Dynamics 365, and its Viva work follows from it: employee-experience programs that connect Viva to Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Power Platform and Power BI so HR data, learning and engagement live in one estate.

Where it wins: Viva plus Dynamics 365 HR integration; Power Platform and Power BI adjacency; global delivery.

Trade-offs: where Viva is a SharePoint and Teams program with no Dynamics 365 at the core, the Microsoft 365 specialists carry more depth.

Fit: an organization running Dynamics 365 HR that wants Viva as the employee-facing layer.

8. RSM US

Best for: Viva governance and a Center of Excellence — the frameworks that take Viva from a pilot to a sustained program — for mid-to-upper-mid-market organizations that want it alongside accounting and advisory.

HQ: Chicago, IL · Archetype: Accounting-adjacent advisory

RSM US brings governance discipline to Viva: Center-of-Excellence design, ownership models, policy and the measurement framework that lets a program scale beyond the pilot group, delivered by a firm many middle-market buyers already use for audit, tax and Microsoft business applications.

Where it wins: governance frameworks and CoE design; a single firm across advisory and Microsoft platforms in the middle market.

Trade-offs: an accounting firm's cadence; Viva is one of several technology practices.

Fit: a middle-market organization that wants the governance model built before the modules are switched on.

9. Coretek Services

Best for: FastTrack-funded Viva deployments — guided rollouts that use Microsoft program funding and a frequent FastTrack partner's playbooks.

Archetype: Microsoft FastTrack partner

Coretek Services is a frequent Microsoft FastTrack partner, which makes it a fit for organizations whose Viva deployment is funded or guided through Microsoft's programs and follows Microsoft's reference deployment path.

Where it wins: FastTrack-aligned deployments; Microsoft program funding.

Trade-offs: a guided reference deployment fits a standard estate better than a heavily customized regulated one.

Fit: an organization with FastTrack eligibility that wants a standard, well-run rollout.

10. Slalom

Best for: Adoption-led Viva programs — Teams and Viva adoption frameworks, organizational readiness, training and change management delivered by senior, in-market consultants in the metros Slalom serves.

HQ: Seattle, WA · Archetype: Regional consultancy (adoption-led)

Slalom runs city-based "local market" delivery staffed mainly with senior consultants who live where they serve. Its Microsoft 365 practice is strongest where the problem is adoption rather than configuration — Teams adoption frameworks, organizational readiness, training and change management for a workforce that has the licenses and does not use them — and it runs joint go-to-market programs with Microsoft.

Where it wins: change management and adoption programs that make the platform stick; senior in-region consultants with no offshore hand-off.

Trade-offs: lighter technical compliance depth — Purview label taxonomies, Information Barriers and GCC High programs need a specialist alongside; a mid-market center of gravity.

Fit: an organization that already has Viva licensed and needs the workforce to use it.

What Separates the Top Viva Firms

1. Viva Connections and SharePoint information architecture. Connections sits on top of SharePoint Online. Poor deployments use the default home site; good ones build a designed information architecture — hubs, navigation, audiences — that mirrors the organization, then target dashboard cards to roles.
2. Viva Insights privacy and compliance. Insights produces individual and team analytics. Poor deployments expose to managers what should stay personal; good ones set aggregation thresholds, exclusion rules and Purview sensitivity labels first, and document the decisions for the works council or privacy office.
3. Viva Learning content sourcing. Microsoft Learn, LinkedIn Learning, third-party providers and internal content all flow into Learning. The top firms negotiate the content licensing, integrate the LMS and curate a corporate catalog rather than switching on every connector.
4. Viva Goals executive adoption. Goals only works if executives use it. The top firms run executive enablement and set the OKR cadence before the wider rollout.
5. Viva Engage community management. Engage replaces Yammer. Communities need owners, a posting cadence and moderation; without an active community-management model, Engage empties out within two months.

Sequencing a Viva Program

Most enterprises land Viva in three waves. Wave one is Connections on a designed home site with audience-targeted cards, and Engage communities with named owners, because both are visible on day one and carry the communications strategy. Wave two is Insights with privacy controls and Learning with a curated catalog, because both need data and content decisions made deliberately. Wave three is Goals, Pulse, Glint and Amplify, because they change how leaders work and need executive sponsorship that the first two waves earn. Copilot readiness runs alongside all three, since the SharePoint permissions and Purview labels that make Viva safe are the same ones that make Copilot safe.

How to Choose — A Five-Step Framework

1. Decide which modules matter first. Connections and Engage for communications; Insights and Glint for measurement; Learning for skills; Goals for alignment. Different firms lead in each.
2. Audit the SharePoint estate before the first call. A firm that proposes Connections without an information-architecture assessment is proposing a default home site.
3. Ask for the privacy design. How will Insights aggregation thresholds be set, who sees manager insights, which Purview labels apply, and how will Glint anonymity be protected.
4. Ask for the adoption and community-management model. Named owners, cadence, moderation, executive enablement, and the measures of success at 30, 90 and 180 days.
5. Hold a scoping call with the architect, not a salesperson. Then compress the shortlist to three firms and compare who puts the same people on the engagement from design through adoption.

EPC Group's Viva Commercial Model

EPC Group Viva engagements are fixed-scope and priced after a scoping call; there is no rate card. The three engagement types are a Viva Readiness Assessment (about four weeks: SharePoint information-architecture review, module fit, privacy and compliance design, adoption plan), a Viva Implementation (twelve to twenty-four weeks for a full-suite rollout, sequenced in the three waves above), and Viva Managed Services (ongoing community management, content curation, analytics governance and executive reporting under the same architects). Microsoft licensing is quoted at Microsoft list price. Schedule a discovery call at /contact or call (888) 381-9725.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which firms are the top Microsoft Viva consulting partners in North America?

Grouped by archetype: EPC Group for SharePoint-native, Microsoft 365-governed Viva programs; Avanade for global multi-region rollouts; Quisitive with Catapult Systems for intranet-to-Connections and industry-specific Viva; ProServeIT for Viva Learning; PA Consulting for Glint and engagement science; Sopra Steria for multinational governance; Hitachi Solutions for Viva with Dynamics 365 HR; RSM US for governance and a Center of Excellence; Coretek Services for FastTrack-funded deployments; Slalom for adoption-led programs.

What is Microsoft Viva?

Microsoft's employee experience platform, delivered inside Teams and built on Microsoft 365: Viva Connections, Insights, Learning, Goals, Engage, Pulse, Glint and Amplify. The modules are licensed individually or as the Viva suite, and each depends on SharePoint Online, Teams, Microsoft Graph and Entra ID.

Why does SharePoint expertise matter for Viva?

Viva Connections is a SharePoint home site surfaced in Teams, with its hubs, navigation and audience targeting. A firm without a SharePoint information-architecture practice deploys a default home site, and a default home site is the most common reason a Connections rollout goes unused.

How does Viva Insights protect employee privacy?

Personal insights are visible only to the individual. Manager and leader insights are aggregated with minimum group sizes, and administrators can exclude groups, set thresholds and apply Purview controls. The consultant's job is to configure those settings before manager insights are enabled and to document them for the privacy office or works council.

What does Viva Learning connect to?

Microsoft Learn and LinkedIn Learning by default; third-party providers such as Pluralsight and Skillsoft by license; the corporate learning management system through connectors; and internal SharePoint content curated into the catalog. The value is in the curation, not the connectors.

How long does a Viva rollout take?

A readiness assessment runs about four weeks. A full-suite implementation runs twelve to twenty-four weeks when sequenced in waves — Connections and Engage first, Insights and Learning second, Goals, Pulse, Glint and Amplify third — with adoption work continuing after go-live.

Does Viva require the full Microsoft 365 E5 license?

No. Viva Connections is included with Microsoft 365 enterprise plans; other modules are licensed individually or through the Viva suite add-on, and some Insights capabilities are included with Microsoft 365 plans. A consultant should map the modules you need to the licenses you hold before proposing the suite.

How does Viva relate to Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Both ground on the same SharePoint content and Microsoft Graph signals. The permissions review, sensitivity labeling and Restricted SharePoint Search work that makes Viva Connections and Insights safe is the same work that makes Copilot safe, which is why the top firms run Viva and Copilot readiness as one governance program.

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