Statement of Work engagements were meant to drive outcomes — not create compliance risk, rogue spend, and hidden headcount. Yet many organizations are discovering that what lives under SOW often looks suspiciously like staff augmentation. In this interactive working group, procurement and workforce leaders will break down where misclassification happens, why it persists, and how to build guardrails that protect speed, compliance, and cost control without slowing the business down.

• A practical SOW risk diagnostic framework you can use immediately to identify misclassification exposure across suppliers, categories, and regions.
• Governance guardrails that preserve agility while ensuring clear outcome-based deliverables, proper tenure limits, and role clarity.
• Cross-functional alignment tactics to get Legal, HR, Procurement, and hiring managers operating from one definition of “true SOW.”