Are you ready to make a real difference?

If you’re looking for support with strategy, to grow your own management capabilities, or to outsouce the management expertise needed for a special project, contact us.

Jo works alongside purpose-led leaders to make a meaningful and measurable difference for the clients and communities they serve.

Our services are strategy, management services, and coaching.

Strategy

Whether you're writing your first business plan from scratch or looking for a fresh perspective on your current marketing strategy, we can help.

Our experience and insights gained from over 20 years become a valuable tool for you and your team.

Trust us to be your strategic delivery impact partner.

Coaching

Business coaching for leaders who want to deliver impact for their teams, customers, and communities.

These personalised one-to-one sessions are designed to provide you with more clarity, strategic alignment, and the confidence to put your plan into action.

The process involves deep listening, thought-provoking conversations, and targeted activities designed to align your values and goals with your actions, to build resilience, and to see real results.

Management Services

Delivering true impact requires a sound understanding of the local environment, established networks, and experience in working collaboratively and at scale. It's important to engage the community, develop a common vision and design the project process, outcomes and deliverables to ensure the investment realises the most positive impact possible. As an experienced strategic delivery partner who has worked across education, digital enablement, private sector, government, and not-for-profit sectors and several regional programs our fractional management service packages are a popular choice for clients who want the experience and capacity but prefer to outsource.

Favourite Projects

We’ve led a range of regional programmes dedicated to enhancing educational and social outcomes. A significant part of our work involves providing the leadership, relationships, and clarity needed for cross-sector collaboration.  We are experienced at working both strategically with community groups, educators, iwi, local and national agencies, government, businesses, and charitable trusts, to work together for common goals.

Connected Whānau

A collaboration with the HB Williams Family Trusts and Manaiakalani Education Trust to provide the children of Tairāwhiti with equitable access to the affordances of digital technologies for learning.

Key Facts

This project involved bringing together 16 schools over six years to increase teachers digital capabilities and confidence, enhance digital infrastructure in schools and deliver affordable, robust devices to families across the region.

Bikes In Schools Tairāwhiti

In my role as program manager with Connext Trust, we managed the program design and implementation of the largest-scale roll-out of the Bikes in Schools programme in New Zealand.

Key Facts

This project delivered significant cycling infrastructure (kilometres of bike tracks, bikes, helmets, secure storage and cycle education) to more than 15 schools and kura across the region to encourage and enable more young people to bike more often.

House Of Science Tairāwhiti

A collaboration between the Connext Trust, House of Science New Zealand, and local schools, to foster scientific literacy in young people across Tairāwhiti.

Key Facts

This project involved completing due diligence, designing a sustainable business model, securing seed funding to enable start-up, stakeholder management and oversight of the local operation. The result was the Tairāwhiti branch of the House of Science which provided quality science resources and professional development for teachers, to promote positive engagement with science and offer visible, hands-on learning experiences to spark an interest in science.