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So, you're ready to make an impact?

You also know that real and lasting change takes time – you want to put your energy, your time, and your investment into creating meaningful impact over the long term.

As a strategic delivery partner, we offer professional, strategic and timely leadership, management, and coaching services to support you to lead with confidence and clarity – knowing that your strategy is sound and agreed outcomes will be delivered.

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We work with clients to:

Create strategy

Together, we’ll get to the heart of your values and your drive to make a difference, so we can define the areas where you can create the most impact in the communities you care about.

Identify opportunities

Research and identify opportunities to make a difference in a way that aligns your goals and priorities, with areas of need.

Scope a project

Design and scope your project to ensure you’re delivering measurable outcomes that align with your values and make a meaningful difference.

Connect people

Leverage our networks to identify and bring together the right people across community, iwi, public sector and business in support of a shared vision, so we can elevate the success of your project.

Deliver a special project

We keep the project moving towards key milestones, manage the reporting and ensure we deliver on time and on budget.

Manage stakeholder relationships

We are skilled at fostering collaboration and partnerships, building relational trust, navigating competing perspectives, resolving conflicts, ensuring the right voices are heard and finding a path forward together.

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Some of our work

Impact Matters has led several regional programmes and special projects for our clients.

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 a cluster of 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 scientific resources and professional development for teachers, to promote positive engagement with science and offer r visible, hands-on learning experiences to spark an interest in science.

Our Clients Say

"Working with Joanne was an absolute pleasure...."

“Working with Joanne was an absolute pleasure. Her integrity, enthusiasm and team spirit are also a credit to her. The project flowed effortlessly, which in my opinion reflects Joanne’s ability to develop successful working relationships and achieve pre-determined goals.”

Tina R.

"Jo skillfully managed to balance the need for thoroughness and fairness with the need for speed...."

“Jo skillfully managed to balance the need for thoroughness and fairness with the need for speed. The work resulted in Gisborne being granted an investment of $2.5 million over three years to develop the programme. I attribute this success not just to the quality of the work provided but the trust Jo engendered with a range of stakeholders and the wider community.”

Mike M.

"Jo's affability, demeanor and clarity in her leadership representing the interests of philanthropic funders......"

“Jo has been able to sustain her affability, pleasant demeanor, and clarity in her leadership representing the interests of philanthropic funders, the high-level values and aspirations of the Manaiakalani Education Trust, and the local cluster of 14 schools.”

David L.

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