Work with Me
I work with clients adaptively — each engagement designed to create purposeful, lasting change. The work always starts with understanding you or your organisation’s problem first. And the solution always ends, with a change in people.
Fractional AI & Workforce Transformation
3–12 month engagements · Corporates & Scale-ups · Remote-first with in-market availability
Most organisations know they need to change. Few know how to make it succeed with their people. I go inside — embedded, not as an advisor — and build the AI-adapted operating model end to end. Starting with people first. It includes redesigning roles, tools and processes, building leadership change capability, evaluating team readiness, and deploying Actvo® as a workforce transition tool (where it's needed). I bring the strategic thinking and the hands-on execution. I don't leave a deck behind. I leave when the work is complete. My still is part coach/part consultant. I have lived experience and also bring use-cases.
What I deliver: · AI strategy — Automate, Augment & Adapt · ROI modelling & transition plan · Operating model redesign · Leadership capability building · Workforce readiness assessment · Actvo® deployment & integration · Competency & capability building · Coaching & facilitation · Reporting & analytics
Ideal for: Organisations pre or post-restructure, M&A readiness, or mid-growth businesses at an inflection point who are serious about change — not just talking about it.
Tools & Platforms
For teams and individuals who want to do the work — at scale, or in their own time.
Actvo® is AI-powered career navigation at scale - designed for ambitious teams, people and organisations. Actvo® helps people understand their unique value, map their future career pathways, and build self-directed learning & development plans — without adding to the managers' load. Deployed inside transformation engagements or licensed directly. For the fraction of the cost of a coach.
→ actvo.ai
Career to Love is an online Masterclass in Career Design for mid-lifers navigating change. Built on the StartNow methodology and sold to more than 2,500 people worldwide — Career to Love is the complete toolbox for anyone ready to redesign their working life, privately and effectively.
→careertolove.co.nz
StartNow A world-leading career & business design methodology developed and proven over 10 years. Run as workshops for organisations or individual tailored programmes for people who no-longer want an organically grown career, but to start designing the next chapter of their future.
→startnow.co.nz
C-Level Career Strategies
90-day programme · Senior leaders only · Limited to 10 clients per year
You've done well. Maybe very well. And yet, something still isn't right — the role, the purpose or culture, or the sense that you're building someone else's future, not your own.
This is the most intensive work I do. Working with people ready to re-design their work-life at a critical stage, when they are guarded from avoiding risk.
I run a 90-day immersive, personalised programme for a small number of senior leaders each year. We go deep — into your values, your capability, your stakeholder landscape, and your life. Not just your career. Because at this level, the two are inseparable.
It's honest, it's rigorous, and it changes things. You bring the energy, I’ll guide the process.
What we do together: Map your human capability and growth values · Determine your unique value proposition · Work with your key life stakeholders to generate ideas & align your choices to your lifestyle · Decide on what comes next with clarity, not anxiety · Craft the narrative, the go-to-market plan and give you the confidence to act on it · If needed, support you to design your business model canvas · Make introductions and connections to ensure the transition is successful.
By application only.
Senior Executive Search
Retained Search · GM / VP / Head of / C-Suite · NZ · AU · US
I am often asked to find senior talent others can't — or place people leaving into new roles. This is because I've spent two decades understanding what great leaders look like from the inside of some of the world’s largest corporations. I'm not a recruiter matching CVs to role descriptions.
I'm a Designer, Careers Strategist and Transformation Leader who knows what it takes to succeed in high-pressure, high-change environments. And I know who works well at which stage your organisation is at, and for the culture you are building.
I work on a small number of retained assignments each year, with clients who value quality over speed, and prefer a globally connected F500 Leader, to a recruiter - to find or out-place their high value people or leavers.
My unique value: · I assess people’s full value proposition and explore pathways, jobs, business and cultural needs - not just credentials · I help you define the role before you hire for it · I tell you the truth, which is rare - including when the problem isn't the person or the company · I only select assignments I know I can succeed at.
By application only.
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