Consultancy Services

We offer bespoke consultancy services in specific areas in addition to our core programmes: WOVEN and Innate.

The services we provide are based on experience and our formal learning and qualifications: we’ve all been managers and leaders ourselves.

  • We have been in your situation - we have led teams, we have shifted culture and we have moved teams from average to high-performance.

  • We have been responsible for leading culture and OD in organisations that have won awards: Best Place to Work (JRA Awards) and Best Public Sector Organisation (Randstad Awards).

  • When it comes to teams, culture and change: we know what works, how to make it work, and how to help you develop the capacity to do this yourself.

  • We are the only NZ consultancy with a team of certified practitioners in the “Team Structural Dynamics” approach for team and individual communication.

Systems Thinking

With decades of experience in this area, having taught systems thinking workshops, and worked alongside globally acknowledged leaders in the field, Hamish runs 2-3 days workshops on systems thinking fundamentals, system design, the famous MIT 'beer game', and how to intrduce and apply systems thinking in organisations.

These workshops cover mental models, behavioural systems, archetype systems, unpacking systems issues, decision making, intervention points, team-systems, and behaviour-over-time patterns.

Hamish is one of the few people outside the USA formally certified by Mike Goodman, one of the co-designers of the MIT systems simulation known as the 'beer game'. As far as we know, he's the only certified person in Asia Pacific.

Scenario Thinking & Strategy Development

Hamish has been fortunate to learn from the developers of scenario thinking: including Peter Schwartz and Jay Ogilvy at GBN, attending a number of their advanced scenario development programmes in San Francisco. Since then, he has developed scenarios for a wide range of NZ organisations in the justice, energy, finance, health and conservation sectors. Bob is one of New Zealand's leading scenario practitioners, and has developed many sets of scenarios relating to climate change and the environment, together with dozens of academic papers on the subject.

This is an area that we love working in, so please get in touch if you are considering developing scenarios or just want to find out more about where to start.

WOVEN Programme Introduction

For some, the idea of embarking on a 9-month development programme can be daunting.

For interested teams there is a 2 day preparatory workshop that outlines the programme. This workshop builds some facilitation skills, and assists teams understand the full programme, and their readiness to start. 

On completion, the team will have gained insight and familiarity with strengths and the Woven approach, and completed aspects of work required in the initial phase of WOVEN, should they decide to proceed with the full programme.