What we do
Our Approach
We analyse, facilitate, negotiate, empower, listen, understand, exercise foresight, prepare easy to ready reports and resolve complex business case and system challenges.
Communicating and engaging with all types of people at all levels.
Crunching complex issues down to their essential core.
Developing strategies, business cases, destination plans and providing focussed advice and support.
Negotiating common ground and facilitating shared solutions amongst parties with diverse views.
Creating frameworks to make sense of complexity, set priorities and give order to ambiguity.
Collaborating with diverse agencies to identify a common purpose and direction.
Applying knowledge of political systems, public sector institutional arrangements, policies, and funding opportunities to resolve challenges and secure funding.
Building teams and empowering them to perform at high levels.
Understanding legal requirements and translating them into logical and evidence-based decisions.
Moving at speed to understand new issues and opportunities.
Weaving sustainability and climate change resilience into core business decisions.
Being diplomatic, articulate, solutions and outcomes focussed, professional and politically astute.
Applying critical thinking, foresight, energy and drive, and self-awareness.
Managing the tensions between private sector commercial and customer driven needs and environmental responsibilities.
Our Services
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Unpicking regional, local and central government institutional and decision-making processes, and related legislative decision-making frameworks.
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Developing strategies for achieving sustainable regional economic development and destination management plans.
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Understanding nature-based Treaty of Waitangi obligations and solutions.
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Facilitating organisational, community and interest group engagement and communication processes.
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Developing city / regional / spatial planning for urban / regional vitality and a lower carbon footprint.
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Planning and investing for integrated, low carbon and resilient transport and land use outcomes.
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Providing an understanding of water, soil, climate change, biodiversity and related natural resource and ecosystem dynamics - including on-farm production systems and environmental limit setting.
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Building community resilience against natural hazards.