Business change shouldn’t be this hard.
Is your organisation’s strategy sitting on powerpoint slides, but hasn’t made its way into the business?
Does your business need to scale, divest, restructure or merge with pace and precision?
Are you worried about how your team will manage the risk and complexity that comes with large scale change?
Are you under pressure from the Board, shareholders or your people to lead and deliver results?
Is a lack of progress costing you time, money and opportunity?
Stop the inertia. Real change needs real focus.
Let us guide you.
Create a clear path to execute strategy, navigate change, and build an organisation that performs.
So you can get on with business.
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Business Change is easier with a guide
Deliver Your Strategy
Move from strategy to actual results
We help you get clear on your strategy. We align your organisation and partner with you to deliver it. That means structure, people, and priorities working together. Your strategy moves from paper to performance.
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Research tells us more than 70% of organisations fail to execute their strategies successfully. We help you close this strategy execution gap by:
• Strategy Clarity: We work with CEOs and executive teams to get clear and aligned on what is needed to deliver the strategy.
Through a structured discovery and facilitated process, I help teams understand where they are now, where they’re trying to go, and what it will take to get there.This includes:
Interviews and facilitated sessions to explore current state, pressures, and opportunities
Strategy development that brings clarity to your direction, focus, and choices
A practical roadmap and delivery cadence to embed priorities and sustain momentum
Alignment across the leadership team so everyone is clear on their role in making it happen
Strategy Activation: through discovery and facilitation, we diagnose your organisation’s readiness and capability to deliver its strategy against the 5 As of strategy execution: Alignment, Ability, Architecture, Accountability & Agility. We identify the gaps and develop a plan to remove barriers and activate your strategy.
• Strategy Execution Management: we act as a retained strategy execution partner providing oversite, guidance and facilitation of your leadership team to deliver and sustain strategy implementation.
Business change with impact
Design for the future. Restructure with pace and precision.
Whether you're scaling, downsizing, or repositioning, we’ll build your organisation so it’s set up for what’s next. Expertly navigating complex and large scale change, keeping you safe along the way.
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• Operating Models: we help you design how, when and where your organisation operates and deliver the roadmap for change.
• Organisation Design: we align your structure, people, processes and culture to transform and respond to change.
• Restructuring & Change Management: we provide end to end planned and programmed managed change, using our combination of legal and HR experience to manage risk and engagement along the way.
Protect M & A Deal Value
Realise human capital. Drive post deal momentum.
From due diligence to post deal integration, we help you avoid costly human capital mistakes and plan for and manage the people, structure and operating model shifts required so you can deliver the deal.
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A business’ most valuable asset is its people. We bring our combination of people change and legal M&A experience to provide expert people and change support to help realise the value of your investment.
• Due diligence and sale/acquisition preparation
• Employee retention and transition planning
• Post merger integration support: designing the future shape of the organisation, integrating and aligning leadership, systems, policies and culture in the new organisation.
Align your organisation for business performance
Our clients are ambitious leaders facing intense pressure to deliver strategy and lead change - often in a complex, high‑stakes environment.
As a former HR executive and lawyer, now an independent advisor, I help leaders and organisations like yours cut through the day to day noise, creating a clear path to execute strategy, navigate change, and build an organisation that performs.
What I deliver for CEOs and leaders:
Clarity from complexity
Clarify what’s really going on. Identify the critical shifts. Focus attention.A fit-for-purpose organisation
Shape structure, roles, ways of working and decision-making to match the strategy.An operating model to execute
Mobilise people, systems and leadership so strategy turns into action and keeps moving.
Why work with APTO?
With years of legal and change experience we are skilled at navigating complexity and managing risk.
We’ve been in your (leadership) shoes and understand the challenges and obstacles you face.
Our focus is on leaving a lasting capability in your organisation, so you continue building on your success long after our engagement is over.
We're trusted by some of New Zealand's best-known mid - market organisations across a range of sectors, with deep expertise in the primary sector, port industry and local government.
We’ve built a team of project ready experts to support our clients with larger projects.
Hi, I’m Amanda Rooney. I’ve been in your shoes. I set up Apto to help business leaders in mid - market NZ organisations cut through the noise, uncover insights, and make a (realistic) plan to get from where they are to where they want to be in business. My mission is to help leaders to successfully deliver strategic change - like mergers, shifts in strategic direction or where restructuring is needed to align their organisation or team.
Ready to find out how we can help your business?
Contact Amanda Rooney, head of APTO Consulting to discuss what you need and how we’ll deliver.