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’re 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.
How we work with you to move from strategic ambition to results.
We know leaders and businesses are busy. Our consultants have designed a process that is simple, efficient and focused on business outcomes.
Discovery
We recommend starting with a short discovery to help identify the real challenge or opportunity. We’ll learn about your business from the people who know it best. We’ll assess your organisation’s capability and identify the road-blocks that could impact your business’ ability to execute.
Define & decide
We’ll define the problems, identify opportunities to help inform the future state of your business. We’ll complete gap analysis, a maturity and readiness assessment and benchmarking to help identify problems, opportunities and options, and facilitate clear decision making.
Design
We’ll use insights unearthed during the discovery and define & decide stages to design the future state of your business. Work includes strategy definition, change management and operating model design.
Deploy
We’ll ensure your people and systems are equipped and ready to execute your strategy. We’ll develop an actionable roadmap, and provide recommendations on team and change engagement and execution support.
Monitor and evaluate
Post execution, we’ll work with your team, complete assessments and ensure your business is positioned for sustained success. We’ll complete performance and impact assessments, team facilitation and offer advisory support.
Success Stories
We work with businesses who need to change in order to deliver, grow or adapt or who need clarity and a plan to execute their strategy. Whatever the problem or opportunity - we found the right solution to suit. Find out how.