Turn your strategy.

Into results.

Your strategy won’t execute itself.

We build organisations that can.

So you can get on with business.

CEOs and business leaders. You’re scaling, restructuring, merging, or your strategy’s stuck. Chances are your organisation isn’t set up to deliver what you need next.

When your organisation is aligned, performance follows

01  Faster strategy execution

Work flows. Decisions get made. Priorities stay clear. You move with pace

02 Reduced risk

You avoid duplication, decision bottlenecks, and costly missteps during change

03 Better financial performance

Waste less time and money. The right people are focused on the right work. Your team knows what success looks like

04 Leadership Clarity & Confidence

Your leaders spend less time untangling confusion and more time driving outcomes

Trusted By

Align your organisation for business performance

Hi, I’m Amanda Rooney. I bring what I’ve learnt over 20 years as a former lawyer and HR Exec to help CEOs and business leaders operationalise their strategy and design organisations fit for the future. So you can get on with 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.

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.

 

Our Solutions

Strategy Execution

Get the strategy right. Make it land
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.

Change & Restructuring

Restructure with pace and precision
Whether you're scaling, downsizing, or repositioning, we guide you through our design - change - operate framework to ensure your organisation is set up for what’s next.

Merger & Aquisition Support

Protect Deal Value and keep momentum post-deal
We help you plan for and manage the people, structural and operating model shifts required to deliver the deal. You retain talent, align leadership, and protect value from Day One.

  • 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 strategic advisor providing oversite, guidance and facilitation of your leadership team to deliver and sustain strategy implementation.

  • Does your organisation need to change to deliver on its strategic ambition, respond to the market or resize? We work with you to design your organisation fit for the future and help navigate the change by:

    • 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.

  • 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.

  • "Amanda’s strength is her ability to cut through complexity and to develop and drive initiatives to completion. Amanda combines a commercial and strategic focus. I highly recommend Amanda to CEs and Directors looking to give impetus to their programmes aimed at embedding strategic delivery."

    Guy Roper, CEO, Port Taranaki, Director Fisher Funds

  • "Amanda brings a combination of strategic vision and practical nous to every situation. Amanda understands how to deliver organisation transformation and business outcomes and is accomplished at designing and delivering workable and effective solutions.”

    Tracy McElroy, Head of South Island, Datacom

  • "Apto Consulting assisted us by working through our requirements for two key programmes of work, helped us get clear on our needs and project scope and provided two highly skilled consultants, who delivered to achieve our objectives."

    Samantha Salthouse, GM People & Culture, Waimakariri District Council

  • “With her experience, knowledge of our sector and pragmatic approach, Amanda is a trusted advisor to our business, helping us navigate complex organisational challenges and provide strategic project support. Apto also provides us with its team of well tested and capable contracted experts for project delivery and interim cover.”

    Katrina Benedetti Forastieri, Chief People & Safey Officer, Ravensdown Limited

APTO’s mission is to help business leaders cut through the noise, uncover insights, and make a (realistic) plan to get from where they are to where they need to be.

We can help you if you are a business leader or organisations who:
• Has a sound business strategy or ambition for business improvement, but don’t have a clear plan to execute it
• Has tasked their team with delivering the future state, but are not getting traction
• Need to change to respond to the market, resize, position for growth
• Want to drive deal value in their merger, acquisition or divestment

I work as a trusted advisor to clients creating clarity from complex challenges. Clients work with me when they want an advisor who is commercially focussed and unapologetic about designing solutions that are aligned with, and serve, business outcomes.

I am a former M&A and employment lawyer and executive leader across HR, Safety, Marketing, Comms and Business Transformation.  For more than two decades, I have supported Boards, CEOs and their organisations to lead people, business improvement and transformation projects in complex organisations.

Supported by our ready assembled team of experts we can our clients with support for larger projects.   

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, enabling you to continue building on your success long after our engagement is over. 

  • We're trusted by some of New Zealand's best-known medium-sized organisations across a range of sectors including manufacturing, transport, infrastructure, health and the agri- sector.

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.