I offer a range of services to help deliver your project vision

WORKPLACE STRATEGY

Your workplace has the potential to positively impact your business by:

• Creating a positive user experience for both staff and visitors

• Attracting and retaining the right people

• Increasing productivity and engagement

• Enhancing staff wellbeing

• Creating mobility and flexibility of people and space

• Supporting collaboration and creativity

• Identifying strongly with your brand and culture

• Making better use of your real estate assets by optimising what you have

I can help you realise that potential, for both new and existing workplaces, by creating the right strategy to transform the way you work, creating a new model that is unique to you,  meeting your business vision, drivers and goals.

I am fully independent, committed to creating sustainable workplace environments that connect and inspire people.

With a proven track record leading successful workplace transformation projects into new models and ways of working including Activity Based Working and Agile. With clients from a wide range of businesses including BNZ, PwC, Beca, Vocus, Genesis Energy, Queenstown Lakes District Council and Tasman District Council, I have a unique understanding of how workplaces are shaped and how they can influence staff engagement, wellbeing, productivity and satisfactionNow, more than ever is a great time to think about your workplace strategy and how it can support the way you would like to work.

office design

I have been responsible for many office designs over the years, as both the client creating the brief and leading the project, and as a designer listening to the client’s needs.

My strength is in being able to build a brief that aligns with your workplace strategy and tells your story. This leads to designs that create positive experiences that support your staff health, wellbeing and productivity as well as amp up your brand presence.

Part of the process will include defining the Sustainability strategy for the project. Sustainable buildings and interiors are healthier for occupants and can increase staff perception of a business as well as having a positive impact on attraction and retention of staff, productivity and absenteeism.

Choosing which sustainability strategy is right for you is sometimes hard and as an independent advisor I can help you make that choice. I understand how to build sustainability into a project in a way that meets your business strategic objectives having both designed and managed the design and delivery of projects for clients including Beca, Meridian Energy, Kiwi Income Property Trust, Cooper and Co. ,BNZ and Fonterra.

residential design

My first residential design, Waraki House, completed in 2021, is an exploration of Sustainable Design methodologies and technologies that follows Biophilic Design principles and has Wellbeing at its heart.

My strength in this space lies in listening, understanding your wants and needs and developing your brief, so that the outcomes meet your expectations, and represent you.

workplace project leadership

I provide workplace project leadership to allow you to focus on your business as I deliver on your goals.

Successful projects are built with the help of great teams and methodologies. With years of experience delivering workplace transformation projects on the client side and as a project manager in both new and existing buildings I can help deliver the project in a collaborative and positive way.

In my roles at BNZ, PwC and Fonterra I was responsible for leading their corporate property programmes, providing solutions tailored to meet the business needs.

Managing a multidisciplinary team of consultants as well as internal stakeholders my approach is to focus on creating strong team relationships and an agreed methodology of how to work together to produce the best outcomes for the business.

My skills include:

• Defining the project strategy and brief

• Workplace strategy creation

• Business case preparation

• Engaging with the business

• Building the design brief

• Procuring and managing the team

• Managing the internal workstreams e.g. HR, Technology, Facilities Management, Procurement, Change, Sustainability

• Furniture procurement

• Managing delivery of the project

A Workplace Strategy can help your business evolve to meet your goals

The workplace strategy is the foundation for any workplace project and is the blueprint for how the business evolves the way it works. The strategy is developed when you want to make a change as it will help you understand what you need to change about the way you work to align with your business drivers.

This could be optimising your existing premises, or it could mean moving to a more suitable space. The strategy will help you define what needs to change, and in the case of a move, what you need to be looking for.

The workplace strategy is intended to aid decision making related to People, Place and Technology. It will align with your business vision, values and strategic objectives.

It will be tailored to suit your business and may include:

• Workplace vision

• Workplace objectives

• Optimisation plan

• Space requirements

• Success measures

• Workstyle guidelines

• Communication and engagement plan

• Change methodology

I have delivered a number of workplace strategies and my approach is very people-centric as I believe that this approach creates the most sustainable outcomes. This starts by listening to the leadership team and understanding the key business drivers for the change then aligning on the methodology for engagement that best suits you.