Testimonials
What previous clients are saying
“What stood out most was Allison’s ability to identify and mitigate key risks early in our digital implementation – a narrow, system-focused approach that wasn’t aligned with our broader operational transformation outcomes. Through her business partnering approach, Allison provided valuable insights, ensured that our business processes, customer experience, and employee readiness were prioritised, and helped us integrate the system implementation with our operational goals – rather than just treating it as a technical rollout.
Another key contribution was Allison’s ability to set the foundations for change leadership within Nextro. She equipped us with the frameworks and tools to take ownership of the transformation and lead the change ourselves, instead of just managing it. Her ability to bring leadership alignment and focus on people over technology made a significant difference in how we approached our transformation.
I have no doubt that her expertise in change leadership will continue to add value to any organisation she works with, and I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a strategic, results-driven change leader who helps leaders drive business transformation.”
Nadia Levy
Executive Director; Head of Operations at Nextro
“From the outset, Allison demonstrated a deep commitment to understanding our unique challenges and opportunities. She began by thoroughly exploring the situation with me, followed by in-depth interviews with my direct reports.
Allison’s Listen Learn Act (LLA) framework provided a structured yet flexible way for us to pinpoint misalignment and turn insights into action – fast. Allison’s open and engaging style quickly built trust within the team. She skilfully created the space for honest discussions, guided and challenged us to understand each other’s perspectives, identify root causes, align on key learnings and insights, and ultimately develop a cohesive action plan. Her strong communication skills and perceptive nature were instrumental in achieving an aligned outcome in just a few sessions.
Allison’s keen understanding of people and business made a significant impact on our team’s progress – strengthening team alignment, improving decision making and keeping performance strong while managing the demands of business as usual.
If you’re leading change and need a trusted expert to bring leadership teams together, cut through complexity and drive action, I highly recommend working with Allison.”
Katie McClure
Director Category Innovation & Foodservice, Fonterra
“One of the most valuable things Allison implemented was a 360-degree view of change, which helped us understand all the change activities across the Co-Op occurring over a three month rolling period. She successfully integrated strategic programmes and business unit change initiatives, while also including change experience insights from our people to inform decision making. This provided us with the tools to prioritise and sequence change activities.
As a result we were able to adapt our approach as the context shifted – responding rather than reacting to change. This shift to a holistic and integrated approach laid the groundwork for other BUs, to adopt a similar practice.
Her focus on shifting behaviour and guiding us through a holistic approach to change was pivotal in helping us move beyond transactional change and into purposeful, collaborative leadership.
I highly recommend Allison to any organisation looking to lead change, strategically and in a human centred way. Her ability to partner with business leaders to drive meaningful and lasting change is a true differentiator.”
Ben Dakers
Data & AI at Fonterra
“Without Allison we would not have made the progress we have in developing change maturity within our organisation.
Allison has been instrumental in transforming our approach to change leadership.
She led a thorough diagnostic of our organisation’s change maturity, and designed a fit-for-purpose Enterprise Change approach. By addressing our siloed project based approach, she helped us build leadership capacity, capability and resilience – essential to leading through complex change. Her systematic approach ensured that each area of focus worked together to drive sustainable, measurable progress.
Allison implemented a valuable 360-degree change view, helping us assess volume and pace of change across the Enterprise. She highlighted the cumulative impacts of change and created a monthly view of what was hitting our people. This improved visibility and allowed us to collaborate over shared challenges.
Allison developed an Enterprise Change Framework and Toolkit, now embedded in our Knowledge Hub. It has empowered our leaders by increasing their confidence to lead change within their own Business Units, using a human centric approach.
Allison also established a Change Community of Practice that brought together 100+ change SMEs across the Co-op. This created a standard vision for change.
Through change leadership workshops, Allison helped teams impacted by change. While the process was sometimes confronting, Allison’s facilitation created a safe space for leaders to focus on mindset and behaviour. This led to more effective team performance.
Additionally, Allison helped resolve critical post project change implementation issues, running a root cause diagnostic with business owners that gave clarity on what actions were needed to move forward.
Allison’s business partnering approach has had a significant impact. She has helped us develop organisational change muscle – leading, supporting, and empowering leaders to respond to change.
It has been a pleasure working with and learning from Allison and her pragmatic approach to change. I highly recommend her to any organisation going through complex change, looking to build sustainable change practices and strengthen change leadership capabilities.”
Meegan Campion
General Manager Transformation - Strategy and Optimisation - Divestment
“Allison understands that the complexity and pace of change in business today demands a different way of thinking about change. She works comfortably and effectively from Executive to operational levels to embed conscious change leadership practices and human centred techniques into daily operating rhythms. She brings a unique approach that creates focus on driving enterprise outcomes with people’s change experience at the heart.”
Martyn Watts
GM Future of Work and Enterprise Change, BNZ
“Allison’s thought leadership and guidance were instrumental in driving significant organisational culture change at AA Insurance. Working closely with myself, the Executive team, and the Senior Leadership team, she designed and implemented a new P&C operating model for our L&D and TA functions, and a fit-for-purpose Sales and Service induction programme to improve people experiences and deliver a greater return on investment.
Allison quickly understood our business context and identified a number of quick wins. Her strategic insight, effective business partnering, behaviour change expertise and human-centred design approach helped shift mindsets, enhanced cross-collaboration, and drove performance improvement that met our business needs.”
Nikki Howell
Head of P&C, AA Insurance