Connect. Explore. Express.
For more than a decade we have partnered with leaders across New Zealand. From first-time managers to senior executives, small leadership teams to large cross-agency groups.
Who We Work With
NZ Government & Public Sector
Professional Services
Not-for-Profits & Community Organisations
Boards & Executive Teams
Corporate & Private Sector
Cross-Agency & Sector Collaborations
Trusted by organisations across New Zealand
99.3% of our clients rebook or refer us. The rest are probably still thinking about it... right?
“We are more organised and cohesive now than we have ever been. I attribute that largely to the work we did with Adam and Penny. I have worked with a lot of consultants. This was different.”
GM, Central Agency
“Honestly, I have never seen facilitation like it. The room was totally with them the whole time. Weeks later people are still talking about what shifted for them.”
SLT Member, Private Sector
“So grateful to have time together. I always leave our sessions knowing what I need to do next, and more importantly, why.”
CEO, Not For Profit
What makes the difference
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Deep work, plainly said
We engage with real complexity. Not frameworks that look good on a slide but don’t hold up in the room.
02
Rigour without rigidity
We bring structure and method. But we hold it lightly so we can respond to what the group actually needs.
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Designed, not delivered
Each engagement is built around your context - so it is applicable and lands with you and your people.
What we have noticed, over ten years of working together, is that the most useful moments happen when we work to hold rigour and presence together rather than choosing one over the other.
We design to ensure a runsheet creates space rather than filling it, delivering work that meets your outcomes while remaining easeful and responsive.
We are Adam and Penny
Creative Leadership is our practice. Between us: backgrounds in law, accounting, strategy, transformational change and banking, combined with accreditations that cover all different types of coaching and facilitation.
Our clients are typically leaders who take development seriously and are carrying more than most realise. They're not looking for inspirational quotes but someone who can actually help.
We do this work because we find the complexity of what leaders carry genuinely interesting, and that hasn't changed since we first started talking about it 20 years ago.
Leaning into AI is one of the biggest leadership moves we can make: not to replace our judgment, but to deepen it. Leaders who lean into AI aren't giving up their judgment they're expanding it.
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