Impact-driven partnerships that serve people and place.

Whakawhitinga holds the sense of a journey—a transition or crossing to a new way of knowing. Through partnership and accountability, people and connections, and a focus on future-fit progression, we see our work with you as an experience that will serve the people and place in which we collectively operate.

Whakawhitinga is a consulting partnership anchored in Māori values, designed to improve outcomes for whānau and community by championing diverse and inclusive leadership across Aotearoa.

As a partnership, we see our role as supporting and uplifting internal capabilities so that our clients create the habits and practices to sustain important mahi long after we have finished our work together.

We are highly skilled at building engagement and alignment that enables organisations to execute their strategic intent and achieve their goals.

Our Services

Strategy

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We partner with you to design tailored solutions for organisational growth, streamlined operations and an enhanced competitive edge.

Capability

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We empower leaders and their teams with essential skills to create high-performing environments and foster innovation with a foundation of trust and respect.

Culture

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We help cultivate a positive, inclusive environment where employees have a sense of belonging, to collaborate and thrive in their work.

  • "We put people before position or process. Because that's where true transformation takes place."

    Whakawhitinga Value Statement

  • "Future-fit progression matters to us. This means we will choose long-term, sustainable benefits over short-term wins."

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  • "We believe that better results emerge when different viewpoints are considered - when people connect and truly understand each other."

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  • "We don't do things at you, but with you. We see ourselves as an extension of your team for a moment in time."

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Our Team

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    Angela Butt, Tainui/Te Arawa/Tuhoe

    Senior Partner, Organisation Cultural Development, Change & Transformation

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    Kara Brown, Waikato and Ngāti Awa

    Senior Partner, Leadership Development and Organisational Change

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  • whakawhitinga-partnering-our-team-aleisha-coote

    Aleisha Coote

    Senior Partner, Stakeholder Engagement, Marketing Communications

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Our Whakawhitinga logo shows the poutama pattern, known as the stairway to heaven in Māori weaving. Poutama has strong educational and spiritual significance. The stepping pattern represents progression and ascent to higher levels of achievement and progress, as well as the constant pursuit of improvement.

These steps represent the journey we will take together, progressing important programmes of work in partnership.

Get in touch

Often it’s easier to talk through your project or opportunity directly. Please feel free to get in touch. We’d love the opportunity to explore your current project and look forward to hearing from you.