STRATEGY + FACILITATION + PLANNING + FUTURES
​Specialist in facilitating strategic reviews, planning, writing and visualisation for organisations and collectives - with particular strength and experience across the Māori economy.  Some example strategy projects below:

TE ARAWA GROUP HOLDINGS
Karl was engaged to facilitate a strategic review of Te Arawa Group Holdings, a tribal ‘Post Settlement Governance Entity’ with commercial interests in Property, Tourism, Forestry, Horticulture and managed funds, seeking to consolidate and grow its asset base whilst optimising short term distributions and inter-generational asset growth for tribal members.

TE RŪNANGA O NGĀI TAHU
Karl has been called on several times to undertake strategic reviews for Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu over the past 15 years.  The most recent was a review of Te Ao Tūroa division for the natural environment. This involved working with staff over several wānanga to explore what it would take to become future fit and fit for purpose, including reviewing their future vision, scope of functions and priority focus areas with a long term view towards better environmental outcomes and partnerships.

REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - MANITOBA, CANADA
Provincial Government of Manitoba + First Nations + Industry
Following successful work for the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba developing Industry and First Nations Relationships, Karl was awarded a contract to develop a regional economic development strategy and movement for Northern Manitoba using a community driven design thinking based approach facilitating workshops across remote communities, anchor Industries, First Nations and provincial government to identity and co-develop enterprise opportunities.  This project required travelling to Manitoba a number of times over consecutive years.  Karl also continued into further contracts to develop a regional promotions story and support First Nations development, as well as coaching government agencies on Design Thinking based approaches to understanding community needs. See Look North

CROWN FORESTRY RENTAL TRUST (CFRT)
​CFRT was set up under the Crown Forest Assets Act 1989, after the New Zealand Māori Council and Federation of Māori Authorities took court action to protect Māori interests in the Crown’s commercial forests. The Act allows the Crown to sell licences for forestry, but prevented it from selling the land itself until the Waitangi Tribunal recommends who has ownership of the land – Māori or the Crown.
CFRT engaged my services to support a strategic review of their functions and priority focus areas as they enter an uncertain sunset phase in regard to the timeline for conclusion of Treaty Settlements, which they play a critical role in supporting.

POUTAMA TRUST
Poutama is an independent charitable trust established in 1988 to provide business development services to Māori.  Poutama strives to create an environment for successful business ventures and economic growth for Māori.  Income generated from its investments enables Poutama to engage in activities and provide services that support and facilitate Māori business development.  Karl was engaged to facilitate a strategic review of Poutama Trust to identify its priority focus areas within a changing enterprise funding ecosystem and declining return on investments, ensuring it is fit for purpose in meeting the current and future needs of Māori SMEs in ways others cannot.

MĀORI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD (MEDAB)
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
Karl was engaged by MBIE to facilitate a strategic review of the Māori Economic Development Advisory Board, post-Covid in a shifting Māori Economic Landscape.  MEDAB provides whole of governance advice on supporting Māori economic development. With the emergence of the National Iwi Chairs Forum 'Pou Tahua' Economic Group, it was timely to review MEDABs stakeholders, needs, opportunities and priorities, including its support needs from the New Zealand Government and what value it adds.

SPORTS INTEGRITY COMMISSION  TE KAHU RAUNUI
​The Sports Integrity Commission was established to ensure sports are fair and free from corruption. It involved merging an existing anti-doping organisation into a new entity and building new anti-corruption functions and a sports integrity code.  Karl was engaged during and after the Commissions establishment phase, initially to work with the founding team to develop a long and short term vision and action plan, and subsequently to build team culture and behaviour as well as supporting embracing Te Ao Māori within the Commission.

REGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION - POST CYCLONE
Karl was engaged by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to facilitate development of a regional Climate Action Group and strategic approach post Cyclone Gabrielle.  This entailed convening a very diverse range of stakeholders from Councils, mana whenua, Federated Farmers, climate scientists and other climate action groups.  The challenge was navigating highly divergent views from climate champions to deniers at a time when people were still experiencing a roller-coaster of emotions from severe cyclone impacts.  This was a people navigation exercise to find common ground and points of alignment while embracing difference, and translating that into a shared and distributed action plan with agreed strategic priorities all can act on.