Allison Ness

Change doesn’t fail because of poor strategy. It fails because leaders don’t have the capacity to lead it.

Allison Ness works with senior executives across New Zealand and Australia to address one of the most overlooked constraints on transformation performance: leadership capacity.

In today’s environment, change is constant, complex and commercially critical. Yet many organisations still treat it as a series of disconnected initiatives. The result is stretched leadership teams, blurred trade-offs, cross-functional friction and declining execution reliability.

Her work spans consulting and advisory - from hands-on leadership support through to strategic guidance - helping organisations integrate change into everyday operations rather than layering it on top.

Through curated executive forums like the Change Wisdom Circle, Allison creates space for candid, commercially grounded conversations about leading under sustained pressure.