Rebecca AGent // consultant & strategic advisor
Collaborate, identify, shape and shift. Innovate, measure and repeat! Rebecca Agent is a management consultant and director at Change by Design ltd. Applauded for her fresh, results-driven approach, Rebecca connects with business leaders and entrepreneurs to plan and push boundaries. She pioneers sustainable strategy, unravels answers and supports clients going through transformational CHANGE.
STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
Rebecca confronts business boundaries. Brilliance doesn’t happen without first understanding why you do what you do. Tough question, yes. She will identify strategies and goals, harnessing foresight, systems thinking, and human centred design to unleash the true power of culture, people and technology.
BESPOKE DELIVERY
Successful projects, programmes and portfolios follow a timely yet adaptive path. With strategy and business goals at the forefront, Rebecca uses modern delivery approaches to craft an aligned and appropriately governed delivery framework based upon a mantra of ‘rights’ - right work at the right time, right on budget.
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
Intelligent solutions come from a big picture view. Rebecca keeps an eagle eye over signals of change across economic, community and environmental factors - colliding each for best effect, enabling people and organisations to respond with agility. Explosive, yet sustained and embedded change is the by-product.
Making sense of complicated things
Blog
Case studies and client highlights
decarbonisation ROADMAPS
Leading a dynamic team to scope a programme of work to achieve a 50% reduction in corporate fleet emissions by 2025. A 5-year roadmap was designed to remove complexity and allow ‘business as usual’ processes to deliver with working group oversight monitoring progress.
BOARD POSITIONS
Variety of Board positions, currently as Board Member & Sustainability Advisor for the Grey Lynn Park Festival.
PRODUCT INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALISATION
Commercialising a fleet of world-first electric motorhomes available for rent in New Zealand. Installation of 54 public electric vehicle charging stations across 23 regional holiday parks while harnessing funding and media opportunities, expanding operational processes, related KPIs & capturing new IP. Feeding insights into a future fleet strategy including, modelling of the global EV ecosystem and tipping point analysis to inform executives on future investment time horizons.
enterprise change & transformation
The greenfields implementation of Public Trust’s change portfolio and establishing the enterprise shared service (14+ FTE / $8m budget), supporting change across people, process, data and technology. Annual strategy and business planning. Developing an integrated roadmap of programmes to ensure the right balance between appetite/demand, and the ability to deliver (capacity & cost planning).
strategic advisory
Coaching early stage startups in New Zealand and the United States in first round capital raises, design of strategy and operational delivery plans, including resource design, budgeting to deliver first stage contract commitments. Taking businesses through concept and launch to onboarding first employees.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
A Business Case to present a new strategic direction and financially sustainable future. Called the ’Sustainable Tourism Programme’ it was a roadmap to create a new globally recognised environmental standard for sustainability in Tourism in New Zealand, aligning accreditation with Tourism New Zealand’s 100% pure brand campaign.
OPERATING MODEL OPTIMISATION
Design of a customised end-to-end methodology for product manufacturing and project management. Aligning organisational design and increased financial investment to sustain future growth plans.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Series of deep-dive creative working sessions with founders to identify and align short and long-term growth goals for product innovation,
BRAND STRATEGY
Small business creative and website design for founders who need to build brand presence and authentic channels to engage and create wonderful customer experiences.
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About rebecca
Over Two decades of experience, talent and intellectual property sits behind Rebecca Agent. Highly adept within a global business environment, she weaves strategic magic as a consultant and strategic advisor.
With an MBA, specialising in sustainability and operations management Rebecca is a well-respected and proven global strategist and business consultant, staunchly disrupting business in a fun, fresh and dynamic way. Helping leaders identify clear, honest and effective business decisions, that’s Rebecca’s gin with her tonic. Making a measurable difference to business culture and performance – and always giving a full heart to every piece of work.
Rebecca has a love for travel, entrepreneurship and business. She is also a certified yoga teacher and holds a certificate in design from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada and has recently completed courses in the Circular Economy with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Advanced Design Thinking with IDEO Design.
Rebecca believes great strategy and execution is a bold blend of business, art and heart.
“Rebecca has played a vital role in bringing the Britz EVolve (NZ’s first Electric Motorhome) to market in New Zealand. Quite simply we could not have done this without her leadership. Passionate, determined, huge capacity to take on many tasks, excellent stakeholder management and an outstanding focus on outcomes and delivery describes Rebecca’s character and skill. We’ve been lucky to have her in our business.”
“Rebecca was selected to join our business based on her extensive project experience and her obvious expertise in the field of sustainability. While only with us for a relatively short time, her contribution to our project was immense. From day one Rebecca harnessed our project requirements, and led the development of a comprehensive business case which was of high quality, particularly considering the time and resource pressures which were facing our business. While not afraid to challenge existing business thinking, Rebecca displayed an engaging approach to bring stakeholders on the journey, all while remaining steadfast in her commitment to project management fundamentals. During her time within Qualmark Rebecca also successfully managed a small project team which included both contract and internal people. I would be glad to work with Rebecca again in the future, because I’m confident she is one of those people who gets things done, on brief and on time.”
“I engaged Rebecca Agent to coach me through the process of re-establishing the consultancy business I had bought away from my former employer. She got straight to the heart of the challenge, guiding me through the fundamental decisions that needed to be made in order to create clear focus and prioritise, and also to align how my business could grow in line with what meant most to me in accordance with my personal values. She has a way of cutting through the fluff yet delivering sound, actionable, motivating guidance with warmth, energy and charm. At the end of our set of coaching sessions, I had a clear plan and set of deliverables to focus on. Looking back, I can see the impact Rebecca’s guidance had and do my best to stay true to her advice today.”
“Rebecca was a wonderful mentor and coach when I was planning my transition from working in New Zealand to moving overseas. She shared her direct strategic experience, provided rich context to help my decision-making, and generously opened up her network to those in the field of corporate sustainability. I was impressed by her kind, warm nature, and how she expertly guided me through a series of steps that pushed me and gave me the confidence to pursue new offshore roles. Coaching has been hugely beneficial in my life, and I continue to use it as an important tool to make progress both personally and professionally.”
“It’s a breath of fresh air working with such a passionate and knowledgeable individual. Rebecca lead a key organizational project that we worked closely on for two months. It was a pleasure and an invaluable opportunity to work, learn and observe Rebecca’s vast skillset and experience. Above all, I was impressed with Rebecca’s stakeholder engagement skills, by bringing people onboard through empowering and including them on the shared vision and projects purpose. I would highly recommend Rebecca to any organization with the extensive value Rebecca can add. It would be an honor to have the opportunity to work with Rebecca again”
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Don’t be surprised if Rebecca shifts your mindset, quizzes your lifestyle, breaks down business blocks, throws tough questions your way and challenges your norm. The outcome will be worth the journey – authentic, expanded, profitable, sustainable, and exciting.
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