We are a boutique consulting business focused on helping our clients to deliver their strategy.
We are well established and have been operating in Australia since 2001. We have an excellent track record at delivery across many industry sectors (see Our Work).
Our approaches are underpinned by 3 fundamental beliefs:
- 1. The strategic plan and agenda must be appropriate for the business balancing risk and reward
- 2. The practicalities of delivery need to be clearly understood and the delivery agenda robustly set up
- 3. Ultimately strategy is delivered through people. Aligning the strategy, the operating model and the organizational culture is key to success.
We work with our clients to ensure appropriate strategies are set, the delivery agenda is set up for success, delivery is strongly managed and governed and cultural change effectively facilitated.
Our senior team comprises experienced consultants with a demonstratable track record of delivering strategic and transformational change for senior executives.
David Mackenzie. David is the founder and managing director of M&N. An experienced consultant with a passion for strategy delivery David established M&N in 2002 to offer pragmatic strategy implementation support to clients. David balances strategic thinking, strong results orientation and the ability to influence and lead cultural change.
Michael Doran. Michael is an experienced leadership, organisation design and culture change expert, having led major culture change programs both locally and internationally. He is passionate about leveraging evidence based insights into an organisation's leaders and culture to deliver high impact personal and leadership team change. He follows a robust methodology with foundations based on the work of Kegan & Lahey in "Immunity to Change: How to Overcome it" He leads M&N's organisation design and culture change capability.
James Brown. Backed by over 20 years senior finance experience with some of Australia's foremost companies, James has deep m&a experience through acquisitions and divestments witH GE, NAB, Foodland Associated and Babcock & Brown Power. The $3.5bn Foodland Associated transaction won Finance Asia's Best M&A Deal of the Year in 2005. Additionally, James has extensive experience in transforming Finance functions from being historical performance recorders to a proactive value adding function. James spearheads our M&A capabilities, and leads our Finance Function Rejuvenation and Development practice.