Te Tupu Ngātahi
New Zealand
ZEAL's team provided leadership services to the Supporting Growth Alliance for Waka Kotahi, Auckland Transport, Auckland Council, KiwiRail and Manawhenua. In the roles of Alliance Programme Director and Executive Officer, Simon and Idris helped to guide the largest, most complex professional services Alliance in Oceania. Improving governance and motivating staff to enable Auckland’s planned growth, ensure robust business cases & prepare for route protection with community and stakeholder engagement, programme-wide management and innovating to create legacy.
We also led the Alliance through significant change during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring focus to deliver New Zealand’s infrastructure pipeline and continue attaining outcomes. ZEAL take pride in good governance and in this case mixed it with all of our other key services: transport advisory, wayfinding and city shaping.
Additional Waitematā Harbour Connections
New Zealand
On this key project, ZEAL's team are currently applying our ‘one-time approach’ and wayfinding methods to guide an oft tried project that has not previously progressed. Our leadership for the Partner organisations of Waka Kotahi, Auckland Council, Auckland Transport and mana whenua is to ensure a robust business case, social licence, procurement strategy, consents, programme and implementation plan are secured.
This project applies the full mix of our services: good governance, transport advisory, wayfinding and city shaping and is focused on gaining permission for Auckland’s much needed second harbour connection, detailing the case for it, it’s function, form and timing.
New Zealand Upgrade Programme
New Zealand
Leading one of the South Auckland packages for Waka Kotahi, the ZEAL team was approached to help apply new innovative methods and good governance to make progress. For example, building on work conducted at Te Tupu Ngātahi, in the form of initiating and facilitating fortnightly pan-partner hui; to share and listen with all key parties.
Simon’s leadership is applying wayfinding and city shaping focus, Andrew is assisting with good governance in the form of project management, controls and forward planning and Idris is focused on bringing this together with core transport advisory offerings focused on the business case deliverable. We applied a sprint methodology and pan-agency approach to this work.
Public Sector Governance
United Kingdom, New Zealand, South America, Asia
Simon has vast experience in applying good governance in public sector organisaitons. For example during his time as Chief of Staff and Director of Corporate Affairs at Transport for London, he helped to manage the relationship between TfL’s Commissioner, Managing Directors and the Mayor’s office; helping plan Mayoral agendas and rapid integrated responses across a complex organization and political environment. In addition he was responsible for the transformation team and assisting with corporate planning and management of a £9bn annual budget and 25,000 FTE organization. Simon helped lead governance matters for Surface Transport, managing all the reporting, Boards, Panels and communications.
Simon has applied this experience with Andrew and Idris on multiple jobs in New Zealand such as Te Tupu Ngātahi, Additional Waitematā Connections, various independent reviews and the New Zealand Upgrade Programme. We have a depth of experience in outcome based planning workshops around the world. Our clients appreciate our robust approach to governance and organisation.
Simon has applied this experience with Andrew and Idris on multiple jobs in New Zealand such as Te Tupu Ngātahi, Additional Waitematā Connections, various independent reviews and the New Zealand Upgrade Programme. We have a depth of experience in outcome based planning workshops around the world. Our clients appreciate our robust approach to governance and organisation.
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Major event Planning & Delivery (E.g. 2012 London Olympics)
United Kingdom, Japan, France
Building on his Tour de France experience, Simon led the London team who wrote the business case and secured £multi-million funds for Central Zone Games Operation, recruiting, mobilising and training a team, specialists, event management companies and public transport operators. This delivered a high profile, successful component of 22million safe, successful & record customer satisfaction journeys made to Games venues. As well as this, Simon also worked on the bid and legacy aspects. Key to this was planning for both the Games time travel and business-as-usual operations via travel demand planning & marketing campaigns. It involved pan-agency work at the most senior levels.
Aspects of this have flowed through to ZEAL's model and advice – for example helping cities to understand how to plan legacy from events, be it to promote cycling and mode shift, create infrastructure connections to open up a city or help offer climate change mitigations. ZEAL's team are available to help advise and work on similar aspects to help your city benefit from bidding and hosting events; this relies on our key skills of good governance, transport advice, wayfinding and city shaping outcome planning.
Asset Development (Commercial DevelopmeNt)
United Kingdom, South America
Public sector authorities are increasingly having to be self-sufficient or innovative in raising their own revenue. We can share our experiences and help you without compromising your core outcomes. Simon led a Transport for London team improving customer experience on transport assets whilst often funding the improvement of these assets through the income generation opportunities they provide – without conflicting the transport operation. For example, housing developments at bus stations, river pier extensions funded with retail development or roadside information & Variable Message Signs funded through digital advertising.
For some developments this involved working closely with property developers and local authorities helping to raise over £32m raised in a year and also allowing wider outcomes, like affordable housing (Homes for London) to be achieved; we can help you prioritise your assets and assess different income streams from sponsorship to retail, telecoms and property development.
We are equally focused on long term asset development and whole-of-life asset profiles with a particular interest and experience in environmental performance.
