Who we are

Jacquie is the founding director of Hague Consulting. With her background in market research, communications and business planning and analysis, Jacquie has a particular focus on helping clients make business decisions informed by data and insights. She is equally happy facilitating value proposition and business model workshops or running value stream mapping sessions. Jacquie has organised many successful seminars and conferences, particularly in the fields of emergency management and earthquake engineering. Jacquie is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). Jacquie is a trained Strategic Doing facilitator.

Before she established Hague in March 1998, Jacquie was a director of NovaTech (NZ) Ltd - a highly successful consultancy business specialising in feasibility studies, business planning and market research. Jacquie also worked for several years for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in the areas of international science and technology transfer. Jacquie has a Sociology Degree from Victoria University and a Masters in Management with First Class Honours from Massey University. Jacquie is a former President and a Fellow of IMC New Zealand, the Institute of Management Consultants.

Phil leads the strategy practice in our Wellington management consultancy team. He is a strategy implementation specialist with a background in strategy, finance and operations, process improvement, and project and programme management.

Projects Phil has undertaken for Hague include: systems design and implementation, capability development, IT infrastructure replacement, process redesign. Consulting assignments include options analysis, feasibility studies, business cases, turnaround management, strategic review, strategy development, effectiveness and efficiency reviews, reviews of information systems, property management, quality auditing, operating model design. Phil has managed ERP implementations including Oracle, TechnologyOne and Yardi Voyager.

Phil holds a Master of Management from Massey University, a Bachelor of Arts (Economic History) from Victoria University and a Certificate in Statistics from Wellington Polytechnic. Phil is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Strategy Implementation Professional (SIP). He is also a Project Management Professional (PMP), a PRINCE2 practitioner, a trained Gateway reviewer and a member of the Project Management Institute and the Strategy Implementation Institute (SII). Phil is a Fellow of Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand. He is experienced in operational excellence, value stream mapping and Lean Six Sigma. He is a Fellow of the Business Excellence Institute (BEI) and a Global Benchmarking Ambassador.

Bob is a management consultant who has 20 years experience leading strategy and providing organisational capability and investment advice to the education, law enforcement, social and health sectors. He specialises in designing the changes organisations need to make to meet their goals, and leading them though the business case development to initiation.

After a science PhD in Glasgow, Bob moved to the Open University's Centre for Educational Software as a software designer. He was then recruited as a senior designer to the BBC's renowned Interactive Media Unit in the late 1990's, working on multimedia, Internet and early concepts for digital tv. A Visiting Fellowship at the University of Otago School of Business brought him to New Zealand in 1998. He spent the next three years running the web team at e-Media (an Internet start-up) in Dunedin, before moving to a senior business IT role at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise in Wellington (the NZ Government's Economic Development and Trade body). Bob now consults mainly on strategy and business intelligence, seeing the two as different sides of the same coin. He has led and co-led many engagements across several sectors, focusing on strategy, business case development and execution.

Atif is an Associate with over 20 years of experience at leading financial institutions across Asia and Africa. Throughout his career, he has participated in large-scale, multi-cultural, and multi-functional transformations, consistently delivering results aligned with strategic goals. His expertise encompasses sales, product and channel management, as well as leveraging technology to enhance customer experience and drive financial performance. Atif earned a PhD in Business Excellence from Massey University, New Zealand, where his doctoral research examined business improvement approaches in 50 organisations across 17 countries. This research led to the development of organisational excellence architecture (OEA) model to implement and accelerate organisational-wide improvement. He also holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK.

Atif is an active member of the global business excellence community, regularly participating in international quality awards and competitions. He serves as a jury member for the International Best Practice Competition (IBPC) and is a certified assessor for the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model.

Hayden is a Hague associate who provides services in the Financial Modelling, Strategy, and Valuation space. Hayden’s own clients range from early-stage start-ups to large private and listed entities, with assignments completed for over 25 discrete clients over the last 4 years, across multiple industries. He has an extensive Corporate Finance, Strategy and Financial Modelling background, both in investment banking with JBWere, Deutsche Bank, and Cameron Partners; and in industry in senior roles with BNZ, GE and Fonterra. Hayden has a Master of Commerce (Honours) in Accounting and Finance from Auckland University.

George Cole is a Hague Associate. George has over 20 years’ experience in senior management/CFO/director level positions in the private and public sectors in New Zealand and internationally. Recently he has applied his project management and business analysis skills to short-term assignments including evaluation, feasibility, design, implementation and project recovery. He has worked in many sectors including infrastructure, IT and business system/processes. His varied HR and finance experience up to and including CFO level reflects on his ability to deal pragmatically and decisively in any situation. His experience includes investor relations, P2P, shared services, procurement SRM programs and joint venture enterprises. George has strong human resources skills and experience including staff training and mentoring, change management and redundancy programs, Union and collective agreement bargaining.

Iain is Hague Consulting's research and evaluation specialist associate. He is Director of Matheson Associates Ltd, a management consultancy providing assurance, review, evaluation, research and advisory services across the public sector.

With more than 20 years' experience as a management consultant, following senior public service leadership roles in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Iain works primarily with government agencies and public sector organisations on strategic reviews, evaluations, evidence synthesis, and reform initiatives. Recent appointments include a ministerially appointed expert panel and a Gateway review team, and he also has extensive experience designing and delivering professional development and capability-building programmes.

His sector expertise includes child and family services, youth justice, disability, education, health, and injury prevention, with work undertaken in New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Originally trained as a social worker, Iain holds a Doctor of Education from the University of Otago and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Sector Evaluation Research from Massey University. He is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand (FIMCNZ), and an accredited Gateway Assurance™ Review Team Member through Global Digital Assurance.