Our team
Managing director
AJ Millward
After seventeen years working in the New Zealand public service, AJ decided to establish Transcend Consulting to focus on what she enjoys most professionally; working with good people on good projects. Her senior public service experience spans strategy and policy through to crisis management, business improvement, and change management (including agency establishment). AJ has held statutory decision-making and regulatory roles in Crown Entities and Ministries and has worked closely with Ministers across several portfolios. Her experience provides a deep understanding of how all levels of government operate and has nurtured her ability to work in unconventional ways to get innovative results.
AJ specialises in delivering results for clients operating in fast-paced and ambiguous environments and enjoys challenging projects. A significant part of AJ’s career has involved forming partnerships, as well as working with iwi, local government and across central government.
AJ believes strongly in the need for good governance, and is a board member of Destination Southern Lakes.
Senior Associate
Tom Milton
Tom is an experienced policy professional with a proven track record of delivery. He has strong knowledge and experience in developing and implementing policies to deliver Government priorities in economic development, natural resources, environment and public sector financial management.
Before joining Transcend Consulting, he held roles as a Principal Advisor at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and Private Secretary to a senior Cabinet Minister. He has an excellent understanding of Ministerial and government perspectives, and helps our clients navigate government systems and processes.
Tom finds a way to get to the heart of what matters in complex and ambiguous situations, to deliver effective results for our clients. He is skilled at being able to communicate technical information clearly to a range of different audiences. Clients especially value Tom’s high productivity and excellent writing skills.
Senior associate
Karyn Green
Karyn brings her significant experience in supporting organisations to develop, plan and deliver effective organisational review, design and change. She has a track record of delivering results across core organisational and people performance dimensions for both public and private sector clients.
Karyn’s stand out skills are her engaging and personable approach, her professionalism, coupled with a deeply held personal commitment to working with people at all levels of organisations to design and deliver better workplaces, better people development strategies and better results through people. Karyn’s calm and sophisticated approach gives her the ability to credibly engage key stakeholders through change management processes.
Karyn’s experience has also equipped her with the skills and capability to easily traverse and perform to a high-level across multiple aspects of people capability and change management, organisational review and design, and strategic people initiatives.
Karyn holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration in Human Resources Management and Services.