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Clarity | Connection | Action.

At McElrea Consulting, we help organisations and communities turn insight into impact through facilitation, research, training, communications & engagement, digital marketing and strategy.

McElrea Consulting creates the conditions for progress: inviting people to come together, sparking ideas that matter, and turning vision into practical outcomes.

Trusted by councils, community trusts, businesses and not-for-profits across Aotearoa.

Facilitation

Spaces that move people

We design and hold conversations that build trust, unlock ideas and commit to action.


Includes: workshops, hui, strategic conversations, pathway sprints, 30-day check-ins

Research

Insight you can act on

Evidence, stories and analysis to ground decisions and set direction.


Includes: stakeholder interviews, surveys, desktop research, feasibility and options analysis.

Strategy

Vision with a pathway

From big-picture direction to practical steps with owners, timeframes and measures.


Includes: strategy design, ILM/problem definition, action roadmaps, success indicators.

Training

Skills that last

Practical learning that lifts capability across teams and communities.


Includes: Strategic Doing®, facilitation skills, media training, governance training

Communications& Engagement

Clarity that builds trust

Authentic engagement and clear storytelling to support buy-in and momentum.


Includes: engagement planning, community outreach, comms toolkits, messaging and copy.

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Why McElrea Consulting

At McElrea Consulting, we become part of your team. Clients often say it feels like we’re just another staff member - working alongside them, listening deeply, and making sure nothing leaves our hands until they’re completely happy.

Our work takes many forms: facilitation that moves rooms, research you can act on, training that builds capability, engagement that earns trust, and astrategy that gives direction when it’s needed most. Each is a stream in its own right; together, they create a shared flow of momentum that carries your organisation and community forward.

We’re here to simplify the complex, connect the right people, and create momentum that lasts.

 

Different streams, shared flow.


That’s the essence of McElrea Consulting: whatever the challenge, we create the conditions for people and ideas to move forward - together.

The McElrea Approach

We listen first – every place and organisation has unique strengths and challenges.

 

We design with you, not for you – collaboration is at the core.

 

We focus on action – ideas move quickly into implementation.

 

We bring clarity and trust – simplifying complexity and strengthening relationships.

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