Probity Expands To Auckland To Meet Growing Demand

Media Release May 2013

Probity Expands To Auckland To Meet Growing Demand

Twelve years after establishing the business in Wellington and building a portfolio of public- and private-sector clients, management consultancy Probity has extended its base to Auckland, where a downtown office was set up late last year to meet increasing demand from organisations seeking to improve performance and profitability through the effective use of technology, processes and people capability.

With the expansion comes a new appointment, that of Auckland General Manager Clare Fletcher. Clare has a senior management background in both the public and private sectors, with emphasis on strategy and client relationship management, business performance and stakeholder management, and sales and business development.

She has worked for organisations including Genesis Energy, in the role of general manager retail, Southern Cross Health Care Group, Candle ICT, ManpowerProfessional and New Zealand Post, where she headed the sales and business development team for business and international markets and also served on the organizational transformation management team.

Probity’s recent successes include playing a significant role in establishing the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and a large-scale project with the New Zealand Fire Service to streamline and automate its accounts payable processes, significantly reducing cost, error rate, speed of transaction and burden on human resources. Collectively, Probity’s senior team has over 150 years’ experience in industry and the public sector, having worked with a wide range of industry sectors including health, utilities, retail, financial and local and central government.

Probity has experienced significant increase in demand for its services over the past three years and has steadily grown to 25 consultants, with plans to continue this growth. The consultants variously specialize in business performance improvement, people and process and business systems.

Of the move into Auckland, managing director Barry Carruth says it had long been on the agenda and was a matter of timing it right for the market. “We’ve been working with clients all over the country for many years, but have found that we work most effectively when we have a permanent presence in the same city as our clients.

“Historically, most of our client base has been in Wellington, but with various economic and political shifts over the past few years, we’ve seen a surge in demand from both public- and private-sector organisations based in Auckland. All told, 2013 is a good time to be establishing a stronger presence in Auckland.”

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