Who We Are
Thank you for asking 🙂
We are a team of senior business advisors, coaches, and facilitators. We work with CEOs and their executive teams when the issues are real, the stakes are high, and ordinary advice isn’t enough.
How we work – One point of contact. The full depth of the team.
When you engage Growing Organisations, you first engage Ross Wilson. He is your primary contact from the first conversation to the final deliverable, the consistent voice, the carrier of the agreed project brief and the intergrating intelligence. He’s the person accountable for the quality of everything we do.
Ross leads the engagement the way a conductor leads an orchestra. He does not micromanage his colleagues. They are highly qualified, deeply experienced professionals who need no supervision. What he does is keep the whole ensemble focused on the agreed purpose, resource the work properly, and ensure that when things threaten to drift or the scope needs to change, there is one senior voice to navigate that with you.
This is not a firm that takes your brief at the front door and hands you to a junior team out the back. The colleagues Ross brings into each engagement are chosen specifically for what your situation requires and your team will work directly with them on the project. They will bring their full capability to your business, while Ross remains close as one wise voice added to theirs.
The project will not be signed off until you and Ross say so.
Our Passion
To create healthy environments which your people can’t wait to go, to deliver their best all day, with enthusiasm, and go home at the end of the day feeling smugly satisfied with their achievements. And to hit “Repeat” the next day.
How we show up
We say what we think. We do what we promise.
We are direct without being unkind or disrespectful. We are honest without being harsh. We tell you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear, because the most expensive thing we could do is tell you comfortable things that leave your business where it was.
We choose our clients as carefully as our clients choose us. We do not work with organisations whose practices conflict with our values (unless the CEO is committed to changing them), and we do not work with leaders who are dishonest, shrewish, coercive, stingy, or unwilling to look clearly at what is actually happening in their business.
What we will never do is treat you as a transaction. Our best client relationships last for years. They begin with a single honest conversation and grow into something that looks less like a consulting engagement and more like a trusted partnership.
If that is what you are looking for, you are in the right place.
The Team – People who have been where you are.
Every member of the GOL team brings real-world experience from inside business, not just their academic credentials (and there are plenty) and not dry theoretical frameworks.
These are people who have led teams, managed budgets, navigated crises, and delivered results at senior levels across a wide range of industries and countries.
Responsibilities: Managing Director & Principal Advisor
Credentials: Executive MBA (University of Auckland); Facilitator Excellence Award – Strategy & Learning (Wilson Learning Worldwide)
Ross Wilson has spent more than 30 years working at the intersection of leadership, business performance, and human potential: as a CEO, as a Governance Board Chair, as a Sales Director, as a Facilitator, and as a Trusted Advisor to CEOs and senior leaders across more than 40 countries.
Ross began his career as a high-performing B2B Business Development Manager, moved into Sales Management and Leadership Development, and spent years working internationally with organisations across Europe, India, China, South-East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Ross has lived in five countries, and can get by in 4 languages and various dialects of English. He led a global not-for-profit with more than 900 staff, and is currently leading his fifth, successful, private business.
His MBA from the University of Auckland deepened what decades of real-world experience had already taught him: that the issues limiting a business are rarely isolated, rarely simple, and rarely what they first appear to be.
Ross is an unorthodox consultant because he thinks across the whole commercial system – economy, big picture, specific numbers, people & structure, culture, leadership, management, politics, execution – and then connects the threads coherently, including those that others miss.
Clients describe Ross as direct, calm under pressure, and genuinely invested in their success. He asks the classical questions and the ones others avoid. He tells the truth without theatrics. He has made enough mistakes of his own to meet yours without judgment, and learned enough from them to help you navigate yours without drama.
Ross is a keynote speaker at corporate and industry conferences, has facilitated more than 500 leadership and strategy workshops, and is readily available on WhatsApp for clients working across time zones.
“The person you speak to at the start is – and will be – the person you’ll be speaking to at the end.”
Contact: ross.wilson@growingorganisations.co.nz | WhatsApp: +64 21 152 8400
Where we have worked – Global experience. Practical wisdom
The GOL team has worked with organisations across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, India, China, and South-East Asia – in industries including manufacturing, engineering, professional services, financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, medical technology, information technology, primary industries, defence, local government, hospitality, entertainment, automotive, education, and more.
That breadth of experience is not insignificant. It is what allows us to bring a perspective your internal team cannot easily generate: one that has seen the same challenge in different contexts, different cultures, and different stages of a business cycle, and knows which of those contexts is most relevant to yours.
Want to know if we’re the right fit?
The best way to find out is a single, honest conversation with a member of our team – a real human. No pitch or templated proposal. Just a direct discussion about where you are, what you’re dealing with, and whether GOL is genuinely the right resource for you.
To arrange that conversation by email, request a conversation
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All others, if you prefer, email us at: hello@growingorganisations.co.nz, or Connect with Ross on Linkedin.
