40+ years of leading capability practice across Aotearoa and abroad.
LG Future is the dedicated local government practice of Capability Group, Added Insight and LSI Consulting. One expert team at the forefront of change and innovation, built specifically for industries and sectors navigating generational change and transformation.
Councils were buying capability support in pieces. The sector needed it joined up.
Reform, amalgamation, AI, rates pressure and rising community expectation are arriving together, and every one of them lands on the workforce. Councils were solving that with a leadership provider here, a restructure consultant there, an assessment tool somewhere else, and no single view of capability across any of it.
LG Future brings operating model and organisation design, change and transition planning, optimised operations, leadership development, skills development and talent management into one practice, delivered by people who have spent their careers inside the sector rather than passing through it. We know what a long-term plan cycle does to a workforce plan, and we know the difference between a council of 90 people and a council of 900.
One relationship, one capability picture, seven services that actually talk to each other.
Capability Group has spent four decades helping New Zealand organisations build the leadership, structures and skills they need. In local government that means leadership programmes from Northland to Southland, organisation design through reform, and the LG Skills Framework built for the sector.
Added Insight is the organisational psychology practice alongside it. Registered psychologists who design and run the assessment, selection and talent work: fair, evidence-based, and useful to the person being assessed as well as the council doing the assessing. Talent Potential is its succession framework.
LSI Consulting is the operational strategy practice, established in 1989 and a New Zealand Government procurement panel provider. It runs on one idea: strategy only creates value when it is implemented well. Diagnose, design, deliver, so councils operate with greater clarity, control and confidence.
Who you actually work with
Work with some of New Zealand's leading experts in their respective fields.
Drew McGuire
Guy Chadwick
Fiona Hancock
Tim Lott
Megan Whitaker
Meghan Pagey
Neil Kirk
How we work with councils
We start with your context
Long-term plan cycle, elected member expectations, what your last restructure did to trust. No programme lands well without it.
We build capability you keep
Frameworks, tools and internal facilitators stay with your team. The goal is that you need us less each year.
We share across the sector
What works in one council usually works in twelve. Our insights, frameworks and benchmarks are open to the sector.
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