About

Principal Advisor: Wayne Jackson

Wayne brings a rare combination of commercial intelligence, governance experience, and human understanding to complex disputes.

His background includes:

30+ years as CEO, Chair, Director, Big four firm partner and senior advisor in both NZ and global roles
A Business and Financial Mentor working with small businesses and individual clients
Extensive experience resolving complex commercial, governance, and organisational conflicts
A proven ability to stabilise high‑emotion situations and guide people toward workable solutions
A long track record of successful mediated and negotiated outcomes

Wayne’s style is calm, structured, commercially grounded, and future‑focused.

Examples of conflict management and resolution include:

guiding parties in a complex commercial arrangement to contain disputes within a managed framework
working across business and geographic cultures to develop common understandings to enable a positive business relationship to be restored
resolving and managing serious governance relationship breakdowns
breaking deadlocked leadership teams with fundamental disagreement over strategic direction
untangling and clarifying complex financial disputes as a basis for shared understanding and dispute resolution
providing expert opinions with facilitation to bring parties together
working with small business owners to establish role clarity and responsibilities

Wayne leads all cient engagements with associates in law, human resurces and technology providing specific technical input if and when required.

Professional development

He has authored:

Strategic Selling in professional services
Partner development programmes
Managing the Risks that Matter (E&Y Publication)
Innovation in the Public Sector (E&Y Monograph)
The Great Training Robbery. (Monograph)
Wayne is the moderator of The Path Back, a blog series focused on Nz’s economic development over the past 50 years

Associate member :Resolution Institute (NZ)