SHIFT Advisory | SHIFT Compliance – the new way
SHIFT is reshaping professional services – providing on-demand senior consultants (lawyers from SHIFT Advisory and Risk & Compliance, and Corporate Governance Consultants from SHIFT Compliance).
No need to engage large professional services firms or jump through hoops to get full FTE budget approval.
We connect experienced consultants with in-house teams on an interim or project basis, as well as parental cover and support for Business as Usual overflow.
We offer clients astute, experienced individuals, who integrate seamlessly into your project, team and business, for better outcomes and ways of working.
Working as a SHIFT Consultant creates opportunity to pursue specific goals, bring fresh skills and capacity to a team, and ultimately gives you greater control and autonomy over your professional and personal life.
Our Services
At SHIFT, we fill an unmet need between what large professional services and law firm support can offer.
As lawyers and business people who care about our clients – we’re motivated to help you to achieve better results by working in new, flexible and responsive ways to meet your specific needs.
SHIFT Compliance – Risk, Compliance, Corporate Governance and Company Secretariat support
Work With Us
SHIFT Consultants are exceptional proven legal or regulatory professionals who recognise the professional and personal benefits that come with working in a new way.
News And Views
Read about some of our own New Thinking, as well as views and ideas from people and businesses that we admire, or that simply got us to thinking.
The Sky’s the Limit: Sky NZ CEO Sophie Moloney
In this piece, Sky NZ’s Chief Executive - and recent Deloitte Top 200 Chief Executive of the Year - Sophie Moloney reflects on the legal skills that shaped her leadership journey - and how a foundation in law can propel lawyers into senior commercial and executive roles, with one golden rule:
From firm to business: Making the move in-house
Hear from three SHIFT Advisory lawyers — John Hanson, Bianca Miller, and Lisa Holt — about their journeys from firms to in-house roles, and what they’ve learned along the way.
Banking on flexibility without losing ambition
Three of SHIFT’s clients, colleagues, and friends - Stefania Esposito (Westpac), Macayla Hughes (Kiwibank), and Larissa Vaughan (TSB) - are legal leaders at three of New Zealand’s major banks. Like those on Emma McLean’s Part-Time Power List, they show why role models matter —proving you can build big careers while raising families, and bringing to life the mantra: you need to see it to be it.
