Simon Barnes Director at BBD

We engaged Stella Green to provide Transitional Change management for the relocation of AECOM and Davis Langdon to our new 5 Green Star offices during 2011 and 2012. Consulting widely to ensure the transition was successful, Stella worked with all business units to instill new ways of working in the innovative workplace design. Change programmes were delivered around the enhanced technology, way finding , events, and knowledge management. Stella worked closely with our teams in Human resources, IT , Facilities management and operations to ensure that the culture came with us on the journey to this collaborative workspace. We are thrilled with the transition that has taken place and the staffs response to the change programmes.

John Potter Sponsoring Director at Boffa Miskell

We engaged Be Confident to partner with the Auckland office of Boffa Miskell to guide our transformative workplace change programme, in which we introduced new ways of working, flexibility and collaboration. Working with Be Confident was hugely beneficial in: Helping us clarify what we wanted and how it was going to happen. Maintaining and increasing our people’s engagement while we introduced new ways of working and implemented change Keeping us on track to ensure these changes were adopted long-term Evaluating our progress post-change and suggesting ways to continue evolving the workplace to future proof us as our business grows Coaching us on addressing change challenges and providing sound advice for our leadership and project team Our new workplace looks great, serves our people and our business admirably, and our consultants have fully embraced this 'new normal' with great enthusiasm and commitment. We undertook a tremendous change, and Be Confident helped us navigate it successfully.

Stella Green has been a valued change advisor at Plant & Food Research since late 2014 when we started to build an integrated workplace change programme to introduce new ways of working. Stella has been an important ingredient in the success of this change at our Auckland and Nelson sites. She was involved in developing the change plan and evaluation methodologies, workshop facilitation and has been an ongoing project team and leadership advisor. We’ve particularly valued the depth and breadth of experience Stella brings and the practical advice she offers. Our workplace change has involved moving to shared and open laboratories, offices, and communal spaces. Stella quickly came up to speed with the unique aspects of the organization and importantly helped bring focus to the similarities with other organisations undergoing workplace change. We look forward to an ongoing relationship with Stella and Be Confident as our change journey continues.

I had the pleasure of working with Stella when she led the Change Management of BNZ's Retail Banking team from our Quay Park office to our 80 Queen St HQ. Not only were we moving across town, but we also moved from a standard open plan environment to an activity based, flexi-desk model. Stella led the effort marvellously, resulting in a smooth transition and the easy adoption of a new way of working.

I engaged Stella to work with our project teams developing methodologies, new protocols and a property-related change and comms plan for NZ Post Group as we engage with the roll out of a fully IT/Property/Culture/Information management integrated activity based working (ABW) initiative. She was also instrumental in establishing change capability within our team charged with rolling out new work styles for c.1,500 staff in multiple sites in Auckland and Wellington (with more to come). Stella is extremely personable, quick to form professional relationships essential in winning 'hearts and minds' and is a dynamic facilitator with a wealth of knowledge of NZ workplaces that enhanced our programme and sped up the acceptance of change. I would happily engage with Stella again to support future initiatives.

We engaged Stella from Be Confident to guide our successful transformative workplace change programme to relaunch flexible working, and lift collaboration. Be Confident helped us link the changes we wanted to make strategic sense. We tackled a range of components, from tech and storage to identifying our own work styles, ability to flex out as a workforce and activating our new spaces. Key to this successful transformation was how we would take our team with us for the ride. Stella took on the challenge of maintaining and increasing our people’s engagement despite history of poorly implemented workplace change in previous times. Extensively coaching senior leaders and the project team to focus on new possibilities and address issues comprehensively to manage all angles of support and removing all sounds of resistance. Be Confident are our workplace rock-stars. The success of any change is measured in how well used it is after the fact. Our people love our re-invigorated work spaces and most importantly are willing and able to consider new ideas and ways of working.

I engaged Stella as the Change Manager for the FAA project, to bring about the behavioural change we needed in the organisation. Her approach had just the right balance of structure and creativity, and her energy and ability to build relationships quickly with scores of stakeholders were impressive. I credit Stella with the success we experienced in getting the "knowledge and attitude" embedded in the business.

Our 400 staff had been working flexibly from offices all over Christchurch since the earthquakes, and we wanted to make sure our building supported staff to really accelerate our work now we were all back together. Stella worked with us, using their substantial experience and facilitation skills, to discover the opportunities presented by the new workplace, and to ensure staff felt the workspaces supported their work to the maximum. Be Confident helped us identify Workplace Principles and delivered a comprehensive set of practical key findings and recommendations that continue to stretch and refine the way we work within the walls of Ecan. We loved working with them