How we can help
Project management for any situation
We provide experienced project professionals to help you achieve your business strategy through the leadership and management of key projects.
Project Managers today need an ever-broadening set of skills to be successful, and we constantly strive for the best balance of competency and personality to provide the best service to our clients.
Whatever the size of your organisation or project, we’ve got experience across Australasia in multiple sectors including Local / Regional Government, Agribusiness, Transport and Logistics, Utilities, Education, and more.
Our project management services
Helping clients through the delivery of
Project & Programme Management
Providing a safe pair of hands to drive your projects forward. Whether you have a bite sized initiatives or multi-national programmes, we’ve got the expertise to build teams, define plans, and engage vendors and stakeholders to deliver progress.
Project Coordination
Need an extra pair of hands to assist your management capability? Let us support your project leaders, own those smaller workstreams or capture the right data in the right way for the right people. We make the Project/Programme Managers look good!
Change Management
Projects create change, and this change needs to be planned and managed to make sure your outputs can become outcomes. Change Management is more than just communication and training, it’s about engagement and adoption.
Project Recovery
We all know projects carry risk and uncertainty, and sometimes things don’t go as well as we’d like. We have depths of experience in rescuing and resetting, so if you’ve got a project which needs to be put back on the right track, we can help.
Tender Management & Vendor Engagement
Partner and solution selection is such an important stage of a new project. We’ll help you understand your needs, validate what’s possible, and select the right people, product, and process to set your project up for success, right from the start.
Project Closure & Handover
By definition, projects are time limited – they must come to an end. Project closure can be difficult for large and complex initiatives. We’re here to help you validate deliverables, get signoff, complete any operational handovers, and finalise closure reporting.
Why Millpond
Proven process and methodologies
With over 100 years of collective project management experience and a reputation for delivering outcomes, we’ve built a legacy that’s only growing.
Passionate about projects, our people are talented, skilled, and capable professionals, who provide the full range of project management services and training to increase your team’s skills and capabilities to help you achieve your business outcomes.
Some of New Zealand’s largest and most successful organisations partner with us because we offer a unique mix of capabilities, summarised as our ‘Four Ps’:
Our Trainer was excellent. She had a manner and charm that is magnetic and her ability to facilitate class engagement is testament to her project management skills. Great course. One of the most engaging I’ve ever been on.
Bevan Johnson, Project Manager, Fonterra
Millpond managed a multi-vendor project team spread across the world, within very ambitious scopes and time frames. Millpond were great to work with, with their simple but methodical approach to project management.
Grant Longden, Digital Manager, FairWay.
I absolutely loved this Project Management course and it’s mostly due to your teaching style. Really respected the fact that you are in the industry, and able to teach us the stuff that is going to be useful and also have your spin/input on things.
Michael O’Connor, Student
The online resources (material and questions) were very helpful for post-course study. The trainers know their stuff but more importantly, tailor it to the individual learning style and pace.
Nick Dollin, Project Manager, Trimble
It was great how Millpond modified the process to fit with the business and showed us how to use it. The shared ownership of the final process gave us confidence in an effective outcome.
Quenton Johnston, Process Manager, OceanaGold Macraes Operation
A massive thanks for the course, you made what could have been quite a dry course (for those uninitiated to project management!) into something enjoyable, interesting, and even entertaining.
Kate McKenzie, Engineering Supervisor/Planner,
Antarctica NZ
What’s been happening
Our latest
case studies
Millpond provided Kathmandu with an experienced team with the right skills to upgrade their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.
Millpond were instrumental in shaping the new Otago University MBA PCE offering
Foodstuffs needed a Project Manager to deliver two critical and complex projects.
A bespoke Capability Programme to establish and develop the critical capabilities required to meet future demands of BHP’s growth portfolio.
The Millpond team developed an entirely bespoke, one day PRINCE 2 training program that was delivered at two separate locations in July of 2020.
FairWay Resolution Ltd is New Zealand’s leading dispute resolution and conflict management organisation.
OceanaGold needed to define a set of structured yet flexible processes capable of implementing and managing the full spectrum of projects.
Tasked with managing the South Island’s largest port, Lyttelton Port Company facilitates the import
