Welcome To Harkness Consulting

Our focus is on assisting school and system leaders to review and renew their effectiveness. 

Our Key Consultancy Services assist leaders to:

  • Manage change and renew their mission 
  • Review their effectiveness 
  • Plan, execute and evaluate strategy 
  • Develop and appraise performance 
  • Use strategic data for evaluation, planning and decision making  
  • Review and renew key leadership roles

From 2016 some new workshops are now available:

# Leading and Working Your  Role Workshop (2 hours) : This workshop tailored for staff and/or leadership teams at school or system level assists participants to reflect on and understand how they are empowered and authorised to lead the school through their role. (See blog -Working Your Role for more details) 

# School Leadership Team Meetings - Maximising Strategic Effectiveness Workshop (90 minutes): This workshop for school or system leadership team members focuses on how school leadership team meetings can be used more effectively  to monitor, review and execute strategy.

# Organisational Role Analysis Workshop (2 hours) Sometimes roles get stuck in organisations and lose their effectiveness or new roles are created to better address the needs of a school/system. This workshop is a one on one workshop for predominantly senior leaders in schools or systems to enable them to learn how they can effectively 'work their present or new role' to address the changing contexts in which the organisation's mission in enacted.