Lisa Buchan

Overview

Lisa is an experienced consultant with over twenty-five years in the ICT industry, and has held senior executive positions in IBM and Centron Corporation.

She is an acknowledged ‘thought leader’ on digital futures, and has spent the last few years consulting to NZ Government organisations on future strategies and design for innovation. She has also worked with many organisations to assist them to design and implement new strategies, or support their change initiatives.

Lisa’s facilitation skills help clients create new insights utilising their experience and organisational knowledge to quickly get to the heart of what needs changing, and why.

Lisa is a certified Scrum Master, has trained as an Arbinger Facilitator, a programme designed to reduce or remove personal conflict from teams that must work together to achieve optimal outcomes, and is an accredited Investment Logic Mapping (ILM) facilitator.

Qualifications

• Master of Business Administration (Victoria University) - 1994
• Bachelor of Horticultural Science (Massey University) – 1985

Recent Experience

Over the last three years Lisa has been involved in the writing and development of a number of business cases including;

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Support for a variety of business cases including Technology, Security and VFM for the APEC 2021 Programme
• Department of Internal Affairs
  • The review and support for the Wellington Accommodation business case
  • The completion of two business cases for the Building our Future Programme;
• Ministry of Education
  • a Programme Business Case for Integrated Education Data and Online Reporting and Analysis
  • Detailed Business Case for the Education Council Reg. System

Lisa is an accredited and experienced ILM facilitator with wide experience facilitating workshops with diverse stakeholders from multiple different organisations.