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.
Four brilliant legal minds join SHIFT Advisory
SHIFT Advisory is excited to welcome four brilliant legal minds to the team across the Motu, in Wellington, Auckland, Gisborne and Hawkes Bay: Meredith Ussher, Charlotte Holden Charly Thorpe and Grainne O’Callaghan .
SHIFT Advisory Lawyer Alexandra Birt named one of Australia & NZ Lawyer magazine’s 2026 Future Legal Leaders
Alexandra Birt is helping to redefine what a career in law looks like - and is a strong advocate for a more modern, flexible future that allows lawyers to do great work, without it coming at the cost of life beyond the office.
Leading with Trust and Momentum: Inside TVNZ’s Legal Team
At TVNZ, General Counsel Claire Addis has built a legal team where trust, flexibility, and collaboration drive performance. Supporting high-profile broadcasting, content, and commercial work, the lean team navigates complex challenges in a fast-moving media environment while maintaining a culture that prioritises autonomy, wellbeing, and shared success.
