Strategic business consultancy backed by real business experience.

Who we are

KNK Consulting - Naomi Ballantyne (ONZM) and Kris Ballantyne, have successfully founded, grown, transformed and exited a number of the largest and most highly regarded Life and Health Insurers in New Zealand.

Together, we can bring your business an accumulated breadth and depth of executive experience which few others can match, with a wealth of strategic, operational and executional knowledge across all areas of a functional businesses.


What we do

  • The journey from business concept to successful exit for founders and early-stage investors can be a long, lonely and arduous one. With the experience of multiple proven start-ups in our back-grounds, KNK Consulting can provide potentially life- changing advice and support for the benefit of founders and their investors.

  • It can be extremely difficult for Executive Teams and Boards of established businesses to even begin to understand what growth opportunities could be available to them.

    In the absence of entrepreneurial mind-sets, the identified growth opportunities be limited to what has been done before, or to what others are currently doing within their industry.

    KNK Consulting brings entrepreneurial thinking to the table in order to widen the possibilities for the business to choose from. We can also add our expertise to the operational projects required to implement any new growth strategies.

  • When the going gets tough and failure becomes a possibility, rapid turn-around is often the only other way out. Entrepreneurial expertise is needed as much for business transformation as it is for start-up, but often with much shorter dead-lines.

    KNK Consulting can provide the creativity and speed needed to identify the best options and the operational expertise to help the business implement the required changes.

  • Boards of directors and major shareholders often struggle to objectively assess individual executive and departmental performance in isolation from overall business performance. While global consultancy firms offer leadership competency comparison against researched ‘best practice’, they often lack the real-life executive experience to fully understand the intricacies of each individual business. KNK Consulting can provide deep real-world management expertise and insight to help directors and shareholders get a more accurate view of the relative level of performance of the executive teams of their businesses.

  • Finding the right candidate for a high-level executive role is not a quick or straight-forward exercise, and in many cases the luxury of a smooth handover from the incumbent is not viable.

    KNK Consulting offers interim placement solutions, allowing for seamless continuance of business operations in highly skilled hands to give you time to find your ideal long-term candidate.


Contact Us

Interested in finding out more about KNK’s Consulting services? Get in touch with us for a no-obligation discussion.