Real-world expertise. Structured for execution.
Expert-led advisory for business decisions that matter.
CATO connects organisations with proven practitioners for advisory, expert access, executive education, specialist delivery, and retained advisory support.
Experience across our advisor network
Selected organisations from our advisors' professional backgrounds across New Zealand and Australia.
A structured way to access real-world expertise.
CATO gives organisations access to experienced practitioners who have led, delivered, governed, transformed and solved real business problems. Every engagement starts with the business need. CATO then identifies suitable expertise and the right way to engage.
Use CATO when the problem requires experienced judgement.
Organisations come to CATO when internal teams need specialist input, an executive decision requires outside perspective, a project needs recovery, a board needs assurance, or a capability gap needs to be addressed quickly and professionally.
A board decision needs specialist input
A transformation programme is unclear or at risk
A risk, compliance, or governance issue needs review
A team needs practical executive learning
A business needs senior expertise without a permanent hire
A leader needs fast access to a credible practitioner
Five ways to access CATO expertise.
Engage CATO in the format that fits the decision, project, team or capability need, from a single expert call to long-term capability and retained advisory support.
CATO Advisory & Delivery
Premium consulting, advisory, and specialist project delivery led by experienced practitioners.
CATO Expert Access
Focused expert calls and advisory sessions for specific questions, decisions, or specialist issues.
CATO Advisory Desk
Retained access to CATO's expert network, advisory calls, quick reviews, and priority support.
CATO Executive Labs & Briefings
Practitioner-led executive learning, workshops, panels, and business briefings for corporate and professional audiences.
CATO Academy
Expert-led professional education and enterprise learning built from real-world practitioner expertise.
Not a directory. Not generic consulting. A structured expert-led platform.
CATO does not operate as a public consultant marketplace or a traditional consulting firm built around generic delivery teams. The difference is in how expertise is selected, structured and supported.
Expertise comes from people who have done the work
Advisors are selected for relevance, fit, and experience
From one-hour input to retained advisory
CATO supports the process, not just the introduction
Education and briefings help clients build internal knowledge
Systems and AI support speed, consistency, and scale
Traditional consulting
→ Heavy projects
Expert networks
→ Expert access
Training companies
→ Learning
CATO
→ Expert access, advisory, delivery, learning, and retained support
Expertise across the business issues leaders actually face.
CATO organises its practitioner network around high-value business areas where judgement, experience, and execution matter.
Risk, Compliance & Governance
Practical expertise across enterprise risk, operational risk, compliance, assurance, governance, privacy, and information governance.
Strategy, Transformation & Delivery
Support for strategy, operating models, programme recovery, transformation, delivery governance, and execution roadmaps.
Specialist Advisory & Expert Access
Fast access to specialists for defined business questions, technical issues, decision support, and fractional advisory needs.
Structured advisory options for high-value business needs.
For common governance, strategy, transformation and specialist needs, CATO offers four defined engagements designed for clarity and practical outcomes. Advisory Desk provides retained advisory access for leadership teams.
Risk & Governance Review
Identify governance, risk, compliance, and control gaps before they become business problems.
Strategy & Operating Model Sprint
Align leadership, clarify priorities, and create a practical execution roadmap.
Transformation Recovery Office
Diagnose and recover stalled, unclear, or high-risk programmes.
Fractional Specialist Advisory
Access senior specialist expertise without hiring full-time.
Advisory Desk
Keep experienced expertise close to your leadership team through retained advisory access.
The right expertise is selected for the problem.
CATO works through a curated network of experienced practitioners. We assess the client's issue, identify suitable expertise, and structure the engagement. If the proposed advisor is not the right fit, CATO can identify another suitable practitioner from the network.
CATO does not operate as a public consultant directory. Expertise is selected for the problem - based on issue, sector, engagement type, required experience, availability, and fit.
The objective is not simply to introduce an expert. It is to identify the right expertise for the problem.
Build capability through practitioner-led learning.
CATO Academy and CATO Executive Labs & Briefings help organisations build practical capability through online professional education, executive sessions, panels, workshops, and strategic briefings led by experienced practitioners.
CATO Academy
Online professional education for organisations that need practical, expert-led learning across business-critical topics.
CATO Executive Labs & Briefings
Private workshops, executive briefings, panels, and business learning sessions designed for corporate and professional audiences.
Keep experienced expertise close to your leadership team.
CATO Advisory Desk gives organisations retained access to expert calls, specialist input, quick reviews, executive briefings, priority advisor matching, and selected learning content through a monthly or annual advisory model.
CEOs
Regulated organisations
Boards
SMEs without internal specialist depth
Executive teams
Companies undergoing change
Serious work requires serious judgement.
CATO brings structure to how expertise is selected and the engagement is run, with clear scoping, confidential collaboration and practical quality checks.
Curated practitioner network
Structured scoping
Confidential engagement process
Secure workspace
Clear engagement model
Practical deliverables
Senior-level expertise
Quality review and follow-up
Built for leaders, teams, and organisations facing serious business needs.
Questions leaders ask before engaging CATO.
What is CATO?
CATO is an expert-led advisory and execution platform that connects organisations with proven practitioners to solve complex business challenges.
Organisations engage CATO for a focused expert call, a structured advisory project, a specialist delivery engagement, an executive briefing, online professional education, or retained advisory access.
Is CATO a consulting firm or an expert network?
CATO provides consulting and advisory services, but it is broader than a traditional consulting firm or an expert network.
It combines practitioner-led advisory, expert access, specialist delivery, executive education and retained support. CATO identifies suitable expertise and structures the engagement around the business need.
How does CATO select advisors?
CATO assesses the business need, defines the expertise required, identifies suitable practitioners, structures the engagement, and supports delivery and follow-up.
Expertise is selected for the problem, based on issue, sector, engagement type, required experience, availability and fit.
Does CATO publish consultant or advisor profiles?
No. CATO does not operate as a public consultant directory.
CATO works through a curated network of experienced practitioners, and expertise is identified for each engagement rather than browsed from a public list.
What happens if the proposed advisor is not the right fit?
CATO can identify another suitable practitioner from the network.
The objective is not simply to introduce an expert. It is to identify the right expertise for the problem.
How does CATO protect confidentiality and manage quality?
Through structured scoping, careful expertise selection, professional engagement management, secure collaboration, and practical quality control.
The model is designed for confidential business situations where experience, discretion, and commercial judgement matter.
Need experienced expertise for a decision, project, or capability gap?
Tell us what your organisation is trying to solve. CATO will help identify the most suitable way to engage, from a focused expert call to a structured advisory project or retained support.