About Us
We’re committed to new ways of working
At Radically, we can see the future.
Work is changing and as organisations and individuals, we need to adapt if we want to thrive in this exciting and changeable world. As a team, we’re committed to learning what works for tomorrow and sharing it with
you today.
Meet the team
Founded by Edwin Dando and Dan Teo, Radically now has a growing team of expert consultants working together to help New Zealand organisations evolve.
Edwin and Dan both come from a background blending leadership, management and hands-on experience improving delivery. With this unique blend of skills and their natural curiosity, they have helped many modern leaders understand how to evolve and grow adaptable organisations.
With the pace of change accelerating, Radically has evolved too. We’ve gathered a team of like minded experts who share that same curiosity and passion for organisational transformation. Together, drawing on our collective experience and insights, we’ve built a new type of consultancy for the new working world.
Yena Bae
Associate Consultant
Yena is a curious learner, motivated by delivering visible results. She strives to create a sense of community through initiating transparency and trust. She has a background in health science, with experience building corporate partnerships and strengthening the brand for a non-profit organisation. More recently, she has worked with a portfolio of healthcare clients, transitioning health systems to a digitised model by delivering a solution to improve patient experiences and health outcomes. Yena believes in the value of human-focused approaches and is always exploring ways that companies can work smarter through agile ways of working. Outside of work, Yena is a pilates enthusiast, and is passionate about encouraging wellness in the workspace.
Kacper Mazek
Partner & Principal Consultant
Kacper is passionate about modern leadership and believes that leaders play a critical role in high performing organisations. A key focus for him is helping change how leaders think about work, culture and customer value. He helps leadership teams test and define customer-centric ways of organising and operating. His ultimate goal is to help organisations build engaging workplaces that deliver value to the end customer. Kacper has been involved in multiple international transformational projects, with teams in the USA, Australia and Poland. His recent engagements have focused on building adaptive organisations, introducing new management practices for New Zealand corporates.
Kevin Fernando
Consultant
Kevin has extensive experience in the audit industry as a Chartered Accountant, which has exposed him to both the public and private sectors, enabling him to grasp complex processes and understand organisations’ needs well. He has a keen focus and interest in fostering genuine relationships with people and utilising innovative and new ways to help businesses thrive internally. Kevin is also a music aficionado and loves writing and jamming songs or touring the country with his band outside of work. He is also an avid runner and can be found exploring the mountains or new suburbs during his free time.
Priya Pawar
Senior Consultant
Priya is passionate about working with people and helping them do their best work. She strives to drive efficiency in processes and empowers her teams to continually experiment, learn and improve their ways of working. She believes in transparency and empathy being key to building trust with teams. Priya has a background in project delivery, customer success and engineering. She started out as a software developer then transitioned into business analysis, project consultancy, process Improvement and leadership. Priya has helped teams transition to agile ways of working as well as ongoing agile coaching and scrum mastery. She also has a creative side, with a passion for painting and photography.
Christian Grabowski
Senior Consultant
Christian is motivated by a passion for learning, understanding how things work, identifying opportunities, and helping organisations continually find ways to improve. He has experience in co-designing and implementing adaptive ways of working, based on the needs of the organisation, and in providing coaching and advice to senior leaders and those in key team roles. Christian brings analysis and strong facilitation skills, keen strategic and commercial insights, and innovative ideas around the modern workplace. He has been involved in improving prioritisation and planning, implementing new team and governance structures, and introducing better ways of working at Gallagher, as well as previous experience with process improvement and implementation in a range of sectors.
Sujith Ramachandra
Principal Consultant
Sujith’s motivation is to support teams and individuals to deliver valuable and impactful outcomes. He believes this is best done by listening, understanding and helping individuals realise their untapped potential, while having some fun along the way. He has a strong passion for visualisation and facilitation, materialising what’s in our heads to better align and bring teams together. Sujith started his career off as a programmer and worked his way through leadership roles as Service Delivery Manager and Senior Project Manager at Gentrack Ltd. He now helps teams embrace change by empathising and understanding how to unravel their traditional norms using an agile mindset.
Edwin Dando
Director & Principal Consultant
Edwin helps organisations rethink how they approach work and people, applying agile thinking to help them improve. He founded agile leader Clarus, later acquired by Assurity, and established Assurity’s successful education business while running the Auckland branch and the national agile practice. He has extensive experience working with executives and senior leaders to establish agile practices across a range of different business units. Edwin is also a professional Scrum.org trainer, the first person in the world to become a certified Evidence Based Management consultant, an ICAgile trainer, and a founding member of the Agile Alliance NZ. He donates a percentage of his time to social organisations including schools, universities and charities.
Lisa Finnemore
Business Manager
Lisa is a natural people person and highly skilled at ensuring teams are successful thanks to her exceptional engagement and collaboration skills. A joy to have on any team due to her warm personality, she enables the success of projects through her expert communications and management ability. Lisa is a resilient team player with a passion for different workplace environments and cultures. She has worked in a variety of large and small commercial and non-profit organisations including most recently the iconic Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland Museum. Her degree in art history means she also has a keen appreciation for design and visual arts.
Marlene Stroj – Rullo
General Manager
Marlene sees change as an opportunity to grow and improve. She strongly believes that collaboration, autonomy and purpose will drive the workforce of the future and modern ways of working. She has extensive international experience, working as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Consultant and Holacracy Coach at various companies in Switzerland, as well as an Agile Coach at MYOB in New Zealand. Having started off as a software developer, Marlene now lives and breathes the agile mindset for the past eight years. She has worked with teams in many shapes and sizes in various industries, helping them and their leaders to implement and scale adaptive methods and tools.
Yvonne Tse
Senior Consultant
Yvonne has spent most of her career working with large, complex organisations in New Zealand. She has taken multiple teams on the journey to becoming more customer focused, and has supported teams across Customs, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry for Primary Industries, and the Inland Revenue with their customer and UX research practices. She relishes the challenge of encouraging organisations to become more customer-centric in their strategic decision making. Yvonne is also experienced in navigating complex business environments to identify areas of process improvement through research, analysis, stakeholder and customer engagement, and then subsequently working with organisations to implement and measure changes.
Ellie Mackereth
Consultant
Ellie is a high growth individual who loves nothing more than solving complex problems in dynamic environments. She is on Radically’s fast-track programme as a future leader. Starting out in retail sales then moving into corporate projects, Ellie’s ability to thrive under pressure and work with uncertainty have set her on a path to success. As someone who naturally relates well to people, Ellie is passionate about delivering outstanding customer experiences. She believes in fostering environments that enable teams to better draw on each individual’s strengths and unique talents. In her spare time, Ellie mentors other young women in leadership and self-management.
Ryan Jones
Senior Consultant
Ryan is passionate about working with teams and individuals to reach their potential, delight their customers, and have some fun along the way. He believes that the most valuable and impactful outcomes are created by empowered teams in an engaging environment underpinned by transparency, autonomy and trust. Ryan's motivation comes from helping people grow and working with leaders and organisations to create a workplace where their people and business can thrive. With an education and background in project management, Ryan has worked in various delivery roles for many large organisations across the United States and New Zealand including CNN, The Home Depot, and Mitre 10.
Astrid Varchmin
Principal Consultant
Astrid has a wealth of experience leading and delivering transformations for culture change, restructuring and system implementation. She specialises in organisational development, change management and leadership development, working with global organisations and teams in Germany, Switzerland, the USA and New Zealand. Astrid is passionate about developing adaptive organisations and next-generation workplaces. She coaches leaders, individuals and teams to realise their full potential and adapt to changes. A big believer in trusted advisory, the growth mindset, and collaborative, innovative formats, she also engages in social projects and platforms which advocate diversity, inclusion and personal development.
Dan Teo
Director & Principal Consultant
Dan has a passion for helping people realise their potential. For the past three years, he has been helping senior leadership teams across New Zealand's most respected brands in creating high performing cultures through adopting an agile mindset.
With a blend of enterprise and grassroots agile experience, Dan brings a pragmatic senior leadership lens to his clients who want to embark on a transformative journey personally, as well as organisationally. Dan's career has seen him so far work with and advising leaders on organisational agility across Telecommunications, Financial Services, FMCG, Media and Broadcasting, Postal, Government and Manufacturing industries.
Justin Bae-Jang
Senior Consultant
Justin focuses on strategy, business design and adaptive organisational transformation. He is also a certified scrum master, agile coach, and accredited ICAgile trainer. He helps facilitate leadership teams craft their vision, prioritise their objectives and guide multi-function teams to deliver results through modern and pragmatic practices, including governance. He works on enabling growth mindsets, instilling a culture of learning, and encouraging high-transparency work and strong ownership of outcomes. Justin has become a specialist in strategic problem solving by aligning strategy, people and processes. Through his experience with various sectors and consulting practices, he has acquired a broad knowledge in behavioural science, innovation, and business ecosystems.
Tiziano Rullo
Principal Consultant
Tiziano has a focus on continuously improving the way organisations approach the challenges of a modern workplace, as well as how individuals show up and interact with each other, to create a productive and sustainable work environment. Tiziano has worked with numerous delivery and leadership teams in the agile space, both in advisory and execution roles over the past few years. In addition to this, Tiziano is a Certified Holacracy Coach who has played a leading role in the adoption of this self-organisation framework throughout multiple organisations. He has also taught Holacracy alongside its founder, Brian Robertson.
Our
values
We firmly believe in leading by example. Our own Radically values underpin everything we do internally, with our clients and the wider community. Sharing them here makes us accountable for living them every day.
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We Care More
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Authentic Inside and Out
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Sense of Belonging
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Act Like Owners
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Courage to be Radical
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Impact at Scale
Overview in numbers
Clients
98
Benefits Enabled
4.3b
Thought Leaders
