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Moving things unseen

About us

Ghost Dynamics
is a human-centred transformation consultancy.

We work with leaders and teams when the stakes are high and the path isn’t clear.

It could be a critical new platform or service that has to work on day one, repositioning your organisation ahead of the curve with confidence, a digital experience your customers will judge you on, or building trusted AI capability, on your own terms.

We work out what’s actually going on and help you decide what to do, in the right order. Whether your goal is growing revenue, moving faster, changing direction, or reducing risk, we stay alongside your team until the outcome is real.

Then we leave without dependency, as though we were never there.

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The most effective work leaves no fingerprints. We come in without ego, embed without friction, and focus entirely on the decisions that determine whether a strategy succeeds in the real world; the stakeholder dynamics, the design choices, the human factors that no playbook covers.

We leave the capability and the confidence behind. The dependency stays gone. That's moving things unseen.″

Toni Truslove
CEO, Ghost Dynamics

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Toni Truslove, CEO of Ghost Dynamics

On Assignment

What are we working on right now?

From major multi-regional projects to emerging tech acceleration, we're tackling a wide range of problems for clients right across the Indo-Pacific, each with its own pace, complexity, and opportunity.

Global
2026

Accelerating High-Value Research Commercialisation at Global Scale Through Strategic AI Innovation

Digital Product
South East Asia
2026

Re-imagining customer retention to drive sales frequency, volume and value for one of the world's largest dairy companies

Digital Product
New Zealand
2026

Supporting the redesign and delivery of the world's most inclusive social welfare system.

Digital Product
New Zealand
2026

Uniting Government to deliver world leading national victim rehabilitation programme

Digital Product
Australasia
2026

Precision AI Innovation for leading global insurer

Digital Product
United Arab Emirates
2026

Delivering the digital global launch experience for one of the world's largest petrochemical companies

Digital Product
Global
2026

Accelerating High-Value Research Commercialisation at Global Scale Through Strategic AI Innovation

Digital Product
South East Asia
2026

Re-imagining customer retention to drive sales frequency, volume and value for one of the world's largest dairy companies

Digital Product
New Zealand
2026

Supporting the redesign and delivery of the world's most inclusive social welfare system.

Digital Product
New Zealand
2026

Uniting Government to deliver world leading national victim rehabilitation programme

Digital Product
Australasia
2026

Precision AI Innovation for leading global insurer

Digital Product
United Arab Emirates
2026

Delivering the digital global launch experience for one of the world's largest petrochemical companies

Digital Product

WHAT WE DO

We adapt and evolve our capability, bringing force precisely where it's needed.

Lead with strategic clarity.

When leadership is misaligned or facing an uncertain horizon, momentum stalls and capital gets wasted.

Executive alignment & mobilisation

We work with leadership teams to cut through complexity, align on outcomes, and build pragmatic roadmaps that translate strategy into programmes their people can own and drive — with or without us alongside them.

Foresight & global intelligence

Through our global network of intelligence and expertise, we connect your leadership to the world's most current thinking across multiple spheres - such as geopolitics, emerging technologies, defence, energy, and climate; giving you the anticipatory edge to act with confidence ahead of the curve.

Design & validate the right solutions.

Organisations invest millions in solutions before knowing whether they will work.

Concept validation & rapid prototyping

We rapidly design and test propositions, platforms, products, and services with real users before capital is committed — reducing investment risk and accelerating executive confidence in what to build.

Digital service design & delivery

From business case through to live service, we design and deliver digital solutions that perform in the real world — embedding our people alongside yours, or operating as a dedicated delivery partner, at whatever pace and scale the programme demands.

Transform your organisation for the AI era.

The organisations that thrive won't be those that adopted AI fastest — but those that adopted it most intelligently.

Workforce & process transformation

We help organisations map, redesign, and adopt the workforce processes and systems needed to harness the genuine benefits of agentic AI — securely, cost-effectively, and in a way that strengthens rather than displaces your people and culture.

Agentic AI adoption

We identify, validate, and implement AI use cases that generate measurable operational value — moving beyond pilots to production, with governance and risk frameworks that give leadership the confidence to scale responsibly.

Shape experiences that drive behaviour.

What customers, citizens, and employees feel determines what they do.

Brand & service experience architecture

We design and orchestrate how your organisation shows up in the world — from product and service to sales, support, and e-commerce — selecting the right technologies and infrastructure to deliver the experience you intend, across every owned and earned channel.

Stakeholder & customer engagement

We create the strategies, content, and programmes that shift behaviour — whether driving internal adoption through change, activating external customers, or building durable trust with government and community stakeholders.

Build sovereign, mission-critical technology.

When the systems matter most, there is no room for dependency on someone else's infrastructure.

Enterprise software engineering

With a 200+ technology team and deep applied AI and machine learning expertise, we build secure, scalable, sovereign solutions for the most critical services — embedding with your technical teams or operating as a dedicated engineering partner across regulated and defence-grade environments.

Sovereign data migration

Our enterprise platform Dadoota enables organisations to migrate complex, disparate data sources while maintaining full data sovereignty and control — purpose-built for the demands of regulated, mission-critical environments where data integrity and security are non-negotiable.

PROOF WHAT WE DO WORKS

Don’t  just take our word for it.

The proof of our values in action isn't found in what we say. It's in how our customers and their teams talk about us, the trust they extend, and the longevity of the relationships we build together.

Ghost connects product, experience and digital in a way that breaks down silos,

creates shared understanding, and gets everyone on the same page.

Lee Hales

Engagement Director,

New Zealand Trade & Enterprise

The Ghost approach works…

supporting us to emphasise our people’s values; listening to key stakeholders; and distilling purpose and meaning. This process was infused into the end result, which is highly regarded by our industry stakeholders both in Aotearoa and abroad.

Caroline Rosanowski

Chief of Staff DDG,CIO, OCIO Defence Digital Group,

New Zealand Defence Force

Of course we chose Ghost because they are creative, intelligent, experienced and expert –

with a clear grasp on how they add value to our business. But critically they offered us a partnership – not so much that we were buying them, more we were investing in us.

Greg Forsythe

National Manager, Information & Education,

Immigration New Zealand

Ghost Dynamics are not your typical agency partners;

they feel like an extension of your team, bringing responsiveness, pragmatism, and smart thinking to every conversation. They are great at connecting the dots and helping facilitate conversations across the organisation ensuring projects are fully supported by critical areas of the business. I can’t recommend their approach highly enough.

Kellie Nathan

GM Global Brand & Reputation,

Fonterra

It's such a privilege to work with such clever peeps who love their work and the outcomes we achieve together."

Cara Jacoby

Product Manager, Growth & Development,

Education New Zealand

Working with Ghost has been fantastic –

really valuable; both in terms of the quality of the work, but also super effective in helping us come together as a team around a vision for our work that we all believe in. It’s also been so much more efficient in terms of translating the work across our teams into reality - because they’re making it with us, not for us. Which is why I brought them in.

Craig Mildenhall

GM Digital

Kathmandu

Ghost worked across multiple time zones as extended members of our innovation team -

the quality of their work, honesty, and collaboration are more than enough reason for me to recommend them to any organisation – big or small.

Elle Smith

Head of Innovation, Chief Digital Office

Westpac Australia

I often describe Ghost as the grown ups in the room.

Knowledgeable, highly skilled and clear-eyed about what can and should be done. They understand business realties more than any other partner I’ve used.

Clayton Foster

Director of Brand,

Ministry for Environment NZ Government

The Ghost team have been instrumental in helping us articulate our value proposition and helping translate our sourcing, production and distribution lifecycle into an experience our customers understand and value.

They made us feel like part of the process, empowered and in control of where things were heading...

Tom Macdonald

Director,

RC McDonald / EnviroSteel

The value Ghost adds is huge, when your team gets involved things just sharpen up so much.

It's really clear that your ability to take complex problems and simplify, even when we can't see it, is a really special skill.

Daryl Shing

Chief Enterprise Architect, National Transition Unit – Three Waters

(New Zealand Government)

our clients

We might be invisible, but you'll know our clients.

We partner with organisations operating across the US, Japan, Middle East, India, Malaysia, China, Australia and New Zealand.

P&G logo
Borouge International logo
World Health Organization logo
Communities & Justice logo
Fonterra logo
Fifa logo
Kathmandu logo
NZ Defence Force logo
Fire Emergency NZ logo
Ministry of Primary Industries logo
Public Trust logo
MOANA NZ logo
NZ Story logo
Westpac logo
Watercare logo
Warren Mahoney logo
ACC logo
MBIE logo
NZTE logo
QBE logo
Ruapehu Alpine Lifts logo
Macdonald Steel logo
Ministry of Justice logo
Employment New Zealand logo
EnviroSteel logo

our LEADERSHIP

Our leadership team is diverse in both background and experience.

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Toni Truslove

Chief Executive

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Andrew Hawley

Co-Founder

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Julie Leuzinger

Co-Founder

Ngāi Tahu

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Lizzie Shupak Mandeno

Chief Innovation Officer

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Mark Glenn

Principal Consultant – Experience

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Belle Chance

Head of Experience

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Katherine Allan

Client Director

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Rachael Farmer

Finance & Operations Director

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Phil Dunstan-Brown

Head of Creative

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Clemens Berndt

Technical Director, GHOST6 Group

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Leif Roy

Strategic Consultant – Experience

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Sam Sargeant

Strategic Consultant – Technology

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Kerrie Fowke

Strategic Ops and Delivery Lead

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Kristin Jarvis

Delivery Lead - Commercial and Risk

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Ryan Christie

Design Lead

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Stephanie Escalante

Delivery Lead

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Linda Cardiff

Delivery Lead

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Nathan Perry

Technology Lead

Ngāi Tahu / Pākehā

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Kate Brown

Technical Delivery Lead

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Alex Roberts

UX Lead

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Emily Fornieri

GTM Lead

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Mason Herber

UX Lead

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Michael Turley

UX Lead

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Andrea Maple

UX Designer

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Diego Maia

Senior Product Designer

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Sarah Longbottom

Content Lead

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Jordan Williams

UX Designer

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Marie Larking

Senior Service Designer

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Louise Turley

UX Designer

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Simone Royal

Innovation & Change Co-ordinator

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Gerardo Morales

UI/UX Designer

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Rosabel Tan

Content Writer

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Nadia Hurn

Content Writer

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Maia Fisher-Slater

Intern

our affiliations

NSW ICT Services Scheme Approved

Ghost Dynamics delivers NSW Government engagements in partnership with SECTION6 (part of the GHOST6 Group), an Advanced Registered Supplier under the NSW ICT Services Scheme (SCM0020).

NZ Approved Government supplier

Marketplace: Professional Services (DIA), AoG Consultancy Services (MBIE), AoG Creative Media Services (MBIE)

Māori-owned business

Verified by Amotai Aotearoa New Zealand's Supplier Diversity Intermediary

NZDIA accredited

Ghost is a member of the New Zealand Defence Industry Association.

Fernmark qualified provider

Ghost is a Fernmark qualified provider of Service Design, UX, UI, and CX services.

Adobe Solution Partner

A registered partner for Adobe Digital Business Solutions.

Content Authority Initiative

Partnering for an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance.

our story

Ghost Dynamics is built for the moments when the cost of getting it wrong is high and the way forward isn't clear yet.

We started in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, designing digital products and services that had to work for real people in real conditions, often under pressure and public scrutiny. That work taught us how a strategy succeeds or fails once it meets the world, and we've carried the same discipline into strategy, transformation and change across the Indo-Pacific.

Our difference is our people. Specialists who've worked through hard problems before, brought together to fit yours. We work alongside your team, say what needs saying, stay until the outcome is real, then hand it over. The work happens quietly, alongside you. The results carry your name.

Julie, Andrew and Toni — Ghost's founders

Get in touch

Together, let's move what matters to you.

Send us a message

Or, give us a call:

Indo-Pacific

+61 2 806 97968

New Zealand

+64 9 302 5580

United Arab Emirates

+971 58 551 8020

Our full story

We were established on October 31, 2018 - Halloween - so we’ve never been afraid of the dark. We’re at our best where things are uncertain, ambiguous and hard to see, supporting our customers until the way forward is clear.

Most organisations don't struggle because they can't deliver. They struggle because they're delivering the wrong thing. The priorities sound sensible, the timeline is urgent and the pressure to act is strong. Underneath sit the real constraints: customer needs that have shifted, systems that won't bend, risks nobody has surfaced, a leadership team less aligned than it looks. That's where we do our best work.

We started in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, designing digital products and services that had to work for real people in real conditions, often under pressure and public scrutiny. A service either works for the person using it, day after day, or it doesn't. That taught us how strategy succeeds or fails once it meets the world, and gave us a practical instinct most strategy firms never develop. We've carried the same discipline into strategy, transformation, organisational change and innovation, for governments and private enterprise across the Indo-Pacific.

Much of what makes today's problems hard is technology moving faster than people and institutions can absorb it. So we put people first inside every problem. Technology earns its place when it respects what it means to be human, and the work we build adds to people's lives rather than taking from them.

Our difference is our people. Strategic navigators who hold the whole problem and keep the context. Specialists drawn from a global network, brought in for exactly what your challenge needs and nothing it doesn't. Between them they've seen the same patterns play out across industries and countries, which is why they get to the real constraint quickly.

We work alongside your team, have the conversations that are usually avoided, and stay until the change is visible and the outcome measurable. Then we hand it over and leave you with clearer decisions, a stronger team and a way of working you can sustain without us. That's the ghost in Ghost Dynamics. The work happens quietly, alongside you, and the results carry your name. Nearly all our work comes from long-term relationships and referrals. We think that's the best proof there is.

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