Pip Spyksma

Pip is an experienced leadership advisor who brings strategic rigour and people insight to high growth technical businesses.

With a background in large-scale data transformation consulting and startup leadership, she bridges the worlds of analytics, systems thinking, and organisational behaviour to solve problems and fast-track growth.

The ideal partner for technically brilliant founders who want to scale their leadership as fast as they scale their company.

She’s worked with some of NZ’s largest corporates on data and systems change (Air NZ, Foodstuffs, ANZ, Mercury, BP), and brings that same clarity and commercial lens to her work with emerging technology companies. In the startup space, she has advised deep tech, manufacturing, and product-led businesses on how to align leadership, team dynamics, and organisational design to meet ambitious growth targets.

Pip won’t waste time on generic advice. She works shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders to identify friction points in execution, elevate leadership influence across the team, and ensure the people side of the business is as competitive as the commercial side.

She is direct, data-savvy, and grounded. She combines frameworks like DiSC and Leadership Insights with real-world startup experience and the courage to challenge when it counts. If the next phase of growth demands deeper cohesion, clearer leadership behaviours, or a more scalable team model, Pip can help unlock it.

Brilliant …a deep understanding of the here and now, but also a strong grasp on the future requirements of our businesses. Aaron, Founder and CEO Hortus