Chris Lanigan
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Chris Lanigan

Business Success Partner, Wanaka

With three decades of international business experience, including two with Red Bull, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands, Chris Lanigan is a New Zealand business advisor and strategy consultant who helps owners design stronger, more profitable companies.


He believes that knowledge and information are remedies to uncertainty and focuses on asking the questions that lead to better decisions and enduring results. Having lived and worked across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Chris brings deep expertise in business strategy, financial management, project management and commercial business development, helping organisations grow both margin and sales.


Chris holds a Master’s qualification in Business Administration and delivers practical business coaching in Wanaka, New Zealand, supporting founders to turn complexity into clarity and improve long-term performance. He believes that managing employees and workload pressures are not problems to be
accepted, but challenges to be solved through clear systems, shared accountability and better decision frameworks.


“Sound business is not about working harder; it is about designing systems that create clarity, control and confidence. That is what makes success sustainable.”


For the past decade, Chris has helped small and medium business owners across New Zealand increase the value of their companies through structured improvement and sound decision making. The Business Success Programme provides a full and comprehensive process to review gaps that dilute business value. A key contributor to improvement is having the right mindset for discovery and learning, as performance is both capability and behaviour.


Currently based in Wanaka with his wife, Chris works with ambitious owners who want their business to run soundly, not solely rely on them.

 

Phone - 021 255 3614

Email - chris@thinknudge.com

We have been fortunate to be in business long enough to have seen good times and to make it through the challenging periods. We have tried to bring in consultants, coaches and mentors before but they never provided the support, guidance and direction we needed. They all seemed so busy and opinionated that it is was very hard to get the best out of them and for them to give you the time and commitment that we needed to improve and grow our business. Being able to get good people with the right technical knowledge and overall holistic approach around the table to support us as business owners was a real challenge.

We needed someone to observe all the business elements from the strategic to the operational elements and the ongoing performance management.  Someone who we could get to know our business, us and what we were trying to ultimately achieve.  Chris Lanigan came into our business at a time where we really needed some help. 

Working with Chris we have been able to get clarity around what is important, deconstructed complexity and built a framework for implementing our strategic business plan.  He keeps us honest to the tasks and commitments we set ourselves while diligently preparing work in the background to keep forward momentum.  He keeps us operating “above the line”, which is very important when times are busy juggling work and family.  We really appreciate the effort and commitment Chris has given to the business and to us personally and we look forward to driving the business forward with him.  

Richard and Sarah Burdon - The Camp, Lake Hawea Holiday Park

We are first-time owners of a multi-faceted grocery and hospitality business. Our Compass South advisor Chris Lanigans' business acumen and accounting and finance background was absolutely essential to our organisation’s performance (particularly at this early stage of ownership) and for our ability to reach the goals we had in mind. His performance framework and wise counsel has provided integral substance to our management team. So much so that after a couple of months, the thought of not having him on board became a little unnerving! We’re excited about the future we are creating for our community, and most of all for our family along the way.

Hamish & Erica Mackay – Sailz Lake Hawea
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