Ngaire Woodhams is Director, EY Studio+, where she helps organisations navigate complexity and turn strategic ambition into practical action. She works with executive teams to align stakeholders, build shared understanding and make confident decisions on customer, growth and transformation priorities.
Known for her expertise in facilitation and collaborative problem-solving, Ngaire Woodhams designs and leads engagements that help leaders move from ambiguity to clarity and action. Before joining EY Studio+, she led EY wavespace across Oceania, establishing and growing the New Zealand practice and guiding multidisciplinary teams across strategy, innovation and transformation work.
Before EY, Ngaire Woodhams held leadership roles in design, capability building and organisational development, helping organisations strengthen innovation capability, align stakeholders and apply customer insight to complex business challenges.
How Ngaire is shaping the future with confidence
I help shape the future with confidence by helping leaders make better decisions in complex, fast-moving environments. I create structured, collaborative experiences that bring diverse perspectives together, challenge assumptions and build shared understanding.
Through my work in strategy, customer transformation and human-centred design, I help organisations identify opportunities, align around priorities and develop the capability to put ideas into action.
My focus is on making complexity more manageable, so teams can move forward with clarity, confidence and a stronger connection to the people they serve.