Stronger Board oversight.
Clear executive accountability.
Strategy that gets delivered.
Experience from both sides of the Board table.
Rundas Advisory helps Boards, CEOs and executive teams strengthen governance, improve performance and turn strategic decisions into accountable action.
We review governance arrangements, improve Board and executive reporting, establish meaningful performance measures, and connect strategic priorities with financial and workforce plans so you can identify what needs attention, clarify who is responsible and act when delivery falls short.
About Us
Independent judgement for decisions that cross the organisation
Rundas is an independent management advisory firm working with Boards, CEOs and executive teams on material decisions that do not fit neatly within one function.
We work where strategy, financial sustainability, risk, governance, operations, technology and execution intersect. The objective is to give leadership a clearer enterprise view of the issue, the evidence behind it, the choices available and the consequences of each path.
Our work can range from Board and executive advisory through financial sustainability, strategy execution, governance, performance improvement, operating-model design, technology governance and periods of significant organisational pressure. What connects the work is a consistent discipline: understand the whole system, make the choices explicit and establish what must happen next.
Our Services
The issue may begin in one function. The decision usually does not.
Three areas of advisory. One enterprise view.
Rundas works with Boards, CEOs and executive teams where important decisions cross functional boundaries. Our services are organised around three connected areas: direction and financial choices, organisational performance and execution, and governance and assurance.
Strategy, Finance & Board Decisions
Helping leadership make clear choices about direction, funding, growth and structural change. This includes:
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Board & Executive Advisory
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Financial Sustainability & Scenario Planning
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Strategy-to-Execution & Portfolio Reset
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M&A, Growth & Structural Options
The focus is on making the economics, trade-offs, risks, capacity requirements and implementation consequences visible before major decisions are made.
Performance, Transformation & Operating Model
Turning agreed priorities into a management system the organisation can execute. This includes:
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Performance & Transformation
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Operating Model & Organisation Design
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Turnaround & Interim Executive Support
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90-Day Performance & Assurance Reset
Rundas works from the underlying drivers of performance through to decision rights, organisational capacity, operating cadence, accountability and measurable follow-through.
Governance, Risk & Decision Assurance
Strengthening the systems that allow Boards and executives to govern material decisions with confidence. This includes:
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Risk Appetite, KRIs & Decision Rights
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Decision-Grade Board Reporting
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AI, Data & Technology Governance
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Board Confidence & Sustainability Diagnostic
The work connects Board intent with practical thresholds, ownership, reporting, escalation and evidence so governance operates as part of management practice rather than alongside it.
Board & Executive Advisory
When the decision matters more than the report.
Boards and executive teams rarely suffer from a complete absence of information. More often, they have several valid views of the organisation without one clear view of the decision.
Rundas brings the relevant facts, economics, risks, options, capacity constraints and implementation consequences into one conversation. The purpose is to make the decision explicit, show the trade-offs and connect approval to execution.
When this is useful
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The matter crosses several executive portfolios.
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Different reports tell different parts of the story.
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The Board and management hold materially different views.
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The organisation must decide before all uncertainty can be removed.
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Previous decisions have not translated into sustained action.
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The consequences of delay are becoming material.
What the work focuses on
The work starts with the decision that must be made and the evidence required to support it. From there, Rundas can frame realistic options, make dependencies visible, test the financial and operating implications and clarify where authority and accountability sit.
What senior leaders should receive
Not another broad review. The useful output is a clearer choice, explicit trade-offs, defined ownership and a practical route from decision to execution.
Our areas of expertise
Healthcare, human services and purpose-led organisations
Sustain your services while protecting the people you support.
When funding and workforce pressures make planning difficult, Rundas helps you test service options and prioritise investment. Drawing on experience across healthcare, disability and NDIS services, aged care, charities and education, we connect strategy, workforce and financial modelling, and board reporting so you can strengthen sustainability while keeping client outcomes and safeguarding central.
Retail, consumer businesses and distribution
Improve margins and strengthen cash flow.
When margins are under pressure or cash is tied up in stock, you need to know where to act. Rundas helps you connect demand, inventory, procurement and cash-flow planning. Drawing on retail turnaround, distribution and acquisition experience, we help you identify cost improvements, release working capital and assess whether growth plans are operationally and financially achievable.
Industrial, specialist commercial and heritage sectors
Make informed decisions about performance, investment and risk.
When you need to improve performance, assess investment or strengthen oversight, Rundas helps you see the options and their financial implications. Our advisory and governance experience across manufacturing, mining, agriculture, gaming, clothing collection and cemetery organisations supports practical decisions about operating models, risk and asset protection—with clear responsibilities and measures to track progress.
Technology, financial services and professional services
Get a clearer picture of performance and what to do next.
When disconnected systems, slow reporting or unclear profitability hold you back, Rundas helps you get a reliable view of performance. Drawing on technology turnaround experience, banking reporting improvements and advisory-practice leadership, we strengthen financial planning, management information and accountability so you can address performance gaps, align your teams and plan growth with greater control.
Why Choose Us
Independent judgement. Evidence before assertion.
Rundas is designed for problems that become difficult precisely because no single function owns the whole answer.
The starting point is the decision, not a preferred solution. What has changed? What needs to be decided? Which assumptions are carrying the greatest weight? What evidence supports them? What happens if the organisation acts, delays or does nothing?
Enterprise perspective
Financial, strategic, operating, governance, risk and technology consequences are considered together. The aim is to avoid solving one dimension while creating a problem somewhere else.
Evidence before confidence
Facts, assumptions, gaps and interpretations are kept distinct. Material recommendations should be capable of being challenged and traced back to the evidence that supports them.
Implementation, not hand-off
A recommendation is only useful when it can be translated into decisions, owners, measures, thresholds and operating routines. Rundas stays focused on what management and the Board will actually use.
Discretion by design
Confidential information deserves disciplined handling. Rundas uses only the information required for the work and avoids unnecessary collection of sensitive information.
Clear professional boundaries
Rundas provides management and organisational advisory services. Where a matter requires regulated or specialist professional advice - for example legal, audit, tax, clinical or specialist technical advice - that boundary is made clear.
Organisations behind our experience
Rundas draws on experience gained through executive leadership, consulting and Board appointments with commercial, public-sector and purpose-led organisations. This work includes strengthening governance, reviewing executive performance, improving Board reporting and leading financial and operational change. We bring that experience to your organisation to connect what your Board needs to know with what your executive team needs to deliver.
Case Studies
Turning a complex strategy into clear priorities
Healthcare, human services and purpose-led organisations
A disability services provider needed a consistent view of its strategic initiatives, investment and delivery. Through a strategy and business-planning role, Rundas’s principal helped refocus the initiative portfolio, build board and executive dashboards, and connect financial, workforce and service planning. The result was clearer investment visibility, stronger accountability and better-informed discussions about delivery priorities, with safeguarding and client outcomes included in decision-making.
Restoring profitability and cash flow
Technology, financial services and professional services
A technology-services business facing financial distress needed to stabilise operations and rebuild cash flow. In an executive finance role, Rundas’s principal led financial and operational restructuring, strengthened forecasting and controls, and worked with the board and financiers. The business returned to profitability and positive cash flow within three months. The wider work also improved cash conversion and financial oversight.
Reducing fulfilment costs and improving financial control
Retail, consumer businesses and distribution
An international online retailer needed to restore profitability and regain control of cash and fulfilment costs. In a finance and technology leadership role, Rundas’s principal restructured finance, warehousing, logistics and reporting. The group returned to profitability and positive cash flow, reduced warehouse unit picking costs by 45% and shortened month-end close from ten days to two. These changes combined lower operating costs with more timely financial information.
Connecting commercial performance with board oversight
Industrial, specialist commercial and heritage sectors
The task was to connect commercial performance, social purpose and board oversight within a manufacturing and packaging social enterprise. Through a board and performance-committee role, Rundas’s principal contributed to a governance review, strategy workshops, updated policies and a new reporting pack. The work delivered governance documents and reporting tools linking operations, strategy and risk, supporting regular performance reviews and executive accountability.
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