ABSTRACT
This chapter is about what it means to be an indigenous management consultant and practice management consulting from an indigenous perspective within Aotearoa New Zealand. It draws on the experience of Ma ori management consultants as self-employed contractors, owner-operators of management consulting firms and as management consultants in ‘mainstream’ firms. The chapter focuses on the role of culture and identity in management consulting for indigenous management consultants and discusses implications of this for non-indigenous management consultants. It also focuses on indigenous management consultants that offer a distinctive proposition in the market for professional advisory services on the basis of their indigeneity. The chapter highlights the very real and distinctive contribution indigenous management consultants can and do make to management consulting. It concludes with case studies of how Ma ori management consultants are assisting Ma ori enterprises with transformative organisational and economic developments in a post-treaty settlement environment.
