Ti Kouka Consulting | Ti Kouka Consulting is the GST-registered entity established by Graeme Nicholas to contract services in systems and strategic thinking, advanced facilitation and professional development. Ti Kouka Consulting establishes teams with other experts when a project calls for this. | |
Graeme Nicholas |
Graeme is a social systems consultant and researcher. Prior to 2019 he was a senior social systems researcher for the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR). He blends his degree in microbiology with postgraduate study in theology, practice as an Anglican priest, training in psychotherapy, and self-directed learning in organisation development, social systems and complexity. He is a practitioner of the Cognitive Edge consulting approach and an experience practitioner of Appreciative Inquiry, and soft systems and open space engagement methodologies. Graeme's experience includes:
Graeme brings to his projects unconventional thinking, a creative and analytical mind, company governance experience, professional research experience and specialist training in facilitation and counselling. Over the last twenty years, Graeme and his wife, Barbara, developed and managed a commercial walnut orchard and helped establish the walnut industry in NZ. | |
Selected publications |
Tanyitiku, M. N., Nicholas, G., Sullivan, J. J., Njombissie Petcheu, I. C., & On, S. L. W. (2022). Snail Meat Consumption in Buea, Cameroon: The Methodological Challenges in Exploring Its Public Health Risks. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 16094069221078132. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221078132 Nicholas, G. (Ed.). (2022). Enabling collaborative practices. Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited.
Nicholas, G., Hepi, M., & Duncan, W. (2022). Enabling collaborative practice: A practical model. In G. Nicholas (Ed.), Enabling collaborative practices. Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited. Nicholas, G. (2021). Critical systems tools to support collaborative practice. 65th Annual Proceedings for the International Society of the Systems Sciences, 65. https://journals.isss.org/index.php/jisss/article/view/3870 Hepi, M., & Nicholas, G. (2021). Testing the Collective Action Model to Lifestyle Block Owners Fire Reduction Activities (Client Report for Fire and Emergency New Zealand No. CSC21002). Institute of Enironmental Science and Research Limited. Nicholas, G., Sharma, S., Walton, M., Hepi, M., & Hide, S. (2021). Critical collaboration model: An enhanced model to support public health collaboration. Health Promotion International, daab075. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab075 Nicholas, G., Srinivasan, M., Beechener, S., Foote, J., Robson-Williams, M., & FitzHerbert, S. (2020). Transferring the impacts of pilot-scale studies to other scales: Understanding the role of non-biophysical factors using field-based irrigation studies. Agricultural Water Management, 233, 106075. DOI:10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106075 See more of Graeme's research on ResearchGate and Orcid | |