Have you found yourself stuck in a rut with no access to anyone who understands your very real day-to-day challenges, hopes, and dreams for your business?

Karl joined Prime Strategies Group after a successful career in the financial services industry, primarily as a Chartered Accountant for small and medium-sized businesses.  As well as being a partner in an accounting practice, Karl ran his own chartered accountancy business for 15 years.  He understands from personal experience the small to medium business environment, with all its high points and challenges. 

With a passion to walk alongside business owners, Karl gains real satisfaction from helping them grow their business and realise their dreams.

Karl will translate your business financial reports into numbers that make sense to you. He will help you establish where your business is at now and where you desire it to be in the future.

Journeying together and drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of the Prime Strategies team, Karl will help you to:

  • Discover the keys to managing your business so that you are in control
  • Manage your work/life balance
  • Take your business to a new level, increasing profitability and the value of your business
  • Explore new and innovative ideas, and
  • Maximise the potential within you and your business

Karl and his wife Anne live in Auckland and as well as spending time with their family, they enjoy golf, travelling and cycling.

+64 21 179 8251

What Karl's Clients Say

  •  After 22 years in business, and a long-standing resistance to business advisors, Karl is the first person who has genuinely helped us bridge the gap between “good advice” and actually “getting things done.” 

    For years, we could gather information and ideas easily for advisors, but execution was where everything stalled. Karl changed that completely. 

    His approach is what I would call “gentle enforcement.” He is incredibly sharp, calm, professional, and respectful, but extremely persistent in a way that keeps you moving forward without feeling like you’re back in the principals office. He has a rare ability to meet people exactly where they are, while still keeping conversations focused and productive. 

    If you are a business owner who feels overwhelmed, constantly distracted by operations, or even “uncoachable,” Karl is the person you want beside you. He doesn’t lecture. He creates clarity, accountability, and momentum. 

    His accounting background is a massive advantage, but what truly sets him apart is how he delivers information. Karl transformed our complicated spreadsheets and financial systems into something simple, visual, accurate, and manageable. We feel like we can truly understand our numbers and can confidently plan ahead. 

    More importantly, he has brought structure and calm into a business that had operated reactively for a very long time. 

    I have enormous respect for both his methods and his manner. If previous business coaching or advisory services haven’t worked for you because they didn’t understand the reality of running a “busy business”, speak to Karl. He gets it. 

    Brenda Boyer & Philip Rowe
    Owners
    Freedom Flooring

  • We met Karl at a time when we were working through a major challenge in our business. From the moment Karl came on board with us, we knew we were in capable and professional hands. He helped us to see our business through a different lens and with his gentle and positive manner, enabled us to make forward plans, focus our skills and find new opportunities for our business.

    Karl keeps us on track by working through our figures with us on a regular basis and acts as a sounding board for our ideas. He doesn’t flannel you with a lot of jargon and makes subjects we had previously found rather overwhelming, easy to understand and even enjoyable!

    In summary, along with cheering us on, Karl keeps our future goals in front of us and most importantly keeps us accountable and on track to realise these goals. So we have no hesitation recommending Karl to any small to medium size business wanting not just to grow but to thrive.

    Jason & Nicola Morrison
    Owners
    Jason Morrison Funerals

  • We needed someone to keep us focused and help us see the full picture of how we are tracking every month, both in terms of our financial results and the longer term vision for our business. It’s too easy to get lost in the day-to-day tasks, and lose sight of the future.

    Having a financial background, Karl has helped us make sense of the numbers so we can now understand them clearly each month, and use them for monitoring performance across all the different aspects of the business and making decisions. He’s not afraid to challenge us and together we explore ideas. He keeps us focused on our business plans, and I know he has our back.

    I’m grateful to work with someone who is proactive and truly wants us to succeed and we are now actually excited about the future of the business.

    Gordon and Emma McKerchar
    Owners
    Final Touch Limited