Celebrating the 19th birthday of Two Hills Ltd, founded 14th December 2005.
For 12 years Rob England operated alone or in ad-hoc collaboration with others including Alison Holt, James Gander, Resultex Ltd, Integri-T, DeFine Group Limited, Macanta Consulting Pty Ltd, Pink Elephant, and HYPR NZ, producing
🌸 results for dozens of consulting clients in New Zealand, around strategy, governance, management, DevOps, service management, operations, and service desk – many of them re-engaged us.
🌸 dozens of training courses and GamingWorks simulation games delivered for ALC Training
🌸 content production for many major vendors and publishers
🌸 five books and one co-author, with translations into Spanish and Russian
🌸 contributed to two ITIL books, the Devops Handbook, and the VeriSM framework
🌸 1100 blog posts on The IT Skeptic
🌸 a dozen other websites now faded into obscurity
🌸 many conference presentations and workshops in NZ, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, and USA, and even more online webinars and events
🌸 life membership of the itSMFnz and other awards
🌸 and many lifetime friends and colleagues
In 2016, Rob was joined by Dr. Cherry Vu, in life and work, to form the trading brand Teal Unicorn, opening up a new direction for Two Hills into management consulting around Business Agility, now morphed into our own Open Management. We have produced
🌸 impressive outcomes for over two dozen organisations in Vietnam, NZ, and Asia, from consulting, coaching, and training, along with our Team Teal
🌸 successful serious-play simulation games of our own design, including Diggers, The Message, Doily Studio, and Aces
🌸 five more books in English and Vietnamese
🌸 three family advice books in Vietnamese, along with webinars and training, and pro bono events (and TV appearances!)
🌸 founding members of Business Agility Institute Meetups in New Zealand and Vietnam
🌸 more global conferences
🌸 pro bono support for Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, Cơm Có Thịt, Whitireia and WelTec, Victoria University of Wellington, ISACA, itSMF, and others.
Our projects have included
🍒 Open Management
🍒 Open IT
🍒 Om, the TealGPT
🍒 Content suites How to Make Work Better and the Open Guidebook
🍒 The Open Management Academy
🍒 Mr Teal, our remote-work caravan
In 2025, we look forward to developing
🌹 continued success with clients and families in Vietnam
🌹 more books including probably The Open Executive, Leading the Open Enterprise, Agile Family, Open IT, How to Make Work Better, and some audio books
🌹 more specialised Open bodies of knowledge such as Sales and HR
🌹 appearances and work globally, including Shanghai (China is a developing focus for us)
🌹 the Better 2025 project (see our separate announcement soon)
Thankyou to everybody for your collaboration, support, friendships, and of course your business over 19 years. Watch Two Hills go on to even better things as we head up to twenty years!