Creating wellbeing within your workplace and your community

Supporting Health Leaders in Designing the Future

Cloud Blue Consulting is my health consulting business. As it’s my business, it is nimble and responsive and has no stuffy overhead. Cloud Blue is focused on supporting health leaders to achieve their goals. I work with you, your team, and your community. I support the design, development and performance of your service or organisation. I’m no ordinary consultant. When you work with me, you are building a partnership, investing in the wellbeing and capacity of your team, to contribute to the success of health and wellness services you deliver for your community.  

About Cloud Blue

About Jude

Judith Catherwood

I’m passionate about the health and wellbeing of communities and the needs of people who are striving to deliver this. I’ve worked in the public health system for almost thirty years.

I trained as a Dietitian in the UK and have had a successful career in executive allied health leadership. For the last ten or more years I have been a health sector leader and held sizable clinical, corporate and operational leadership roles. I’ve worked in the UK and Australia, moving to Aotearoa a decade ago, am proud to call this place my home. I am now a citizen of this beautiful little country.

I’m an experienced health sector executive, I’ve worked in rural, regional and urban areas, in quaternary hospitals and community and primary care settings. I have a deep knowledge of the challenges facing the health and disability sector right now. I don’t believe these can be addressed without first prioritising the people who deliver to our communities, their experience and their working environment.

This means some big shifts in culture, organisational design and operating models, models of care, ways of working and different approaches to workforce planning.

It’s time we re-imagined our relationship with health.

Unlock the potential in your team

  • Strategy development

    Plan and develop your organisation’s future from all the opportunities and threats ahead

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  • Organisational design and operating model

    Enable alignment, design and optimise your operating model and streamline your systems

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  • Performance improvement

    Create opportunities to improve outcomes, deliver efficiencies or remove waste, improve value, plan and execute improvement

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  • Culture mapping and development

    Map organisation and/or team cultures and deliver improvement though participatory design

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  • Engage with your consumers and community

    Health providers have an obligation to deliver the Consumer Code of Expectations under the Pae Ora Act 2022. Plan how you will meet and exceed these requirements.

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  • Workforce and Service Design

    Design the model of care and team ways of working, forecast and plan your workforce needs for the future

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  • Leadership Coaching and Support

    Confidential one to one supportive to enable you to develop, grow, improve and thrive in the current turbulent leadership environment

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Testimonials

  • "Thank you so much for your enormous contribution to the development of the PHA over the last 16 months. Your constant positive and can do attitude, combined with a thoughtul, considered and determined approach has been extremely helpful"

    Dr Andrew Old, Deputy-Director General, Manatū Hauora

  • "Jude was highly responsive and engaged with us, on progress and updates. Jude developed a very valuable resource which we can own, on time and on budget. We have loved working with Jude, seeing her has part of the team.

    Dr Christine Howard-Brown – CEO, Health and Wellbeing Evolution Healthcare

    Michelle Wilkinson – Service Development Manager, ABI Rehabilitation

  • "Wicked health problems call for wickedly wise, commited leaders to help address them. I'd say Judith's one of those people."

    Charlotte Lay, Programme Director Strategy and Performance Improvement, Health New Zealand|Te Whatu Ora

  • "One of Judith's greatest strengths is her ability to deliver. She possesses a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges within the industry, and she consistently develops innovative strategies to overcome them'

    Barbara Ruby, Director Quality and Innovation, Health New Zealand|Te Whatu Ora

  • "I recommend Judith for health leadership roles, and consultancy roles, where her rapid analysis skills and ability to report back quickly will make her extremely effective."

    Dr Amanda Dines, Director General Health Reserve, Royal Australian Airforce