Running a business comes with plenty of questions. Sometimes, an impartial conversation can help you clarify the challenge, understand your options and identify the right next step. The Auckland Business Chamber’s Business & Innovation Clinics offer free one-to-one sessions with experienced advisors who can help you explore your business needs and connect you with relevant tools, resources and support. Whether you’re working through a business challenge, exploring a new opportunity or considering innovation as a pathway to growth, choose the clinic that best fits your needs.
Business Clinics
Our Business Clinics are free one-to-one sessions designed to help business owners and founders work through a specific business challenge, opportunity or next stage of growth. In a 30-minute virtual session with a Business Advisor, you’ll discuss where your business is now, what you’re trying to achieve and what’s getting in the way.
What happens in the session?
Your Business Advisor will help you explore where your business is today, clarify what you’re trying to achieve and identify the key challenges or opportunities affecting your next steps.
The conversation is guided by three practical questions: Where are you now?, Where do you want to go? What is next?
What happens after the clinic?
You’ll leave with practical next steps and, where appropriate, useful tools and resources to help you move forward.
Your Growth Advisor may also identify other support that could help, including Chamber Mentors, Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) Management Capability Development support, or referrals to other organisations within Auckland’s business support ecosystem.
Innovation Clinics
Our Innovation Clinics provide a free, impartial conversation with a Innovation Advisor to help you explore what innovation could mean for your business and identify a practical way forward. Innovation isn’t limited to technology or R&D. It can include developing a new product or service, introducing new technology, or building your business’s capability to create new value.
What happens in the session?
Your Innovation Advisor will help you clarify what you’re trying to achieve, explore your current innovation readiness and identify an initial step you can take.
The conversation is guided by three simple questions: What is your longer-term aspiration for the business?, What could be a feasible pathway forward? and What’s an initial practical step you can take now?
Where appropriate, we’ll also connect you with relevant MBIE Innovation Services or wider innovation ecosystem support and resources.
Not sure which clinic is right for you?
Choose a Business Clinic if you want to discuss a general business challenge, business planning, customers, finances, marketing, management capability or your next stage of growth.
Choose an Innovation Clinic if you’re exploring a new idea, product, service, technology, R&D or want to understand how innovation could contribute to your future growth.
Whichever clinic you choose, the objective is simple: to help you clarify your next step and connect you with the right support.
