DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Facilitator / Coach, Auckland
Alisa Bartholomew is a Career and Outplacement Coach, specialising in coaching solutions that help clients shape their career and navigate the job market. She has over 18 years' experience leading initiatives that span job search strategies, interview preparation, career coaching, career assessment and, importantly, CV and LinkedIn profile writing.
Working across a broad range of sectors, from large corporates as well as smaller businesses in engineering, manufacturing, education, logistics and innovation, Alisa is focused on supporting organisations and their people to achieve their goals and aspirations, perform at their best and cope effectively with change, transition, growth, redundancy and restructure.
Alisa has worked with hundreds of clients at all levels of business to support their decision-making processes and enable them to successfully navigate the job market. The outcomes that she helps her clients achieve can range from identifying a new pathway or brainstorming career options, through to clarifying talents and creating a job search strategy, and supporting them with the professional documents and tools needed to achieve their unique career aspirations.
As both a coach and workshop facilitator, her outplacement solutions help individuals and teams affected by change. She is a regular presenter on the topic of LinkedIn at industry forums and is a guest presenter on career development every year at AUT for their MBA programme.
Alisa's areas of expertise include:
career coaching
interview preparation and job search plans
performance coaching
CV and cover letter development
creation of LinkedIn profiles
social media strategy for job seekers
MBTI and Morrisby Career Assessment
workshop facilitation
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Alison is passionate about the happiness and effectiveness of people in the workplace and is skilled and talented at raising individual and team awareness to facilitate authentic conversations. She is particularly good at challenging and supporting ‘dysfunctional' teams, and specialises in leadership and team development through blended learning, including coaching.
With a 20-year career in the L&D and OD space, Alison is very experienced at supporting CEOs and senior teams to invest in and grow their talent. She is equally experienced with working with first-line managers and supervisors. She has a track record of working with international organisations both in the private and public sector. Before moving to New Zealand in 2007, she held senior L&D and OD roles with Virgin Media, WH Smith, and Group 4 in the UK. Alison gained specific expertise in helping people through change in mergers and restructures, and designed and developed leading-edge leadership programmes for senior executives through to first line management audiences.
Clients consistently report that Alison is naturally adept at building trust quickly and therefore enabling people to get to the ‘heart of the matter'. She has considerable experience in diagnosing challenges within business, and designing workshops that are engaging and experiential with a focus on personal commitment to change.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Nelson
Alison specialises in applying positive psychology principles to promote organisational leadership and workplace wellbeing. Her expertise lies in helping organisations create and sustain mentally healthy workplaces by implementing evidence-based strategies, processes and cultures that prioritise positive wellbeing.
Her focus is on utilising scientific coaching and mentoring principles to train innovative leaders, empowering both employees and organisations. Alison offers group workshops and individual coaching, with a particular emphasis on aligning organisational and employee values, promoting mental health education, and optimising human functioning and experience.
Alison is sought-after as a speaker on applied positive psychology and previously held the positions of vice-president and editor for the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology.
In addition to her work in positive psychology, Alison brings extensive experience as an international project manager and business analyst, supporting the management and implementation of business and technology solutions. Her diverse industry background includes education, mining, manufacturing, insurance, banking, as well as working with smaller businesses and start-ups.
Alison has a passion for supporting others to be the best version of themselves through engaging their authenticity and personal strengths, and further developing their relational skills within their wider personal, workplace and community environments.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Auckland
Belinda Thomas is a facilitator, coach, mentor and consultant. She's driven to see you grow and succeed, whatever that looks like for you.
Her thing is lifting performance in business, leadership and life, using neuro and brain-based coaching strategies. And just to be clear, we're not talking a little gentle prodding here. Belinda will challenge you - but with loads of heart and plenty of laughs along the way.
You can expect unapologetic audacity, intelligent observation, and a tonne of broad experience. Belinda believes that success is fun, and won't stop until the individuals and teams she works with get there.
Belinda understands how hard leadership can be. She believes that leaders deserve to love what they do. It can be tough out there. Her approach is to partner with you.
As a former competitive sports woman representing New Zealand and Scotland, she knows all about high pressure and competitive environments. It was in that environment that Belinda learned the importance of coaching.
She brings 30 years of hands-on experience in a range of corporates, small business roles, running several of her own companies, as a board advisor and board chair. Her clients have been across a range of industries and at many different levels. She's well qualified to bring you a best of breed approach - she knows what works!
In her various roles as coach, consultant and facilitator Belinda has worked with organisations including Government Departments, ACC, St John, Powerlink Queensland, SEQWater, Tatua, Bapcor, HYPR, L'Oreal, Imak, Ray White, JB Were, Neo Consulting, Dual, Auckland DHB, and Livestock Improvement Cooperative.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
As a freelance Learning and Development Specialist, Carolyn is an expert in helping individuals, teams and organisations to identify and deliver bespoke, pragmatic learning and development solutions. From needs analysis to facilitation and training design, she has a wealth of L&D expertise, coupled with leadership experience and generalist HR experience.
With a background leading teams and over 20 years in HR in both the public and private sectors, Carolyn is well positioned to create solutions for a range of needs across all levels and industries. In particular she has a passion for helping to build leadership capability and skills; from developing staff into their first leadership roles, building leadership competence for those who are new to leadership, and supporting experienced leaders with the next phase of their leadership journey.
Her clients include organisations in retail, tourism, farming, local government, construction and property.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Administration and Executive
- ODI Programme Coordinator
Cathy Anderson offers a wealth of experience in administration and executive assistance within the education sector. In 2001 Cathy returned from three years working in London, where she worked in IT and banking, to spend 10 years working at the Christchurch College of Education, subsequently the University of Canterbury, in a number of roles across Professional Development, Secondary and Business.
Following the merger with UC, Cathy worked in the College of Education Office as an administrator where she was responsible for organising events, selection, meetings, reviews, and provided executive assistance to a number of Deans. Cathy joined ODI in 2012 as an Office Administrator where she liaises with presenters, course members and companies to organise programme and workshop events, and provide administrative support.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Commerce
Utilising her coaching and professional supervision skills and tools, Christine seeks to support growth and sustainability in leaders. Using a strengths-based approach, she uses powerful conversations to draw out and partner with people to reach goals and develop sustainable leadership skills and practices in the process. She is a very good listener; having worked in ‘people-caring' professions for 45 years, she is not surprised by much!
She has a variety of leadership experience spanning more than 20 years - motivating, developing and leading teams. She also brings expertise in intercultural competency coaching, group coaching, coaching through transitions, mentor coaching, workshop facilitation and professional coach supervision.
To her practise, Chris brings life experience in cross-cultural living (10 years living in Asia) and leadership, a nursing background and the national leadership of a not-for-profit for nine years. She is also a Presbyterian minister with senior leadership experience.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator, Canterbury
Since graduating, Colin has made a career of 30+ years specialising in sales and marketing; from sales engineer to sales and marketing director and into general management, he has ensured that sales and marketing work in synergy.
His specialist area is in growing business, especially new business development, transiting to key account management. Having an engineering background, he has a passion for tech business, whether that be software, hardware or a combination of both.
Colin has worked with start-ups through to successful exit, as well as multinational organisations, in both domestic and international markets. He has worked across a number of market segments including HVAC, automation, engineering, IT, software-as-a-service, and education.
He holds an MBA (Dist) from the University of Canterbury, is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors and holds directorships in tech companies as well as in the not-for-loss charitable sector.
Outside of work Colin can be found on the hill sky paragliding, mountain biking, tramping, skiing and in the valley whitewater kayaking.
What Colin is passionate about is helping businesses navigate customer-centric growth to ensure long term sustainability with robust foundations.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Coach, Canterbury
- Leadership Coach
Craig McDowell is a leadership coach who has previously been a Leadership and Management Adviser at the University of Canterbury.
Craig has developed a specialisation and high level of knowledge in coaching and mentoring in a variety of sectors. His strength-based approach to coaching enables him to effectively work with clients who need support or are focusing on their growth and development. Contexts include organisational and team development, performance management, adaptive leadership, reflective practice, collaboration and emotional intelligence.
Of particular interest to Craig is culturally contextualised leadership; he has been involved in a Māori initiative - Te Kauhua - which emphasised the necessity of whānau and iwi engagement, and the building of productive relationships with stakeholders to strengthen outcomes. Coaching leaders to enable them to have a clear understanding of equity and Te Tiriti o Waitangi needs to be an important outcome of coaching leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand.
With ODI, Craig has individually coached business and emerging leaders and been involved as a leadership coach in two programmes - the Advanced Leaders Programme and Federated Farmers: Advocacy, Influence and Outcomes. He has also presented a Masterclass on Reflective Practice.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Nelson
Denise Hartley-Wilkins is a people and organisation development consultant, trainer, executive and team coach. Denise has been dedicated to championing better workplaces and working lives for the last 25 years. Working globally at an executive and board level, she has helped set the benchmark for excellence in people management and development. Working in top-level management roles and at the coalface of business has given her the insight and real-world experience to help make sustainable change. Her industry experience includes central and local government, IT, high tech and food manufacturing, education, health, forestry, publishing, seafood, hospitality, financial services, not-for-profit and NGOs.
Denise subscribes to the belief that "you don't have great organisations, you have great workplaces - great leaders, great teams, great culture". Clients value her practical, friendly and professional approach, along with her ability to quickly get to the root of a problem, to identify and implement solutions and deliver great results.
Highly skilled in programme design and facilitation, Denise specialises in leadership and team development, culture, change management, workplace bullying and harassment awareness, conflict resolution, performance and behavioural coaching. She has written numerous articles for professional journals and has presented at conferences and symposiums.
Denise is a former National President, a Chartered Fellow and Board Director of Human Resources Institute of New Zealand and a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK).
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
- Specialist Communication
Desirée is a specialist communication consultant, facilitator, mentor and coach. Her mission is to assist leaders and teams to lead and communicate so that they build great relationships, get shared understanding and achieve mutual purpose.
Desirée loves encouraging clients to strengthen their strengths and find solutions for their areas of development. She's worked in learning and development for over 15 years. Prior to going into business, Desirée lectured in the School of Business, Christchurch College of Education and at the University of Canterbury.
Desirée believes that self-aware, emotionally intelligent and high-performing teams start with leaders and team members recognising that we all have different, but equally valid styles. As an accredited Belbin Team Roles facilitator, Desirée uses the Belbin instrument, amongst other diagnostics, to help leaders create a positive team culture and lead more collaboratively.
An experienced practitioner in the secondary, tertiary, and TESOL sectors, Desirée's workshops are informed by robust research. They are also interactive, practical, and engaging, so participants can immediately apply key learnings in the workplace.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator, Canterbury
- Joint Managing Director at Resilient Organisations Ltd
Charlotte has been working in the field of risk and resilience for over a decade and splits her time between research and consulting. Her passion is using research to find practical solutions to problems facing organisations and society.
Charlotte is joint Managing Director at Resilient Organisations Ltd, a research and consulting group helping organisations, groups and communities to be future ready. Charlotte is also an Adjunct Fellow with the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury.
As a social scientist with a civil engineering background, Charlotte often works at the interface between physical and social sciences. Charlotte's areas of specialty include risk management, systems thinking, decision-making and organisational resilience. She has worked with a range of industries including critical infrastructure, health, local government, agriculture, and construction.
Charlotte is a skilled facilitator. She has taught both engineering and management to adult learners in both the polytechnic and university sector. She also has extensive workshop facilitation experience - working with diverse groups of people to share knowledge, generate ideas, and to problem solve. Charlotte has particular strengths in communicating complex ideas in a simple and effective way to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Errol Wood has approximately 45 years' experience as a teacher at secondary and tertiary levels, research scientist, science leader, university professor, information services manager and manager of a private training establishment. He is the author of over 60 reports and papers for peer-review science journals, and has authored two books and contributed chapters to two recently published international texts.
His role as a PTE manager has involved the writing of over 40 training packages for use by textile technology trainees in New Zealand, and developing a suite of advanced lectures on wool technology for the University of New England, Australia.
Errol has been an occasional referee for three international journals - Journal of the Textile Institute, the Textile Research Journal, and the International Sheep and Wool Journal. He was also a part-time lecturer in Environmental Physics at Lincoln University and the principal tutor in wool and textile technology for the Apparel and Textile Industry Training Organisation (now Competenz).
Throughout his career in science and education Errol has frequently been required to review the written work of colleagues. Through this experience he has gained a sound understanding of what constitutes good technical writing.
Errol originally prepared a Scientific and Technical Writing course for the staff of AgResearch, where he was employed as Education Manager until July 2010. Since his retirement the course has been made available to a wider audience of scientists and engineers in various Crown Research Institutes, regional councils and private companies through Organisation Development Institute.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
- Independent Organisational Development Consultant
Michelle is an independent organisational development consultant. With over 30 years experience in industry and academia, she brings a unique blend of evidence-based applied learning to the organisations with which she works.
She has worked with numerous organisations in both New Zealand and around the world including most recently Canterbury Health Laboratories; Canterbury, Manukau and Waikato District Health Boards; Air New Zealand; Emirates Airlines; the Universities of Canterbury and Waikato; Ballance Agri-Nutrients; and AgResearch.
The work she has performed includes the design and delivery of leadership programmes; assessment and redesign of performance management systems; development of HR strategy; development of competency frameworks; implementation of HR information systems; 360 o reviews and feedback; facilitation of shared purpose and vision; and design and delivery of workshops in change management, relational leadership, negotiation, courageous conversations, advocacy and influence, systems thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, high performing teams, coaching skills, customer satisfaction and Total Quality Management, prioritisation and delegation, Tipping Point, self-awareness, collaboration skills, and Belbin Team Roles.
Before taking up permanent residency in New Zealand in 2002, Michelle worked as an internal consultant with several North American companies including American Airlines, IBM, Nortel Networks and Bell Northern Research. She is a Chartered Member of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand, and a New Zealand partner to Zenger Folkman's Extraordinary Leadership development offerings.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator, Canterbury
- Joint Managing Director of Resilient Organisations Ltd
Tracy's area of expertise lies in organisational risk and resilience, helping organisations to prepare for and get through times of crisis.
Resilience starts with building high performing teams that function effectively day to day. This enables organisations to adapt and innovate in challenging times. Tracy works with teams to assess the organisation and build effective organisational development strategies, focused on leadership and culture, adaptability, continuity and crisis management capabilities.
Tracy is joint Managing Director of Resilient Organisations Ltd, a niche research and consulting group based in Christchurch. She is an Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Canterbury where she leads the Executive Development course, Leading Resilient Enterprises. She is also a facilitator for the Response and Recovery Aotearoa New Zealand (RRANZ) Emergency Response and Recovery Leadership Development programme.
She is a skilled facilitator who delivers engaging and effective training and workshops to help organisations thrive.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
- OD Consultant
Gilad is an OD consultant with many years of experience, working with organisations and individuals across the world, guiding significant positive change. In 2003 he founded his Israel-based organisation - Milestone - and continues to lead that business from his new home in New Zealand.
As part of Gilad's broad consulting and organisational experience, he has led international projects, including global workshops in Israel and abroad, specialising in multi-cultural operations and the generation of engagement within large groups. Gilad consults with senior managers and guides them through significant organisational change processes, from recruiting management teams for a new organisational initiative, through designing training programmes for organisations' managers who support the desired mindset change and providing the practical tools to engender the change itself.
Over the years, Gilad has led creative and innovative organisational development solutions that he customises to each client's ‘language' from 10-day, personal, experiential guidance on a 1:1 setting, to a film festival in Boston, a 250 VPs' conference in Lisbon, team development exercises under extreme desert conditions, and a custom programme for hundreds of managers across nine different locations, around the world.
Gilad was an officer in the IDF's prestigious Sayeret Matkal Reconnaissance unit and actively serves in the army reserves.
In 2022 Gilad relocated to Christchurch New Zealand, with his wife and four children for a new adventure, where he combines being a CEO and his love for adventure - outdoor adventure and organisational adventures as consulting and leading change (individual and group).
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Otago
Greg is a strategy and change specialist who loves exploring what's possible with his clients and helping them to operate in their strategic and personal stretch zone.
Greg has operated at General Manager and COO level across a diverse range of industries including forestry, sawmilling, heavy manufacturing, waste management, recycling, agriculture, transport and logistics. Over the past decade he has expanded his career into governance, public speaking, leadership consulting, workshop facilitation and coaching.
He has supplemented his real-world governance and management experiences with world-class education. He shares his lessons in a pragmatic way, with down-to-earth principles and practices, and brings them to life using memorable business stories.
Greg facilitates workshops to help teams clarify organisation purpose, set or refresh strategy, and execute change. He is particularly passionate about helping leaders drive and sustain strategic change and create measurable value for their organisation.
Greg also delivers The Leader's Guide to Storytelling workshop through which he helps participants learn and practise storytelling techniques that they can use to craft business stories that are memorable, impactful and relatable - ideal for leading change, inspiring action and helping people connect and relate to the storyteller.
Greg enjoys coaching and mentoring individuals to help them to resolve business, leadership and personal challenges. His coaching style focuses on the whole person to ensure those he works with are putting appropriate focus on their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.
Greg is passionate about learning. In addition to his qualifications, his professional development is an impressive mix of change, strategy, leadership and negotiation courses through international organisations such as Stanford University and Harvard Business School.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Taranaki
Greg helps businesses achieve peace by simplifying leadership through executive coaching and facilitating workshops. He has nurtured leaders on both sides of the globe as a lawyer, manager and confidante. Simplifying the complex and allowing others the space to build their confidence stokes Greg's fire.
Greg brings 20+ years of experience in employment law, employment relations and human resources to his coaching practice and workshops. He managed the Taranaki branch of the Employers and Manufacturers Association (now Business Central), was an employment lawyer in New Zealand and the United Kingdom and led Human Resources teams at the Taranaki District Health Board and New Plymouth District Council. He has been a licensed trainer for Blanchard International NZ in organisational and leadership development, volunteered his time as coordinator and facilitator of a nine-day community leadership programme in Taranaki (Legacy Leadership), and designed and delivered successful corporate leadership development programmes.
Greg builds a quick rapport with clients, gets a deeper understanding of an individual or team's work environment, and harnesses a reflective practice (asking questions to allow clients to reflect on their own abilities and strengths) to develop self-awareness about the impact they have in the workplace.
Greg is based in New Plymouth where he lives with his blended whānau.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Julia is an experienced facilitator with 25+ years working in the people and culture space. She has worked across both private and public sector organisations, delivering and facilitating leadership programmes, resilience workshops and culture change projects. Much of her experience has come from aligning people strategy with business objectives and leading organisations through change.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
In the 20+ years since graduating with a Psychology degree, Karin has gained experience in large international corporations (8+ years at Cisco Systems), been a conference speaker at local, national and international conferences in New Zealand, Australia and the US, served on the board of the IIBA NZ chapter for over five years, and created and taught a tertiary degree course in Business Analysis.
Karin spent the first part of her career experiencing first-hand being a Project Manager, a Programme Manager and a Business Analyst and then moved into the consulting space, becoming a trusted adviser within small, medium and large organisations across a wide variety of industries.
In 2018 Karin became a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. She now uses this research-based methodology to support her clients through transformational change - on an individual, team and organisational level.
Karin's top CliftonStrengths themes are:
Positivity
Connectedness
Arranger
Strategic
Woo
Includer
Maximiser
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Nelson
- Leadership Coach
Kathryn is a leadership coach, specialising in working with managers and leaders to design and create confidence, career success and resilience - and then helping them to understand how to support their team in achieving the same.
She is an experienced ‘people professional' with over 25 years in the corporate and coaching environment including roles in HR, recruitment and consulting with Andersen's, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Bank of Scotland.
Her coaching approach is highly pragmatic and tailored to the personal learning styles and the goal(s) of her clients. Using a strengths-based, solutions-focused behavioural approach, she combines coaching and consulting tools to support her client needs.
Coaching sessions and workshops are all business-focused and she can support leadership programmes with coaching that targets the results of diagnostics that may have been used, eg Belbin Team Roles, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), 360 o reviews.
Job Titles:
- Bicultural Advisor / Facilitator, Canterbury
Job Titles:
- Lominger Leadership Architect 101: Introduction to Competencies, Choices and Voices 360
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Consultant, Auckland
- Member of the New Zealand Psychological Society
Leanne Markus is a registered psychologist, Principal of Performance Group International (Consulting Organisational Psychologists) and Managing Director of Centranum Group (Auckland-based developers of web-based software for capability and competency development, performance management and succession planning).
Leanne has held senior operational roles in retail, service and manufacturing organisations in the UK and New Zealand. Since the establishment of Performance Group in 1993, she has been involved in OD consulting, completing projects across a broad range of industries including many of New Zealand's larger businesses and Government departments.
At Centranum Group she leads the team in the configuration and deployment of customisable talent management technology platforms for clients in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East and the USA.
She has lectured in psychology, and related business, HR and IT topics at various New Zealand universities, and is an industry adviser to the Department of Psychology, University of Auckland.
Leanne's perspective on Human Capital and Organisational Development is grounded in the combination of her business experience and professional training. An advocate of evidence-based practice, she maintains an in-depth knowledge of research in the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, using it to inform best practice in HR practice and the development of supporting technology.
Her particular area of specialisation is competency-based management for knowledge intensive organisations.
She is the author of several papers and articles on HR systems and work force competencies, and is a speaker at industry and academic conferences in New Zealand and overseas.
Leanne is a member of the New Zealand Psychological Society, American Psychological Association, Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychologists, Human Resource Institute of New Zealand, Singapore Human Resource Institute, and Society for Human Resource Management (USA).
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Otago
Linzi is an Executive Coach and Organisational Development Consultant for a number of local, national and global organisations, offering coaching, consultation and facilitation.
She has worked in operational Human Resources leadership roles for the British Army, a National UK Recruitment Company, a Global Investment Bank and a US retail brand roll-out in the UK.
Linzi worked with the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand for many years, offering consulting and facilitation to many organisations - assisting their workforce to become more resilient, and their workplaces to develop higher levels of wellbeing. She is a strong advocate of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing and she integrates wellbeing and resiliency into her successful consulting and coaching practice on a daily basis.
She has also used her business and HR skills to create and operate successful hospitality businesses. She is currently an Owner/Director for PURE New Zealand Ice Cream, a Board Director for the Cancer Society of NZ (Otago and Southland), and a Trustee for So They Can (NZ) - an African-based educational programme. She is putting into practice what she preaches!
Linzi regularly receives positive feedback from clients about her fresh and pragmatic style, and effective style of facilitating and coaching. Clients often comment that they feel ‘inspired' and ‘energised' following their sessions and certainly more focused on improving their skills and behaviours. Described as an honest sounding board and skilled questioner, she strives to enable robust reflection and improved self-awareness in those she works alongside.
In her various roles as Coach, Consultant and Facilitator, she has worked with numerous organisations including WYMA, Fire and Emergency NZ, Springfree Trampolines, Airways, Dynamic Controls, Cavell Leitch Lawyers, PGGW, Totally Tourism, Lake Wanaka Tourism, Tracplus, The International Antarctic Centre, King Salmon, Holcim, Kelly Recruitment Services, High Performance Sport NZ, Cardrona Alpine Resort, Edgewater Hotel, Mainpower, Snow Sports NZ, Road Transport Logistics, Canterbury District Health Board, as well as various Crown Research Institutes, councils and universities.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Auckland
- Founding Member of the Leadership Team for the Homeward Bound Project
As a consultant, coach and facilitator specialising in executive leadership development and organisation-wide cultural change, Marshall works with individuals and businesses internationally to close the gap between what they know and what they do, between what they plan and what they achieve.
For the past 30 years, Marshall has either been leading people, or helping others who lead people to do it better. He has worked on every continent except Africa (including Antarctica!) for clients such as the NZ Blood Service, Nestlé, 20 th Century Fox, Motorola, Lion, Stantec, Programmed, General Mills, Mars Wrigley, Central and Local Government. He does this through team coaching (with a focus on Executive teams) and facilitation of strengths-based leadership development. He works with executives across the public, private and NFP sectors to build leadership bench strength and create achievement-based cultures aligned to strategy.
Along the way he's gained extensive experience in strategic human resource management (National HRD and Executive People and Culture roles), organisational development, leading change and strategy execution. Marshall has earned (and taught) tertiary qualifications in management and organisational psychology. He also collects diagnostic/psychometric accreditations like some people collect All Blacks memorabilia, currently at 20 and counting.
Marshall is also a proud founding member of the leadership team for the Homeward Bound Project, a 20-year initiative to equip a 10,000-strong global collaboration of women in science to lead, influence and contribute to policy as it informs the future of our planet.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Auckland
Michael's signature work is enabling talented people and ambitious teams to achieve audacious goals. With 25 years of professional experience as a facilitator/coach/consultant in the team and leadership development space, his repeat clients include multicultural leadership teams at Mercedes-Benz, ARM, Apple, Nike, Nokia and many other exemplary organisations.
Michael graduated from The University of Auckland, began his career with Nokia, served proudly in Asia's first experiential leadership and team development company, I Will Not Complain, contributed in significant development roles in a Fortune 500 organisation, and earned hard-won wisdom as an entrepreneur.
Fluent in Mandarin and with postgraduate qualifications in psychology and human resource management, Michael is a facilitator known for continually developing fresh, culturally-relevant learning methodologies and experiences that solve challenges and drive client results.
Outside of his work, he loves exploring the Great Wall of China with his family and enjoys ultra-distance endurance races.
Qualifications and Accreditations
ODI appealed to me as a training provider because of the breadth of experience, qualifications and knowledge of their presenters. Their management team ensured that they understood our needs before suggesting a solution, and their trainer was able to ensure a standard programme was tailored specific to the way we operate. Participants found the content to be well-structured, relevant and useful. We value a training provider that takes the time to understand our people in order to match them with appropriately qualified and experienced trainers.
Nicky Trainor has worked in the education sector for more than 20 years, initially as a secondary school teacher with leadership roles in New Zealand curriculum and assessment development in the computing field, then as a senior lecturer in information systems with the School of Business, Christchurch College of Education, where she taught adult students for 13 years in diploma and degree programmes.
Since 2007, Nicky has worked with organisations to deliver customised and public development solutions throughout New Zealand, both for the University of Canterbury and now for Organisation Development Institute. Prior to her educational career, Nicky worked in a number of corporate and SME organisations.
Qualifications and Accreditations
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- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Waikato
Owen is a calm, thoughtful and experienced leadership coach and team development facilitator, with a strong project management and technical background. He is passionate about supporting people to develop their leadership capability, teams and organisations, and thanks to his dual perspectives as coach and engineer, he naturally takes a systemic approach - coaching and consulting with leaders and teams to understand and influence their environment, processes and stakeholders.
During his career, Owen has worked within organisations at board level, held senior positions, managed innumerable projects, established several project management offices, developed medical devices, and introduced Agile. He has operated a small IT company, an internet retail business and currently his coaching business. He has supported senior executives, school principals, sales professionals, business owners, engineers, health professionals and their teams on matters of strategy and vision, leadership, stakeholder management, resilience, self-mastery, stress management, life purpose, career path, sporting goals and work-life balance.
After experiencing 9/11 from the East Coast of Canada, SARS, multiple recessions, parenting four children, a seven-year earthquake insurance battle, and the uncertainty of COVID-19, Owen has had his fair share of ‘life experiences' and is skilled at managing stress and supporting those who are struggling with uncertainty and overwhelm.
Owen is able to deliver a complete range of assessment tools at the individual/leader, team and organisation levels.
Qualifications and Accreditations
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- Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Paul Dolan has 17 years of experience as an organisational leader, nine years of leadership coaching experience, coupled with experience working for public, private and corporate enterprises. As a result, Paul has gained unique expertise that allows him to work with organisations, teams and individuals, helping them to perform to their potential.
With a proven background in successfully driving change within organisations and experience in a range of roles, including project management, cross-functional team leadership and organisational leadership, Paul offers a unique and valuable skillset. His experience, and the knowledge gained from his recently completed MBA, means he has an up-to-date knowledge of modern leadership and management practice, and fully understands the challenges leaders face on a day-to-day basis.
Paul facilitates effective leadership, culture and team development, change, and ‘train-the-trainer' workshops that are bespoke to the people and organisations involved. Drawing on his background in education, Paul is skilled in creating impactful and practical sessions where participants are actively involved and can immediately start introducing the content explored.
Paul has worked with a range of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and professions as a leadership coach. He loves working with potential and current leaders who are looking to reflect on, develop and improve their knowledge, skills, capabilities and mindsets as they move towards specific goals they are looking to reach.
While all leaders Paul works with want to develop their leadership skills so they become more effective at work, others also want to develop areas of their life that have become secondary to their work requirements. As a result, he helps leaders reflect on how their current lifestyle impacts those they serve at work, themselves and their families. This area of development not only ensures leaders perform at their best at work but in all areas of their lives.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Trainer
- Facilitator, Waikato
Rae has been a dynamic workplace trainer, coach and guest speaker for over a decade. She specialises in creating events that enable people to connect and collaborate with curiosity and kindness.
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Roger successfully operated his own private financial advisory service for 25 years, and was the inaugural chairman and a director of Rutherford Rede, a national financial advisory practice specialising in wealth management services for high net worth clients. Add to the mix a busy family of four children, extensive other interests, and annual international speaking commitments, and he had to face and master his own perspective and performance skills as an absolute priority.
Through many years of dealing with staff development and personal excellence standards within a burgeoning organisation, Roger has developed an intense interest in the topic of organisational Purpose and personal efficacy.
He enjoys helping senior teams to articulate organisational Purpose as well as helping people get to grips with their own work Purpose and direction (how to do the right things), and understanding their work processes and systems (how to do things right). His work is grounded in academic research and represents best-practice thinking.
Roger's consultancy and facilitation work has involved national roadshows for industry associations, in-house workshops for corporates, conference keynote addresses, and Masterclass presentations for training organisations and businesses.
He has a special skill in taking complex ideas and conveying them in a crisp and concise way, making them easy to understand and simple to apply, and believes that the principles of personal efficacy transcend gender, location, culture, creed, language, and industry sector.
Job Titles:
- Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Relentless curiosity, deriving energy from change, supporting people to do their best work. These were the hallmarks of Ross's own business leadership, so it was a natural progression for him into supporting individuals and organisations looking for a different future.
Ross counts himself as having been lucky to have worked for over 30 years in a number of different industries across Australasia, including health, utilities, IT, retail and manufacturing. It taught him to believe that timing has a great deal to do with any given approach being successful. That means there is always something new to learn but also points to the ‘right answer' being contextual; that being a good, let alone great, leader requires different behaviours in different contexts plus the need to thrive in ambiguity.
That is a big ask for a leader to do alone. Ross sees his role as being to help bring out the best self of the individual being coached; to help them identify and leverage their strengths, to clarify purpose and direction, to look deep within to challenge. The coaching relationship is unique. It provides space to be vulnerable, to be uncertain, to lack clarity, all safely and in confidence.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Ruth brings 20 years of experience working across diverse industries and assignments in various leadership, OD and psychology roles. She is passionate about helping organisations bring out the best in their people by applying evidence based positive psychological principles to the workplace.
Ruth has had the fortune to have worked with leaders and their teams across multiple sectors and has facilitated, trained and coached at a variety of levels, from graduates to executives, and developed leaders and their teams in complex environments including financial services, pharmaceutical and professional services industries, education and healthcare. Her work has taken her across the globe to Hong Kong, New York, Europe and the Middle East and now supporting organisations to thrive back in her home country, Aotearoa.
In the last 10 years, she has successfully designed and delivered an award-winning strengths-based leadership development programme for the largest acute NHS trust in the UK, and led an NHS Trust through a culture reset, resulting in measurable shifts in improved staff engagement. Ruth is particularly interested in the application of appreciative approaches and positive psychology to organisational wellbeing and uses her signature strengths-focused approach in her work with leaders and teams around themes which include strengthening personal effectiveness, resilience and wellbeing, authentic leadership, and building cohesive, high trust, psychologically safe teams.
Her vision is for organisations to identify and activate the strengths of their people to be able to do more of what they do best every day to ultimately positively impact their workplaces and the clients they serve.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Certified DiSC Trainer
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Canterbury
Sean Bailey is a former school Principal who is now a qualified executive and organisational coach, working with leaders across New Zealand. He uses the highly recognised ICF coaching framework, along with his robust educational leadership experience, to empower people and maximise their personal and professional potential.
Sean is a certified DiSC trainer and uses this effective tool with companies and organisations to improve communication skills for individuals, teams, and leaders.
Sean is results-driven and ensures that the clients he works with are provided with the highest level of support. He works hard to develop long-term relationships. As an outcome, powerful connections are established and maintained.
Job Titles:
- Consultant / Facilitator / Coach, Wellington
Selena is an experienced leadership, team and career coach and organisational development consultant offering coaching, consultation and facilitation, and designing innovative competency and performance management frameworks. Her work also includes organisational and capability development, change management, corporate excellence and motivational speaking services.
She has worked in operational organisation, capability and quality assurance leadership roles across the public and private sectors for over 20 years and has a strong network throughout New Zealand.
Selena is passionate about building people leadership, team and personal effectiveness towards better business outcomes. She is known for creating pragmatic solutions that work for leaders, SME owners and their teams and her engaging and positive personality.
Selena has worked extensively with leaders and their teams to manage effectively through transformational and ongoing change and assisted many organisations and teams to understand each other and become more effective and empowered. She is passionate about improving leaders' capability in people leadership, with a focus on collective impact and inclusive leadership, collaboration, change leadership and empowering teams.
She also enjoys creating roadmaps, strategy, work programmes and plans and innovative competency and performance management frameworks, supported by practical resources.
In her various roles as Coach, Consultant and Facilitator, she has worked with numerous organisations including The Treasury, Waka Kotahi, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Kainga Ora, Ara Poutama Aotearoa (Department of Corrections), Ministry of Justice, Tertiary Education Commission, Management Development Centre (now LDC), ServiceIQ, Skills.org, Kerridge and Partners, and Foodstuffs.
She also has experience of national qualification review and development of, provider accreditation, competency-based workplace assessment and education quality assurance/moderation.
Outside work, she has a lot of fun as an active Baritone member of the award winning Faultline Chorus, a professional women's barbershop chorus in Wellington.
Qualifications and Accreditations