Snapshots 2011
Class of 2011
Alison Taylor
Head of Centre for Social Impact
Skills offered: Investing for social impact; capacity development for not for profits; philanthropic sector advice; effective governance; facilitation.
Current community involvement: Board member, Vodafone Foundation New Zealand.
Location: Auckland
Brendan Hoare
Managing Director, Buy Pure New Zealand
Skills offered: Business and organisational development, trade development, forging relationships; uniting and coordinating diverse communities of interest; developing uniting strategies under bold visions.
Current community involvement: Chief Executive, Organics Aotearoa NZ; Founding Director, Journal of Organic Systems; Executive Director, Econation 2020 Charitable Trust.
Location: Auckland
Bridgette Pretty
Director, Pretty Accounting Limited
Skills offered: Financial, management and commercial accounting services and support; making people’s life easier by identification and implementation of correct systems including vast experience with SAP, MYOB, QuickBooks, APS, Banklink, Xero and Accredo.
Current community involvement: Working with and mentoring teenagers after growing up in an extended family with many foster children. I focus on building confidence and life skills for our youth.
Location: Nelson
Carey Griffiths
Manager - Regulatory Practice, WorkSafe New Zealand
Skills offered: Project governance; community engagement; strategic leadership; policing and crime prevention; road safety advice; leadership mentoring.
Current community involvement: President, Institute of Advanced Motorists New Zealand (IAM NZ).
Location: Wellington
Cate Thorn
Skills offered: Mentor; community facilitator; strategic thinker; celebrant; wordsmith; enquirer.
Current community involvement: Collaborate with various community projects; ministry from the church into the community.
Location: Auckland
Catherine Schache
Commercial Director, ARANZ Geo Ltd
Skills offered: Governance and legal counsel.
Location: Christchurch
Damon Plimmer
Parish Priest, Anglican Diocese of Dunedin
Skills offered: Group facilitation; mentoring; spiritual direction; celebrant; pastoral care.
Current community involvement: Church ministry; scout leader; school trustee and chaplain.
Location: Wanaka
Dan Te Whenua Walker
Cloud Infrastructure and Applications Solutions Lead, Microsoft
Skills offered: Leadership; governance; profit and loss management.
Current community involvement: Trustee Tuia Te Here Tangata; Maori Youth Development; mentor First Foundation; board member Ngati Ruanui; director, New Zealand Maori Toursim.
Location: Auckland
Dave Hargreaves
Owner/Operator, Mitre 10
Skills offered: Strategic planning; operational and logistics management; business mentoring.
Current community involvement: CanTeen; Waikato Hospice and True Colours;; active in schools rowing in the Waikato; President, St Paul’s Rowing Club.
Location: Auckland & Hamilton
Dave Harris
Production Manager, Thirkettle Nurseries
Skills offered: Horticultural advice; technical research skills, assisting in transition from family run businesses.
Location: Nelson
Di Rump
Chief Executive, Muaupoko Tribal Authority
Skills offered: People and performance management of large nationwide teams; franchise strategy; sales & service excellence/effectiveness; retailbusiness cases & tendering; team building & facilitation; project & large programme management; product management; marketing; communications; customer centricity; governance; operational risk; financial services.
Current community involvement: Hearing Association; Dress for Success; my iwi.
Dickie Farrar
General Manager, Whakatohea Maori Trust Board
Skills offered: Strategy; planning; organising; change management; working with and developing teams; building organisational culture and ensuring we all achieve results. The tools I look for to enable this to happen are baseline evidential information backed up by clear strategy, great people, ability to execute and the cash to achieve results.
Location: Opotiki
Elaine Hultzer
Partner, Audit and Advisory, Deloitte Canada
Location: Canada
Elaine Wong
Location: Hong Kong
Hans Verberne
Skills offered: Organisational planning; quality assurance; mentoring; team building.
Current community involvement: Supporting local school activities
Location: Waikato
Henare Clarke
North Island Network Services Manager, Kiwi Rail
Skills offered: Governance; HR management.
Current community involvement: Board member, Genesis Youth Trust.
Location: Auckland
Janette Campbell
Partner, Meredith Connell
Skills offered: Environmental and resource management law; negotiation and mediation; project management; broad strategic planning and implementation.
Current community involvement: Pro bono legal advice to the Tree Council (Auckland) Inc.
Location: Auckland
Janine Attwood
Chief Artisan, Artisan Inc. NZ
Skills offered: Consulting - business strategy and transformation planning; HR and communication strategy and execution; coaching and leadership development; organisational engagement; brand development.
Current community involvement: Business and skills mentoring.
Location: Auckland
Jo Randerson
Artistic Director, Barbarian Productions
Skills offered: Facilitation, communication coaching; clown and performance work; public speaking; public engagement; creative process; social innovation; entrepreneurial thinking.
Current community involvement: Leader of community collaborations - public and community theatre and arts projects; mentor & advocate for arts community.
Location: Wellington
John Kotoisuva
Chief Executive Officer, Oceanic Career Academy
Skills offered: Teaching; mentoring; pastoral care.
Current community involvement: Vice chairman for the board of trustees for the West Fono Health Trust; Pacific Community advisor – Manukau Institute of Technology.
Location: Auckland
John O'Neil
Southland Regional Manager, PGG Wrightson
Skills offered: Understanding of agricultural sector; finance; people management.
Location: Invercargill
Josephine Bartley
Local Board Member, Auckland Council Maungakiekie Tamaki Ward; Pacific Engagement, Red Cross
Skills offered: Connecting and engaging communities; plain English language skills; social media; governance; consumer and credit law; advocacy.
Current community involvement: Board member, Glen Innes Family Centre; founding member, Pacifica Tamaki branch; chair, Tamaki Community Safety Forum and Tamaki Community Patrols Charitable Trust; member, Glen Innes Business Association; supporting local youth; member, HEART (Healthy Relationships in Tamaki).
Location: Auckland
Josie Ogden Schroeder
Chief Executive Officer, Christchurch YMCA
Skills offered: Strategic planning; fundraising; staff management/HR; governance; advocacy and risk management; crisis management; empowering others.
Current community involvement: Board member Outdoors NZ; trustee/staff member YMCA Christchurch.
Location: Christchurch
Liz Hampton
Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM New Zealand
Skills offered: Development of partnerships between business and community organisations; strategic planning; communications and project management.
Current community involvement: Board Chairman, Literacy Aotearoa Wellington; Manager of various volunteer community projects;
Location: Wellington
Margaret Davison
Skills offered: Extensive background in Scotland working with not-for-profit organisations to support their growth and development; extensive governance experience; involvement in a number of community boards supporting community regeneration; extensive experience on rugby committees.
Current community involvement: Junior rugby committee and civil defence.
Location: UK
Max Adler
Principal Designer - Service Innovation, The Service Design Company; Service Design Lead at Wavespace Auckland, EY
Skills offered: Human-centred design; design thinking for business; customer insight research; innovation strategy; service/product prototyping and testing; facilitation; coaching; co-design; cooperative inquiry; action research.
Current community involvement: coaching charitable organisations on business model innovation using design thinking.
Location: Auckland
Megan Courtney
Neighbourhoods Team Lead, Inspiring Communities
Skills offered: Community-led development; strategic planning; partnering and collaboration; community engagement and empowerment.
Current community involvement: Nelson Community-Led Development Network; Clifton Terrace School, Board of Trustees; Management committee, Tahunanui Community Centre.
Location: Nelson
Mike Brooker
Group Solicitor, Foodstuffs (Auckland)
Skills offered: Legal; negotiation; governance.
Current community involvement: Have been involved in numerous fund raising initiatives for CanTeen, local schools and the like. Provided pro-bono legal services for Starship, Fred Hollows Foundation and other charitable organisations while at the law firm.
Location: Auckland
Patrick O'Reilly
General Manager, Property, Trust Investment Management
Skills offered: Funds management; commercial property investment.
Current community involvement: Trustee, Inspiring Stories Trust; Property Institute of New Zealand.
Location: Auckland
Penny Fitt
Skills offered: Group work facilitation; creative games; teaching, language (German, French, Spanish).
Current community involvement: Eko Theatre collaborator; conversation group member (Forum for Personal and Social Enquiry, Wellington); visioning for Manutuke School’s application for special school status.
Location: Northland
Peter Wilson
Retired
Skills offered: Global portfolio management; management of medium and large scale enterprises in a complex environment; people management/development in a cross cultural context; leading diverse teams; strong safety leadership; project management; senior stakeholder relations.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Richard Fitzgerald
Mixed cropping farm owner, Greenacres Farms; Primary Industry Capability Consultant, Kedron Consulting
Skills offered: Working knowledge of a broad range of agricultural systems; sponsorship negotiation; strategy development; managing a large volunteer workforce; revenue building; brand management and television relationship management; change management processes. ‘Turn Around’ strategy; business development; industry collaboration; contract negotiation; change management for staff and volunteers; organisational culture development.
Current community involvement: National steering committee member, International Year of the family farm; team referee for son’s soccer team; sponsorship advice to help community projects structure their funding.
Location: Upper Canterbury Plains
Richard Llewellyn
Head of External Affairs, Vodafone
Skills offered: Media relations; communications strategy and planning; stakeholder engagement.
Location: Auckland
Russell Little
Procurement Architect, healthAlliance
Skills offered: Strategic planning; procurement; programme management; change management; global supply chain.
Current community involvement: Coach of youth grade sports teams in soccer and cricket.
Location: Auckland
Shalini Pillai
Senior Advisor - Policy, Evaluation & Learning, Foundation North
Skills offered: Fundraising and grant making advice; youth sector advice; venture philanthropy.
Current community involvement: Trustee, Women’s Centre Waitakere, Challenge 4 Charity.
Location: Auckland
Sue North
Manager, Group Risk & Compliance, Accident Compensation Corporation
Skills offered: People management and development; mentoring; planning; risk & quality management; training development & facilitation.
Location: Wellington