Snapshots 2016
Class of 2016
Damon Birchfield
CEO, EcoMatters Environment Trust
Skills Offered: Facilitation, fundraising, governance, strategic planning, community engagement
Current Community Involvement: Trustee on the board of Environment Hubs Aotearoa, founding trustee He Tohu Aroha.
Location: West Auckland
Darren Lee
General Manager - National Contact Centre, Oranga Tamariki
Skills Offered: Process improvement, people development, governance, coaching, change management
Location: Wellington
David Hall
Infrastructure Reliability Manager, Auckland Airport
Skills Offered: Change management, facilitation, strategic planning, mentoring, relationship management
Current Community Involvement: Board Member, EcoMatters
Location: Auckland
Dayne Farley
NZ Sales Operations Manager, Xero
Skills Offered: Sales, leadership, change management, coaching, process improvement
Current Community Involvement: Junior tennis, Rippa rugby
Location: Tauranga
Di Taylor
General Manager Technology, New Zealand Racing Board
Skills Offered: Change management, leadership development, strategic planning, people development, organisational development
Current Community Involvement: Local sporting and school organisations
Location: Wellington
Eli Tagi
Owner and Director, WE Accounting and Business
Location: Auckland
El-Shadan Tautolo
Senior Research Fellow / Director of Centre for Pacific Health & Development Research, AUT South
Skills Offered: Academic research and evaluation, strategic planning and community development, project management, mentoring, community engagement
Current Community Involvement: Member of Pacific Health & Welfare Network, Cook Islands Health Network, and involved in various activities with local Glen Innes Seventh Day Adventist Church and local community agencies
Location: Auckland
Hayley Shields
Director Student Experience, Education New Zealand
Skills Offered: Business development, coaching, relationship management, public speaking, leadership development
Current Community Involvement: Fundraiser for Auckland City Mission, YWCA Board sub-committee, youth mentoring
Location: Auckland
Helen Peters
Tax and Treasury Manager, Tait Communications
Skills Offered: Tax compliance and consulting services, accounting, training, mentoring and coaching
Location: Christchurch
Hillary Palmer
Consultant
Skills Offered: Culture development, mentoring, coaching and leadership development
Location: Wellington
Imogen Parry
Skills Offered: Strategic and systems thinking, impact strategy and social innovation, transformation, governance, facilitation, communication, and Human Centred Design
Current Community Involvement: Trustee - Leadership New Zealand
Location: Auckland
Jen Linney
Strategic Advisor - Operations Group, ACC
Skills Offered: Relationship management, facilitation, integration, strategic planning, governance, people development, organisational review
Location: Wellington
Justin Maddock
Manager, Commercial Relationships, Ports of Auckland
Location: Auckland
Kathy Stirrat
Programme Operations Lead, Transformation Programme, ACC
Skills Offered: Relationship management, strategic and systems thinking, organisational change management, communicating, leadership and people management, governance
Current Community Involvement: I have been taking a break after decades of community and church involvement but am ready to play my part again and am currently exploring options for future community involvement.
Location: Wellington
Kelly Bewley
Project Manager - Exhibitions, Auckland Museum
Skills Offered: Project Management
Location: Tamaki Makaurau - Auckland
Kelly Bleakley
Senior Social Responsibility Manager, Lotto
Skills Offered: Education, youth leadership, communications, organisational development, community engagement, public speaking, relationship management, people development
Current Community Involvement: I have made a commitment throughout my life to contribute to the community through volunteering, primarily as a leader and national team member with SCOUTS New Zealand, and also in community theatre as a performer and choreographer for both youth and adult productions.
Location: Auckland
Keren Ross
Lead Advisor - Official Correspondence, Regulatory Services, The Department of Internal Affairs
Skills Offered: Relationship management, facilitation, communications, coaching
Location: Wellington
Ketan Panchal
Financial Controller, Te Runanga A Iwi O Ngapuhi
Skills Offered: Change management, financial, organisational development, project management and strategic planning
Current Community Involvement: I continue to develop interest in the employees of my organisation and its subsidiaries in self-financial management.
Location: Whangarei
Maraea Rakuraku
Founder, Native Agency
Skills Offered: Creative writing, media, broadcasting, research and evaluation, theatre, performance poetry, playwriting, Kaupapa Maori, restorative justice, justice advocate, communication, mentoring
Current Community Involvement: Reviewer for online review site theatreview, involvement in theatre and writing, lifetime hapu and iwi obligations and responsibilities.
Location: Wellington/Bay of Plenty/Te Urewera
Marion Schrama
NZ Post
Skills Offered: Change management, communications, sales, people development, process improvement, coaching
Current Community Involvement: I am currently a reader/writer for NCEA as well as a contributor for BellyFull.
Location: Wellington
Mary Camp
Business Development Manager, Education New Zealand
Skills Offered: Stakeholder engagement, facilitation, training, writing, relationship management, project management
Location: Wellington
Mat Stone
Skills Offered: Enjoys people and problems. Establishes purposeful connections and trust. Manages situations for the bestall round outcome. Good in a crisis. Loves systems. Moderately strong work ethic but excellent loyalty.
Current Community Involvement: Currently making new connections in Paris, France, after 20 years in Newtown, Wellington.
Location: Paris
Megan Hurnard
Director - Performance, NZTE
Skills Offered: Event management, strategic planning, performance measurement, process improvement
Current Community Involvement: I am the committee chair for The Tudor Consort, a Wellington choir.
Location: Wellington
Megan Tyler
Planning Manager, Central & Islands, Auckland Council
Skills Offered: Strategic planning, policy development, mentoring, governance
Current Community Involvement: Chair of Finance and Property Board, Massey Community Church
Location: Auckland
Mini Prasad
Business Development and Social Enterprise Strategist, ConnectSR
Skills Offered: Strategic planning, financial, business development, international business advisory, community engagement
Current Community Involvement: I work in creating Social Enterprises that add value to corporations and give back to society. I also am a qualified fitness instructor and I teach nutritional health and wellbeing practices.
Location: Auckland
Nazli Effendi
Director & Director of Studies, NZ Academic and Learning Institute
Skills Offered: Training and development, programme development, curriculum design, strategic planning, language acquisition training and development
Current Community Involvement: Member of PACIFICA; Board Member, Ruapotaka Marae
Location: Auckland
Neil Swailes
Deputy Crew Chief, Auckland Airport
Skills Offered: Change management, training, coaching, risk management, emergency management
Location: Auckland
Owen Thomas
Oranga Tamariki
Skills Offered: Youth leadership development, community engagement, strategic planning, governance, mentoring
Current Community Involvement: My role requires me to be engaged in a large number of community activities and groups across my district. As well as this I am also a Recovery Manager for Civil Defence in Whangarei.
Location: Whangarei
Pania Schwenke
Immediate Past President, PACIFICA and Flight Attendant Manager, Resource Delivery Manager, Manager Cabin Crew Operations
Skills Offered: People Management, Operations Management , Manpower Planning, Supply Chain and Purchasing, Process Improvement, Change Management, Project Management, Strategic Development, Crisis and Disruption Management, Stakeholder Management, Training, Talent Acquisition and Recruitment, Health and Safety, Mentoring, Customer Service Delivery
Current Community Involvement: P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A. Executive member, Mercy Hospice Volunteer
Location: Auckland
Pauline Hanna
Deceased
Phil Brewster
Skills Offered: International development, disaster risk management, facilitation, humanitarian training
Current Community Involvement: Civil defence, refugee resettlement
Location: Yangon
Rebecca Sinclair
Director - Academic, College of Creative Arts, Massey University
Skills Offered: Facilitation, education, public speaking, creative and design thinking, creative governance
Current Community Involvement: Miramar North School Board of Trustees
Location: Wellington
Rob Kerr
British Honorary Consul - Christchurch, British High Commission
Skills Offered: Project Management, civil and environmental engineering, community engagement
Current Community Involvement: I am currently fully committed to earthquake recovery
Location: Christchurch
Sanjoy Nand
Chief of Allied Health, Scientific and Technical Profession, Counties Manukau District Health Board
Skills Offered: Change management, process improvement, organisational culture development, mentoring, relationship management, ideation, co-creation, health sector knowledge, leadership
Location: South Auckland
Sarah Graham
General Manager/Programme Director, Q
Skills Offered: Event planning, relationship management, curation, community engagement
Location: Auckland
Shaun Greaves
Executive Director - Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
Skills Offered: Not-for-profit management, people, organisational and leadership development, community & stakeholder engagement, coaching
Current Community Involvement: National Board GirlGuiding New Zealand Location: Auckland