EMA HR Webinar: Turning Offboarding into a Strategic Advantage

Every exit is a moment of truth. Whether an employee leaves on a high note or under strain, how you manage their departure speaks volumes about your culture - and creates a powerful opportunity to learn, improve, and protect what matters most. 

In this session, our EMA people experts will show you how to turn farewells into forward momentum. You’ll learn how to gather meaningful feedback, support your remaining team, and use offboarding as a tool for continuous improvement and cultural resilience. 

Join us for a fireside chat led by our EMA people experts, and we’ll help you get it right. 

This webinar is for you if you’re: 

• An HR Advisor or small business owner looking to protect your business reputation and retain alumni goodwill  

• An up-and-coming HR partner looking to use constructive feedback to fuel meaningful change and ensure a strong experience at all stages of the employee lifecycle 

• A people leader wanting to support your team through a potential gap in both skills and culture, while laying groundwork for understanding the best person to next fill this role 

At this webinar, you will gain:   

• Learning through case studies – What worked, what didn’t, and what you can take from it  

• Interactive discussions – with Q&A opportunities to get an expert perspective in real time  

• Best practice tips and takeaways – Including strategies for useful feedback, managing gaps and keeping the culture and productivity at the same level. 

Meet your hosts: 

Sharon Spence, HR Consultant

Most of Sharon’s career has been in Human Resources, with side trips into operations, IT and systems implementation, project management, and consulting. She started out at Ford Motor Company, and Credit Suisse, and has held senior and General Manager level roles in great companies like Fletcher Building, Mercer, & Carter Holt Harvey, Gen-i (now Spark), GHD and Public Trust. 

What she saw along the way were two flawed assumptions that were holding back great career development. First, the assumption that people mostly know where they want to take their careers, and secondly that managers mostly know how to have meaningful performance and growth conversations. Wanting to do something to solve that, she stepped out of corporate life to start a new enterprise aimed at breathing life into career development

Suzie Marsden, HR Consultant

Suzie has worked for Toyota, Fisher & Paykel, NatWest in the UK, Westpac and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, mainly specialising in marketing, and has also led sustainability, sales and product development teams, and served on executive teams in General Management roles. 

Supporting development and growth has always been very important to Suzie, and 14 years ago she learned to be a leadership coach and has been coaching ever since, both inside and outside the organisations she has been in. Suzie jumped at the opportunity to join Sharon because she had a strong drive to do something more personally meaningful and to follow her purpose of helping New Zealanders thrive by creating amazing experiences that help people with their lives

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