Our Experts

When it comes risk, investigations and management, Andy Evans has done it all for many of New Zealand’s largest organisations. 
His practical experience intersects with his unending enthusiasm for transforming business performance through outstanding education and training to provide top notch content for learners.
Andy’s style is informative, engaging, and authoritative, and he prides himself on bringing everyone in the room on the learning journey.

Passionate about people and their businesses, Ash brings that enthusiasm to his training and facilitating. His aim is to help people in Kiwi companies big and small to grow their management capability and profitability. Ash’s background includes senior management, national sales management and finance roles in Australia and New Zealand over 20 years. He is also an experienced board director with governance experience across a wide range of sectors. Ash’s desire to impart his knowledge saw him move into training and facilitating to empower people to grow their businesses.

 

 

“Our staff and Managers have grown and developed from training facilitated by Ash. He is very engaging and knowledgeable across all aspects of business. We have experienced seeing our people grow and we value working with Ash into the future.” Pacific Environments Ltd

Brent is well regarded as a safety coach and for taking organizations on a learning journey to understand how people are seen as the solution, how to engage people and leverage their skills so that worker participation becomes a normal way of running an organization, where everybody benefits.

 

 

With a background in Human Resources and small business management herself, Carley knows the importance of leadership, resilience, and effective communication. She has worked across a broad range of industries and business functions in small, medium, and non-profit business and corporate environments. Carley helps organisations drive performance through care, by helping teams build knowledge, awareness, and capability so they can be more effective in achieving organisational goals.

 

 

“Carley is engaging, enjoyable, so knowledgeable I could listen and pick her brain all day!! She’s non-judgemental and so friendly and relatable. She is super positive and full of energy. Carley was a great facilitator who was extremely engaging, fun and creative. She delivered a fantastic course that was very informative and useful for us all.” Honda New Zealand

Clive is passionate about achieving quality outcomes for businesses when they are dealing with Unions. As our main Collective Bargaining Specialist, he is currently the lead negotiator for more than 50 Collective Agreements across New Zealand. The significant majority of these are in private sector manufacturing. He has also led our Bay of Plenty and Central North Island HR/ER consulting team for the last 20 years. Clive is well respected for his work with businesses on their IR Strategy, and for his calm and constructive approach when dealing with Unions. This ensures that quality outcomes are delivered in often challenging situations.

"Clive is such a great consultant. Super pragmatic. Just love dealing with him." Vet Plus

Debi thrives on an interactive learning environment and brings her outgoing and engaging nature to every situation. She takes a creative approach to problem-solving and simplifying complex subject matter, and delivering skills training that can be implemented in the workplace. She has been adding to her own skills and experience in people management, coaching and mentoring and learning and development for more than 20 years in different industries both in UK and New Zealand.

 

 

"Doing the leadership training with Debi was a breeze. It wasn't your stock standard book work in silence which can be hard to focus on, instead it was an interactive group environment where everyone could chime in with their thoughts and experiences and have a laugh along the way. Each week we were given the opportunity to integrate what we had learnt on the course back into our own working groups which has proved invaluable to making that next step to becoming a valued leader." Thermosash

Helen brings a pragmatic approach and her passion to educating and helping businesses understand why and how health and safety is a top priority for everyone. She has more than 20 years of experience as a health and safety consultant in both the private and public sectors and relishes her tailored, in-house training roles. Canterbury-based Helen has helped to educate and support businesses with their health and safety from a variety of sectors throughout New Zealand, including SMEs, large multinational corporates, and not-for-profits.

Karyn consciously cultivates environments that create the opportunity to grow, expand and re-learn. She works with business leaders and their people drive performance and positive behaviour that benefits them in the work and personal lives. Karyn has owned and run many businesses and been a business coach for more than 15 years, and she combines this knowledge and experience with her expertise in human development. Karyn’s style is supportive, stimulating and focuses on achieving and embedding long-lasting learning and change, aligned with values.

 

 

“Karyn's distinctive difference is, she truly cares about people, who they are, the journey they've travelled and and where they want to go to next. Karyn invests in the professional development of others naturally and with the inspiration that defines learner-centric education. Karyn's facilitation style is inclusive and interactive, this was demonstrated time and time again over lockdown when she transitioned the Ultimate Team Leader program into a virtual classroom.” Loretta Thompson.

Keith is focused on creating sustainable, people-focused changes to improve the efficiency of organisations and the effectiveness of people. Health and safety work in the supply chain sector – manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics – is where he is happiest, but he brings his wealth of experiences in diverse industries across the world to EMA member businesses in Auckland and his facilitating. He gets satisfaction from providing full circle support from Health and Safety reviews to templates and training to ensure compliance and sustainable practices and processes into the future.

 

 

“Thanks for all your help getting us to this point and I feel very positive about what you are offering us. They said several times that our consultant must be excellent as we had addressed and clearly covered a lot of things he would normally ask - before he asked. He was impressed with our teams and processes and understood we were working on this all. He also interviewed two of our warehouse staff and it was great having confidence that they were trained and aware.” Kerry Logistics.