Our Experts

Peter imparts his passion for public and psychosocial workplace mental health through his health and safety training. As well as using his training skills for the EMA, Peter teaches human sciences and lectures in public health at universities and polytechnics across Auckland. Peter expanded on his career in occupational health and safety, particularly providing injury prevention training and exercise-based rehabilitation, into neuroscience-based mental health and wellbeing initiatives.

 

“I would like to start by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed the course and that you are the most engaging tutor I have encountered to date. I was present mentally for the entire two days and I feel the psychological reasoning and human behaviour aspects you included made the information that much more palatable and memorable.” Azkonobel

Robin often works with boards and leadership teams to assist in the implementation of effective health and safety reviews, development of health and safety management systems and programmes and training. He brings his experience of advising organisations across a wide range of industries including, education, agriculture, energy, construction, manufacturing and corporate to his health and safety training for EMA learners. He is Head of Safety and Wellbeing and Public Trust, and previously during his role at Fonterra, Robin was National Health and Safety Manager for distribution, mines and farms.

Business transformation is what Ross does, but people are why he does it. He’s guided large-scale transformation projects for companies across the globe but gets most satisfaction from helping people who want to grow themselves. For EMA learners in Employment Relations, Human Resources and Management Ross brings his calm and insightful manner to provide information, listen and respond with knowledge and solutions. Ross gets great satisfaction from seeing professional leaders and managers grow in knowledge, skills, mindset, resilience, and confidence.

“Ross Wilson has helped me with my business on numerous occasions; he’s so natural at what he does that he can’t help himself bringing value to people’s businesses wherever he goes - it’s what he does! A true inspirer and encourager; he’s filled with ways to empower any organisation. I highly recommend him! Insight Films

The health, safety and wellbeing of people have been at the heart of Sandra’s 25-year career. She is an experienced project manager with a special interest in fleet safety management who has worked in sectors from banking and financial services to healthcare, manufacturing and at ACC. A great listener, Sandra makes sure she has plenty of relevant, stories drawn from her real-life experience to bring health and safety training to life, no matter what part of the curriculum.

 

 

A Workplace Investigations certificate holder from the Association of Workplace and licensed workplace investigator, Sarah drills into every situation using her training and experience and by being independent and impartial. Behavioural and conduct-related issues as well as conflict and workplace disputes are where she shines, but it does not always have to get to that. A skilled, mediator, Sarah can also provide early intervention to resolve issues that arise before they develop into unresolvable conflict. When it comes to Employment Relations, Sarah can also help manage performance and develop leaders to deliver results for large or small businesses. She can step you through the requirements of restructuring to ensure you run a fair and complaint process. If it comes to it, she has an in-depth knowledge and experience in managing personal grievances for employers, including negotiating exits and representation at mediation.

“We engaged Sarah to provide some conduct related training for our managers.  Sarah demonstrated a deep understanding of leadership as it relates to workplace behaviours.  Our managers were highly engaged through the half-day session and took away valuable insights to enhance and develop a positive workplace culture.” Snowplanet

Sheree is committed to making a positive difference to EMA member businesses and their people across the North Island. She thrives on working alongside companies to build their capability and knowledge in Health and Safety, and ensure they own their own processes and systems. Sheree also gives companies confidence and understanding of Health and Safety compliance so they can improve the performance of their business. She enjoys imparting her practical experience and knowledge, including as an inspector for the Department of Labour, in a straightforward and collaborative way.

Toni has over 20 years senior leadership and HR experience across a wide range of industries and sectors. She combines her creativity, intuition, and strategic mind with a track record of delivering seamless, performance-driven solutions to member businesses. The results are practical, scalable, and innovative across a broad range of Human Resources and Employment Relations challenges, including business change and transformation, restructuring, planning and performance management, organisational development, workforce and experience development, and governance and leadership development. Toni believes that with the rate of change it is essential businesses are equipped with the right advice to help them navigate challenges and achieve success with the big picture in mind. She also loves supporting leaders through tricky ER issues and assisting the development of individuals, leaders and teams. Toni also provides coaching, private mediation and workplace investigations services.

“Toni has been part of our team, providing excellent advice and support on a range of people and culture and human resource issues within our management team.  Her response time is great, communication skills are clear and concise and her attention to detail are on point.  Her mentoring skills to my staff have provided great results and I am happy to continue working with Toni on other projects.” Whakat?hea M?ori Trust Board

Trina (Ng?ti Kahungunu, Ng?ti Mutunga, Ngai Tahu) blends her foundation in business, sports and marketing, and qualifications in psychology, communications, and M?ori development with her culture to raise cultural comfortability for t?ngata Tiriti. She is an award-winning senior executive with more than 25 years of global business experience. She instinctively looks beyond the status quo and takes an innovative approach to improving, simplifying, and streamlining, guided by a strong Te Ao M?ori worldview.

Vanessa prides herself on her keen listening skills, thinking outside the box and her passion for developing capability and confidence in other people. Coupled with her background in nursing, education and sales, those values are what makes her training, particularly in management and communication, relevant, clear and engaging. Vanessa has consulted for large and small Kiwi businesses to help them identify and prioritise how to improve performance and develop their people, and designing training that best suits them.

“I completely loved the training. The facilitator Vanessa Green was clear, informative, entertaining and very enlightening! The way she explained the many parts then linked these into a logical process really helped deepen my understanding. With lots of practical exercises we were kept busy interacting with others.” Dream Au Pair