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Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand

NEO Leaders (NEO) is a global business and executive leadership development company with the aim to help organisations build leadership, innovation and strategic capabilities that generate meaningful and sustainable growth. We believe that innovative companies are led by innovative leaders, and true change is about people. The new generation of business leaders will be faced with significant challenges and accelerated change. Only innovative and creative organisations who can respond and adapt swiftly will stay relevant and succeed in this environment. We help executives and executive teams to achieve this. ► Provide services to a number of global brands, including Unilever, ANZ, Aegon, Adidas, LG, Accenture, Visa, Philips, PWC, GE Finance, Heineken, E&Y, P&G, and 3M.► Worked with the executive team of one of the most trusted brands in the insurance industry in New Zealand to co-create a strategic response to disruptive trends in the insurance industry and help the company shift to a more adaptive responsive culture.► Executive coaching services on INSEAD's leadership, strategy, and innovation programmes (www.insead.edu). NEO is B Corp Certified (https://bcorporation.net/directory/n-e-o-leaders-limited), which means that NEO meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are accelerating a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

New Zealand

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an innovative technology services company, created as a result of the split of Hewlett Packard into HP Inc and HPE. We do not just believe in superior technology. We believe in the power of people. We apply new thinking and ideas to improve the way we all live and work. Watch how we support the people at DreamWorks (below).I was selected for the new industry growth team to focus on innovative solutions for our customers in education, health, and public services ► Provide consultative sales and initiate CxO level dialogues with new logo clients, to drive medium-term growth and increase revenue streams.► Provide learning and coaching support to consultants and enterprise architects.► Created HPE Global Learning Strategy in response to new digital possibilities to create competitive advantage and enhanced performance.

Asia Pacific

The Hewlett-Packard Company was a US multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP has a strong innovation culture and creates technology with a purpose: to make life better for everyone, everywhere. This culture is what made me go back to HP. See below for an excellent example of the innovative, inclusive culture in HP. I was rehired to leverage my business transformation consulting skills and my ability to generate consultative sales at CXO level. My focus was on new logos in education, health and local government within the APAC region. ► Generated a pipeline of business with new customers.► Provided innovation training for sales and account teams, and business transformation training for change consultants and enterprise architects.

- Concurrent with roles at EDS -As a senior leader and enterprise architect at EDS, we noticed that there was a desire for enterprise architects and IT business leaders to mature the profession. The lack of a professional body prompted us to start the Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation (GEAO), a non-profit association for Enterprise Architects and IT business leaders. GEAO subsequently merged and was renamed The Association of Enterprise Architects. ► Managed initiation and expansion to 12K members.► Developed high performing team with participants from consulting firms including KPMG, Deloitte, PWC, Equinox (NZ), EDS and Bredemeyer Consulting (US).► Handled day-to-day operations, membership growth, journal publishing, conference keynotes, and skills framework supporting the global EA function.► Initiated, negotiated, and led a merger with The Open Group – today organisation has more than 23K members.

Singapore / United States

EDS was an F100 company offering technology and business process outsourcing services. EDS saw China emerging as a fast-growing economy and had a desire to penetrate China in particular and the Asian market in general. I was handpicked to form a consultancy organisation in APAC, with a large budget that supported effective market penetration activities.► Successfully established business transformation practices at EDS China. ► Provided portfolio product advice supporting business growth in Asia.

United States / New Zealand

Having contributed successfully to a substantial billion-dollar transformation for a commercial bank in Europe, I was chosen by the Board to assume one of the most senior technical roles in the global EDS organisation, leveraging my experience and expand business transformation capability globally. ► Initiated Business Transformation Services with the top nine global accounts: American Airlines, DWP, Fonterra, Rolls-Royce, Sabre, SKF, Telefonica (SA), Weyerhaeuser, and ATO (AU); achieving substantial contract value growth and broadening of the revenue base.► Trained and coached more than 600 business transformation consultants in the USA, Europe, and Asia. ► Key player in generating 32% growth in contract value equating to $26.5B in 1 year via integrated account strategy development and execution.► Presented at international conferences in Sydney, Bangalore, and Singapore to increase customer perception of EDS innovation.

The Netherlands / New Zealand / United Kingdom

► Chief Technologist/Manager, EDS NZ, New Zealand/UK, 2000-2005► HR/Account Manager, Antares Automation BV, The Netherlands, 1998-2000► Head of Education and Research, Roto Smeets De Boer NV, New Media Division, The Netherlands, 1995 – 1998

Executive Mba (Dual Degree), International Business, Management, Leadership

Activities and Societies: Student council, Team leaderExecutive MBA

Executive Mba (Dual Degree), International Business, Management, Leadership

Activities and Societies: Student council, Team LeaderExecutive MBA

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Master'S Degree, Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology

The first MSc course of its kind in the world - the MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, fully integrates positive.