I am currently working as a Change Manager in the Westpac General Ledger Programme team to support them in building a solution that supports Westpac’s compliance requirements, including BS11, essentially bringing processes onshore. To do this we are implementing Oracle Fusion as the new finance General Ledger for the New Zealand business. My role at a high level is to focus on the build, design and implementation of the change function which includes working with SMEs, BAs and Functional Testers to work out what's changing, how is it changing, what future state will look like and how we are going to achieve this. This includes the creation and execution of key deliverables and activities such as; the change roadmap and plan, business readiness support, change readiness checkpoints, stakeholder engagement, detailed impact assessment, UAT training and execution, business education, personas and journey mapping, TNA, training curriculum, training schedule, comms plan.All of this feeds into our UAT, comms and stakeholder engagement that is currently underway and end user training, go-live and post go-live support which will be kicking off in the new year.

Exciting to end up working back where it all began! I am currently contracting to Deloitte working as a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Human Capital Team. I have been part of helping on a range of both private & public sector clients in their IT transformation & change journeys. My current projects exposure, has allowed me to gain indepth knowledge of large change IT programmes, & more intimately the change function. I have been working as part of the Adoption & Improvement Team in the Covid Immunisation Programme which has transitioned into a broader scope, the National Immunisation Solution for the Ministry of Health. My role has seen me contribute to & lead change work within this large programme, with my strength in connecting with people & ability to get the job done to a high standard part of the reason I am where I am today. Within this space I have delivered change deliverables i.e. change strategies, change impact assessments (agile change canvas), change advisories, as well as being heavily involved in the communications & training space i.e. training needs analysis, training strategy and plan right down to creating training collateral and sessions. My view is working together is essential to meet key deliverables in an agile way. An example of this is my ability to flex wider than traditional change deliverables playing heavily in the PMO space where my organisation & ability to manage varying stakeholder groups saw me refine this skillset. I have been the PMO function in numerous project rollouts within this programme, including project reporting, status metrics, facilitation, identification of risks, and the creation and tracking of implementation plans. I have a good understanding of the impact technology changes have on people, remembering that a system is only as good as it driver, therefore we must ensure people feel the change is happening with them, not to them via a thoroughly planned and executed change strategy and collaborative agile team.

I was extremely excited to take on this role in the newly formed Digital team that continue to build on the last 3 years of our business and technology transformation and look to take Farmlands into the Digital era.In this role I will further the success of Farmlands by delivering digital products that meet the needs of our Shareholders. I will hold key relationships within the business, the wider Technology team and Vendors to bring a product to life from inception, delivery and beyond.

This allowed me the opportunity to work on a $90M business transformation programme, the largest project in New Zealand and Microsoft's fifth biggest technology implementation globally at its time of inception. I worked strategically with the leaders of the organisation to identify the change impacts for our business and prepare our people for change through readiness activities and extensive training which spanned online learning, face-to-face systems and business process training along with change coaching to over 1,400 people.My role as a Change Advisor allowed me to have exposure to all streams within the Change Management team working on the Braveheart Programme at Farmlands. My role was to deliver activities related to the project such as attend business readiness workshops to gain an understanding of future state, work within the culture stream, plan, deliver and execute programme comms, programme reporting within the PMO space and facilitating training workshops and other training initiatives. A large part of our role was to support Farmlands managers to increase capability and engagement aswell as facilitate behaviour changes in line with project needs. Aswell as working in the marketing and events space within the Programme.In conjunction with the Change Stream Lead I was also responsible for leading our group of 180 people throughout our organisation in our change champions initiative. This involved session planning and attendance, facilitation, development of content and evolution of our change champions nationally over the 3-year period. This work was recognised at the New Zealand HR Awards where we were the recipient of the award for Organisational Change and Development for 2019.

My role as Project Assistant is to assist the Change Manager in facilitating a smooth and positive change, ensuring that the new change initiatives introduced into the organization help to further the organizational objectives and fit in completely with its corporate vision and mission.I am extremely lucky due to the dynamic and varied nature of my role that involves change initiatives - values project, national change monthly conferences, event management, marketing and communications, PMO – working in MS Project and clarizen and administration for the change manager and change leads within our team.

4 month contract with Deloitte working in their Human Capital team on a large business transformation project in Christchurch.

I like to leave this job on my Linkedin as it reminds me of where I started back in those university holidays. This job taught me the importance of hard work, goal setting and confirmed my need for a diverse, fast paced work environment where I am continuously challenged as a contributing member of a team.