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Anne McLaughlin - Senior Partner
NZCJ, Dip. Ed.

Anne brings extensive career experience within both the private and public sector to her customers. Prior to becoming a performance consultant, Anne was a Business Manager with INL and an HR consultant with the Ministry of Social Development. She also has a background in sales and marketing. Anne has written and delivered training modules in a variety of areas, including performance management, communication, leadership, change management and effective writing. Anne is also highly skilled in designing organisational development initiatives such as performance management interventions. She is accredited for use of the Myers Briggs® Type Indicator.

Anne can be contacted directly on 021 660 117.

 



John Hornblow - Senior Partner
B.Ed and Dip. Bus. Studies

From 1986 John has assisted organisations and individuals to enhance their performance. Over those two decades he has developed extensive expertise in leadership, team performance, conflict resolution and the process of change. John has overseen major projects, including the design, implementation and roll-out of one of New Zealand's largest training projects. Equally comfortable with small teams, John's strong facilitation skills are frequently called on to move teams through change and conflict to a new stage of performance. Mentoring is a passion for John, and he provides this service to people in any position in an organisation. As an NZQA Moderator John places a strong emphasis on the review and measurement of training delivered, believing that long term solutions rather than short term fixes provide significantly more benefit to individuals and their organisations.

John has worked internationally in countries including Singapore, China and North Anerica.

John can be contacted directly on 021 437 566.

 



John Mawdsley - Senior Partner
BA.

John has worked as a performance consultant since 1996, primarily with large businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Having worked for 3M for 11 years prior to 1996 in human resources management, industrial relations, human resources development, and as a sales and marketing executive, John's extensive firsthand business and management experience is an excellent resource for customers who expect highly practical and relevant consulting and training content. John's particular strengths lie in team-based strategic plan facilitation, sales and marketing training, leadership development and the training of trainers. He is also accredited for use of the Myers Briggs® Type Indicator, and specializes in the use of the instrument to facilitate team development. John's facilitation style is very focused on learner involvement, variety of process and enjoyment.
John is the current Auckland Vice President of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand.

John has worked internationally in countries including Singapore, China, the USA, Australia, Fiji and Cambodia.

 




Rachel Rae - Developer
B.Sc. Psych.

Customers require detailed assessments of performance so that sound business decisions are made. Rachel is highly skilled at designing research instruments to meet a range of specific client needs. These may be organisational, customer or staff surveys, training needs analyses or 360 degree feedback interventions. Rachel's extensive experience provides the client with global best-practice based on comprehensive research and solid pragmatism. Rachel also develops client business processes and procedures, business documentation and quality manuals.

 


Associates

Pam Elgar
BBS.

Pam brings a wealth of experience in a variety of leadership roles within the public and private sectors. Most recent has been a senior management role in the finance sector. Pam’s organisational experience also includes a strong background in the not-for-profit sector particularly with sporting and community-based groups. Pam has designed, developed and led training programmes in a variety of subject areas including performance management, leadership development, equal employment opportunities, change management, sales leadership and customer service.

Pam is particularly passionate about providing learning and development interventions that assist the individual to function at their peak. She is accredited to use the Myers Briggs® Type Indicator and specializes in the use of the instrument to facilitate personal understanding and team development.

 



Shona Munro -
Dip PE, Teaching Certificate, Certificate in Mentoring and Coaching

Shona has been an associate with Nexus Partners since 2004. She has an extensive background in education, from high school through to university level. Her entrepreneurial skills have assisted her to build successful mail order and inbound tourism businesses, giving her a deep understanding of the challenges of business. Most recently she has been employed in a training and development role with NZ Police. This diverse background enables Shona to provide clients with relevant learning opportunities in a range of content areas.

Her passion is leadership and coaching and an interest in researching these areas has led her to post graduate study in training and development at Victoria University. Shona's lively interactive style is an asset to the Nexus Partners team.

 



Fiona Purchas
BA

For the last 13 years Fiona has been working with individuals and organisations to develop their work life and organisational environments to be more satisfying and productive. Fiona’s combination of skills and experience as a career coach and training consultant, along with her interest in organisational development, provide an integrated approach to organisational, team and personal work problems.

As a leader and trainer in the youth sector, Fiona developed a passion for “people problems”. Helping individuals and groups work through problems and develop skills and strategies to be more effective led her to career consultancy with Career Service rapuara, and into corporate training.

Fiona has delivered training programmes, as well as team and individual interventions in a broad range of areas including: career development and planning, conflict resolution, coping with change, effective communication, assertiveness, time management, team development, leadership, skills for recruitment and selection, negotiation, stress management.

 



Tony McMurtrie
BSc

Tony has more than 15 years experience working as a performance consultant and leadership facilitator in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to becoming a consultant he held senior positions in multinational companies such as GlaxoSmithKline which included responsibility for start-up business units and sales and marketing.
Tony believes that workshops on their own do not change behaviour. He places strong emphasis on coaching and/or mentoring to underpin leadership training, and in particular uses innovative video observation techniques as well as other learning mechanisms to assist transfer of learning.

Tony also works extensively in the area of leadership development and is an experienced coach/mentor. He has a passion for blended learning solutions.

His community involvement has included work as a school trustee; board member for Laidlaw College and as a caregiver for the Open Homes Foundation.

Tony is accredited for use of the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator.

 


 

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