[ { "role": "Founder & Managing Director", "company": "Oro Collective", "endYear": "", "endMonth": "", "location": "Torquay, Victoria", "startYear": "2020", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": true, "description": "Founded and scaled a remote consulting practice (Oro Collective), delivering high-impact culture transformation and leadership development programs across the UK, NZ, EMEA, and US, driving measurable improvements in performance and trust-based leadership. Example projects:\n- Designing and delivering a masterclass to 120 leaders across the US on psychological safety and high-performing teams, integrating my Psychologically Safe Performance Model™ to foster inclusive, trust-based cultures​.\n- Designing and leading high-performing team workshops for 20 UK-based CEOs focusing on team development, trust-building, and driving performance through psychological safety​.\n- Facilitated psychometrics, leadership coaching and team engagement initiatives for senior leaders and management committees to build alignment, trust, and high-performance cultures." }, { "role": "Founder & Managing Director", "company": "TM&Co Ltd (Auckland, NZ)", "endYear": "2020", "endMonth": "2", "location": "Auckland, New Zealand", "startYear": "2016", "startMonth": " 7", "currentRole": false, "description": "Founded a consultancy focusing on OD interventions, L&D for leaders and teams, succession planning, values alignment, high performance and culture change. Example projects:\n- Facilitated executive decision-making frameworks that helped agencies overcome competing KPIs, simplifying complexity to create a mutually effective partnership with clear roles and agreements to fulfil their remit, backed by 100% buy-in to both partnership principles and action roadmap.\n- Transformed siloed, reactionary project leadership into a collaborative model with a strategically aligned roadmap, leading to greater alignment, accountability and performance for a multi-billion dollar programme of work.\n- Partnered with Deans and Associate Deans to help academic leadership teams redefine their roles, create a leadership charter, and establish shared agreements on trust, collaboration, and accountability.\n- Led candidate profiling using psychometric assessments to evaluate culture fit; provided advisory on workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, succession planning and leadership development strategies." }, { "role": "Founder & Managing Director", "company": "TM&Co Ltd (London, UK)", "endYear": "2016", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "London, UK", "startYear": "2011", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "Founded a consultancy focusing on OD interventions, L&D for leaders and teams, culture change and high-performing teams. Example projects:\n- Equipped 200 HR leaders to drive sustainable values-led cultural change through the design of an immersive, storytelling experience based on psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural insights to make the initiative relatable and easy to own and embed.. \n- Delivered a series of masterclasses on high-performance leadership to a diverse and dispersed audience across two years; 87% of participants reported being inspired to think and behave differently, and 92% found them engaging, interactive, and immediately applicable.\n- Applied stakeholder engagement strategies, leadership diagnostics, and data-driven analysis to design a structured resolution process that restored momentum in 2.5 days to a multi-billion-pound project that had stalled for two months; reinstated collaboration and secured executive alignment and 100% buy-in on the path forward to resolve both issues.\n- Designed, advised on, and led multi-agency collaborations across government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors, aligning competing priorities to secure a five-year strategic roadmap and measurable commitment to shared objectives for a London Borough." }, { "role": "International Product Director", "company": "Universal Pictures (UK)", "endYear": "2011", "endMonth": "4", "location": "London (UK)", "startYear": "2010", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Led international product and marketing strategy and development for 12 international markets, engaging and collaborating with stakeholders to retain relevance and secure growth. Successfully delivered Universal Pictures first social media strategy, driving the brands fan base from 1M to 7.7M in six months, securing 100% sales uplift." }, { "role": "Country Manager", "company": "The Walt Disney Company Ltd", "endYear": "2009", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "Auckland, NZ", "startYear": "2007", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "Re-engaged key stakeholders and created new OD frameworks to improve information flow, access to commercial support and increased communication and collaboration to repair business relationships. \n\nGained #1 entertainment brand in the market in my first 18 months after six years of disengagement.\n\nRan multiple nationwide programs requiring cross-business collaboration, building high-trust relationships with key clients, to deliver sales and marketing strategy and execution that delivered sales uplifts of between 100% and 400%." }, { "role": "Senior Consultant", "company": "Gaulter Russell Ltd", "endYear": "2006", "endMonth": "10", "location": "Auckland, NZ", "startYear": "2005", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "End-to-end specialist recruitment role focusing on placement of sales and marketing leaders. Partnered with clients to refine role scope and remuneration, create ad strategy, conduct behavioural interviews, provide thorough candidate reports, coach hiring managers through interview techniques and provide post-placement follow-up." }, { "role": "Head of Marketing", "company": "Hasbro NZ Ltd", "endYear": "2005", "endMonth": "2", "location": "Auckland, NZ", "startYear": "2001", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Led a marketing team of five responsible for a $15M portfolio plus P&L ownership; responsible for strategic marketing to drive market share and sales growth.\n\nNegotiated distribution rights with external suppliers internationally, managing contracts, financials and reporting.\n\nIntroduced an OD initiative that improved team productivity by 14%, removing all overtime and delivered a 200% profit increase." } ]