Primary Health Care

The Ford Advanced Driving School provides car control courses for the licensed driver. The courses are a combination of classroom discussions backed up with practical exercises with participants using their own vehicles or CMDHB pool cars on a closed venue. Subjects covered include, tyres, seating, searching, steering, emergency braking, cornering and skids. We end our courses with a brief discussion on basic defensive driving and the road code. Booking for this course are taken directly by Ford Advanced Driving School and they are not funded by Learning & Development. A purchase order number is required at the time of booking.

http://www.fordadvanced.co.nz

Garry Millar

Garry is an experienced consultant in procurement of capital works, advising public and private sector clients in the health, property, energy, transportation, water and telecommunications sectors. Garry has a strong track record in the delivery of engineering related projects and leadership of project portfolios New Zealand, UK and Australia .

In parallel to his consulting career Garry has also pursued a teaching and lecturing interest throughout his career. He had a part time lecturer position at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, and is currently a guest lecturer on the Construction Management module at Auckland University. He is also a facilitator on the DipMEEC programme run by NZIM and the Academy of Constructing Excellence.

Ivan Yeo

A Chinese Malaysian, who has been working in mental health sectors since 2004. Graduated with a B.A in Social Science and has worked closely with various consumer-led organizations in Auckland. As a facilitator of Like Minds, Like Mine through the Mental Health Foundation NZ, Ivan believes in creating a supportive environment in order to allow professionals exploring issues of stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses.

http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/

Jade Caulfield

Jade Caulfield is a Like Minds, Like Mine project worker for the Mental Health Foundation NZ. She graduated with a Masters in Health Sciences and has worked in mental health for 8 years and in Counties Manukau for the past two years.

http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/

Jane Berney

Writing is Jane’s business, pleasure and abiding interest. She worked as a copywriter and creative director in New Zealand and Australia, choosing to set up her creative communication consultancy in Auckland. She’s taught Ad Creativity papers at AUT on Copywriting and Campaigns. Combining lecturing/teaching with creative consulting allows Jane to preach what she practices.

Johnny Matteson

Johnny Matteson has worked for the Mental Health Foundation for the last 11 years. As a Like Minds, Like Mine project worker, Johnny has worked on projects such as The Break It Down road show which toured around Auckland and Northland schools. Johnny is trained as an Occupational Therapist and is also a well known musician.

http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/

Lester Levy

Lester is the Chief Executive of Excelerator: The New Zealand Leadership Institute and Adjunct Professor of Leadership at the University of Auckland Business School. www.excelerator.co.nz

A graduate of Medicine and an MBA, he has extensive management experience in large and medium sized organisations, across both the private and public sectors, having been Chief Executive of South Auckland Health, The MercyAscot Private Hospital Group (of which he was a founder) and The New Zealand Blood Service.

His formative management career was in the multinational environment with 3M and Beecham Research Laboratories.

Lester's governance experience includes being the Chairman of Boards of Directors in the fields of healthcare, biotechnology and film and television production.

He has previously been seconded to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as an advisor and has been awarded the prestigious King's Fund International Fellowship from the King's Fund in London. Lester is a Fellow of both the New Zealand Institute of Management and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.

He is the author of the book "Leadership and the Whirlpool Effect" and is a frequently invited speaker on the subject of leadership in New Zealand and overseas.

Lester has a teaching and facilitation role in the NZIM Managerial Excellence Program.

Nick Read

Nick established Training for Change in 1994. His purpose is to offer training and facilitation services to corporate business in the area of human dynamics.

Nick has a background in teaching, television production, sales and corporate communications. From these experiences he has formed his philosophy for his business: the purpose of any initiative is to support people to change their behaviour.

His view is that most people do the best job they can with the resources they have. But many people in business have not been given the resources necessary to carry out their roles effectively. By introducing more skills and strategies in a supportive environment, people are eager to improve their own performance.

Training for Change holds a reputation for running high quality workshops and excellent programmes. Training for Change draws on a pool of talented specialists and professionals to run specific programmes. You’ll find that each facilitator is extremely:

Knowledgeable about the programmes that he or she runs
Experienced and skilled in the delivery of those programmes
And highly adept at meeting the training needs of organisations

http://www.training4change.co.nz/

Rob Hamlin

Rob first started writing copy in 1989 while working for a Hamilton radio station. Since then he has worked for several ad agencies (including one in the United States), a PR firm in England, and several large corporates in New Zealand. He writes for most media, including corporate brochures, direct marketing, websites and radio.

Robyn Bennett

In 2007 Robyn put her 17 years of secretarial experience at senior management level to good use by establishing her own business that focuses on providing training for administrators. Robyn has run very popular and successful courses for administrators with the University of Auckland for the past four years.

Roseann Gedye

Roseann Gedye is the founder of her own communication advisory service known as Roseann's Principals. She is a sought after consultant particularly in the areas of communications, leadership, change and motivation. She has over 30 years of educational experience which includes 10 years working as a Senior Academic staff member in the School of Communication at Unitec. Roseann has a masters in Management Studies majoring in Management Communication Also she has spent five years working as a member of the management team for Success Motivation International.

Rosemary Hepözden

Rosemary has been teaching English as a Second Language to Adults since 1991. She taught in England, Italy, and Turkey before returning to Auckland where she was Director of Studies at a private language school for five years. She has worked in magazine and book publishing, and has a passion for teaching to non-native speakers of English.

Robyn Walsh

Following an extensive career in corporate communications, Robyn now supports a wide variety of people and organisations as the director of communications consultancy, Davidson Kemp.

Robyn’s professional qualifications include a MBA from Massey University, a BA and Post Graduate Diploma in social sciences from Otago, a Diploma in Teaching, and numerous professional studies in the fields of training and communications. She is Fellow of NZIM and is also a member of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand.

Her corporate role included responsibility for communications and marketing strategy and implementation, organisational leadership, and significant staff development and change management. In her consultancy role she has led a number of communication audits, marketing and branding strategies, professional development programmes, and market research projects for a wide range of organisations including a number of tertiary education institutes, health companies, retailers, professional services, local and central government, and several not-for-profit organisations. She has researched and published in the corporate communications field and presented her work in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA. She is considered an outstanding presenter.

Robyn currently facilitates NZIM’s Interpersonal Communications Skills and Assertiveness Skills, Effective Teams, Leadership and Motivation, Writing for Business, Time and Stress Management, Managing Conflict, Effective Coaching, and Performance Management: Appraisals that Work.

Sue Bottema

With a practical, positive approach, Sue shares 20 years of international human resources, training and coaching experience. From small businesses to major corporates’ across a variety of industries, she has earned a reputation in NZ as a professional who makes a difference - helping people do things differently to get better results.

Guidance, accountability, support, and celebration of results sums up Sue’s outcome focussed approach.

Taruni Falconer

Taruni is an experienced specialist in intercultural communication. To date, she has lived and worked on five continents, and with people from over 70 different cultures. These countries include Yemen, Tanzania and multicultural Melbourne where she worked as a social worker and educator.

Clients know her for a practical, skills-focused approach drawn from three decades of living and working in multicultural settings. Her colleagues know her commitment to promoting sustainable, diversity-aware organisations; for her cross-cultural research, and her enthusiastic commitment to energising commonalities between people.

Taruni holds a Masters of Education, a BA (Behavioural Sciences and Asian Studies), and a Diploma of Teaching. She currently offers three intercultural programmes at the University of Auckland. She has co-authored the globally-validated intercultural training tool, Cultural Detective: New Zealand®, and co-designed the Department of Internal Affairs’ unique training initiative, Intercultural Awareness and Communication (IAC) Programme.

Within New Zealand she is active as a member of the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD), and Equal Employment Opportunities Trust (EEO Trust). Taruni is recognised as a leader in her discipline, shaping awareness in the rapidly evolving field of intercultural communication.

The Effect

As people and organisational development specialists, The Effect can help you achieve a higher level of performance within your organisation through developing your people.

We deliver flexible, practical business solutions, enabling increased productivity and profitability. This is supported by our coaching, mentoring, training and business consultancy services. The Effect can provide your business with the tools you need to achieve positive changes in behaviour, attitude, performance and results.

Specialists in Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Change Management, Strategy and Business Planning, Performance Management, Sales, Negotiation, Team Development and Human Behaviour.

www.theeffect.co.nz

Victor Main

As a certified adult trainer, Victor brings valuable insights gained from working with a diverse range of organisations. He facilitates short courses for The University of Auckland Business School and runs programmes for the New Zealand Institute of Management and other training organizations.

Victor not only teaches about project management, but also leads projects across several organizations.
With this real-life experience, he brings a fresh, practical, easy-to-follow approach to managing projects.

Yolande Johnson

Yolande Johnson: Physiotherapist: Specialised in mindbody healthcare, mental health, trauma and refugee issues

Yolande Johnson has worked with refugees for over 7 years, primarily at the Refugees As Survivors (RAS) Centre at the NRRC in Mangere, as a member of a multidisciplinary regional Mental Health team, providing assessment and treatment of refugee clients with a background or experience of torture and trauma. She developed and managed the Body Therapy Programme during this time, providing individual treatment and groups, both at early intervention and on-going in the community. She established the trauma assessment programme of all refugees arriving at the centre, and co-wrote a paper about the findings, which was presented at the European Conference on Traumatic Stress in 2003. Later that year she visited several rehabilitation and research centres for refugees in Denmark and Sweden, where the most current research into the effects of torture is undertaken.

Yolande has trained staff, interpreters and other healthcare providers in the use of body therapy in treating trauma, interpreting in Mental Health, and culturally appropriate healthcare. She has worked with a range of women's support groups throughout Auckland.

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