Fiona Chard
MBA (Distinction), BBS, PMP
Director
Fiona is a strategic development and implementation expert with considerable experience of the public sector, including over twenty years as a senior executive and strategic programmes manager at leading New Zealand Universities and Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics.
Her experience crosses many industries from education to the motor industry, emergency services to the Ministry of Justice. Fiona has a talent for leading and supporting significant programmes of work where her ability to consult with stakeholders and engage teams in the development of solutions and ownership of project responsibilities have been a strong feature in their success.
Specific areas of expertise include: developing coherent strategies and plans; supporting significant change programmes; gaining governance support; innovating service delivery; designing operating models; establishing new working arrangements, reducing overheads and diversifying revenue streams; and using organisation policies and practices, business process changes and technologies to deliver business objectives.
MSS (Hons), BSpLS
Consultant / Office Manager
Bryonie is a human resources practitioner with over ten years' experience in both the public and private sector. She has significant experience in the areas of staff recruitment and staff relations, including staff agreements and inductions, staff development training, resignations, disciplinary actions and pay enquiries. A key part of her work is to guide managers in a number of areas to ensure HR best practice.
Specific areas of expertise include: business restructures, providing assistance throughout the employee lifecycle from advertising, employment agreement, performance management to exit, business policies, procedures and guidelines.
Bryonie Phillips
Our Associates
Our associates support our thinking and provide additional experience and expertise to the services we offer clients
BCA
Consultant
As a senior consultant with experience across many industries, Jen brings to Chard Consulting Ltd a broad portfolio of skills - though will often label herself as a writer and strategic thinker.
Jen has a reputation for generating solutions ‘outside of the box’ and delivering high-standard projects to deadline. She is not afraid to ask the hard questions and is quick to see both unexpected challenges and opportunities.
Specific areas of expertise include: business case development; strategic planning; using visuals to enhance business communication; text for multi-media platforms; communications strategy (internal and external); event planning; qualitative research and analysis; stakeholder reporting.
Jen Church
Caroline Hilderink
CA
Caroline is an experienced and effective advisor with a track record of delivering measurable results. She is a successful project manager who has implemented a wide range of performance improvement projects, and a qualified Chartered Accountant with an extensive background in senior executive positions in accounting and financial management. Her experience crosses many industries from manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods, and business services to education.
Specific areas of expertise include: focusing on achieving results and persistence in the pursuit of goals; the translation of challenging goals and objectives into achievable steps; the ability to build committed teams who consistently meet deadlines; and a high standard of competency, initiative and organisational acumen.
Angela is a senior business analyst with a passion for bringing value to business-technology projects. Angela is adept at clarifying the business problem or opportunity; distilling the differing messages and needs of stakeholders; leading the analysis process to explore and capture business needs, and validating they have been met in the final solution; facilitating dialogue and decision making; advocating for business stakeholders; creating common understanding between the business and technology stakeholders, and; assisting with the definition of business user acceptance testing.
Specific areas of expertise include: business problem analysis and resolution; designing and mapping business processes; gathering requirements; training development and delivery; user acceptance testing; and project management.
Angela Wilson
Mark Rees-Thomas
LLB, BCA
Mark predominantly works with businesses and Government agencies in change management programmes including the outsource of services. He also specialises in advising on all aspects of employment law and industrial relations. In addition to Mark's legal expertise, he has also worked as HR Director for a large IT company where he was responsible for all aspects of human resources.
Specific areas of expertise include: employment law, industrial relations, change management, employment investigations, dispute resolution, human resource management
BAppSc (Env Health)
Associate - Senior Project Manager
Angela is an experienced senior manager and leader having operated in Commercial, Cooperative and Government businesses.
She has experience with complex pricing models and the introduction of models to better support efficiency and profitability as well as sound financial knowledge and analytical skills. Angela has a demonstrated skill for training and development and has both written and delivered training in the past. Angela is adaptable and is able to apply her knowledge and experience to a broad range of industries.
Specific areas of expertise include: Strategic development, business process review, continuous improvement, reporting and metrics, financial analysis, audit, leadership, business user requirement gathering, business user testing, training design and delivery and project oversight.
Angela Martin
Peter Weir
Peter has more than 20 years experience as a transformation and change consultant working extensively in the areas of business strategy, organisational transformation and change, organisational development, and business improvement. His experience has seen him working in challenging and complex situations across numerous industries and sectors. Peter has a particular focus on ensuring organisations get the results they need from the investment they make in transformation.
Specific areas of expertise include: providing strategic advice and practical guidance on organisational transformations, Change Lead/Manager mentoring, transformation ROI assessments, benefits management and benefit realisation.
Change Manager
Katherine is a senior change practitioner with a breadth of experience across a range of change initiatives from system implementations to strategic business transformation programmes. Katherine is a natural collaborator, and is adept at applying change frameworks and methodology in a practical way to support all aspects of change strategy, planning and delivery. Katherine’s excellent relationship management skills, coupled with a strong delivery focus, enable her to work effectively alongside, and empower, individuals and teams to achieve results.
Specific areas of expertise include: business case development, change management planning, business impact assessment, operational transition planning, change coaching and communications.
Katherine Rive
Janet Molyneux
MBA
Consultant
With extensive experience in leadership management and in-depth educational, commercial and business acumen throughout her career Janet has delivered stakeholder focused strategies and solutions that align with and support business and community needs.
Specific areas of expertise include executive management with strong relationship-management capabilities, great communication skills, and a strong understanding of strategic decision-making, financial management, risk management methodologies, organisational design and change management. With a reputation for successful delivery of positive outcomes within a context of change Janet describes herself as a curious big-picture thinker who loves to work with people and organisations to identify opportunities to develop new approaches to driving improvement.