My passion for my role at Growth Partners stems from the fact that I have a strong desire to help people grow and achieve their dreams. When I look at the SME space I see so many people start out in business for the right reasons but the majority fail to gain a foothold in the marketplace. They either close their doors all to soon or rely on the hope that things will get better to get them through. I love sharing the expertise and lessons I’ve learned through my career journey to help businesses create a future-proof roadmap – a strategy that goes beyond hope that’s effective and efficient and affordable. This opportunity to give back to the business community, and to work with a talented and experienced team, makes my working life richly rewarding.

I thrive on helping CEOs and business owners achieve their goals and grow in a profitable manner. There’s a genuine vibrancy around businesses in growth mode and I love being an integral part of positive changes in culture and in revenue - and in the achievement of aspirations and dreams. It’s exciting to see people to recapture their passion for what they do as we provide clarity and, in a common-sense way, make the complex simpler. It’s a pleasure to be able to use my global experience to help people grow their businesses and a privilege to be regarded as a trusted sounding board.

I have a deep love of communication – the sharing of skills, knowledge and understanding – that helps people overcome challenges, develop and grow. I believe any such sharing must benefit the listener in a way that is practical and applicable to their role. It’s a particular privilege to help people in businesses with great products and services do the same through being able to more effectively enhance the lives of their customers. I love looking at topics with a fresh perspective and contributing to the remarkable work Growth Partners are doing to assist businesses to thrive in the challenging modern marketplace.

I have a passion for working with owners of commercially aspirational, purpose-driven organisations to help them grow and achieve their goals.

I feel most fortunate to have had the opportunity to work alongside some of New Zealand’s most successful entrepreneurs and companies. I have specifically been ‘working on’ businesses for the last 20 years in various CEO, Director and Investor roles. I am fascinated by what it takes for companies to change the trajectory of their growth. I love nothing more than to share my experience to help owners of businesses align strategy with goals and then grow those businesses to deliver on their potential.

I have a natural alignment with the Growth Partners team. Together we are interested in meeting aspirational owners and helping them take their businesses to the next level.

I am passionate about all things people related and am fascinated by the ever-changing demands of business on human behaviour. As an industrial and organisational psychologist, I love the application of assessment tools to help businesses discover and evaluate new opportunities to create revenue growth strategies as they learn more about themselves, their staff and their customers. I love the idea of partnerships with a big-picture approach to help our customers successfully compete in current and future business environments. I am excited to be on board with the Growth Partners team as we assist our customers to grow flourishing businesses.

As a young designer I received a great piece of advice that has always stayed with me – never draw two lines when one will do. The joy and challenge of design is to take the seed of an idea and work out how to best communicate this in the simplest, most coherent way. This process of exploration - to see what works and what can most effectively convey a message - is at the heart of what I enjoy doing for clients. In the digital age, with a higher reliance on visual imagery instantly capturing the interest of customers, this is all the more important.