Career background
- Two years - self-employed consulting and coaching work.
- Five years - HR Manager with engineering consulting firm renowned for its leading edge HR practices, winner of 2000 inaugural NewZealand Best Places to Work
- Nine years - consulting in New Zealand and overseas for Deloitte, assignments included management assessment and development, training and development, recruitment and career transition
- Two years - Led management development initiative in Papua New Guinea.
- Three years - Regional Psychologist in Papua New Guinea, range of clinical, industrial and community psychology work.
- Five years - provided clinical services to offenders
Work I have done
- Provided a range of career, personal, and business related coaching and advice to clients from different sectors and all levels of seniority.
- Designed, led and participated in range of management assessment and development experiences including Development Centres, career mentoring, assessment for selection.
- Designed and implemented change support for management and staff in dairy, IT, financial services, and manufacturing businesses in New Zealand and India.
- Developed leadership competency models for private and public sector staff, in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and The Maldives.
- Developed competency model for the development of lawyers at leading New Zealand firm - including over 2,300 legal and leadership competencies.
- Developed innovative values-based approaches to leadership and management of professional organisations.
- Led planning sessions, presented to academic and professional audiences.
- Developed practical approaches to the provision of acute trauma and long term work stress support to individuals and organisations.
- Co-wrote Job Winning in New Zealand (Penguin, 1992).
Working style
I bring experience across diverse cultures, organisations and people to my relationships. I am able to take an objective and independent view and make a creative but practical contribution to the issues people face in trying to make a difference in a complex world. Listed below are some things that others have said about how I worked with them on different assignments:
- Stewart is very patient and supportive
- He is able to provide creative ideas without any 'ego', I felt comfortable considering ways to adapt without pressure
- Understated and well organised approach to helping us achieve our goals
- I have found him to be an excellent model for my own development
- We have developed a warm relationship where I feel comfortable talking about the leadership challenges that I face
- He has been a mentor for me in evaluating the implementation of strategy, and has helped me develop my skills in the process