Meet our talent finders:
Sandy Brinsdon
MPH (Otago)
Sandy brings experience in senior management and business ownership to the organisation.
Sandy’s career has included pure and applied research, building her own research firm and senior leadership roles in health. Sandy completed her Masters in Public Health in 2001. Sandy has provided governance oversight to a portfolio of organisations. She has developed her interest in best-practice governance by obtaining the Institute of Directors Certificate in Company Direction and in 2007 attending the Policy Governance® academy in America led by Dr John Carver. She is also on the Institute’s Canterbury branch committee and sits on, or is Chair of, a number of boards.
Sandy has considerable expertise in working with organisations to establish and measure goals, successfully guiding people to understand and build on the organisation’s direction. Mentoring and coaching people to bring out ‘the talent within’ is one of her strengths, be that a staff member, GM or board chair.
Cam Brinsdon
B.Comm (Otago) AFHRINZ
Cam’s human resources expertise has moved businesses forward in tourism, IT, FMCG, telecommunications, small business and professional services.
Cam’s previous leadership roles for corporate entities in Christchurch and Wellington included multinationals such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and EDS. He is an accredited Professional and Associate Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand. Cam has continued his professional development through HR conferences, training and ensuring he is up-to-date with business, psychology and HR research.
Cam’s own natural talents are in vision and strategy. Examples of successful assignments include mergers and acquisitions (including in-depth HR due diligence), national collective employment negotiations, business and HR strategic plans, executive appointments (and a few sensitive separations), organisational development, change and project leadership, and the application of HR technologies. Cam also has a natural talent for “winning others over” – a real asset for helping boards and business owners lead their staff to the next level.
Most interesting
By: Reg Birchfield on September 25, 2009
at 11:59
Greetings.
Thanks for a wonderfully infomative, entertaining and relvant seminar on Policy Governance. We will be applying the principles to the Trust.
Kia kaha!
Brennan
By: Dr Brennan Nelson on February 10, 2010
at 16:48