Experience

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  Palmerston north hospital

  Jan 1981 - Dec 1982

  Occupational therapist

  Worked as an Occupational Therapist in General Surgery, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Child & Family Services.

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  Palmerston north and hawke's bay co-ordinating council

  Jan 1983 - Dec 1983

  Service manager and charge occupational therapist

  Provided a national service; specialising in information and advice for disability equipment.

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  Nhs

  Jan 1984 - Oct 1985

  Locuum occupational therapist
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  New zealand disabilities resource centre

  Oct 1985 - Dec 1992

  Manager, client services programme and charge occupational therapist

  NZDRC was a national rehabilitation technology service. It provided information & policy services, assessment & technology services, and product development services. My role involved contributing to health services strategy & policy, clinical leadership for the client service & product development programme, leadership & management for the occupational therapy team, co-leadership for the driver assessment and vehicle adaption service.

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  Partners for performance ltd

  Jan 1992 - Jul 2013

  Founder | director | principal consultant

  Established in 1992, Partner for Performance Ltd was a consultancy and research company.

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  Manawatu wanganui regional training

  Jan 1992 - Dec 1996

  Regional training facilitator

  Manawatu Wanganui Regional Training was a collaborative initiative established by the regions local government organisations. As the facilitator I identified shared development needs, designed programmes to meet these needs, co-ordinated delivery and evaluated effectiveness.

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  Massey university

  Jan 1992 - Dec 1993

  Lecturer

  With colleagues, designed, developed and delivered a services management course.

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  Cadence consulting

  Jan 1998 - Dec 2001

  Director | principal consultant

  Established in 1998, as a collaborative consultancy company.

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  Stratum ltd

  Feb 2002 - Sept 2013

  Founder | director | principal consultant

  Stratum Ltd was a business consultancy and research company. Established in 2002, STRATUM consultants and researchers worked across a range of sectors, specialising in large service / knowledge organisations. As an interdisciplinary team we offered services in strategy & policy, services design & improvement, business management, human resources, process improvement, performance measurement and evaluation.

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  Central region's technical advisory services (tas)

  Aug 2007 - Mar 2010

  Project manager

  TAS supports District Health Boards with an emphasis on service planning, regional service development and services audit.

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  Massey university

  Aug 2013 - now

  Massey University, has a well established reputation for outstanding teaching and research grounded in real-world issues. With three campuses and a distance education programme. the University currently teaches more than 33,000 students and supports more than 1,200 active researchers. Research strengths include resource development & management, future food systems, health and well being, design for community, commerce and culture. The final strength, 21st citizenship brings a people focus to preparing the citizens of the future. As Group Leader, Research Development, I provided leadership and line management for a group of service units concerned with research development across the University; bringing together the Research Development Advisors, the Research Partnerships Development Manager, and the Research Ethics Advisors. I had • Specific responsibility for high value university wide research development initiatives i.e., Strategic Innovation Fund, Centres for Research Excellence, National Science Challenges, Health Research Council. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager - Business Change

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Group Leader, Research Development

    Aug 2013 - Jan 2019