Alana Mitchell

Alana Mitchell

General Manager

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    People, Culture and Community Manager

  • Education

    • WelTec

      2012 - 2013
      Diploma Culinary Arts/Chef Training Distinction
    • Österänggymnasiet, Kristianstad, Swede

      2008 - 2008
      High School Diploma Social Studies

      Completed a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship for 1 year.

    • Napier Girls High School

      2003 - 2008
    • Victoria University of Wellington

      2009 - 2011
      Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy
  • Experience

    • Chow, Tory St Wellington

      Jan 2013 - Aug 2015
      General Manager

      Managing a team of 30+ FOH staff within a busy 120 seater restaurant & bar. Overseeing all HR, finance, budgets, rosters and services.Creating successful team incentives, training, development and recruitment.Business to business development.

    • Blahnik Cafe

      Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
      Cafe Manager

      FOH manager for a busy CBD cafe team of 7 with a busy catering side business. Created team incentives, training and worked within tight budgets and targets.

    • BizDojo

      Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
      Activation Coordinator

      Working on the GridAKL programme on behalf of ATEED to develop and implement a tech cafe coworking membership for early-stage startups while managing the programme of events and meetups for external customers and internal events for the coworking community.

    • GridAKL

      Dec 2017 - Mar 2020

      GridAKL / John Lysaght is home to over 200 businesses with a focus on early-stage startups. Our mission is to help grow innovative businesses, create jobs, and enrich the innovation community for Auckland's economic future. As the Startup Hub Manager, I had the role of creating endless connections for our awesome community with the wider tech ecosystem and what an absolute privilege that was.This was quite a varied role that managed all areas of the GridAKL/Lysaght building. This covered the two coworking communities, a team of 7 awesome humans, HR, customer management, creating programmes, building operations, comms, events, finance, and reporting to multiple stakeholders. Show less

      • Startup Hub Manager

        Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
      • Programme Manager

        Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
    • CBRE

      Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
      Workplace Experience Manager

      Contracted in-house to ANZ, managing the Corporate Offices across the ANZ Portfolio.

    • EcoPortal (Beautiful H&S and Risk Management Software)

      Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
      People, Culture and Community Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • High Performing Womxn Programme

      Untapped
      Jun 2022