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Join us for this conversation to discuss productivity in New Zealand, together with ASB, Spark and the view of the director
New Zealanders are being 'squeezed', and so are companies and other organisations. Directors are going to be challenged to find new and broader revenue and/or funding sources, to support management to develop innovative products and services that meet new or evolving market needs, and to change production and delivery systems that effectively and efficiently meet these needs.
Aotearoa New Zealand’s productivity challenge is well documented. New Zealanders generate significantly less output than many other developed countries, despite working longer and harder.
Costs – inflation and interest, supply chain concerns, wage demands in a tight labour market, pressure on pricing and funding drying up – continue to put the squeeze on organisations. Boards and management are facing ongoing uncertainties. Innovation, seeking new opportunities, finding the right capability and streamlining processes are all needed to drive the productivity to manage the squeeze. This approach will help address New Zealand’s poor productivity record, moving beyond simply adding more labour, increasing hours worked or using more resources (such as water and land).
Please join us as we explore the productivity paradox with ASB and Spark, together with a director’s view.
Ben joined ASB in June 2020 as the General Manager Rural Banking and is currently the General Manager Commercial Banking.
He has two decades of corporate experience, including 12 years in senior leadership positions across New Zealand at BNZ, Corelogic and ASB. Ben has extensive experience in lending, digital, and driving uplift in customer outcomes.
On a daily basis Ben is engaging with farmers and business owners discussing the opportunities and challenges ESG presents and the important role sustainable finance has in helping customers make a difference.
Prior to his role at ASB, Ben was the Country Manager NZ at Corelogic and a member of their international leadership team and between 2017 and 2019, was Chief Operating Officer, Customer Fulfilment Services at BNZ.
Ben is passionate about business and leading transformation, managing through complexity and engaging teams to achieve success. He grew up on a sheep and beef farm located near Wimbledon, Southern Hawkes Bay and has a strong interest in horse racing and bloodstock. Ben currently lives in Karaka with his wife and two children.
As the General Manager of Converged Technology for Spark, Sarah Walker is passionate about solving complex customer problems with the convergence of technologies, and she has extensive experience with helping business customers make the most of innovative technologies in her previous roles in partnerships, innovation, marketing and brand experience.
Working with our key business customers, Sarah helps to explore, inspire and evangelise how innovative technologies can help New Zealand organisations become more productive and sustainable.
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Fiona is a senior strategic leader and brings broad and deep commercial and governance skills and experience to her role at Te Waka. Most recently she held senior commercial, partnership and risk management roles in the primary sector.
Fiona’s broad commercial experience spans local and global businesses. Her emphasis on continual and genuine stakeholder engagement shapes the effective partnerships she forges and leads within organisations and across industry.
Collaborative and energetic, Fiona, with her team, is focused on the transformation and growth that will advance economic development in the Waikato region. Based in Cambridge with her family, Fiona is connected with her community and well-placed to identify and take hold of the opportunities that will see the region thrive.
Fiona holds a Master of Science (MSc) from the University of Otago and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Victoria University of Wellington. She is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand and a Member of Te Nehenehenui Trust Group Investment Committee. She also serves on the boards of Kiwifruit Vine Health Inc, Stihl Shop, JerseyNZ, Maungahururu Tangiutū Ltd, Kaiwaka JV, and the Home of Cycling Charitable Trust (Grassroots Velodrome).
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Guy is General Manager, Governance Leadership Centre of the Institute of Directors. He is an experienced senior leader who has worked with public, private and not-for-profit entities in New Zealand, Fiji, Mongolia, Australia and the United States.
His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri; Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at Ministry for the Environment.
Most recently, he ran his own freelance consultancy practice supporting public sector senior executives and their teams to deliver high quality decision-making, advice and policy implementation. In each of these roles, he engaged on a range of natural resource, environmental and other issues with iwi/hapū and other Māori interests.
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