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ASB and Spark join us to share their insights on improving productivity through innovation, collaboration, upskilling, and the use of digital technologies
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.
Join us for a discussion from two of New Zealand’s largest companies ASB and Spark NZ who have been looking into the productivity paradox and the role they can respectively play, as a bank and digital services provider, to support productivity growth.
ASB’s Ben Speedy, General Manager Commercial Banking, will speak to the role of business in leading the charge in improving productivity through innovation, collaboration and upskilling people’s knowledge and capability.
While Sarah Walker, General Manager of Converged Technology from Spark NZ, will explore the significant opportunity of increasing productivity through an uplift in the use of advanced digital technologies.
Completing the line-up, local director Jeff Smit will share what steps his board has taken to enable productivity, including leveraging innovative technological solutions.
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Following the candid fireside chat session there will be an opportunity for Q&As.
This event is brought to you in partnership with IoD national partner ASB.
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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Jeff Smit is a director and GM at DETA, who are leading the decarbonisation of New Zealand industry. Jeff consults to a wide range of industrial, commercial, and government customers on their carbon reduction goals.
Beyond his work across industry, he is a director and owner of EStroke, an electric marine conversion startup – where he is marrying up his love of waterskiing with a climate conscience. He is also the board chairperson of Te Raekura Redcliffs School – providing governance and leadership to a special community that stood up when it mattered most.
Jeff has three young children and is driven to use his skills for decarbonisation and passion for the environment and his community to give them the best future possible
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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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Sharynn Johnson
Canterbury Branch Manager
+64 3 968 6468
canterbury.branch@iod.org.nz
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