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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, GM 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 Laurence Chapman, General Manager of Spark Group Sales – Southern Region, 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 and Deloitte Top 200 2023 Chairperson of the year, Rob Hewett will share what steps his various boards have taken to enable productivity, including leveraging innovative technological solutions. You’ll also hear about:
This event is brought to you in partnership with IoD National Partner ASB and will also feature a candid fireside chat, followed by a Q&A .
Ben joined ASB in June 2020 as the General Manager Rural Banking and is 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.
Laurence Chapman is the General Manager of Spark Group Sales for Wellington and the South Island. Laurence is an experienced sales and leadership professional, with over 30 years’ experience working with Government and Enterprise helping them achieve their business objectives. Laurence is a strategic thinker, a planner and a creative problem solver who builds strong and successful teams.
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Rob is a sixth-generation New Zealand sheep and beef farmer. He has farmed in the Clutha District since 2002, running a 1030-hectare carbon positive sheep and beef breeder-finisher operation with wind farm and forestry interests.
Rob has been a director of Farmlands since 2015 and Chair since 2019. He also Chairs Silver Fern Farms Ltd (since 2013), Silver Fern Farms Co-operative, Pioneer Energy, Fern Energy, Hilton Haulage and Wool Works. He is a Director of T&G Global and Pulse Energy and was previously a Councillor of Lincoln University and the past Chair of the Strong Wool Action Group. Rob was recognised as the Deloitte 200 Chairperson of the Year in 2023.
He has an Masters of Commerce and Management (honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Agriculture) from Lincoln University and is a Chartered Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.
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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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Michelle Branford
Otago Southland Branch Manager
+64 20 4183 5664
michelle.branford@iod.org.nz
The Otago Southland Branch acknowledges the generous support of
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Members — $40.00
Non-members — $80.00
