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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 Mark Smith, Senior Economist, 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 Chief Executive Fiona Carrick, will share what steps her board has taken to enable productivity, including leveraging innovative technological solutions. You’ll also hear about:
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.
Mark joined ASB in 2017 and has around 30 years of public and private sector experience working as an economist in New Zealand and the UK.
In addition to ASB, he has previously worked at the NZ Transport Agency, ANZ Bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Bank of England and HM Treasury.
His areas of expertise include monetary policy, macroeconomic analysis and interest rate strategy. He also has a keen interest in conducting applied research into issues of importance to New Zealanders, including productivity, the cost of living, the economic impacts of migration, and the importance of infrastructure and other drivers of economic performance.
Born and bred in the Waikato, Mark studied at Waikato University where he graduated with a Master of Social Sciences, majoring in Economics.
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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Megan Beveridge
Waikato Branch Manager
+64 21 358 772
waikato.branch@iod.org.nz
The Waikato branch acknowledges the generous support of
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Members — $40.00
Non-members — $60.00
