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LEADERSHIP TEAM
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Andrea Thompson
Andrea Thompson has been a consultant and programme leader for 12 years. She has assisted many public and private sector organisations to discover their purpose and values, create an engaging vision, and develop people to reach their full potential. Andrea has led development programmes to over ten thousand people nationally and internationally. There are few people who can rival Andrea in terms of her ability to engage programme participants and her powerful delivery of programme content.
Prior to co-founding Catapult in 1998, Andrea was a senior manager in a multinational both in New Zealand and in the US. In this role she gained practical first hand experience in the challenges and opportunities involved with leading and managing people.
Andrea began her working life as a lawyer for Chapman Tripp before becoming a management consultant with KPMG, specialising in organisational culture change. She also has a performance background having been a theatresports and dance performer - this means she brings fun and entertainment to the delivery of programmes.
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Nick Sceats
Nick is a Director and co-founder of Catapult. He started his working life as a business journalist but it soon became apparent that he wanted to work in business rather than report on it.
He worked in marketing and communications roles before becoming General Manger of multi-national advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. During his time as GM of Ogilvy & Mather the agency won the NBR Agency of the Year Award. Nick also won the international David Ogilvy Award for best creative and strategic thinking. Nick moved to the US as Vice President and strategic planner for Porter Novelli group in San Francisco before returning to New Zealand in 1998 to set up Catapult.
Since then Nick has worked with literally thousands of leaders from across nearly every sector imaginable. In terms of Catapult's leadership support services, Nick specialises in helping clients define purpose, values and vision, and facilitating the development of business strategy. With regard to leadership development, Nick co-leads Catapult's public leadership programme Catapult Leadership as well as many in-house leadership programmes.
Nick is keen on music and plays guitar and ukulele. He has set himself the bold goal of mastering the piano, drums and viola within the next ten years. In summer he races a sunburst dingy and surfs badly. In winter he plays Masters Grade football with a bunch of other middle aged men who should know better.
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John Boyd
John has worked with Catapult since January 2006. He provides specialist support to clients focusing on strategy development, team performance, values and goal development, brand promise fulfilment and nurturing positive and productive organisational cultures.
John joined Catapult from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), where he was responsible for the policy, corporate services, marketing, communications and technical advisory teams. John acted as CEO on many occasions and led a transformational in-house culture shift at EECA, working with staff to uncover guiding values and a performance-oriented strategy for the organisation.
Prior to joining EECA John was Communications Manager at the Hillary Commission for Sport, Fitness and Leisure, with responsibility for all communications and research. He has also worked in senior public relations consultant roles.
Since joining Catapult John has worked strategy development, purpose, vision, values and team performance with a wide variety of clients, including Meridian Energy, Snapper Services, Transpower, the Foundation for Science, Research and Technology, AUT University, The BioCommerce Centre, Office of Ethnic Affairs, SAM Systems Ltd, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Development, Volunteer Service Abroad, NZ Bus Ltd, The Open Polytechnic, BRANZ, Grant Thornton, NZ King Salmon, Export NZ, ACC, VSA.
"The biggest kick you can get in your career is doing work you love, and are proud of. This is what I'm doing, and this is what I aim to help all my clients achieve. 0h, and have some fun along the way"
Outside work John stays active with two Labradors, throws himself around on the football field, and is a keen photographer . He is married to Jennifer and has two adult daughters – Sophie and Anna – whose potential and talents astound him.
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Julie Treanor
Julie Treanor leads Catapult Coaching Programmes. Getting the results people want is what motivates Julie as a coach. She brings the science and art of coaching together in a way that inspires and motivates people to achieve more than they previously thought possible.
Julie has spent many years leading multi-disciplinary teams in large and complex organisations. She brings a wealth of experience that helps people create and communicate a strong sense of purpose that leads to success and excellent results.
She has considerable practical experience in performance management, creative management, knowledge management, strategic planning, communications and marketing in the UK and New Zealand. As a qualified coach from Results Coaching Systems in Australia, Julie delivers high quality coaching within the code of ethics of the International Coach Federation.
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Elva Phillips
Elva Phillips is a Catapult Coach and leads High Performance Team and DISC behavioural style workshops.
Elva worked as a Registered Nurse in Australia and the UK before returning to NZ where she specialised in cardio thoracic theatre work. She completed her nursing career as charge nurse of Wellington operating theatres leading a highly specialised medical and nursing team. This experience has given Elva keen insight into what it takes to create and maintain a high performing team.
Keen to find out what working in the corporate world was like, Elva switched gears to establish a medical recruitment division for a recruitment company. Elva also held a senior role in a multinational organisation that specialises in personal effectiveness and efficiency.
She worked for over twelve years for a multinational training and development company leading programmes and coaching people throughout New Zealand and Australia
Elva is a supportive, yet challenging coach who inspires and motivates people to achieve more than they thought possible. She has two grown children and enjoys cooking and gardening. Whenever she can she and her husband escape to their batch in the Able Tasman Park.
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Brett Oetgen
Brett recently joined Catapult in a career that in one way or another, has always been about leadership. His primary area of expertise at Catapult is in the role that leadership plays in building employee engagement and creating great places to work. A former senior consultant at employee engagement survey specialists JRA, Brett believes that a prerequisite to building a sustainable, high-performance organisation, is having leaders with the right knowledge, skills and perhaps most importantly, the right attitude. His experience with organisations that successfully build strong levels of employee engagement, is that it is always leadership-led. Positive organisational change only happens when leadership transformation has taken place, which is why employee engagement is directly linked to leadership.
Brett spent the early part of his career in advertising. After 12 years he made a change and established the NZ office of New York-based management communication skills training company, Peter Rogen & Associates. Brett and his family then moved to Toronto to establish the Canadian office of Rogen International, leading the business to the top of its field in that market. A last move with Rogen saw Brett establish the Rogen Learning Centre in Sydney. During this time Brett completed an MBA in International Management.
On returning to New Zealand Brett began to specialise in leadership consulting and leadership development and worked as a leadership coach/consultant to a variety of New Zealand organisations.
A former Canterbury rugby representative, he spends too much time on the couch watching rugby and telling the players and referees what they’re doing wrong. And when he does occasionally break away from the sports channels, it’s usually to the kitchen to further his burgeoning second-career as a master chef.
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Liz Riversdale
Liz is a Catapult coach with over 20 years' experience as a professional coach, trainer, lecturer and manager. She has designed and delivered a wide range of training programmes, all based around her passion for people reaching their potential. Liz has been coaching for 12 years and has accrued over 3,000 hours of coaching. This depth of experience allows her to engage with clients easily and support them through change and development in a powerful way.
Liz brings to her work and life a curiosity and passion for people. When she is not working she loves to spend time with her family and friends, take holidays, travel to interesting places, grow plants, and to read (especially while lying in the sun) and experimenting in the kitchen.
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