Georgina Geotina
New Professionals Co-convenor
I joined the New Professionals leadership team in March 2015 and since
July 2016 have been Co-Convenor of the IPANZ New Professionals. For
the past three years, I’ve worked in SSC as part of the team that aims
to set the foundation for a future where there is a strong pool of
leaders and a credible leadership pipeline for state services agencies.
I am also a member of the NZ Asian Leaders network and the first
Filipino to join in 2015. I joined the IPANZ board to provide a voice for New Professionals and
to ensure that IPANZ remains relevant for future generations of public
servants.
Luke Aki
I joined the IPANZ New Professionals team in order to further my skills,
increase my experience and learn new things I could not learn in the
'normal' work environment. I was the social media officer for the team
before taking over the Conference Convenor role in 2014, and was
co-convenor of the leadership team from 2014-16.
I currently work
for the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) in the Performance
Management team. I have previously worked for Statistics New Zealand
(twice), and for the UK Office for National Statistics - where I took on
my first "Defence Against the Dark Arts" job working on Census Quality
Assurance. I have also been involved with a number of not-for-profits
and community organisations. I am a marine biologist and oceanographer
with a statistics problem – the latter is my trade and the former was my
education and training. I love working for the public service -
especially for that aspect of serving the public, in making a difference
and creating a better future for all.
Ashleigh Bywater-Schulze
New Professionals Co-convenor
I joined IPANZ New Professionals Team leadership team late
2016 to support those new to the public sector workforce and to work alongside other like-minded individuals. I became Co-Convenor in
November 2017.
I work within Parliamentary Service in Business Process
Management. I want to help create new opportunities to support people under the
New Professionals umbrella; and to ensure we are constantly growing, flexible
and supportive to our present new professionals and future public servants.
Ryan Angus
I am an associate with Allen + Clarke, a Wellington-based public policy and regulatory consultancy. My work has seen me become involved with a wide variety of projects from across the public sector, including health, education, aid and development, occupational health and safety, non-profits, and local government. My academic background focused on drug policy and the management and rehabilitation of offenders, and I’m passionate about applying a social and cultural lens to New Zealand’s policy issues.
Claudia Gonzalez Barrio
I began my career in the recruitment industry nine years ago in Mexico. At that time I was working for a multinational Executive Search Firm dealing mostly with Fortune 500 clients. In 2010 I moved with that organisation to New Zealand, recruiting for the Public Sector on permanent appointments. Currently I am working with The Johnson Group in the contracting team recruiting mainly in the policy space, project roles and other common corporate roles within the Public Sector.My passion is connecting people and organisations to achieve real and positive outcomes. As a networker I am very excited about working with IPANZ New Professionals mentoring programme and other initiatives aimed to bringing out the best in new professionals. In my spare time I mentor skilled migrants through Job Mentoring Services (sponsored by the Ministry of Social Development) and have recently been awarded The Volunteer Connect Certificate 2016.
Mica Moore
Soon after starting as Assistant Advisor, Strategy at the Tertiary
Education Commission, I went along to the 2014 IPANZ New Professionals
conference. I’m now lucky to be on the Leadership team. It’s great to be helping the next
generation of public sector leaders, connecting the dots between the
young professionals beavering away at desks throughout the city, and
building up my skills.
My role in Strategy at the TEC is about
people’s success now and in the future – investing in a tertiary
education system which supports all learners to reach their potential,
in an unpredictable, ever-changing world. Policy advice, project
management and organisational strategy make for lots of opportunities
(public sector social events are not to be sneezed at either). You can
make a difference through the public service – and if the system isn’t
working to enable that, we can improve it.
David Owen
I am a solicitor in the Public, Regulatory and Competition team at Russell McVeagh which provides advice to a range of national and international corporates as well as a number of public sector departments and entities.Since joining the IPANZ New Professionals Leadership Team in mid 2015 I have thoroughly enjoyed supporting the operations of the committee, and feel privileged to work with the next generation of public sector leaders.
Louise Reddiford
I work as a Graduate Advisor in the Leadership and Talent Team at the State Services Commission. Our main role is putting in place a programme that is significantly changing how the state sector identifies, develops and utilises leaders and talented people from the start of their careers to their most senior levels. My current role sits around the Early-in-Careers space which is a critical element for both individual and system-wide talent management.I studied Commerce at Victoria University majoring in Human Resources and minoring in Marketing and a Bachelor of Tourism Management.I was involved with helping coordinate the IPANZ New Professionals 2016 Conference. I enjoy working with a diverse range of people who all share the passion to positively impact the future leaders of the public sector.