Tag: recovery

Creative Welly Episode #45 | Michelle Farrell & Dave Greenberg

Courageous conversations with bold humans (from the most creative little capital in the world).

Michelle Farrell, Senior Learning & Development Consultant

Michelle is super-passionate about creating connections and communities within organisations. She takes a human-centred approach to everything she does, which has helped her build thriving communities.

She’s keen on connecting people with technology and loves finding ways to make their work lives more manageable.

Her roles range from Knowledge Management Collaboration Specialist to her current Senior Learning and Development Consultant position.

Dave Greenberg, Keynote Speaker / Trainer / Consultant

Dave moved to Wellington, from the USA, for a one-year IT contract in 1990 and never left.

He served as a rescue crewman on the Westpac Rescue Helicopter for 25 years, taking part in nearly 4000 missions. In 2017 Penguin Random House published his memoir, Emergency Response: Life, Death and Helicopters.

Dave was part of the Ministry of Health’s Covid Response Team, helping coordinate NZ’s health response to the pandemic for over two years.

Today he is an emergency management speaker/consultant/trainer. He regularly travels between NZ, Australia and the USA, but Wellington is, and always will be, his home.

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Creative Welly Episode #11 | Elizabeth McNaughton & Rohan Wakefield

Courageous conversations with bold humans (from the most creative little capital in the world).

Elizabeth McNaughton – Cofounder and Director of Hummingly

Elizabeth will tell you, “My career has quite literally been a series of disasters” as she has worked on many disasters around the globe.

Elizabeth has led multi-million-dollar recovery programmes for New Zealand Red Cross and was the Executive Director at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet leading work to create a learning legacy from the Canterbury earthquakes. Internationally, Elizabeth has worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Asia-Pacific region.

She is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumni, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, co-chair of the New Zealand Chapter of the Australasian Women and Emergencies Network and the co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos.

Rohan Wakefield – CEO & Cofounder at Enspiral Dev Academy

Rohan runs an intensive training school for developers. A school that takes only the most passionate and driven students. Training them in modern development technologies and methodologies, and giving them the skills to hit the ground running in a commercial development environment.

Dev Academy replicates a real life programming environment. Giving students first hand experiences and the skills to excel as a web developer.

Our programme has been developed by industry for industry.

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