Meet Our Experts

Robert Bryce has many years’ experience at the coal face in fast-paced management roles and more than 25 years delivering workshops, including Blanchard Training Solutions, to team members, managers and leaders in some of New Zealand’s most successful organisations. He is a relaxed and engaging facilitator and is passionate about helping individuals and organisations achieve to their potential. Robert’s specific area of expertise is in developing leaders, so they can create positive and engaged teams, enabling them to establish successful and effective cultures in their organisations.

Outside work, Robert enjoys spending time with his family, music, photography and skiing. He is very involved in Badminton as a competitive player and administrator, currently serving on the Board of Auckland Badminton and as president of his club.

David is a Company Director, accredited Consulting Partner and Master Trainer with Blanchard International in New Zealand. An astute, amiable and committed provider of client services. He is a full-time Company Director, Consulting Partner and Accredited Leadership Facilitator with Blanchard International NZ.
As well as being fully accredited in leadership and organisational development with over 25 years as a Blanchard® Trainer, he is tertiary qualified with a BSc in Mathematics, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychology, a BSc (Hons) in Industrial and Organisation Psychology, and a National Diploma in Business.
His professional career background includes service as a commissioned officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy, followed by extensive consulting, design and delivery of Blanchard® solutions for a range of commercial business clients, and public organisations. He is experienced with credible results in working equally with all levels across organisations, from senior leadership teams to frontline leaders and individual contributors.

Andy has been facilitating and coaching for many years in corporate organisations in the UK and New Zealand. He is the director of Anchor Coaching, delivering flexible and highly effective leadership and coaching solutions to clients in New Zealand.
Andy has years of corporate strategic human resource development experience, including:
· Strategic business management and consultancy experience
· Effective leadership design, development and facilitation of leadership programmes
· Relationship management with key stakeholders including executives, senior management, customers and suppliers
· Performance improvement initiatives, including coaching
Andy believes in achieving high performance and outstanding results through building increased capability and inspiring targets in engaging and interactive ways. His goal is to enable his clients to excel in their goals, making them high-performing, confident and capable individuals or teams.
Through Blanchard New Zealand and Anchor Coaching’s joined causes of equipping effective leaders for people, performance and culture, we are dedicated to providing you with only the best and most reliable services and solutions.

Ashleigh’s approach is centred around the premise that great businesses are built on great people. With over ten years of experience in HR and years spent in business operations before that, Ashleigh brings a wide range of experience from the fast-paced world of high-volume fast-food management to the complexities of public sector organisations. As the founder of Uplift Consulting Ashleigh combines practical know-how with a genuine passion for helping people and teams reach their full potential.

At the heart of Ashleigh's approach is a simple idea: when you look after your people, they'll look after your business. She works to avoid flashy jargon and one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, Ashleigh works alongside leaders and teams to create workplaces where both people and performance can thrive. Whether she's facilitating a leadership workshop or providing one-on-one coaching, Ashleigh's goal is always the same - to help businesses connect the dots between happy, engaged employees and successful, thriving organisations. With a Master's degree in HR Management and a background in hands-on operations, Ashleigh brings both expertise and real-world understanding to every project she takes on.

Jamie brings a sense of fun to everything he does and his contagious energy makes his training delivery enjoyably powerful. Participants feel confident that they are working with someone who has been there, done that and is always looking for smarter ways to get there, better, and faster.

His 20-plus years of relevant experience in leadership, recruitment and coaching and training began with service as a leader and trainer in the Royal New Zealand Navy, including Blanchard® leadership concepts and tools, followed by his industry career in business management, coaching, facilitation and account management across commercial and government sectors. From coaching and training businesses and teams, Jamie has a strong background in accountability, mentoring and strategic advice. Businesses coached and trained by Jamie have reached their business objectives and have gone on to win National awards in their field.
Throughout his career, Jamie has applied Blanchard® principles and practices to realise positive results and he is excited to be able to share his experience and this amazing learning with others.

Kerrie administers the ‘back office’ operation of the Blanchard NZ business where on behalf of the company board she primarily attends to Secretarial Administration including accounting support, team collaboration and file sharing platform management, Marketing Communications, Event Administration, Governance Support and Stakeholder Liaison.
Kerrie King brings to the Blanchard New Zealand team experience in general business administration, systems and processes. She puts an emphasis on customer-focused solutions – delivering efficient, effective administrative support.
With a seventeen-year background in sales support, data analysis and customer service in the New Zealand grocery industry, and more recently as a project administrator in the manufacturing sector, Kerrie has the ability to think ahead, come up with solutions on the fly and enact on them quickly.
Having completed an NZIM Certificate in Small Business Management she is looking to complete further studies. During her spare time, Kerrie likes to spend time with her family, exploring New Zealand’s untouched wildernesses and developing her photography skills.

Malcolm leads the Blanchard Aotearoa New Zealand Business Advisory Services with a focus on guiding client organisations to excel and leverage sustainable business performance.  

A business know-how content creator and consultant, he offers decades of experience in collaborating with clients through sighting the end game, composing structures and facilitating high-performance change impetus with people and organisations.  

Along with his professional colleagues, he enjoys seeing client organisations learn, grow, change and perform through adopting and applying the accountabilities, strategies and practices that accelerate breakthrough business performance.  

Beyond business Malcolm’s life interests include family, small-block farming, motorcycling, pipe bands, orchestral sound, and keeping up to date with local and global affairs.  

Marina is a qualified and certified coach with 30 years experience working in organisations around NZ. After gaining her Bachelor of Psychology from UC Marina spent 15 years as a facilitator with The NZ Institute of Management. She has owned and operated a Horticulture business for 20 years and has been coaching in the Mental Health sector in NZ for 5 years for MHERC. Marina holds a Diploma of Professional Coaching and is a Master Trainer. Marina's expertise is in Leadership Development, Social Emotional Intelligence and Communication.

Michelle is on a mission to equip leaders with proven, powerful and practical skills and resources to enable them to create the impact they desire.  She focuses on the areas that make a real difference for leaders, which is why she chose to partner with Blanchard as an Affiliate Consultant.

Michelle previously led Operations and project teams for many years, in the financial services sector, before training to become a professional Leadership Coach and Trainer.  As a self-confessed life-long learner she is extensively trained in coaching, adult education and leadership, holding numerous qualifications including Certified Coach: Conversational Intelligence™, Certificate in the Foundations of Neuroleadership, DiSC Profiling & Five Behaviours Facilitator, ANZCAL Master Coach Trainer, Emotional Culture Deck Facilitator, NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer and more.

Michelle was first introduced to the Blanchard leadership concepts and tools earlier in her career and has experienced their value first hand.  From her own management experience, as well as over 15 years of coaching and training leaders, she deeply understands the challenges that people leaders face on a day-to-day basis and how to overcome them.

A professionally trained consultant who has worked for several global consulting firms, Pam has significant international experience in Organisational and Leadership Development. She spent ten years consulting in the UK, before moving to New Zealand in 2001. She has led consulting teams and delivered training workshops across five continents for the United Nations.
Her 25 years of consulting have included leadership training, executive coaching, recruitment and the design and delivery of Assessment / Development Centres. She was first introduced to Blanchard over 20 years ago in the UK.
Pam is known for her collaborative style and strong client focus that ensures any solution takes into account the current and future needs of the organisation.
Her passion is enabling people to deliver great work, and she thrives off workshops that give people the tools and confidence to deliver individually and through others.

Steven Briggs is a Chartered Engineer from the UK who moved to Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2006. With a diverse background that includes pivotal consultancy roles at KPMG in the UK and Connell Wagner (now Aurecon) in New Zealand, Steven brings a wealth of experience to his consulting and facilitation roles. Steven's unwavering commitment to personal and professional development is evident in his impact on his extensive client portfolio, which includes prestigious names such as Fonterra, NZDF, Babcock International, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Fletchers (PlaceMakers), NZ Post, Whakarongorau, and Auckland Council.

Steven is highly regarded for his experience in the application of leadership theories, lean thinking, project management, agile methodologies, and creative problem-solving to the changing business environment. Over the course of his career spanning more than two decades, Steven has played a pivotal role in imparting practical knowledge to many current and future generations of leaders. He has lectured as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Auckland and also taught at the Business School since 2018. He teaches for WITT and designs courses for Te Pūkenga. His teaching philosophy integrates evidence-based theories seamlessly with hands-on advice for real-world applications. Beyond the classroom's confines, he actively mentors aspiring professionals and volunteers for community welfare initiatives.

Outside work, Steven is a keen runner and rugby fan. He lives in Auckland with his wife, eldest daughter, three cats and a dog.

Tim’s passion lies in this: “If you look after the people, the business will flourish; look after the people and their families will flourish and the community benefits.”
Tim has experience across the hospitality and retail and education sectors in a variety of roles – at the coal face and within management and leadership teams. This sparked a life-long interest in how and why people behave the way they do. This curiosity and experience combine to unlock the potential in his clients, using proven tools and techniques that can be repeated easily.
Not one to ask you to do something he isn’t, Tim is constantly upskilling and looking for opportunities to continue his own professional development. He knows that bringing real value to his clients means he must be constantly learning himself.
This led to Tim becoming involved with Blanchard programmes, initially through an interest in leadership theory, then using Blanchard concepts in development programmes. Now he is looking forward to working with Blanchard NZ to continue equipping smart businesses with smarter people.

Over her 20 years with Blanchard New Zealand Bridget fulfilled all roles in the Company including as the Executive Manager, Company Director – Finance, and the day-to-day operation of the Company at a management and administrative level. She has been a specialist coach providing coaching to support learning, and a Consulting Partner and Facilitator contributing to the capability of clients to make changes and achieve turnaround results in both favourable and unfavourable conditions.
This company-wide experience provided a valuable resource to all stakeholders in the Blanchard business and clients requiring information and support at any level.

For twenty-four years, Joan contributed highly valued and respected collegial wisdom, learning, humour, and perspective to colleagues within the Blanchard® organisation.
Throughout her tenure as an accredited Blanchard® Associate / Licensee Trainer, she facilitated exemplary leadership development workshops, advice and support for a broad range of clients throughout New Zealand, and across the Asia Pacific region.
She succeeded in getting the best from and for her clients through her natural facilitation skills, complemented by her warm personality that ensured participants engaged in their learning and development.

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