Services

Explore our Leadership Development offerings and find out how we can assist your organisation.

Why Sheffield?

Flexible
learning solutions 

From the traditional classroom to the virtual classroom, and self-paced online training.

Partnership

We partner with clients to make the journey easier, deliver a great experience and achieve the best possible outcomes.

Powerful development solutions for every level

Our solutions are tailored to achieve meaningful results for individuals, front-line, middle-level, and senior leadership levels.

Proven
practical solutions 

Our skilled and experienced consultants, facilitators, psychologists, learning designers and coaches provide customised practical solutions and support for your needs.

Local expertise and
proven practices

We offer clients a uniquely rich depth of understanding, perspective and judgement gained from over 60 years of experience recruiting and developing New Zealand’s leaders, combined with access to evidenced-based solutions.

Sustainable, relevant
and integrated

Our programs and solutions are continually updated with the latest research and thinking. We have solutions to support strategic alignment, selection, development, performance and succession.

 

Client Testimonials

Sheffield has a reputation for a high quality approach to executive search, not only in terms of their well organised plan, but the genuine effort and follow through in implementing that plan and keeping their client well informed. Taituara wanted to take a specific and careful approach to the recruitment of our new CEO and Sheffield’s approach was well suited to this. The extra bonus is that Sheffield Director Wellington Katy Antequil and her colleague Nicholas Buck are a joy to work with.

Barbara McKerrow, Wellington Representative, Taituara

The New Zealand Brain Research Institute is grateful for your recent assistance in recruiting and placing directors for our Board. We were very pleased with the thorough and seamless process that you followed which resulted in two excellent directors joining us, in full alignment with our brief. We look forward to working with you in the future.

Richard Sudell, Chair, NZ Brain Research Institute

Sheffield's previous reputation led me to using them again. The whole process flowed well from the initial brief and I would highly recommend Sheffield, and Mike Stenhouse or Jane Pollitt to anyone without hesitation.

Colin Weatherall, Acting Chair, Central South Island Fish and Game

Sheffield has the knowledge, trust and expertise. The communication was clear and I had complete trust that the process would go well.

Luis Arevalo, Catholic Social Services Manager, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch

Sheffield know the market well and run a robust process. Jane was very professional, took away the pain of recruitment and I was pleased with how the whole process was run.

Grant McKenzie, Chief Executive, Allied Press

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News and Resources

New Chief Executive for Streamliners
Sheffield South Island thoroughly enjoyed working with the Board from Streamliners in their recent appointment of Stella Ward as the company’s new Chief Executive.
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Top 5 Leadership Development Challenges
Learn the top leadership development challenges facing HR professionals today and how to overcome them.
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New Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research for The University of Waikato
Sheffield Search has been privileged to support The University of Waikato in the appointment of its new New Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Professor Gary Wilson.
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New CEO for Auckland Council
Sheffield Search has been privileged to support Auckland Council in the appointment of Phil Wilson as CEO.
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New Chair and Directors appointed to NZC
Sheffield Search has been privileged to support the New Zealand Cricket (NZC Board) in the reappointment of Diana Puketapu-Lyndon and Anna Campbell, and the new appointments of Alison Shanks and Mike Devonshire.
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How to assess a candidate’s ability to apply critical thinking skills
I am a step-mother to a Year 12 student and it’s around this time of year when discussions about subject selection for her final school year are taking place with a view towards the most suitable courses to take ahead of University.
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Case Studies

Christchurch Girls High School
Over 200 Year 13 students at Christchurch Girls’ High School completed the My Self career assessment, which looks at an individual’s strengths in areas that have been shown to be important to success at work, and how these align to different careers.
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Duncan Cotterill
Sheffield’s Senior Consultant Louise Green spoke with senior management about what they wanted to achieve. “We spoke about the type of key leadership behaviours that Duncan Cotterill wanted to exhibit”, said Louise. After these were agreed upon at a board level, it was decided that Sheffield would use DDI’s 360 Tool - Leadership Mirror with all 40 partners, across all four offices around the country.”
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Skyline Enterprises
The challenge with this particular position was to find a senior People Leader with a strong organisational and leadership development background. Moreover, the candidate had to not only provide operational HR leadership, they had to build capability across the entire business (comprising of some 1400 staff) and embed an organisational culture focussed on growing talent.
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Development West Coast
With the incumbent CEO of Development West Coast (DWC) retiring, Sheffield was briefed by the DWC Board to look for a new Chief Executive. The brief was to find a replacement who possessed the leadership attributes, ability to work with a variety of stakeholders on the West Coast, and to lead the team in order to enhance economic development in the region.
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Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust
Sheffield undertook a pure Search assignment, identifying candidates within the region that fitted the client’s specific brief, and presented a strong list of potential search candidates, which CWCART referred to as their ‘wish list’.
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MTF Finance Appoint Melanie Templeton as their new Independent Director
Following detailed discussions with the Board, Sheffield recommended a very targeted Search approach, alongside digital and print advertising.
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New Executive Leadership Team for Invercargill City Council
Partnering alongside both Clare Hadley and Gary Andrews, Manager People & Capability, Louise Green, a Senior Consultant at Sheffield, set about gaining a deep and thorough understanding of ICC - as an organisation, their future direction and needs, and the balance of the skills, competencies and experience that was needed to create a new and complementary executive team.
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Spark
From 2013 to 2017, Sheffield delivered a Management Fundamentals programme focused on setting the people centric leadership standards to ensure a consistent working style across the organisation.
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LIC – Emerging Leader Programme
LIC was seeking support to develop and deliver an Emerging Leader Programme, targeting high-potential, emerging leaders to develop the foundational skills for success as an upcoming leader in the organisation.
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Palmerston North City Council
Wellington Director, Katy Anquetil and Associate Director, Nicholas Buck partnered with Heather and her staff to carry out a wide variety of search work in helping to achieve broad organisational change. This included recruiting 20+ roles, and carrying out assessments and lead team alignment work. Sheffield Search provided a holistic service, from drafting job advertisements and descriptions to acting as a valuable sounding board regarding more strategic decisions.
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