Our Team 2011

With 25 years experience in human resources, Tony is primarily recognised for his strategic approach and competency in business restructuring, employment relations, employment agreement strategies, staff communications, negotiation, employment law and personal grievances & disputes. He has revolutionised the approach to employment agreement implementation through innovative design, extensive staff communication methodologies and negotiation style.

Tony is a pragmatist, adopting the view that there is always a way to achieve the objective if sufficient creativity and energy is directed to the task.

Prior to becoming a consultant in 1986, Tony held senior corporate roles with New Zealand Steel Development Stage II, Wilkins & Davies Construction and NZ Forest Products. He was staff relations adviser to the National Transition Committee for Local Government Reform in 1989 and an active participant on behalf of clients in the Waterfront Industry Reform process in the same year.

• Bachelor of Science (Industrial Chemistry), University of Auckland

Tony is experienced in the following areas:

• designing and project managing large scale business restructuring and change management programmes
• designing and implementing both collective and individual employment agreements
• advising on employment relations and employment law including strategies and tactics for managing industrial dispute risks and personal grievances
• developing and implementing human resource strategies and policies
• designing and facilitating employee communications strategies
• remuneration, including developing salarisation systems for waged staff and incentive and profit sharing schemes

Paul has over 25yrs experience in the field of people and performance including assisting Board, CEO and senior executives with the ‘people’ element of strategy delivery and business performance improvement. He is recognised both for his innovative expertise in human capital strategy and implementation; and his sharp commercial focus. Paul draws on extensive experience including two recent roles as HR Director for leading NZ firms and 5 years as practice leader, and Managing Director for New Zealand, of global human capital consulting firm Watson Wyatt. He has successfully completed consulting assignments across a wide range of sectors including – manufacturing, professional services, forestry, dairy, food, retail, meat, finance and insurance, health, hospitality and entertainment. Paul’s strengths include change management, M&A, business re-organisation, leadership development, employee relations, talent management and labour cost reconstruction.

• Bachelor of Business Studies

Paul is experienced in the following areas:

• Leading successful change management processes including business redesign, reorganisation, restructuring and mergers & acquisitions
• Delivering organisation development and culture change programmes including attraction, retention and engagement initiatives
• Design & implementation of human capital strategy to support business performance including HR function design and optimization
• Leadership development design & delivery and building organization capability through effective L & D strategy
• Talent Management including succession planning, talent identification and development of high potential people
• Employee Relations/IR strategy, particularly collective bargaining and union related matters
• Remuneration including reward system design and implementation

Justine is an experienced human resources consultant who specialises in employment relations including the development of employment agreements and contracts for service, and advising on disciplinary disputes and grievances including advocacy in the Employment Relations Authority.

Prior to joining Teesdale Loof Justine held a variety of human resources roles predominately in the public sector. As a member of a change project team with the Department for Courts, Justine was involved in developing the transition strategy and change process for successful implementation of new organisation structures, jobs, and remuneration structures. Earlier in her career, Justine was employed as a legal/HR advisor with the Department of Corrections, which involved negotiating employment contracts, managing the employment litigation in the Prison Service, and performance management.

During a stint in London, Justine was employed as an Equal Employment Opportunities Adviser at the British Broadcasting Corporation.

• Bachelor of Laws – University of Canterbury
• Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor – High Court of New Zealand

Justine has experience in the following areas:

• formulating, interpreting and negotiating collective and individual employment agreements
• advising on employment relations and employment law including strategies and tactics for managing personal grievances
• advocacy in the Mediation Service and Employment Relations Authority
• instructing and managing legal counsel in litigation
• developing and implementing human resource policies and processes
• developing and implementing change programmes and performance management systems
• developing reward and recognition structures

David is a human resources consultant in the Auckland office of Teesdale Loof. Prior to joining the Company in 2002, David gained extensive experience in bargaining, negotiation and general advocacy over more than fifteen years in the manufacturing, telecommunication, printing and retail sectors. In his role as an industry co-ordinator for the Engineers Union David developed and advocated multi-employer and site specific collective agreements and contracts on a national and regional basis. This experience also involved extensive bargaining and remuneration reform. In the late 1980’s David was extensively involved in Pay Equity policy development for the Retail Division of the Northern Distribution Union and chaired the Auckland Employment Equity Coalition. David is trained and experienced in the use of job evaluation tools including Hay, Compers and AGrade.

David is the current chair of the Board of Trustees of Henderson High School and has held this role for four years during a period that has seen a reversal of previous school decline. From 1994 until 2002 David was an executive member of the Plastics Industry Training Organisation (PITO) and has been instrumental in keeping that ITO at the forefront of industry training developments.

• Bachelor of Arts (Political Studies / Maths) University of Auckland
• BA Hons (First class honours – Public Policy) University of Auckland

David has particular experience and expertise in:

• negotiation and advocacy of employment agreements
• drafting employment agreements
• pay structures
• workplace consultation / change management
• development of autonomous work teams
• implementing on-the-job training solutions
• job evaluation
• skill and competency based remuneration systems linked to training and qualifications
• shift work systems and rosters
• rationalisation of employment agreements including allowances and classifications
• performance review systems
• gain sharing systems
• personal grievance resolution
• disciplinary procedures / house rules
• redundancy / relocation issues

As an HR practitioner Diana gained experience in the Corporate world over a period of ten years in the travel, retail and finance industry sectors. She then spent twelve years contracting, holding a variety of positions as HR Manager, HR specialist or HR Project Lead and working with a large number of Companies in the telecommunications, local government, SOE, manufacturing, education, professional services, construction, property ,energy, pharmaceutical and media industry sectors. For the last 3 years Diana has consulted to a wide number of clients in both Human Resources and Employment Relations.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources – University of Auckland
• MBA – University of Auckland.

Over Diana’s career she has developed skills and interests in:

• Generalist HR Manager, HR specialist and operational HR roles
• HR Contractor and HR Project Lead roles
• Strategic Human Resources, budgeting and planning
• Advocacy and mentoring
• Designing and implementing
  • Organisation Development and Design initiatives
  • Organisational and cultural change,
  • Remuneration strategy and policy
  • Leadership and talent development programs

Craig has provided strategic business advice to many different organisations across a range of industries including, insurance, financial services, manufacturing, local government, central government, FMCG, professional services, broadcasting, and information services.

Craig is a Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand, and is a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors.

• Executive MBA – Institute for Strategic Leadership
• Strategic Leadership Program – Institute for Strategic Leadership
• HR Executive Program – Mt Eliza Business School, University of Melbourne
• Strategic HR Program – Australian Graduate School of Management
• Labour Relations – British Columbia Institute of Technology
• Bachelor of Business Administration – University of Victoria

Craig is a professional People Leader and Business Manager who brings a range of experiences and learnings, gained through a variety of roles in hugely varied environments over a number of years. His background includes both Operational and Corporate functions and this has built transferrable skills and enabled him to move freely through a variety of Senior Executive positions. Craig has held senior management positions in both public and private sector organisations in Canada, USA, Mexico and New Zealand; sectors include banking, insurance, local & central government, law enforcement, travel, manufacturing, professional services (accounting and law), and broadcasting.

Craig views people as a key driver of an organisation and has the ability to convey key HR and business principles to others, deals effectively with ambiguity and delivers complex concepts in a non-technical way. He has particular strengths in the areas of HR strategy, process review & improvement, coaching, change management (esp. Mergers & Acquisitions), employment relations, conflict resolution, mentoring and leadership.

Paul is a widely experienced consultant. He has been working in the human resources field for over 25 years and has been consulting in the field since 1984. Originally from Taranaki, Paul has been based in the New Plymouth office since 1996.

Paul joined Winstone Limited in 1977, firstly in market research and then in 1978 transferring into Winstone’s corporate personnel division as an industrial officer. In 1983 Paul became Group Industrial Relations Manager for Winstone Limited a position he held for two years before leaving to set up practice as one of New Zealand’s first independent IR consultants.

In 1990 Paul joined Tony Teesdale to form Teesdale Meuli Limited. That business was sold to TMP Worldwide in December 2000.

• Master of Arts (majoring in NZ social history but with additional papers in industrial relations, economics, sociology and psychology) – Victoria University of Wellington.
• Trained Secondary School Teacher

• Paul has consulted in most sectors of business including transport, manufacturing, construction, local government, dairy & food processing, the public service and SOE’s
• Paul has extensive experience in the design, drafting and negotiation of both individual and collective employment agreements gained from working under the last four sets of employment relations legislation namely, the Industrial Relations Act 1973, the Labour Relations Act 1987, the Employment Contracts Act 1991, and the current Employment Relations Act 2000
• His professional expertise covers a wide range of HR activities with specialisation in the link between organisational strategy, performance based agreements and employee development
• Paul is also highly regarded for the preparation and delivery of highly interactive workshops and seminars for managers and supervisors on HR management