Director

ANNE BAILEY

As an international facilitator, educator and author, Anne is in business as a consultant with a special interest in organisations of the future.
 
Anne’s work focuses on developing and building the synergy of personal mastery, with team and organisational transformation.
She is committed to whole person models.

Anne facilitates conferences, meetings, and change processes with business and organisations including strategic planning, envisioning futures, developing new cultures, team building, evaluation and conflict resolution. She also coaches individuals on personal and professional development.

Anne trains teams in collaborative work and community building processes such as facilitation, team building, effective meetings, developing empowering cultures, peer processes and peer review. She leads facilitation training workshops in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A. and U.K.

A former founding director of Zenergy Ltd, a well known consulting company, Anne established a second office based in Wellington..

Anne has co-authored four books on teamwork, facilitation and organisational development, with Dale Hunter and Bill Taylor. Their third book, “Co-operacy - A New Way of Being at Work” (1997) identifies and describes peer practices that develop a team’s ability to perform while encouraging the synergy of teamwork. The other three books are:

• “The Zen of Groups - a Handbook for People Meeting with a Purpose” (1992),
• “The Art of Facilitation” (1994)
• “The Essence of Facilitation” (1999)

published by Tandem Press (N.Z.) Gower (U.K.) Fisher Books (U.S.A) and Editorial Troquel S.A. (Argentina)

Associates

SIDHARTH PAGAD

Sidhartha is a recent graduate from the University of Auckland with majors in Psychology and Anthropology.
 
With a focus on applying scientific research in a practical way, he is enquiring into forming self-reinforcing cycles of learning and transformation, with individuals and groups, as well as the construction of worldviews.
 
Since joining Co-Operacy, Sidhartha has begun to explore ritual, and the part it plays in groups and societies.
Currently he is facilitating a group called Aaranyaa (http://www.aaranyaa.org/)  working to conserve and promote bio-cultural diversity, as well as coaching personal and professional development

HADYN OLSEN

Hadyn Olsen is a professional facilitator and mediator specialising in conflict, bullying and harassment.
 
Hadyn spent 23 years within the Pulp and paper industry and 13 years working as a facilitator rehabilitating violent offenders. His background in these areas provides him with a no-nonsense, practical way of working.

Since 2000 Hadyn has set up and established a nation-wide consultancy service (www.wave.org.nz) and has written two books on the subject of dealing with workplace bullying.

He is passionate about equity and dignity at work and the power that is unleashed when people begin to work together bringing their wholeness into the present.

REX McCANN

Rex is well known and widely respected for his work in the area of men’s awareness in New  Zealand and Australia. He has twenty years of active experience in men’s groups and regularly attends international men’s conferences.

He is the founder of the Essentially Men Education Trust and co founder of the NZ Heart Politics Gathering and has experienced many walks of life with men, including working with men in prisons for five years.

He is an author, facilitator and social change catalyst who conducts trainings on issues to do with boys and men and co-leads gender healing events for men and women.

Rex has a Masters degree in Social Ecology focusing on men’s and boy’s issues and his book “Fatherless Sons – the stories of New Zealand men” is published by HarperCollin

LYNLEY RUSSEK

Lynley is an inspirational and dynamic facilitator, trainer and coach with over 20 years experience as an educator and consultant. She is the author of two popular learning resources, a writer for the magazine Education Today, a trained secondary school teacher, and a consultant.

Lynley works nationwide with organisations, community groups, and the education sector. She is a popular, motivating presenter at conferences, and leads energising workshops that truly inspire others.