With an enviable record of experience in designing and implementing a broad range of highly successful human resources programs and policies tailored to the specific needs and cultures of nonprofit organisations, Lisa and her team’s area of expertise include:

• Organisational culture, 
• Employee relations, 
• Human resources, 
• Policy development, 
• Staffing and recruitment and 
• Benefits plan design and management. 

Find out how you can increase quality and efficiency and reduce costs without ever losing sight of your true purpose. 

    

John’s mission is to share his knowledge through re-educating non-profit organisations on effective talent acquisition and the importance of aligning one’s personal and organisational values in the recruitment process.

Everything John does, he believes is about challenging the status quo and the way non-profits recruit talent. Utilising his experience from the corporate world, he is on a mission to become a change-maker for non-profits and their struggle to identify and recruit awesome talent.

Through speaking, conducting seminars, coaching and consulting he assists nonprofit CEOs, EOs, Hiring Managers and Candidates find their true passion. He then helps them communicate this when hiring new team members or looking for their next career step within the NGO sector.

Founding Not For Profit Recruitment (NFPR) in 2010, he immediately set about taking a unique approach to assisting employers and employees achieve their goals. He has an enviable knowledge, passion and experience of people, recruitment systems and the nonprofit sector. He has coupled this with his desire to save non-profit organisations time and money when recruiting, leading him to develop what he believes is one of the best recruitment methods for non-profits.

Bice is Chief Executive of Skylight, the first organisation in New Zealand to focus specifically on the multifaceted impact that change loss and grief has on children young people and their families. Bice’s past experience encompasses over 30 years of broad-based involvement in the public, private and consulting sectors in the UK, Canada and New Zealand. The environment of health and disability has been an area where she has worked extensively not only as Director of Rehabilitation in a 2,500 bed-teaching hospital in Canada but also in senior roles in industry, community agencies and rehabilitation/compensation systems both in Canada (Ontario Worker’s Compensation Board) and ACC in New Zealand.

In terms of governance roles, Bice has been a Mental Health Commissioner for over 3 years and is also on the Board of the Wellington SPCA

Bice holds a BA (Com) from Strathclyde University, Scotland, BA(Hons) Health Studies York University, Canada and an MBA (Health Option) from Massey University.