About Kaye Vakauta Consulting
We partner with organisations, groups and individuals to help improve performance. We design and deliver strategies, frameworks, tools, development options and sound change management to assist managers and staff to be more effective. A few of our recent clients include Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, Takiri Mai te Ata, Office of the Ombudsman, Wellington City Council, Commission for Children, Statistics New Zealand, Ahikaa, Careers NZ, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington Zoo Trust, Wellington City Council, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Taita College, Human Rights Commission, SPARC, Ministry of Education and GNS .
About Kaye Vakauta
Driven by a passion to help people and groups understand and reach their full potential, Kaye has twenty years’ experience in management, human resources, facilitation and training in both private and public sector organisations. After working in the education sector in leadership roles, Kaye moved into Human Resources roles in local government, where she supported and coached corporate and operational managers in people management. Kaye’s recent experience has been as a consultant across a variety of public and private sector organisations, designing and implementing strategies to enhance organisational effectiveness.
A child of the far north, her tribal affiliations are to Te Tai Tokerau iwi – Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu and Te Aupouri.
Professional Accreditations
Kaye Vakauta is accredited to use a range of tools to assist you and has considerable experience in using these with clients.
We also work with a range of professional associates whose skills compliment ours so that we can offer you a seamless service. See below for more about our associates....
Capability Mentoring
Kaye is accredited by the Ministry of Social Development as a Capability Mentor to develop the organisational capabilities which are characteristic of strong, adaptable and integrated social sector organisations. The mentoring assists organisations to evaluate capability and capacity and to design and implement action plans to address identified gaps.
Team Management Index (TMI) and TMS Suite of Tools
Team Management Products are an internationally recognised and accepted set of management tools with a wide range of applications. They provide very valuable feedback to individuals and teams that can be used to create a common understanding of strengths and a plan for delivering even better results.
Lominger Leadership Architect
Lominger Leadership Architect is an international toolkit that helps organisations meet development challenges by offering tools, applications and support. The toolkit is based on a set of competencies (measurable personal characteristics related to success at work that can be a skill, an attribute or an attitude. The toolkit helps organisations to develop leadership and teamwork and ultimately deliver better results. Lominger Leadership Architect competencies are used widely across in New Zealand public service. Read more about Lominger Leadership Architect.
Our Associates
We are fortunate to work with a number of associates whose work we really admire. We will be straight up with you if we think their expertise better suits your need. In some instances, we may recommend you use their services.
Here's a virtual introduction to them!
Kia Māia Bicultural Communications
Kia Māia Bicultural Communications was established in Wellington in 1999 as a specialist consultancy. To achieve their vision of a New Zealand where biculturalism is a natural part of the fabric of daily life, they have developed the ‘Te Rito Bicultural Competency E-Learning Modules’, which they offer for license through a trackable online learning management system (LMS).
These fourteen modules use proven e-learning techniques to provide self-paced and clearly scaffolded personal skill development, with a strongly practical focus for employees in both the public and private sectors. The modules are a superb way to build on and extend the enthusiasm and interest ignited by face-to-face training. They give users the tools and bicultural skills to create ongoing practical outcomes, and they give workplaces the means to benchmark and measure bicultural competency within their organisations, meeting the objectives identified in their organisational planning. A new Educators’ Edition has recently been released specifically for those in the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors.
Visit www.kiamaia.org.nz for more information about these highly acclaimed and cost-effective professional development resources.
Esther Bukholt
As a facilitator, I collaborate with clients to create dynamic processes that embolden individuals, teams and communities to find their True North. My experience is that when groups find their True North together, they have the power to forge enduring and effective solutions to seemingly intractable problems. My life philosophy is that we all have the right to live, work and learn in ways that sustains us, our communities and the earth. Indeed, we are the richer for it.
I was fortunate to grow up bi-cultural and bi-lingual on the banks of the beautiful Whanganui river and regularly re-visit to our spiritual home at the Whanganui Quaker Settlement.
I hold accreditation/qualifications in the following areas:
- TetraMap©
Tetramap is a comprehensive tool designed to help teams improve communication, reduce conflict and value diversity. In an environment of constant change, TetraMap enables positive ways of communicating about new and challenging situations. See http://www.tetramap.com/.
- Careers Counselling
A careers is the journey we take through life and includes the way we live, learn, work and play. Through Careers Counselling, I can support you to manage your career with purpose.
- Supervision
Supervision is the process of assisting practitioners to see beyond and through the looking glass so as to provide safe, ethical and effective services. My scope of Supervision practice includes: community development and engagement, facilitation, training and development, first line management, project management.
- NZQA Assessor
My assessment scope includes: Adult Education and Training, First Line Management, Recreation and Event Management
