Executive Developmemt

Kinetic appoints New CEO to lead New Zealand business

Management Editorial Team September 18, 2026

Kinetic, the largest bus operator in Australasia and a leading multi-modal mass transit operator, has appointed Tessa Auelua (pictured) as CEO of its New Zealand business, following an extensive global search.

Transformation debt: Why organisations keep solving the same problem twice

Guest Contributor September 18, 2026

The hardest conversations in a restructure are rarely the redundancy conversations. They’re the performance conversations that never happened, writes Elliot Royce.

AI uptake rises but leadership gap a barrier to AI at scale

Management Editorial Team September 3, 2026

New research from Datacom has found AI is now firmly embedded in New Zealand workplaces; however, most have yet to translate that adoption into organisation-wide transformation, with 81% still in the exploratory or implementation stages of AI maturity.