The Workshop is growing

Kia ora from Marianne and Jess,

Over the past eight months, The Workshop team has grown significantly. Seven new people have joined our team, each bringing with them a diverse set of skills and experience.

For some of our team, this is a slightly belated introduction. You may already have worked with some of them! Still, we are excited for you to get to know our newer staff members a little more.

Below are the very brief versions of their introductions. You can read a bit more about each of them in this blog, including their ideal Saturday.


Gidion de Haan

is our Head of Operations. He came to The Workshop from a range of senior management roles in big companies, but before all of that Gidion was a fashion designer in his hometown of Amsterdam. Gidion’s role at The Workshop is to help us be the best organisation we can be, so that we can do great work while taking care of our people and clients.

 

Tom McDonald

is our Operations Assistant. He came to The Workshop from business support and administrative roles at Regional Public Health and the NZ Drug Foundation, in the thick of the Cannabis Referendum campaign. Tom works with Gidion to keep the day to day operations, human resource, information and financial systems of The Workshop working smoothly.

 

Nick Beaudoin

is our Project Manager. His most recent roles were in project management and fundraising in the charity sector. He has an interest in public policy, politics and history. Nick’s role at The Workshop is to help all our projects run more smoothly and efficiently, which will help us have more impact, with less stress.

 

Nicola Henderson

is our Training & Communications Administrator. She joined us after almost seven years living and working in Cambodia, most recently as an Editor in the Marketing & Business Development Team at IDP Education. Nicola’s role at The Workshop includes administering our training courses, production of our publications and assisting with research.

 

Julie Fairfield

is our Senior Narrative Implementation Advisor. Before she joined The Workshop she led strategic communications for Healthy Families Hutt Valley, where she used The Workshop’s tools and resources. Julie’s role at The Workshop will be to support our clients and collaborators to apply new narratives. This includes mentoring, coaching and helping people use new narratives in the real world.

 

Jayne Dalmer

is our Senior Narrative Advisor. Before joining the Workshop, Jayne was a consultant for five years with Write Limited — experts in communication that sounds like it was created by humans for other humans to understand. Jayne’s role at The Workshop is to help us all get better at making complex information crystal clear. This involves a lot of writing and editing, as well as helping us all to be better writers.

 

Hannah Patterson

is our Narrative Implementation Assistant. Before The Workshop, Hannah was studying part-time to finish off her Law and Media Studies degree. Hannah’s role at The Workshop is to help people use new narratives. She works on our message guides, email newsletter and social media posts, and she’s putting together a library of examples of narratives in practice.


Read more about the newer people on our team in this blog post. To get to know the whole team, check out Our People
 

Get in touch with operations@theworkshop.org.nz if you would like to talk to us about how we can help you with specific advice or do training for your team.
 

The team at The Workshop - Marianne, Jess, Sharon, Gidion, Jordan, Carolyn, Ellen, Jayne, Nicky, Hannah, Julie, Tom and Nick

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