Jo Calder is a Partner in Findex’s HR Consulting team, with more than 25 years’ senior people leadership experience across New Zealand organisations.
She turns people strategy into commercial advantage, drawing on executive People and Culture leadership in transformation, complex employment relations, workforce planning, and culture and performance uplift. Calm and clear in sensitive situations, she is brought in early, while there is still room to shape the outcome. Direct and approachable, she takes the work seriously without taking herself too seriously and earns trust fast.
Her experience spans energy, logistics, professional services, corporate services, manufacturing, media, iwi and Māori enterprise, and growth businesses. For a 1,100-person trans-Tasman logistics business, she cut attrition from 30% to 18%, and reduced recruitment spend by 80% while leading a national transformation programme.
Jo can work with you on:
Board and executive advisory
People strategy, organisational design, and transformation
Workforce planning and capability
Culture, engagement, and performance
Employment relations and complex people matters
Executive talent, succession, and remuneration
She treats culture and commercial performance as one conversation, not two. The businesses that connect them win.
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