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Jann Watt Director
jann@denovo.co.nz
64 4 496 1350
021 667646

Jann Watt, New Zealand's first Reach-Certified Personal Branding Strategist is passionate about helping motivated mid-career professionals find their career mojo. Personal branding is a key to helping people focus on the positives in their lives, and Jann's mission is to be catalyst for making work meaningful and fun.

After observing a number of highly talented people feeling unfulfilled in their roles, Jann stepped out of her corporate role in Organisational Development and launched de novo to enable her to follow her purpose of inspiring others to be the best they can be (and more).

Working in the public and private sector as well as having hands-on experience setting up and running a small business has enabled Jann to develop a wide and varied breadth and depth in her toolkit. Jann also has a wide range of life experiences that she draws on when working with clients. She is widely read in the area of personal branding and personal growth.

Jann has a reputation of being a forward thinker, yet always practical, quickly tapping in to the barriers that are holding people back and giving them the tools and confidence to achieve their career goals. To benefit of others, she shares her knowledge life experiences and network with authenticity and optimism. She is a firm believer that networking is all about sharing. This is clearly seen in the number of coffee chats Jann fits in to her busy week with people within her network.

Jann loves one-on-one coaching and is also adept working with groups in the role of facilitator or trainer. Jann has also built a strong reputation for working alongside Managers and their Executive Assistants enabling them to look for ways to build on their working partnership. She has spoken at conferences on networking and the importance of managing "brand me".

Jann's portfolio doesn't stop there and this is reflected on the back of her business card where it reads "any other challenge considered". Over the past 10 years this has seen her assisting clients on interview panels, event management of a Senior Leaders Forum which was attended by 180 people, a number of small change management projects, logistics management and hosting of visiting officials from the Kazakhstan government to name a few. She also managed to squeeze in time to be the Chairperson of a Body Corporate completing a four year leaky building repair project. This confirms that Jann is one of those "CAN DO" people and if you twist her arm enough she will take on the challenge.

Donna Hickey
Consulting Director

donna@denovo.co.nz
64 4 496 1350
021 379 333


Donna Hickey joined de novo in 2008 and has over 23 years’ experience in management, human resources and change management.

With extensive experience leading HR teams and on senior management teams, Donna has been the driving force in successfully developing and implementing a number of organisations' people strategies, developing and implementing organisation design change and building capability.

This has included large scale organisation and human resources changes to build
organisational performance and helping organisations make system, policy and
capacity changes.

Areas of expertise also include industrial relations, strategic human resource
strategies and systems, and employee relations --including performance
management and investigation.

Donna brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, understanding and practical
application to organisational design, HR development and implementation.