Founder of The Zone. Liam has owned and lead organisations in NZ and the UK. Liam specialises in engaging leaders to design and run their organisation in a new more sustainable way.

Liam is the founding partner of The Zone. The Zone was born out of the understanding that organisational culture is a significant determinate of business success or failure. Through Liam's experience internationally, as an entrepreneur, management consultant, trainer, coach and facilitator — he has created an approach & methodology that enables sustainable organisational transformation.

"The Zone's work uniquely blends heart and soul with our real world challenges."

Liam works extensively with individuals, executive teams and leaders locally and globally to become more effective at unlocking potential. Liam’s approach is both challenging and supportive. His strategic insight and his facilitative style creates an environment for individuals and teams to explore, innovate, excel and have fun.

"As individuals, teams and organisations awaken to their true potential, endless possibilities emerge. People naturally become more creative, collaborative and more courageous in their endeavours."

Liam's vision is to contribute to a future where enlightened individuals create enlightened organisations and where every action positively impacts people and the world around us.

"As the world changes around us we face new challenges. Our most valuable ally is our own character. Our character is built through integrity with and alignment to our core values, as well as our connection with and care of others. The journey to understanding and living our own values gives us freedom; our work with others grows our heart. The heart is your source of courage, care and compassion."

Liam enjoys hanging out with his wife, playing with his kids, laughing with friends, learning with my colleagues, yoga and self-discovery. He is a bad surfer and can keep a party going on his old guitar (badly). Don't ask him to sing.

Liam has a BSc and a DipSocSci Psychology, regularly teaches personal development and is a master facilitator & coach.

Facilitator, coach and account leader. Sarah has led client projects in the travel, IT and advertising industries.

Sarah Friis specialises in helping organisations to create and sustain transformational change. Sarah has a ma (psych), Zenergy diploma in facilitation and coaching and is a licensed Avatar master. With these skills and 12 years consulting experience she brings to the team a valuable depth of experience.

Sarah has client managed several of the Zone's leading customers and enjoys the variety and challenge associated with working with all manner of industries. Sarah has also had extensive experience in large scale recruitment and psychometrics from the early zone days. She has also developed in house competency based training and development programme's whilst at Merrill lynch in UK and was the leading change agent for a global e procurement programme with Accenture.

But Sarah passion and primary skill is working with teams of champions and empowering them to grow and create change in their business. It is this skill coupled with a talent for team development through which Sarah has achieved many wonderful gains with clients.

Sarah lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband Michael and cats Cedric and Edna.

Andrew has extensive experience in leadership and management in a corporate environment where he specialized in sales and marketing and has worked with The Zone for 5 years.

Andrew began his career in 1979 in the telecommunications industry. He has worked with Telecom, BellSouth, and Vodafone locally and internationally. His invaluable business experience includes technical, sales, sales training, management, product management, Brand, Sponsorship, Head of Marketing, Director of Sales, sitting on the Board of Directors of several Vodafone companies, leading over 500 staff and being responsible for over 40 million dollars of operating expenses.

In January 2000, Andrew was part of the executive team that committed to take Vodafone on a Values Journey and helped lead the business in to a new way of operating. In September 2001, Andrew moved to Australia to help restructure Vodafone's Australian Business and establish the VBO framework in the business. After a very successful year, he returned to NZ for the birth of his second daughter and ran the Consumer Marketing and Sales areas of Vodafone NZ.

Since leaving Vodafone in 2004 he has been working with The Zone coaching executives and working around the world to help change organizational culture.

Andrew enjoys scuba diving in exotic locations with his wife Michelle, wrestling with his 6 year old Lisa, Cruising on the Harley with his 18-year-old daughter Gina, and driving a car or motorcycle in as many different countries as he can. He loves to travel to new destinations and learn some of the local language.

Leader of the European team. Corina has undertaken the vast majority of The Zone's international work.

Corina has a diverse background that includes sales, marketing, customer experiences, leadership & people development across a number of industries — agricultural, hospitality, aged care, health and financial services — both for private and government organisations. During this time she has been an employee, a manager, a leader and a director of her own consultancy and a civil engineering company based in New Zealand.

Corina has focused on the telecommunications industry locally and internationally working with senior executive teams who are committed to transforming their organisations and discovering a new way of operating at work. Within the role she has operated as a facilitator, guide, companion, coach and a guardian of the intention that these leadership teams hold.

"The main focus of this work is getting people and organisations 'In the zone', the home of passionate people, creative teams, inspiring leaders, and organisations that change the world."

Corina's vision is to ignite passion within the workplace and create new meaning.

When not supporting others to 'turn up the volume' in their zone, she is happy fine tuning hers – exploring new cities, meeting people, enjoying the fabulous food and wine the regions have to offer. Corina also enjoys singing and dancing and home cook meals from her husband Barry!

Jane joined the The Zone European team in 2009 working on projects with Vodafone in Romania and Qatar. Trained originally as a journalist, Jane's specialty is communication. She brings first-hand leadership experience gathered internationally over nearly 20 years as a corporate communications consultant and European managing director. She has followed up with nearly another decade as an entrepreneur, independent executive coach and latterly as a group facilitator, combining all of these in her recent Masters dissertation to benefit organizational learning.

Jane's passion is to coach commercial win-wins that deliver sustainability and prosperity to organizations led by trusted, empowered people. She is especially interested in the innovative breakthroughs that occur when passionate, committed individuals and teams are willing to brave uncertainty and reach within for authentic solutions. Jane believes that this is the way to expansion and abundance in our corporate world and in the society it is intended to serve, in contrast to the current culture of downsizing in an ever-smaller competitive space. Her latest project is broadening the range of leadership styles to be found in international boardrooms through her coaching of high potential women leaders.

A native Kiwi, Jane has lived in European cities for 22 years and relishes the creativity of living nine aligned lives at once. Her great joy is entertaining new and old friends and family in her South London home with husband Ross and daughter Catherine, 8. Still working on having one or two more lives, she is making more time for portrait painting and spiritual retreats.

Sandra Cornwell provides the financial and administrative support of the Zone.

Sandra initially studied economics, and began her career in this field, working with the Trade and Industry Department and Electricity Department, with projects such as the assessment of the economics of electricity reticulation on Great Barrier Island.

Sandra later moved to an accounting career and studied accountancy for 6 years part time, with the completion of her accountancy qualification coinciding with the birth of her first child in 1990.

Since this time Sandra has worked part time for a variety of small and medium sized businesses providing accounting and financial management support, primarily in the business support sector, including IT services and financial controller and New Zealand’s largest private owned environmental consultancy, and in the not for profit sector, for Variety the Children’s charity as treasurer and board member.

Kim facilitates transformational leadership and coaching courses and has worked with a range of The Zone's clients over the last 8 years.

Kim's background is 18 years in customer service and sales, sales management, business unit management, and general leadership roles. These various roles have provided her with wonderful experiences that continue to support her growth and development.

Kim has two strong reference points that contribute to her passion for the work she does with The Zone. The first is with a business that recognized people as its heart. It was an environment of passion, hard work, big laughs and great results. The second was quite different. It was confusing, discouraging, competitive and hard work and therefore limited in it's success in terms of leadership, results and teamwork. Both have served Kim well.

Kim joined The Zone in August 2002 in alignment with her passion, which is to be actively supporting organizations to create healthy and sustainable cultures where people thrive. She has Zenergy facilitation and coaching training and has worked with a diverse range of cultures, teams and organizations delivering workshops and coaching to support their change journey.

Kim's vision is to 'create amazing experiences for others' — working powerfully with individuals and organizations. She sees organizations as the greatest opportunity to influence change and create a better experience, workplace and world for all of us.

"My purpose is to nurture and empower people — heart to heart. It's about being there for another, creating a safe space to share and move forward. It's about encouraging, challenging and exploring with people, with real care — believing in my heart that they have all the resources they need to create what they truly want."

Kim loves to spend time with her husband Pete, and their three children. They love the sea and spend big chunks of time there. They are fond of having company to their home in the country close to the Mahurangi coastline.

Craig’s role is Business Development Consultant helping potential new clients understand how they can partner with The Zone. Craig’s real desire is to make a positive difference in organisations, driven by his passion for people and the culture that inspires spectacular results.

Craig’s career, after his commerce degree, started in Sales Management with his most senior role having national responsibility for more than 80 staff. In 1997 Craig completed the Coach to Win Sports Psychology Diploma and in 2002 his Results Coaching Systems formal training as a Coach. This provided the tools to grow and inspire people is his second career as a coach and trainer.

Before joining The Zone, Craig’s most recent role was Training and Development Manager at Sales STAR. In this role Craig was responsible for all the training and coaching programs.

Alongside Craig's constant desire to be learning and developing himself, playing tennis is another passion that he enjoys, having previously worked overseas as a certified professional coach. When not playing tennis, running or creating web sites, he may be found as a member of National Speakers Association NZ.

What magic can we awaken together that each one of us alone cannot access? What is it that we yearn to serve in the world?

These are two of the questions which play on my mind and that shape the work, and indeed the life, I lead.

In practice, in relationship with the Zone team, these questions are represented by the energy and passion I tune into when working with organisational leaders and teams who wish to realise the innovative possibilities of alignment and flow between people, values, brand, and purpose. My background as a leadership (and clinical) psychologist is handy here, but the most important thing is just to be present to what ever is happening in the moment, as this is where the light gets in that has the power to shift things forward.

As Director of the leadership consultancy Mindful Adventures I have the freedom to express these questions in numerous other ways. I love variety so I have a portfolio style career. Quite a bit of my time goes into a Social Entrepreneurial venture in Northland. It is a peer learning and support fellowship of and for Northland’s social innovators, in action for common good. Alongside this I co-lead a couple of workshops and retreats which support leaders to connect soul with role. These are about tapping into the power of mindful attention to connect with purpose, and awaken innate presence, while also introducing and practicing an innovation framework for leaders addressing our most complex problems and questions. And just to ensure I am never bored, I coach senior leaders and sports people, one on one, to meet their highest purpose and to thrive both personally and professionally.

Often when I am “working” it feels more like play, but for pure play I am an outside kind of girl. I really enjoy long distance endurance sports like Ironman, off road running, cycling, or else I can be found just mucking about on boats, eating good food, travelling to far flung places, or hanging out with my partner and our friends.

I am delighted to be a member of the NZ Zone team.

My career has been in the Human Resources field in the Manufacturing, Energy, Forestry and FMCG sectors. Since 2002, I have been an Achievement Coach and Facilitator, working with leaders across a variety of organizations, helping them create the working lives they desire.

My special areas of interest are leadership, achievement and values and I gain great joy in helping people and organizations find their passions, live their values and achieve their goals.

My style is relaxed and fun while remaining focused on achievement and growth. I believe whole heartedly that if you do what you love and love what you do, you’ll never have to work again.

Sarah is a globally experienced senior leader who has moved into consulting from within the advertising industry. She has worked with a number of internationally renowned agencies, including DDB and Clemenger BBDO. Her client’s have ranged from Johnson & Johnson (Aus/NZ) and Yellow Pages (UK) to Kodak (Europe) and Lufthansa (Vietnam). She has a track record of growing client and agency business, significantly improving relationships and cultures, and problem resolution.

She has now shifted her focus to an area she is absolutely passionate about – working with and developing individuals and teams, creating conflict free environments and building inspiring workplaces.

As well as being an associate of The Zone, she has her own business, JUMP, which offers coaching, mediation, facilitation and consulting services. Go to www.timetojumpup.com for more information. She is a CoachU qualified coach and a member of the International Coach Federation. She is also a LEADR Association of Dispute Resolvers accredited mediator, and can assist with dispute resolution - finding solutions to meet the needs and interests of disagreeing parties.

Outside of work, Sarah enjoy’s skiing, exercising, tramping in the bush, dancing, travel, reading, learning, and watching movies. She’s in the zone when she’s laughing and enjoying life with friends!

Vanessa’s passion is to inspire and guide people and organisations to be the very best they can be. She believes in big dreams and that there are always new possibilities and opportunities to change and enlighten our world.

“Having worked in large organisations for over 20 years, I understand the challenges business leaders face. I’ve experienced the passion, vision and commitment but also the ways in which organisations get stuck in dysfunctional patterns that stifle individual and collective growth.

My belief is that there is a better way for us to work together to generate sustainable results for all stakeholders – individuals, customers, partners, shareholders and society. For me, leadership and culture are the keys to igniting this kind of mutual success.”

Bringing with her a breadth of experience and expertise in leadership development, culture change, organisation effectiveness and talent management, Vanessa joined The Zone European Team in 2010. Prior to this, she has held a variety of senior HR, OD and internal consultancy roles in large corporate companies including Motorola and Vodafone UK.

Vanessa has experience of facilitating large-scale cultural change, developing Board team effectiveness and coaching executives and leaders. She has worked internationally developing senior leaders through innovative and transformational learning programmes.

Vanessa has an LLB degree, a Masters in Organisation Consulting and is a Chartered Member of the IPD.

As a working mum of two energetic boys, life is pretty full on. She loves laughing with her husband and friends, thrashing them all at ten pin bowling and losing every time on the Wii, no matter what the game. Cycling keeps her fit and she usually has at least two books on the go at any one time. She continues to explore her own personal development and growth.

Tim specializes in assessment, measurement and facilitation for individuals, teams and organisations. He has worked with The Zone (formerly Management Technology) for over 15 years

Tim is a registered psychologist who has consulted extensively to businesses in the areas of assessment and organisational development. He has led major assessment programmes in various industries including telecommunications, airlines and the energy sector. These projects range from 360 degree assessment, organisational climate and culture measures, through to individual psychometric testing.

With a keen interest in the application of psychometric tools in organisations, Tim has developed a number of assessment instruments, and co-authored several published academic articles in the field. He also has a strong focus on the identification and development of values at an individual and organisational level, and is the author of a leading online values tool.

In recent years, Tim has taken his passion for environmental sustainability and developed a range of tools for stimulating the psychological drivers of behaviour change for sustainability.

Long time training and development specialist. Laurel is based in Melbourne, Australia and works on local and international projects.

Immediately before joining The Zone, Laurel worked as a full time Avatar Master and part time with a Melbourne OD Company facilitating workshops values, accelerated learning and stress management workshops. She was very inspired by The Zone work and joined them in 2001 as Australian associate.

Laurel has a Diploma of Human Services. Writing and running courses for the (then) TAFE board pulled her away before completing Degrees in Psychology and Education. She is an INLPTA trained Master Practitioner of NLP, early graduate of Stephanie Burns training and has been practicing as an Avatar Master since 1997. Laurel has worked in Business & Community Development and for several years conducted possibility-thinking courses around the Australian Corporate sector with the Pacific Institute. She considers that her most valuable contribution to people development comes from a breadth of experience and a willingness to entertain different viewpoints.

Laurel's vision is to inspire people to live their life purpose and go for what they want.

Laurel believes that if people go for what they really want — not what they 'should' want, is politically correct or strategically advantageous — that they can step into a flow of creative possibility.

"I think if we lived in this kind of personal integrity we’d be happier and more willing to encourage and share with others. In a business context it translates to people being more willing to show up and continually create better ways of working together."

"Personally, it is to trust my inner knowing, be less swayed by others and more proactive about how I can be a better role model for how we can live in harmony with each and the earth."

Laurel enjoys singing, doing Tai Chi and sleeping under the stars.