Associates
From time to time, we work collaboratively with other like-minded professionals to fully meet client requirements, providing the one-stop-shop approach to work wellbeing.
Our associates are a mixture of highly experienced consultants, coaches and/or trainers.
HGroup Connection is a highly synergistic collaboration of Wellington-based professional associates with a shared passion of supporting and mobilising women on the journey to being all that they can be.
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Julene is an Executive Coach, Mentor and Facilitator who inspires managers and leaders to develop their full potential in the workplace.
Drawing on her experience as business owner, general manager and consultant she works with individuals and teams to clear their path to meaningful work. Julene believes that by building a strong understanding of ourselves and the way we work best we places us in a better position to define where to head and how to make the moves to get there. Her focus is on supporting personal growth based on pragmatic tactics and a strong understanding if the dynamics of success.
Julene has worked extensively in the NZ and UK health and NZ government sectors. She has managed and advised leaders, managers and teams in small business and across large-scale government programmes. She is a qualified executive coach and mentor through the UK’s Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) and an accredited user of the Team Management Services (TMS) profiling tools.
Samantha Hannah is Your spirited Life-stylist.
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Samantha is a lifestyle and personal branding coach, speaker, TV host, wellness warrior and founder of the e-course The Spirited Lifestyle – the ultimate e-course for business women wanting to rebrand to live life in soulful style.
Sam's ability to align your personal brand - YOU - with your ideal lifestyle is her unique gift. She believes, "Who you truly are and how you live need to be aligned for magic to happen, because it's from this space that you can live life in soulful style".
Over the past 9 years Sam has helped thousands of women find a personal brand they love through one-to-one coaching, workshops, live events, or more recently, her online programs. She’s co-hosted a TV show called “Starting Over”, made guest appearances in all media from TV to magazines and run many live events. She’s worked with dignitaries, celebrities and everyday women from all walks of life.
“I’m beyond passionate about helping women action a spirited lifestyle plan to help them succeed in life and business; however success looks to them". I'll be talking about "Why it's important to align your life and your brand, to create connection and become who you truly are to achieve success".
Shirley McLeod is a wife, mother, corporate career woman, and aspiring yogini and wellness warrior. When Shirley stumbled across an outdoor yoga class in 2013, little did she know it would start a journey that would ultimately help her to better manage her busy work and family commitments.
Shirley founded Yoga With Me to keep herself accountable in the lead up to yoga teacher training, but also to encourage and inspire others to give yoga a go – whether that’s for fitness, flexibility, stress management, relaxation, mindfulness or just because you want to wear comfy yoga pants all day.
Heather Hutchings is an inspirational and talented business woman who excels in business coaching, speaking, facilitating and mentoring.
For the past 20 years she has made it her goal to work with, and coach business and companies to improve their business and leadership dynamics….it’s a bit like being a Rugby coach for Business.
Heather utilises her own experiences in service, retail and hospitality so she is the person you need on-board to facilitate and guide your business towards being successful and profitable. She understands the challenges, having experienced many of them herself, and has strategies to help your business through the speed bumps.
As a leader in strategy, business growth, business development and leadership, Heather can work with you to develop and increase your efficiencies and capacity at every level of your organisation. Heather will uniquely tailor your one-on-one coaching program, meeting your needs, and aspirations. She will build on your strengths, identify any blind spots and potential derailers, and work with you to create strategies to optimise your performance, and ultimately reach your full potential.
Heather's Brand Essence is: Alignment in goals and aspirations.
Kerene is an experienced Personal and Executive Coach. She draws on her knowledge of neuroscience to explain to you how practising mindfulness will give you the freedom to create lasting change. She believes all people want the same thing – to become the best they can be, to have a life they love, and to leave a legacy their families, friends and colleagues are proud of.
Kerene’s philosophy is simple. “You can create anything you want when you know how to get out of your own way.” People who practice mindfulness become masters at using subtle shifts of perception to quieten their brain’s default programme so they can get back in the driver’s seat of their own life.
Kerene holds a Bachelor Health Science from Charles Sturt University (Australia) and Master Arts from Victoria University (Wellington). She is a certified coach and runs her own coaching business www.kerenestrochnetter.com. She is one of three people offering corporate mindfulness programmes www.mindfulatwork.co.nz in Wellington. Kerene is also a Principal Consultant with Right Management.
Krissy O'Connor
Krissy is the Director of Projectkit, NZ Gift Guru and SPIDER Websites. She specialises in creating experiences, be it through an event, exhibition, website, or special occasion, she makes sure the desired audience gets the desired outcome.
If you need to reach a client, want to wow your significant other or simply present yourself or your business online, then contact Krissy and let her show the way.
Heather has always been fascinated by how the body works, and how food and nutrients influence both body and mind.
She holds a Diploma of Nutrition from the Australian College of Natural Therapies, a CHEK Institute Nutrition and Life Coaching Level 1 certificate, and is a member of the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation.
Her passions are around educating people (in basic everyday language) on how the body works; in coaching and supporting people to make changes that are realistic to their busy lives; and sometimes challenging people to adjust their expectations about what it means to be healthy and resilient.
She believes in simplicity, and that your life is yours to make choices about. So she is here to help you understand food choices which will be useful for life, and help create the person you will rely on most in future - you!