Our Team
Angela Atkins
Angela has worked in HR and training for almost 14 years. She co-founded Elephant Training in 2006 and started working full time for the company in July 2007. Her career includes roles within financial services, local government, tertiary, not for profit and retail with companies of 10 employees to 10,000.
She is passionate about making training practical, useful and fun (yes even training about employment law!). She is the author of two books: Management Bites and Employment Bites. Angela manages our training division, is a facilitator and HR consultant.
Contact: To email Angela click here or phone 021 665 251
Lisa Reidy
Lisa has worked in HR for over 14 years within the public sector, tertiary, pharmaceutical and banking services sectors. Her passion is HR generalist work working with managers and executive teams to set up systems, processes and build skills to get the best out of people. She is experienced in large scale change iniatives, both restructing and culture change.
During 2007 she had the opportunity to combine her HR role with business improvement and using Kaizen principles has worked within banking, sales and call centres to simplify processes and create a customer focused culture. Lisa manages our HR contracting team as well as providing HR consulting services, facilitating training, coaching managers and doing consulting on business improvement.
Contact: To email Lisa click here or phone 021 1433 580
Lee Brunton
Lee Brunton has worked in HR roles for the last 15 years in both NZ and the UK within professional services and retail. She has a Bachelor of Business Studies and has experience in all areas of generalist HR. Lee has been part of the Elephant team since mid 2009 and provides HR advice and support to SME's.
Contact: To email Lee click here or phone 021 969 392
Fraser Atkins
After a successful career in IT, Fraser has spend the last few years running small and medium sized businesses including an import/export company, a retail company and Elephant Training & HR Services. He has a strong background in business management and has particular expertise in performance management and measurement.
Fraser consults to businesses on developing and implementing key perfomance indicators and measures to drive performance as well as being Managing Director.
Contact details: To email Fraser click here
Jenny Cooper
Jenny Cooper is a Registered Psychologist, with several years experience in the organisational field, as well as a previous career in accounting and finance. She is a skilled facilitator, coach and trainer who has worked with organisations of all sizes, shapes and colours including Auckland City Council, Stevenson Group, Auckland Zoo and the NZ Defence Force. She believes that in any organisation it's the people that make the difference matter and getting the 'right' fit when recruiting is key. Jenny designs and facilitates training and provides management and career coaching.
Contact: To email Jenny click here or phone 027 4222 797
We're based in Auckland but work
throughout NZ.
We're like a law firm but
with HR people - who are all experienced and passionate about HR and
training that makes a real difference.
Our company started as Elephant Training in
2006 when the founders saw a niche in the
market for fun, practical HR related training.
In early 2008 we expanded to provide HR
consulting to SME's and in 2009 we added HR
coaching and HR contractors.
Our training workshops also grew in scope
and now include management development
and much more. We work with many small
and large NZ organisations providing HR and
training that you'll never forget!