Rate My Professor Crispin Garden-Webster

In the late 1990s, Garden-Webster was Manager Learning & Development at Telecom New Zealand (now Spark), managing transformation, Y2K readiness, the Individual Contracts Act, recruitment foundations, and online learning initiatives. He established a consulting practice focused on organisational design, assessment, and change management for public sector and local government clients. At the Asian Development Bank in Manila, he developed competency frameworks, knowledge management systems, graduate programmes, and recruitment strategies, serving as New Zealand Representative and Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Federation of HR Management. From 2014 to 2022, he worked as Managing Consultant for Takatuf in Muscat, Oman, delivering assessment, organisational design, and leadership development in energy, aviation, utilities, and fisheries. Currently at the University of Otago, he leads HR strategy projects in talent management, Employee Value Proposition development, collaboration initiatives, AI integration, and organisational development, including the People domain strategy. Professional distinctions include Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (DistFHRNZ) since 2017, Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society (FNZPsS) since 2017, Chartered Member HRINZ since 1999, Accredited Test User Levels A & B since 2001, and Transformational Coaching certification since 2022. He chairs the Otago-Southland Branch of the New Zealand Psychological Society.