Risk Consultants

About: 

I am a health & safety professional and the principal consultant for EnviroSafe Consulting Limited, based in Auckland: people are my passion and small and medium businesses are the focus.

With a foundation in commercial air transport operations, I have extensive knowledge working within high-risk, highly regulated and complex environments.

Included is experience over a number of industry sectors such as manufacturing, plant and machinery maintenance, civil construction and land development, landscaping and horticulture production, metals recovery, quarrying, steel production, and the rail network.

I have a particular passion for small-to-medium sized business-related risk. The impacts of Covid-19 recently and the ongoing and accelerating climate changes have demonstrated the need to do business differently. I want to help businesses increase their capacity for change, thereby increasing resilience in this world of uncertainty.

Areas of Expertise:

• Strategic planning and change management 
• Crisis management
• Hazard management
• Risk analysis and reduction 
• Auditing
• People development and training

Training:

• Hazardous Substances Certified Handler (full), Group Standard HSR002508
• 5-Day TapRooT Root Cause Analysis workshop
• ICAM Advanced Investigation Training
• Lead Auditor ISO 14001 (EMS), ISO 9001 (QMS), and OH AS/NZ 4801
• Train the Trainer, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching

Qualifications: 

• Master of Emergency Management (Distinction)
• Master of Business Studies – Sustainability (in progress)
• Postgrad. Dip. Emergency Management
• Grad. Dip. Emergency Management
• Grad. Dip Occupational Health and Safety
• Nat. Dip. Aeronautical Maintenance – Aeroplane (airframe systems)
• Nat. Dip Aeronautical Maintenance – Powerplant (turbine engines)

Affiliations:

• NZISM – New Zealand Institute of Safety Management
• HASANZ – Health and Safety Association New Zealand
• Amotai – Connecting Māori and Pasifika suppliers to buyers

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathycardiff/

Chris is the Managing Director of Global Risk Consulting (GRC).

A descendant of the Whanganui Awa (River), Uri of Ngati Tuera, Ngati Hinearo, Ngati Poutama, Ngati Pamoana, Atihaunui-a-Paparangi te Iwi.

GRC is a specialised enterprise security risk management consultancy, Chris has worked globally for the Foreign State groups (British Foreign Office and US State Department), large Multi-nationals within the Oil and Gas sector, Ambassadors, celebrities, global tech-firms and a broad range of other local and international clients. More recently Chris provided risk management support for Covid-19, secondment to Operational Command Centre, under vulnerable community programme.

Chris wrote the National Iwi Chairs Forum (National Iwi collective valued at $40bn), Pandemic Response Plan Framework (including the technology systems design process) and associated documents in line with Covid-19 to help reduce pandemic risk to Maori and other communities.

GRC is committed to risk management technology develop and has launched; Security Threat and Risk Assessment Tool (STRAT), Crisis Management System (CMS), National Security Intelligence Platform and is undertaking other technology developments for market, ie a whole of security systems approach.

Memberships

• Life Member of Special Air Services (SAS) Association
• Member of IOD (NZ)
• Member of ASIS Int (NZ Chapter)
• Member of New Zealand Security Association (NZSA)
• Co-Founder of NZ Security Sector Network

Areas of Expertise:

Risk management processes that look to modify likelihood (detect, deter delay) and modify impact (response and recovery).

Service Description:

High level enterprise security risk management, also playing the natural disaster risk management space.

Qualifications:

Post Grad in Risk Management

My interest in risk management and situational awareness was triggered at University, with my first trip into the depths of a working underground coal mine. In my experience, there is nothing like stepping into the lift cage of a deep mine to build awareness of risks and engineering standards.

I am a director of Extrinsic Services Ltd, which was incorporated in 1999. Extrinsic melds the craft of intelligence with risk management and project disciplines to help organisations explore and own their unique futures. We work with people, companies and organisations that want to do things outside of the ordinary and routine – through innovation, and by adopting novel and unusual ways of looking at the world. I am also a partner of Business Cycles, which has a track record in horticulture.

In summary, my work can be described as helping organisations to create certainty of outcome by identifying and managing uncertainties. Over the last 40 years I have worked with more than fifty organisations; this rich mosaic of practical experience provides me with insights into governance structures, organisational design, business transformation, and project disciplines.

I was honoured to be appointed to the Audit and Risk Committee of the Parliamentary Counsel Office in 2014, and to become the first non-lawyer to Chair that Committee.

Areas of Expertise:

I first became a company director in the UK during the 1980’s, and since then I have founded and directed specialist organisations in both the UK and NZ.

A checklist of experience includes:

• Governance (both as a company director and an independent advisor);
• Audit and Risk Committee (member and Chair);
• Intelligence analysis;
• Risk management;
• Complexity theory;
• Data analytics;
• Information technology (IT);
• Independent Quality Assurance (IQA); and
• Project management.

Qualifications and Training:

• BSc – Joint Honours in Exploration Science and Geology
• Governance and leadership. Alumnus of:
  – Farmlands and Silver Fern Farms, To The Core
  – NZ Treasury (COMU), Developing critically reflective Crown directors
  – Institute of Directors NZ, Company Directors’ Course

Areas of expertise

An experienced risk specialist and trusted advisor who brings insight and intelligence for managing strategic, enterprise, project and operational risk. Sue works across the public sector (central and local government agencies) as well as with private sector corporates and community groups.

Expertise to help you:

• Expand futures thinking for better informed decision making
• Improve organisational capability and business performance
• Refresh risk frameworks, processes, monitoring and reporting

Service description

Specialist services include:

• Risk training, coaching and mentoring
• Facilitating strategic planning and risk identification workshops
• Risk insight for governance boards, leadership teams and management

Areas of expertise:

Strategic, enterprise and project risk management; quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments for technology, infrastructure, construction and utilities projects.

Service description:

Consultancy services in:

• Policy and framework development
• Training and mentoring
• Facilitation of risk management workshops
• Project risk management, including quantitative risk analysis