Beyond the Office: Building High-Performance Teams in a Flexible Work Era
- Start: 5:30pm
- End: 7:30pm
- Duration: 2 Hours
- Category: Network Events
- Region: Auckland
- Duncan Cotterill, Level 1, Australis Nathan Building
- 37 Galway Street
- Auckland Central 1010
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Remote and hybrid work are no longer temporary responses to disruption. They have become a defining feature of how organisations attract talent, support employee wellbeing, and deliver results. Yet many leaders continue to grapple with a fundamental question: what does high performance actually look like when teams are no longer together in the same place every day?
Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion exploring the future of work and the realities of leading, engaging, and sustaining high-performing teams in a flexible work environment. Our panellists bring diverse perspectives and will examine what organisations are learning about flexibility, productivity, culture, trust, collaboration, and employee experience as work continues to evolve.
Topics will include:
• What the latest shift in flexible work means for organisations and employees
• How leaders can build trust, accountability, and connection across distributed teams
• The relationship between flexibility, performance, and productivity
• Creating meaningful workplace cultures when people are not always co-located
• How organisations can attract and retain talent in an increasingly flexible labour market
• The skills leaders and employees need to thrive in the future of work
Whether your organisation is fully remote, hybrid, or navigating its own approach to flexibility, this session will provide practical insights and fresh perspectives on building workplaces that support both people and performance.
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Non-Member: $25.00
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Presenter Details
Rajna Bogdanovic
Rajna is a globally recognised Clinical and Organisational Psychologist, thought leader, and founder of Optimally.org — a pioneering wellbeing and performance consultancy supporting high-performing individuals and organisations across corporate, legal, and professional service sectors. With nearly two decades of international experience, Rajna brings rare depth and breadth, having worked at the intersection of trauma, leadership, and performance on some of the world’s most complex stages. Rajna describes herself as a businesswoman and entrepreneur first and foremost, and is driven by a deep passion to be the change she wants to see in the mental health industry.
Deepak Selvaratnam
Internationally recognized as a pioneer in customer service transformation, operational excellence, and digital maturity, Deepak has spent more than two decades helping organisations redefine how they deliver service, lead people, and drive performance. As the creator of Snapshotz®, the globally trusted benchmarking and diagnostics platform used by more than 5,000 service centres worldwide and the innovator behind RemotAbility, the remote work capability and management app, Deepak has developed industry-leading methodologies that provide organizations with clear, actionable pathways for growth and transformation. Deepak is driven by a simple philosophy: Assess. Benchmark. Transform. Human First.
Rebecca Leibovici
Rebecca is Founder of SquadGame, where experiences like Survival Island combine immersive storytelling, behavioural design and AI-supported collaboration feedback to help distributed teams build relationships, trust and belonging. Rebecca has spent more than 20 years in the tech sector leading learning, enablement and people functions for fast-growing global workforces across Australasia, Europe, India and the US. Her Silicon Valley experience includes VMware and leading learning for 350 R&D teams at an enterprise unicorn as it scaled from startup to IPO.
Mathew Gallivan
Mathew is the Head of Human Resources at Hilti New Zealand, where he leads the organisation's people and culture strategy, supporting business performance through talent development, leadership capability, employee engagement, and organisational growth. Since joining Hilti in 2020, he has played a key role in fostering a high-performance culture within one of the world's leading construction technology companies. With extensive experience across construction, engineering, and global organisations, he is passionate about creating workplaces where people can thrive, develop, and contribute to sustainable business success.
Dr Deepika Jindal (Moderator)
Deepika is the Subject Group Lead for Management at the University of Auckland, where she teaches Human Resource Management and related courses. She serves as Director of the Master of Business Management programme. Primarily an educator, Deepika maintains an active research interest in job and career crafting. She is Chair of HRNZ’s Academic Special Interest Network committee and a member of its Auckland Regional Network committee. Deepika also serves as a committee member of Women in Business Chapter of American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand. Before entering academia, she spent nearly a decade in the Corporate HR department of a leading Indian manufacturing conglomerate. Deepika is a Distinguished Fellow of HRNZ and a Fellow of Advance HE (UK).
Sponsor Details
Duncan Cotterill Auckland
With thanks to our venue sponsor Duncan Cotterill
Duncan Cotterill’s specialist employment team is one of the biggest in New Zealand and works across New Zealand assisting clients navigate their employment and health and safety issues. We believe the best advice is given by analysing the people involved, the situations at hand and the wider context of your business objectives. We help employers of all sizes, from owner / operators and SMEs to multinationals and senior executives, with the full range of employment law issues from all our five offices.
