Imposter Syndrome at Work: Career Transitions & NZ Workplaces
- Start: 5:00pm
- End: 6:30pm
- Duration: 1 Hours 30 Min
- Category: Regional Events
- Region: Auckland
- Massey University - Albany Campus
- Innovation Complex, Room IC1.07
- Gate 1, 151 Dairy Flat Highway
- Albany 0632
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This HRNZ in-person event is co-sponsored by Massey Business School and is part of their Actionable Insights Series.
Imposter syndrome is often discussed as a personal confidence issue - but in reality, it is deeply shaped by workplace context, organisational culture, and career transitions.
This session explores imposter experiences in the context of modern NZ workplaces, with a particular focus on professionals navigating career change, cultural transitions, and progression into new roles.
Topics include:
⦁ How imposter feelings show up at work (interviews, meetings, promotions)
⦁ The role organisations and leaders play in amplifying or reducing imposter experiences
⦁ How career transitions - including international and cross-cultural moves - can intensify self-doubt
⦁ Practical strategies for individuals, managers, and HR practitioners
The session will combine expert insights, a facilitated panel discussion, and optional small-group conversations focused on practical application.
Timings:
5:00pm Networking and refreshments
5:30pm Main event: presentation and panel discussion
6:30pm Main event finishes
6:45pm Optional small-group conversations
7:30pm Event ends
Pricing
⦁ HRNZ Members = FREE
⦁ HRNZ Student Members = FREE
⦁ Non-Members & Non-Member Students = FREE
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Presenter Details
Anel-Carline Beukes, HR Business Partner, Bridgestone NZ, HRNZ Auckland Committee Member
Anel-Carline Beukes is a strategic HR practitioner with over a decade of international and New Zealand experience across HR, organisational development, and health & safety. Currently HR Business Partner at Bridgestone NZ, she aligns people strategy with business priorities. A Massey Master of Management graduate and former HR Society President, Anel-Carline brings lived insight into navigating international career transitions and building confidence in new environments.
Associate Professor Suze Wilson, School of Management and Marketing, Massey University
Associate Professor Suze Wilson is a leadership scholar and executive coach at Massey Business School. Her research explores issues of power, gender, ethics, context, character, communication and crisis as they pertain to leadership in both organisational and political settings. She has published in leading journals, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Dynamics and Leadership, and serves as a Director and Fellow of the International Leadership Association. Suze brings both academic insight and her practical experience of having held senior leadership roles in a range of organisations to conversations about the challenges of contemporary leadership.
Aston Moss, Principal Consultant, Executive HR leader, former Chief People Officer, Briscoe Group
Aston Moss has spent over 30 years helping some of New Zealand's most recognised and loved brands navigate the complexities of people and performance. From Briscoe Group and Fonterra to Sky City, New Zealand Post, MIT and Woolworths — on both sides of the Tasman — he has worked at the intersection of HR and commercial leadership, understanding that great organisations are built on great people-centric processes and decisions. As Principal Consultant at Principled (NZ), Aston works directly with individuals, leaders and organisations facing employment law challenges, workplace investigations, mediations, and strategic HR decisions. His approach is straightforward: cut through the complexity, find practical solutions, and get things resolved. Aston combines deep commercial instincts with rigorous academic and professional credentials, bringing the kind of grounded, no-nonsense perspective that turns difficult situations into workable and sustainable outcomes.
Facilitator: Professor Ted Zorn, Professor of Organisational Communication, Massey University
Professor Ted Zorn is Professor of Organisational Communication at Massey University and Director of Commercial Engagement for Massey Business School. His work focuses on organisational change, leadership, communication, and workplace wellbeing. A former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Ted has extensive experience as a consultant and executive educator, bringing deep insight into how communication shapes culture and performance during times of transition.
Sponsor Details
Massey University Auckland
With thanks to our event co-sponsor Massey University Business School
Massey Business School is one of New Zealand’s leading and largest business schools and has been an integral part of New Zealand for 50 years. MBS provides on-campus, online, and blended learning options for domestic and international students. In the most recent QS World University subject rankings, MBS was ranked top 200 in the world for Accounting and Finance, and top 300 for Economics. In the Shanghai global rankings of academic subjects, MBS was ranked number 1 in New Zealand for Finance and number 2 in New Zealand for Business Administration. With campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington, MBS offers study and research across all aspects of business expertise and leadership. The MBS Actionable Insights Series pairs Massey Business School’s research leaders with business professionals to bring research-based, actionable knowledge to the Auckland business community.
