Professor Katharina Näswall

Katharina's research focuses on employee well-being and factors which lead to psychologically healthy workplaces, using psychology. She often collaborates with organisations in the diagnostic of stress and wellbeing, along with the implementation of initiatives aimed at increasing health and wellbeing at work, applying psychological principles and knowledge about human behaviour and emotions. She has worked on several projects on psychosocial recovery after disasters, as well as project on how organisations and managers can make a positive difference and contribute to employee wellbeing. Katharina supports her own wellbeing by gardening and walking in the Port Hills. She is from Sweden and moved to New Zealand in December 2010.

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Professor

Sanna

Malinen

Sanna has a background in organisational and applied psychology and works at UC’s Business School. She draws from social and applied psychological principles to support communities and workplaces where people can thrive. She has a keen interest in environmental psychology, particularly on the nature-wellbeing connection. Some of her current projects focus on leadership development, wellbeing and resilience in the community and workplace, values in environmental management and disaster management. She’s originally from Finland and moved to Aotearoa NZ in 1996.

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Dr. Jennifer Hoi Ki Wong

Jennifer is a Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organisational Psychology in 2016. Her research interests are in workplace wellbeing and safety, positive psychology, leadership, team culture, and change management. Jennifer is passionate about achieving tangible impact through her expertise, and thrives off of figuring out how her research can help workplaces. She also works as a consultant with organisations, carrying out employee assessment, training and evaluation, and coaching. Her own wellbeing is achieved through activities in the great outdoors, or being crafty with her hands.

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Dr. Fleur Pawsey

Fleur is a Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, in the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing. Fleur's PhD, awarded in 2020, focused on relationships between mindfulness, psychological detachment from work, and recovery from work stress. Outside of academia, Fleur is a former world champion in both multisport and adventure racing and has coached dozens of people toward fitness and sporting goals, giving her firsthand experience in the close relationship between physical and psychological wellbeing, and performance. With this background, Fleur is interested in how employers can support the physical health and fitness of employees, and how organisations and employees can weave aspects of nature into their working environments.

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Lloyd Mander

Lloyd is the chair of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Good Work. He supports the Centre with strategy and industry engagement.

His research and consultancy focus is: "creating value, by valuing difference" therefore he leads DOT Scorecard which works with boards and senior teams facing complexity to improve group decision-making capability through developing an enabling culture and leveraging cognitive diversity. The Centre has supported Lloyd’s work through designing and executing fit-for-purpose research studies.

Lloyd also serves as the chair of the New Zealand Institute of Directors’ Canterbury Branch, and is a member of the Institute’s National Council where he chairs the Membership Committee and serves on the Standards Committees.

In his previous executive life, Lloyd co-founded, grew, and sold a healthcare business. He’s then spent the last decade supporting good governance in areas such as community housing, energy, transport and the commercialisation of new technologies, as either a board member or in an advisory capacity.

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