WEBINAR EVENT
The 2023 KPMG Agribusiness Agenda report was called Energising a World of Anxiety, reflecting the fact that there are massive opportunities in front of Aotearoa’s food and fibre sector.
However, there is a deep sense that people are struggling to connect to what that future looks like, and there is a need for a boost of hope and energy to take action and move forward. As the sector heads into an even more challenging period, the need to mobilise and sustain that hope and energy has become even more critical.
Capturing opportunities in our food and fibre sector, and building resilient leaders to do that is essential. This webinar on will explore leadership anchored in the human experience, and what the future of leadership in our food and fibre sector might look like.
Facilitator, Scott Champion, will be joined by panelists:
– Lisa Sims | General Manager, AWDT & Farmer
– Ian Proudfoot | Global Head of Agribusiness, KPMG
– Haylee Putaranui | Pouhere, Director Māori Strategy, Fonterra
– Emma Crutchley | Central Otago Farmer & Director
7:30 – 8:30pm Tuesday 10th October
Facilitator:
Dr Scott Champion
Scott has significant experience in strategy development, service delivery, the securing of investment, and governance. Scott has a strong background in agriculture, pastoral systems, land management & natural resources, and farmer engagement. He has held leadership roles in tertiary education and research, the private sector, and not-for-profit industry bodies. This work has often been within complex, multi-party projects. Scott operates effectively and comfortably from community to CEO and ministerial level, and is an experienced speaker and facilitator.
Panellists:
Ian Proudfoot
Global Head of Agribusiness KPMG
Ian joined KPMG in the London office in 1992, moving to Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. Ian was admitted to partnership in 2004 and appointed as Global Head of Agribusiness for KPMG in 2013, leading a network of KPMG Professionals that now spans over 50 countries. He is a member of the Te Hono Movement, a group of primary sector senior executives focused on lifting the value of New Zealand’s primary production and has attended three bootcamps at Stanford University in Palo Alto with the group. Ian is considered to be one of the leading strategic thinkers on Agribusiness in New Zealand. He presents around the world on the future of food production, processing and consumption articulating a vision for a food system that delivers sufficient nutrition to the world in a sustainable manner through the utilisation of disruptive innovations and new business models. He is the lead author of the KPMG Agribusiness Agenda publications which have been published annually since 2010. He has recently sat on the Advisory Group working with MPI to develop the Food & Beverage Sector Industry Transformation Plan.
Lisa Sims
General Manager, AWDT & Farmer
Lisa’s skills and experience centre on leadership, strategy, communication, collaboration and community development – in the public and private sectors.
Prior to taking up her role as AWDT General Manager in 2018, Lisa ran her own communications and marketing consultancy for 23 years.
Lisa’s consultancy work spanned international government relations to grass-roots community development and included news media relations on behalf of clients in agriculture,economic development, energy, health, property, construction and local government.
Lisa has had deep involvement with people and places that matter to her through a voluntary governance or leadership roles, particularly with not-for-profits.
Lisa and her husband Tom have farmed their family sheep and beef farm near Eketahuna since 1991 where they brought up their four children. She is a member of the 2012 Escalator Alumni.
Haylee Putaranui
Pouhere, Director Māori Strategy, Fonterra
Haylee grew up as part of a large whānau Māori, her Mum is one of 12 siblings and cousins’ number into the hundreds. These formative years, with her grandparents at the helm, moulded her world around whānau (family) being proudly Māori and surrounded by family who always encouraged aroha for self, each-other, hapū, iwi and communities.
Becoming a Mum to Waiaria at 17 provided Haylee with motivation to move through Te Piringa, University of Waikato Law school and into legal practise before joining Fonterra in 2016. She was part of Fonterra’s first Māori strategy team, moved into People & Culture Graduate Manager, Global Head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and currently Pouhere, Director Māori Strategy.
Haylee has contributed to her iwi Trust Board and led parts of the Ngāti Maniapoto settlement of historic claims with the Crown, a process which showed her from devastation and loss can always come restoration of individual and collective mana (integrity), recovery and hope.
Haylee is continuing to learn te reo (Māori language), returned to a childhood love of reading and has found her way to growing a small garden at home, more recently wearing crocs for comfort – all the classic traits of getting older for which she is emphatically and comfortably owning.
Emma Crutchley
Central Otago Farmer & Director
Emma is a farmer, from the Maniototo, Central Otago with her husband Kyle, and two primary school aged children. ‘Puketoi’ where she calls home and grew up, is a 2900 ha sheep and beef breeding/ finishing and arable property with mixture of hill country and flat including 475 ha of irrigation.
She plays an active role in running the farm, also a director for Irrigation New Zealand and Arable Chair for Federated Farmers Otago. Previously, she spent six years as a director for her local irrigation company and has a real passion around freshwater access for food and fibre production.
She is also a member of her local catchment group, and was a key instigator in multiple funded projects totalling over $5 million in funding for her community over the past three years. She is a Kellogg Rural Leader, an AWDT Escalator graduate, and claims the title ‘agvocate’ advocating for farmers, irrigators and rural communities. She is a believer in optimism, and leaning into the hard conversations to build a positive future for New Zealand’s primary sector.
Get in touch:
For more information email us contact@awdt.org.nz or call (06) 370 2568
