Selena Bernath

Selena Bernath

Coach/Consultant/Facilitator, Wellington

Selena is an experienced leadership, team and career coach and organisational development consultant. Her work includes design of innovative competency and performance management frames, development of core values, organisational and capability development, change management, corporate excellence and motivational speaking services.

She has worked in operational organisation, capability and quality assurance leadership roles across the public and private sectors for over 20 years and has a strong network throughout New Zealand.

Selena is passionate about building people leadership, team and personal effectiveness towards better business outcomes. She is known for creating pragmatic solutions that work for leaders, SME owners and their teams and her engaging and positive personality.

Selena has worked extensively with leaders and their teams to manage effectively through transformational and ongoing change and assisted many organisations and teams to understand each other and become more effective and empowered. She is passionate about improving leaders’ capability in people leadership, with a focus on collective impact and inclusive leadership, collaboration, change leadership and empowering teams.

She also enjoys creating roadmaps, strategy, work programmes and plans and innovative competency and performance management frameworks, supported by practical resources.

In her various roles as coach, consultant and facilitator, she has worked with numerous organisations including The Treasury, Hill Labs, WineWorks, Wellington Electricity, Waka Kotahi, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Kainga Ora, Department of Corrections, Ministry of Justice, Tertiary Education Commission, Leadership Development Centre, ServiceIQ, Skills.org, Kerridge and Partners, and Foodstuffs.

She also has experience of national qualification review and development of provider accreditation, competency-based workplace assessment and education quality assurance/moderation.

Outside work, she has a lot of fun as an active Baritone member of the award winning Faultline Chorus, a professional women’s barbershop chorus in Wellington.

Qualifications and Accreditations

  • MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) Step I and II
  • Team Management Suite (TMP/TMI, WOWV, OMV, QO2)
  • Hogan Leadership Forecast Report and team psychometric assessment
  • Korn Ferry/Lominger Leadership Architect 101: Introduction to Competencies, Choices and Voices 360
  • LDC Leadership Success Profile 360
  • Baldrige evaluator
  • Certificate in Quality Assurance (Level 5) (Distinction)

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We had such a great time with Selena when she was in Marlborough with us for the competency framework group sessions. The team really responded to her. She was great company and of course we got great outcomes as well. She is a superstar.

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