Selena Bernath
Coach/Consultant/Facilitator, Wellington
Selena is an experienced leadership, team and career coach and organisational development consultant. Her work includes design and practical implementation of innovative competency and performance management frameworks, development of core values, organisational and capability development, change leadership, corporate excellence and motivational speaking services.
She has worked in operational organisation, capability and quality assurance leadership roles across 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 Hill Labs, Wineworks, Wellington Electricity, The Treasury, Fire and Emergency NZ, Department of Corrections, NZTA, Housing NZ, Ministry of Justice, Tertiary Education Commission, Leadership Development Centre, ServiceIQ, Skills.org, Methanex and Foodstuffs.
She has also been a senior leader in industry training quality assurance, leading and implementing a successful national programme of change. In addition, she has also been a contracted consultant/manager and NZQA National Business Advisory Group member for national qualification review and development of provider accreditation, competency-based workplace assessment and education quality assurance/moderation.
Selena takes an active interest in maintaining currency with her various accreditations, including use of several diagnostics, debriefing tailored 360 reviews, as well as active contributions to organisational psychology communities and seminars.
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)