Karly brings over 20 years of leadership, culture and people-strategy experience across some of New Zealand’s most dynamic sectors, including professional services, tech, finance, legal, retail, construction and hospitality. Karly is recognised as one of the country’s leading voices in commercial people strategy and was named NZ HR Director of the Year in 2025 and has featured on the HRD Hot List in both 2023 and 2024, and having led the People function inside an NZ tech business through a Best Places to Work win in 2024. Karly is a regular conference speaker, panellist, and industry judge, and brings a direct, commercially-minded perspective to how businesses build for what’s next.
As AI reshapes how organisations lead, structure, and develop their people, Karly works directly with businesses navigating that shift, helping leadership teams adopt and integrate AI in ways that strengthen rather than replace their human capability. Her focus is on the questions AI adoption raises for leadership itself: how roles and org design need to evolve, which human skills matter more than ever, and how to lead people through change with clarity and confidence.
