engage. ignite. grow.
Working with us means you are supporting the growth of great communicators and ultimately great leaders for your organisation. You can expect participants to grow their confidence, enhance presence, and positively influence your business.
With a core competencies in communication & presentation coaching, bid coaching, leadership effectiveness coaching we can work with you to design relevant sessions to meet your needs. We have existing programmes delivered both in person and virtually, and we can design bespoke to meet the desired outcomes for you or your organisation.
We are lively, interactive presenters, and we’d love the opportunity to work with you and your team.
Fiona
Mogridge
MIB,Bcom,A.T.C.L
Human Synergistics Accreditation, LSI and GSI
International Coaching Federation
Insights Discovery Accreditation
Designing Strategy
Design Thinking for Innovation, Human Centered Design
Fiona is passionate about communication. She has an active career in the performing arts; acting in theatre, film and television after studying at a drama school in France. Fiona's performance career highlights include winning the Fisher and Paykel best actress award, roles in TV dramas; Duggan, Plain Clothes, Street Legal and Shortland Street, feature film roles and more recently theatre in the award winning play Seed at the Basement Theatre.
Fiona compliments her passion for the arts with a business career. She has business start up experience building a household brand Fatso.co.nz alongside 15 years experience as an organisational development professional. Key areas of work include business strategy, marketing & brand development, stakeholder engagement, leadership effectiveness, team coaching, presentation consulting and group facilitation.
She has worked with business leaders, and owners from a range of sectors in the arts and commercial sectors. Most recently people and culture advisory on alliance based infrastructure projects.
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With range in her skill base, Fiona has the ability to communicate impactfully, lead enterprise change, manage multiple projects, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and take a coaching approach to meeting team needs, all with a personal resilience to navigate uncertainty and bring humour and positivity to the fore.
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Fiona brings a live performance sensibility to the world of business and offers passion, energy and focus for your business project. She has an active interest in business start ups and investment as a way to grow economic productivity and growth.
Nina
Burchett
Nina Burchett is a highly regarded New Zealand actor and speech and drama teacher. Nina has worked in theatre, television, film and as a teacher around the world. Through her teaching, she loves helping people to believe in themselves and be the best they can be. She is delighted to be working with Fiona and the opportunity to build better organisations; by building the confidence and skills of adults to effectively communicate and engage.
Nina's teaching career began in 1992 in Auckland and since she has taught children dance, drama and speech in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.
After graduating from Toi Whakaari The New Zealand Drama School, Nina's performance career highlights to date have included being nominated forNew Zealand’s Most Promising Actress Award for her portrayal of May in Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love.
In Australia from 2002 - 2004, she co-devised the play Convict Women, which was awarded the 2002 Enerco Australian Cultural Award. She also wrote and produced the award-winning children's film Gabriel, which won prestigious international A-list awards including Winner Best Short Film - Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Winner Best Short Film - Giffoni Hollywood.
Since returning to New Zealand in 2008, Nina has had roles in several film and television productions including Spartacus (USA), Legend of the Seeker (USA), Billy (NZ), Rage (NZ) Foreign Exchange (AUS), Hillary (NZ), more recently staged in the award winning New Zealand play Seed (NZ) alongside Fiona Mogridge.