PMI New Zealand Chapter
Board of Directors
PMINZ Directors oversee the governance and planning the future direction of PMINZ. They bring energy, ideas, and enthusiasm to influence, contribute to, and oversee the performance and strategic progress of the organisation.
President
Nicola Faithfull
Responsible for policy review, the constitution review, and dispute resolution processes, ensuring alignment to PMI global as well as New Zealand legislation.
Nicola joined the PMINZ Board in September 2019. She is a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors and an active member of the Auckland PMO Forum. She has held senior project and technology leadership roles in large companies here and in the UK and run her own small consulting company. Nicola is passionate about developing a positive high performing culture and supporting others to reach their potential. She is head of the University of Auckland’s Strategic Programme Office, an enterprise level PMO that supports portfolio definition, formation and delivery of programmes and projects formation, and benefit realisation.
Vice President of Finance
Bushra Nur
Bushra has an MBA (Hons) from Massey University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science & Information Systems as well as postgraduate qualifications in Computing Science. She has other qualifications in project and portfolio management. Bushra brings with her more than a decade of industry experience in the IT industry in a variety of leadership roles in the private and public sector.
Her interests lie in strategic portfolio management and linkage to organisational strategy, investment planning and benefits realisation. Bushra comes from a technology and project management, PMO and EPMO background. Bushra strongly believes an organisation needs to be enabled to deliver major organisational changes and digital transformations – customer centricity being front of mind. A proven leader in building high performing teams and fostering a culture of excellence, Bushra views projects as vehicles for delivering business and organisational strategies.
Bushra’s vision is for project sponsors and benefit owners to actively champion their projects and support project managers to achieve successful project outcomes via successful benefits realisation.
Board Directors
Carol Speirs
Carol Speirs joined PMI in 1999 and achieved her PMP accreditation that year. She has been involved in question setting for PMP exams and has travelled to the USA to attend conferences. She was also on the team to create great NZ conferences on several occasions. Carol’s background includes running projects as well as training in project management, traditional and agile, to classes both online and in person. She enjoys the challenge of helping learners have those ‘light bulb’ moments where the theory meets the practical application of the tools and templates used in project management.
Career wise, she has had varied roles in power generation, banking, consulting, software and engineering. One of the more unusual places her work has taken her to is to EDF (nuclear power generator and retailer) to their nuclear site in Kent, UK, where she got to walk around a reactor – all suited and booted of course. Other unusual places are the prisons at Rimutaka and Tongariro – again in a teaching role, not as a guest.
When she is not training she is involved in Dress for Success (a charity that helps clothe others, with donated high quality items, for interviews, house viewings, court dates and many other events) and for many years she has been making recycled bags for Boomerang Bags. The group have made over 3,600 but we don’t see many boomeranging back!
Matthew Percival
Matthew joins the PMINZ board for a second time, and continues a long history of supporting PMINZ through National Conferences, the National Mentoring Programme Manager and a regular volunteer of PMDOS and Wellington branch activities.
Matthew has represented PMINZ internationally in the past at PMI Leadership meetings and excited to return to his board role with a key focus of increasing value to PMINZ Members.
Lisa Huang
As an active PMINZ member, Lisa values connecting with members to share experiences and knowledge. Being elected to the board allows Lisa to promote PMINZ more effectively. Lisa hopes to bring a new perspective of thinking to the table, further develop connections within PMINZ and collaborate with other board members to elevate PMINZ to new heights of succes.
Sylvia Maclaren
Sylvia is the managing director of Storm, a Christchurch-based project management and water engineering consultancy. She has a BSc(Hons) and MBA(Hons) and is an active member of the PMINZ, Institute of Directors, Water NZ and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC). She is also a volunteer member of the PMINZ Climate Change and Sustainability Action Group (CCSAG). Through this, she is one of the authors in the development of a toolkit to embed Christchurch City Council’s sustainability goals into their capital programme.
Sylvia is an experienced senior leader who is often involved in big-picture thinking and strategy formation for the organisations she works with. She thrives in collaborative, high-performance and challenging environments where initiative is valued.
Sylvia has long held an interest in good governance. She was a Women in Governance Emerging Leader finalist in the 2017 awards, and in the same year completed her MBA thesis on the topic of female participation on boards. Through her Institute of Directors membership she regularly attends governance events.
Warren Wilks
Originally from Britain, Warren has lived in New Zealand for 18 years. Warren started his career in Construction, followed by a degree in Project Management which led him to NZ.
Warren will bring his energy, professional attributes and extensive experience to the PMINZ board to support delivery of the Strategic Goals. He plans to support existing members while also growing the organisation in NZ.
Contact the Board
Please email info@pmi.nz
