We are a small, diverse team with decades of experience in primary and community care.
We are experienced in large scale transformation, leveraging from our network of clinicians, health professional and lived experience advisors. We deliver at scale using an emergent approach, paced by our network of primary care providers and the communities that we serve in partnership with their people.
Amarjit has also worked in local government, both in the UK and Aotearoa, New Zealand where she managed a number of teams, including Community Development, Finance, and Planning, Performance and Research.
She is accredited in project management (PRINCE2) as well as a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds an Honours degree in Business and Finance. She has completed the Institute of Directors Governance course as well as other post graduate qualifications including, Economic and Community Development.
This experience has ignited her passion for supporting and empowering the health and disability sector to collaborate with communities to address system challenges and achieve Māori health equity, especially as we navigate the transformational reform of our health and disability system.
Jazz lives in the Hutt Valley by Te Awa Kairanga with her teenagers. In her spare time, she enjoys teaching and practicing yin yoga and gardening.
Carol brings recent experience in leadership in health care home practices and as a nurse lead over two practices. She proved innovative in lifting equity and demonstrated an ability to show positive outcomes. She has a passion for ensuring health care reaches all sectors of society particularly for those who found access difficult for any number of reasons.
Carol has worked in the health care sector for many years and has a practical and positive approach.
She is solution orientated and her huge capacity to empathise means that she is well equipped to bring about change and passionate about her work in a multicultural environment.
Carol has spent many years immersed in both Pasifika and Māori communities, and enjoys spending time at Pehiaweri, her whānau marae. She lives in Whangarei with her husband and enjoys spending time with her children and mokopuna.
She has always enjoyed problem solving and building relationship with people. She loves working with others and appreciates the different experiences and styles of thinking that people bring to problems.
Chris splits her time between working as a Project and Change Lead for Collaborative Aotearoa and working with her husband in their store as a Colour and Design Consultant.
Chris lives in Wellington with her husband and daughter. She loves to visit her son who lives in Christchuch. When she’s not at work, Chris enjoys going on walks with friends and is always looking for new scenic routes to explore.
As a travel agent and tour operator for 15 years, it is all about attention to detail. Liana will be bringing those organisational skills to the team and helping to co-ordinate day to day tasks amongst all of the team members, and helping with preparing for events, workshops and special projects. She has a passion for community and whānau relationships and is excited to be working in a team that is really making a difference.
Liana is returning to the workforce after a break to have children, and enjoys living in sunny Central Otago with her husband and two boys.
Cici Xu,
Health Coach at Newtown Medical Centre.
“My role [Health Coach] is to assist the doctors and nurses to help their patients achieve their goals. Many patients have multiple requirements, and doctors’ time is limited. They want to be able to help their patients, but it’s not practical, timewise. That’s where I can come in.”
