The Team

Prior to joining Convergence, Wellington Partner L-M served as Director of Communications and Head of Profession at the Public Services Commission (formerly State Services Commission), where she worked on the National Crisis Communications Plan for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. This followed seven years as Director of Strategic Relations at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), including Investment New Zealand, and serving on the government’s Cultural Diplomacy International Board – involving the Ministry of Arts and Culture, Tourism New Zealand and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. As a Director at NZTE, she regularly provided strategic advice and managed the interface for businesses and industry between ministers, government officials, embassies and international trade agencies.

She’s held other senior government roles with the Ministry for the Environment (climate change), Department of Labour (workplace health and safety) and the New Zealand Customs Service.

As a former broadcast journalist and press secretary, she’s also worked in Sydney and for pan-European clients based out of London. She’s spent time in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and India, and for a decade was local board director for NPH International, which provides, education, vocational training and medical services throughout Central America and the Caribbean.

L-M is known for her direct and clear advice based on more than 25 years of government, parliamentary and corporate experience. Specialising in issues management, government affairs, media and issues guidance, she often works with legal, economic and business specialists on major issues to give the best possible client advice and support.

A political and economics junkie, L-M is on the advisory board of a social research think tank and threatens to actually complete her law qualifications. She describes her French as marginal and her Spanish as woeful. Her attempts at applying her Mandarin classes generally receive the same quizzical looks. When not reading non-fiction, at the cinema or trying to resist purchasing artwork, she and her greyhound can be found running around Oriental Bay listening to current affairs podcasts or cold sea swimming.

The Team

Leigh Harris

Erin Jamieson

Rick Osborne

Lisa-Marie Richan (L-M)

Janine Ogier

Steve Attwood

Shaylee Sinclair

Marie Hosking

Dave Brash

Bill Bayfield

Martin Freeth

Bianca Teague

Vicki Thomson

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