Three Hands New Zealand is a partner to Three Hands, based in London, UK, which has been making immersive connections between business and society – helping people become better leaders, corporate citizens and innovators – since 2003.
Here in New Zealand, we focus on creating leadership development experiences that involve generating tangible, beneficial outcomes for community.
We’re made up of a core team based in London and New Zealand and work with fellow thought leaders in the People space – enabling us to have the right team on board for each unique project.
Our Team
Today I'm a proud and passionate Three Hands partner. I've earnt my stripes designing and implementing culture, talent management / succession planning and leadership development programmes for nearly 20 years across NZ, UK and Qatar.
I take that experience and insight into Three Hands programmes and help leaders to; innovate around products and services, collaborate and come together around purpose, bring to life the values and behaviours they need to role modal, and importantly – to understand the social issues facing their people, teams, customer and community.
In addition to group development I’m a qualified coach (UK) and work privately with several senior-exec leaders each year.
I have a wonderful husband and three boys whom keep me grounded, laughing and fulfilled. When I’m not with them I’m usually outside swimming, cycling or running – living my mantra “Healthy Body, Healthy Mind”. I believe that, next to good coffee, swimming in the sea is one of the best things our world has to offer.
Bex Grace
NZ Partner
Jes Smith is the founder of Journey-smiths and Leadership Boost NZ. As well as a passionate and engaging speaker and facilitator, Jes is a highly experienced learning designer, coach and consultant. Jes has spent over 20 years in leadership, organisational development, and customer experience, working extensively with leaders and their teams in NZ, Australia, UK, Europe and the US.
Jes Smith
Collaborator / Founder Journey-Smiths
I read David Packard’s words in 2000, when in the midst of an MBA at IESE Business School, Barcelona, and in the same year I volunteered in La Paz, Bolivia, and witnessed the stark contrast between the few big companies there and the surrounding community; it was an “a-ha” moment that has led me to focus on the role of business in society ever since.
I joined the founder of Three Hands in 2005 and became MD in 2009. Together we pioneered the concept of experiential, community-based leadership development and I’ve worked over the past few years to develop and deliver a wide offering that supports clients to do business in ways that benefit society, and on growing the Three Hands team – slowly, surely and sustainably.
Jan Levy
Co-Founder / Director (UK)
Jo is the Director of Workman a consultancy specialising in leadership, sales and mindset. Jo has 18 years’ experience helping clients realise their performance objectives in both Europe and New Zealand. Specialising in the development of high performance mindsets (e.g. resilience, confidence, drive, accountability) she works primarily in the areas of leadership and sales.
She challenges clients to consider whether they have the foundations in place to maximise the return on their learning development investment and then works with them to fill the gaps.
In a former life Jo was an academic who studied diversity and management education, including the quality of post graduate education in preparing future leaders. Three Hands and Jo work together to innovate and design learning experiences– incorporating powerful coaching partnerships to embed those (inevitable) powerful insights.
Jo Workman
Collaborator / Director of Workman
Nick is the Founding Director of Five NZ, an expert in leadership development, executive coaching, learning strategy design and implementation, culture change and employee engagement.
He’s led transformative programmes and is very interested in building great employee experiences. He’s a big room facilitator and public speaker, and is highly skilled in spotting and unleashing the potential in those around him.
He’s got 17 years of experience with Barclays Capital, Schroders, Lloyd’s of London, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Auckland Council, and most recently in digital services and telecommunications with Spark New Zealand.
Three Hands, Nick and the team from Five come together to collaborate, design and deliver bespoke experiences to best serve our unique clients – and draw on our collective expertise. #Dreamteam
Nick Mackeson-Smith
Collaborator / Director of Five
Sally loves meeting people from all walks of life, she’s inquisitive, creative and highly focused on business outcomes. Her deep understanding of how to link people and performance with sustaining, growing and scaling business is evident in her work.
Sally started her career as an Officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force before moving on to senior leadership roles within Coca-Cola Amatil, Air New Zealand, Microsoft (NZ & South East Asia) and start-ups in both Nigeria and Singapore.
Sally’s passion is helping to create healthy, diverse and meaningful workplaces and when she’s not doing that, you’ll most likely find her learning about interior design and helping out with animal welfare.
Sally Doherty
Collaborator / Director SallyD
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