Authors and Consultants

Frances Tweedy, DistFHRINZ
Founder of the Capability Group consultancy in 1984, Frances consults in the areas of organisational change, development of vision and values, leadership development, HR strategy, customer service and personal effectiveness. Many assignments involve developing and facilitating workshops and other learning events with concurrent skills transfer to client personnel to ensure continuity of quality. In addition, Frances provides coaching and mentoring, mainly for people in leadership positions, and facilitates decision-making groups at a senior level. Frances is a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand and has been a previous National President of the Institute.

Cheryl Wright
Cheryl Wright began consulting in 1984 following a career in human resource management and became a Director of Capability Group shortly after. She has worked with diverse public and private sector organisations with a particular focus on the retailing industry. Cheryl's areas of focus are organisational change, strategic HR, leadership development and emotional capability. Many of her assignments are aimed at delivering business effectiveness through enhanced people performance and achieving organisational alignment with key business strategies. Cheryl facilitates learning across a wide range of leadership/management skills and knowledge and strongly believes that the best learning takes place in a participative, supportive and enjoyable environment.

As well as being the authors of the Emotional Capability and Resilience Profiles, Frances and Cheryl are co-authors of a book entitled "Continual Learning – Your investment in the future" which is a self-directed workbook designed to support individuals in building capability to learn and managers in creating a learning environment for their team.

For further information about the Emotional Capability and Resilience Profiles and the supporting workshops or coaching, please e-mail us on info@xtend.nz