Our People
Our consultants have the broad range of generalist HR experience and industry intel to help you articulate your business requirements, select the product that best meets your needs, and implement the new technology.
Jane Ward
Jane is the founder and CEO of Tomorrow’s People,. Her early career experience in HR, combined with her nerdy passion for the latest technologies made for a natural progression into establishing New Zealand’s first specialist consultancy in HR Tech. Jane is a regular guest speaker at industry events where she shares her passion and insights into how to optimise the relationship of human experience and emotion, changing business needs and the digital revolution of work.
Jane has extensive experience in ensuring the successful selection, implementation and ongoing operation of processes and systems to support HR and Payroll - with the strong generalist HR knowledge necessary to understand key business needs. She has worked with a wide range of technologies and industries. Jane's experience, thought leadership and independence in the HR technology space set her apart.
Jane is passionate about providing and enabling flexible and part-time work and living and breathing a truly modern approach to work. In her spare time you might find her enjoying a bowl of pasta and a glass of wine, while attempting to to drown out the chaos of her two energetic sons and adorable puppy.
Julie Wieczorek
Originally from Queensland Australia, Julie began her Human Resources career working for a utilities organisation. Here she gained experience across all facets of generalist HR as well as undertaking key project roles.
Upon moving to London for bigger adventures, she took up a number of HR consulting positions. Specialising in HR transformation, Julie worked on both process advisory and technical project implementations.
She brings diverse business knowledge across the finance, oil and gas, media and retail sectors. As well as leading some large-scale, global SAP implementations, Julie has worked across a range of other payroll, recruitment and health and safety projects.
Julie’s strengths lie in her exceptional communication skills, and her ability to form strong working relationships with both clients and vendors to ensure the project’s success throughout.
While not working, Jules is kept busy with her family, while making time for yoga, coastal walks and entertaining friends.
Emma Bendall
Emma brings a wealth of experience in HR systems and project management to the team at Tomorrow’s People.
After working as a PeopleSoft / Oracle HCM consultant in both New Zealand and Australia, in a career specialising in Higher Education clients. Emma was working on a project at the University of Auckland with Jane and Sarah. When the project finished up, Emma made the leap back into consultancy joining Tomorrow’s People as a Senior Manager.
She is particularly passionate about the OD and L&D space, although her experience spans all facets of Human Resources.
Emma balances her work life, with her home life in rural Auckland.
Rachel Muir
Rachel brings with her a wealth of experience working in HR and has worked in a number of different roles including Analyst/Technical Consultant/Business Partner and Project Manager. Her work experience has involved in working with large and small businesses and providing strategic HR solutions, working on complex organisational changes and client-side implementations. She has a proven ability to manage effective communication and consultation, deliver projects to budget and finding solutions to meet business needs.
Rachel is passionate about technology and takes a committed hands on approach to understand the challenges our clients face and ensure that the solutions are developed and tailored to meet business objectives.
Originally hailing from Taupo, and after a 10-year stint in the UK, Rachel and her husband and two daughters settled in Auckland. Alongside working Rachel enjoys travelling, volunteering and spending time with her family enjoying all that the North Shore has to offer.
Fiona San-Garde
Fiona has over three years of experience working in the Recruitment technology space, specialising in delivering Application Tracking System (ATS) projects and implementations. This background developed a good knowledge of recruitment and wider HR functions and a passion for utilising systems to improve processes.
In her previous roles she managed both the technical implementation and updating of ATS at a variety of small, medium and large organisations, including numerous instances where she took the sole lead. Through this experience she has gained understanding of the HR challenges and needs of a variety of industries including Education, Finance, Healthcare, Agricultural, Tourism and Telecommunications.
Out of work, Fiona loves playing indoor netball, spending time with friends and family and exploring New Zealand and would love to do some more overseas travel.
Sarah Garland-Levett
One of the original team members, Sarah joined Tomorrow's People after a stint implementing Cornerstone on Demand at the University of Auckland which engaged her interest in HR Tech. With the flexible work company ethos, Sarah worked part-time while completing her Masters in 2017 and has continued to develop her career with Tomorrow’s People since.
Sarah has a systematic and analytical approach to generating creative tech solutions for people in their workplaces. She is naturally passionate about improving employee experience and has in-depth experience with designing processes, creating test strategies, implementing systems and creating change and training materials. Her excellent communication skills and intuitive ability to problem solve means Sarah gets to the heart of our clients’ challenges and works alongside them to deliver innovative people solutions through technology.
In 2019, Sarah relocated to the Hawkes Bay to enjoy the sunshine and relaxed pace of life with a young family. She balances remote work with family time, vegetable gardening and cooking up fresh seasonal produce in her kitchen. She enjoys being in a local community with friends, family, beaches and wineries in walking distance, whilst remaining connected to work through Tomorrow’s People fantastic capacity for flexibility.
Alexis Farr
Raised in the Rodney District, Alexis moved to Auckland to complete a Certificate in Web Design, Certificate in Information Technology and Client Support, a Diploma of Networking and a Diploma in Cybersecurity.
She holds product certification in Cornerstone OnDemand’s Core Functionality, Applicant Tracking System and Learning Management System, as well as technical stream certifications for Cornerstone Integration Basics, Learning Data Loads and User and OU Data Loads.
She enjoys being a part of the community and has spent time volunteering with St John Ambulance and Surf Lifesaving New Zealand.
Outside of work, Alexis practices ITF-style Taekwon-Do and is a gold medal winner for both sparring and patterns. She was the top 8th Gup student at the Auckland North Regional Tournament in 2019.
Alexis loves finding innovative ways to solve problems and her favourite part of the job is hearing that a Tomorrow’s People solution is making a client’s life easier.
Matt Raines
Matt was born in Wellington, raised in Kerikeri and moved to Auckland at the start of 2020 after travelling for 5 months (most favourite place was South East Asia) He has qualifications in computer science and a background in web development.
Here are Tomorrows People, Matt is a Technical Consultant who is hands on with supporting our various clients with his Technical know-how. As a people person, Matt has really enjoyed the opportunity to be more client facing in this role and has proven himself very capable of upskilling quickly and creative problem solving. He has built strong relationships across the business and with our clients and is also our only male in the Auckland office (except for Lando our office dog)
Matt is a self-titled Burger Connoisseur (jury is currently out on a couple of his latest calls), and a keen photographer who loves the outdoors, motorcycling and boating.
Tara Kingston
Tara is our Business Development Manager and comes from 15 years of HR solution selling and Recruitment. She’s an Aucklander born and bred and since spending her 20s in London has been working in the Auckland market within the HR industry.
Tara’s years in Recruitment gave her a love of building relationships with a wide range of people and getting to know how all sorts of businesses work. Her passion lies in creative solution selling and in being able to collaborate across businesses, bringing together like minded people to produce fantastic results for everyone. She’s more often than not out somewhere in Auckland, having a coffee (or wine depending on the time of the day), a laugh and talking (rather animatedly with her hands) about some exciting idea or collaboration.
When not at work, Tara is equally as busy and social with her friends and family. She has a manic little girl and two beautiful step kids and enjoys a very noisy household full of music, laughter, interpretive dance and creative story telling.
Dogs of Tomorrow’s People
LANDO
Lando kick started the TP puppy trend during our first Covid lockdown period and has enjoyed his position as leader of the TP puppy pack ever since. His floppy ears and puppy dog eyes have brought joy (and chaos) to the Ward household ever since. His strengths are many but include: sniffing out any food left in handbags under desks, shredding office paperwork, eating shoes and lying on Jane’s keyboard when she’s trying to work. He’s working hard on developing better active listening skills and the patience to sit still for more than 10 seconds at a time. When not disrupting the office, his interests include: food, sleeping, food, long walks on the beach and more food.
ODIN
Odin joined Tara’s whanau December 2020 and has proceeded to destroy everything within reach since then. He is a wonderfully naughty boy but trying hard to control his many compulsions. Favourite things currently are zoomies around the garden, snuggles with Tara, annoying the cat and chewing absolutely anything.
MYLO
Mylo is a very chilled 8 month old Golden Retriever – Mylo lives with Rachel & Shaun and their two girls Lily and Annabella. He loves swimming in our pool, jumping on the trampoline, destroying toys, long walks and he also loves food and will eat anything!
DIESEL
Diesel is Matt’s 13 year old Yorkshire Terrier who currently resides in Kerikeri. Dies is a very laid back old man who enjoys short wanders on the beach, long naps on the couch, and weekly social visits to doggy day care to hang with his bitches. He also has an insatiable appetite for cicadas and commonly goes by the alias of Hoover for his exceptional floor cleaning abilities.