Key Leaders - DBM New Zealand

Region President

Karen Faehndrich
President, DBM East Asia & Pacific Region
As President for DBM East Asia and Pacific region Karen shapes the growth of the business through the oversight and design of strategic interventions in support of organisations undergoing change, developing leadership capability, implementing business improvement processes and enhancing personal performance. Customers rely on Karen to address existing and emerging business issues and people strategies in concert with economic, market and cultural nuances stretching as far as Africa and the Middle East. In addition Karen sits on the DBM Global team representing her region for career transition, talent management and all issues pertaining to the development of leading edge solutions in support of our customer's business results. Her team are the cornerstone for delivering to business imperatives representing DBM's centre of excellence for the Asia Pacific/Africa region.

Karen has managed her own consultancy specialising in organisational dynamics and has 15 years experience in the Human Capital Management industry including executive roles held with full commercial and financial performance accountability in Australia, New Zealand, China and Hong Kong. Karen graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Education and Learning.

Customer Relationship Leader

Jude Manuel
Business Development Director, New Zealand
Jude is the Business Development Director for DBM in New Zealand. She is responsible for securing and maintaining relationships with key customers and ensuring that client and customer expectations are achieved through operational and sales excellence. Jude has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Lancaster University in the UK. In addition, she has a strong background in Employment Branding, Talent Acquisition and Development and was GM of New Zealand's number one employment website, seek.co.nz, for three very successful years.