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MEET THE TEAM

 We’re an amazing team that have worked with teams to
produce substantial results in performance.  

Meet the team

Darcy

Process and Customer Excellence

Darcy is hellbent on delivering results through end-to-end process performance analysis for better productivity and determining the use of AI to safely accelerate performance gains.

 

Darcy also specialises in the building and unleashing continuous improvement capability within an organisation to improve team capability and culture to free up capacity, improve performance, and customer excellence.

Darcy achieves this by tailoring a comprehensive improvement strategy to align with the unique needs of each organisation and its business context.

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James

AI and Automation

James partners with ci lab to design and build AI tools that streamline multi-step and complex workflows. He specialises in breaking down and automating manual processes, tailoring an AI tool to perform to the unique needs of each organisation's purpose and requirements.

 

James is also the Founder of Hired.co.nz, an AI-powered platform that generates professionally-tailored CVs and cover letters for the New Zealand job market, serving job seekers across Aotearoa and internationally.

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Melissa

Process Invention and Investigation

Melissa has vast experience in project management and brings a fervent continuous improvement focus to projects ensuring that they are remarkably effective in addressing the root causes while remaining customer focused.
 

​Melissa’s honest, open and empathetic manner means that she naturally builds and maintains relationships, with an exceptional stakeholder management ethos.​​​

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Navlene

Team Dynamics and Culture

Navlene specialises in bringing teams together – the first stage of continuous improvement is to build co-operation across the teams, and Navlene runs exceptional events to build team engagement – within or across teams.

Navlene has superbly honed skills to successfully work with teams as a mentor for growth in capability on a personal level, and a facilitator for brokering relationships to build co-operation across teams.​

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At ci lab, we have four core values:

01

We provide everything we can to help our partners adopt continuous improvement - even our secrets to success.

02

We focus on providing tangible results from our engagements in helping good people do good things - so we partner with organisations with the same drive for results.

03

We focus on establishing continuous improvement capability in every organisation we partner with - so ongoing growth and improvement is driven by a team's culture for ongoing success. 

04

We look to balance inequality in society as it's a root cause for a lot of significant issues we face as a society - so we sponsor a great group of kids through Kidscan.

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We sponsor a great group of kids through Kidscan.

Since starting CI Lab in 2014, we made a pledge to support those in need. That’s why we chose to sponsor children through Kidscan—a remarkable charity dedicated to helping kids in need. Staying true to our core values, we are committed to never reducing or ceasing our support for Kidscan.
No matter what. While there have been tough times since 2014, it’s during challenges like these that we find solace in staying true to our values.

kidscan.org.nz

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GET IN TOUCH

For more information on any of our team, or better yet – to arrange for a coffee with any of the team. Email us at:

coffee@cilab.nz

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CI Lab - here's why we should share a coffee catch up...

Helping good people do good things

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