Ruth Donalda Hamilton

Experienced senior leader and advisor bringing a unique blend of people, service, business, and program management skills. Expertise in people leadership, strategy, transformation and development, planning, funding, performance, and change management. Well-equipped to drive success in any organisation. A proven track record of navigating complex challenges and delivering results.

• Successful leadership of services, people and programmes.
• Influential presentations, papers, and reports increasing stakeholder engagement, confidence, and investment.
• Across business groups planning alignment and collaboration that improved capability and results.
• Implementing Information Technology developments.
• Successful relationship manager in complex situations.
• Co-design, and working with Te Ao Māori advisors and concepts in service development, planning, performance and sustainability work.
• Buy-in to service innovation that changed how work was done, managed risks, and reduced costs.
• Service development, redesign and transformation programmes improving services, performance, and sustainability.
• Building leadership, people management and team capability in a range of organisations.
• Award winning - health and safety leadership, and diversity and inclusion programmes.
• End-to-end resolution of complex employment investigations, problems, and disputes.

Human Resources Contracting, whilst completing a master's 2005-2007

• Ministry of Social Development, Office of Children's Commissioner, Ministry of Health, Industrial Research Ltd, ONTrack (Railways), other Crown Entities, and Private Printing and Education Providers

Human Resource General Management Change Roles, 1999 - 2005

• Strategic Human Resources Director, Specialist Education Services - Executive Leadership Team
• Director People Development Services Correspondence School - Executive Leadership Team
• Group Manager Human Resource Operations Divisional Leadership Team: University of Otago

Health, Service Management and Change Roles, 1985 - 1999

• Department of Corrections: Manager Community Probation Services and Periodic Detention Lower Hutt, also covering Courts Servicing team Wellington (combined 60 staff)
• Regional Radiology Canterbury Health Ltd and Mental Health and Addiction Services Hutt Valley Health Ltd. (Each CHE division had 150 staff spread over multiple sites)
• Ministry of Health Senior Advisor - Mental Health, Treatment Services, Forensics, Services quality, planning and procurement, and consumer experience.
• Court Liaison Officer Forensic Services Wellington District Court and Youth Court
• Dunedin Substance Abuse Service Coordinator, practitioner and hospital liaison officer.

• Directors Certification, Institute of Directors 2013
• Programme Management and Sponsorship NZIM 2010
• Ernst Young, Darden School Executive Leadership Programme 2009
• Media and Communications Management NZIM 2008
• Australasian Leadership Programme, Monash University 2001

• Six Sigma for Managers
• Employment Relations, Collective Bargaining, Performance and Disciplinary Procedures
• Coaching, TMI Profiling tools, Negotiations Skills
• Business Writing, MicroSoft Suite
• Leadership, Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS), Business Continuity planning
• Strategy Development and Planning
• Co-Design and Management of Change.