The Institute of Management New Zealand (IMNZ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven Naudé as its new chief executive. Mr Naudé is also a director of executive education at Massey Business School and will bring the two organisations together in an even closer working relationship.

He replaces outgoing chief executive Fiona Hewitt, who led a refresh of the IMNZ brand and brokered the institute’s strategic partnership with Massey Business School earlier this year.

Mr Naudé will lead the institute into its next phase of development, which includes the launch of several new courses next year and creating simpler and faster pathways for people to achieve higher-level qualifications.

"IMNZ has some very exciting plans for 2017, which will provide additional flexibility and benefits to both students and organisations looking to build the capability of staff," Mr Naudé says. "I am very excited to be leading the institute at such an important time in its development."

Mr Naudé has 20 years of experience in the education sector, including more than a decade at Pearson Education in South Africa and New Zealand. He was director of teaching and learning at the Marketing Association before joining Massey Business School as its director of professional, organisation and executive development last year.

NZ's most comprehensive suite of management courses 

Massey Business School dean Professor Ted Zorn says Mr Naudé is the ideal person to ensure the university and IMNZ jointly offer New Zealand’s most comprehensive suite of courses in leadership and management education.

"Having Steven oversee Massey’s executive education programmes and IMNZ’s short courses and qualifications will put us in the unique position of being able to offer learning opportunities across the entire leadership development cycle," he says.

"While Massey and the institute will each deliver their own courses, between the two organisations students will have access to suitable options for continuous education, no matter what stage of their career they are at."

As well as refreshing IMNZ’s existing qualifications, Mr Naudé says he will draw on the expertise within both organisations to design customised programmes for organisations, which can be delivered in-house.

"No one is able to work so flexibly with customers to design and deliver progammes that exactly suit their needs," he says.

He is also excited about the new IMNZ short courses in development for 2017, including the new certificate programme in business coaching.

"Everybody in a leadership position is expected to coach their team, and that takes a very specific set of skills. That’s why IMNZ is adding an intensive coaching programme to its range of courses and qualifications."

This article was originally sourced from Voxy.