She is an experienced HR practitioner with over fifteen years experience in the career management and personal development field. She has a background in change management, recruitment, executive coaching and in the delivery of Employee Assistance Programmes. Her diverse experience in management, leadership coaching, and human resources gives her the wealth of knowledge and skills vital to retaining to helping people and organisations succeed in today’s competitive labour market.

Her experience as a recruitment consultant gives her invaluable insight into the selection and retention issues that both organisations and individuals face. She has been on both sides of the fence giving her a rare ability to bring a fair and objective perspective to employment issues.
Her specialist areas are transformational change, career management, life coaching and talent management strategies.  Cassandra is passionate about helping others to thrive and survive in the wake of change, work to their strengths, pursue their passions, and fulfill their potential. Put simply, she is passionate about what she does and does it well.

Cassandra’s qualifications and professional credentials

Cassandra’s qualifications and professional credentials

• BCA from Victoria University where she majored in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
• Diploma of Counselling*
• Professional Member of The New Zealand Association for Psychological Type. (Cassandra is qualified to administer and interpret the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI)
• Professional member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC )
• She is currently studying toward a Masters degree in Psychology- on the back-burner for a while!

She is a well known writer in the area of “passion at work” and regularly writes a  column in The New Zealand Herald. For four years she wrote a holistic careers column for  the Dominion Post has contributed to publications such as ““Marie Claire” Employment Today”,  and “Career Edge”

She is highly regarded internationally as a expert in the career and personal development field. She believes in continually staying updated with best practice techniques and learning from and sharing these with others

In Nov 2003 she presented her unique Passion Driven Work model to a world forum of career professionals at the International Career Practitioners conference in San Fransisco. And in May 2004 she attended a symposium of career professionals in Venice, Italy – updating her knowledge of best-practice career management techniques, particularly those related to mature job seekers and 3rd age careers.

…and yes she does still manage to maintain worklife balance! In her spare time she travels, nurtures her daughter’s passions, paints, sculpts and writes travel memoirs and romance novels!

Follow your passion not your pension – Listen to Cassandra being interviewed on Radio Live radio live iv

Watch Cassandra on The Good Morning Show:

TVNZ One » Creative goal setting

TVNZ One » Change your thoughts, change your life

Visit her Worklife Solutions site and learn how Cassandra and her team can help you life and work with passion >>

Cassandra has personally assisted individuals from a variety of career paths and organisations such as: