Careers · Mentors

Learn from people who've carried the pager

Our mentors are retired CIOs and senior technology leaders. They've run the big programmes, survived the board meetings and built the teams, and now they're here for the next generation. No agenda, just experience generously shared, brought together in the AFQY Mentor programme for consistency across your team.

Book a mentor individually, or we can arrange a meet and greet with you and your team so mentees can see who they best connect with. Rates depend on the number in your team being booked.

Owen McCall

Former CIO, The Warehouse · Author of High-Performance IT

Owen led technology at The Warehouse as CIO after more than five years as a partner in Deloitte Consulting. Today he consults on IT leadership and is the author of High-Performance IT. Owen mentors technology leaders on delivering on the promise of technology, and on the leadership craft behind it.

Vaughan Robertson

Retired technology executive · Futurist and raconteur

Vaughan brings decades of senior technology leadership across New Zealand organisations, with a futurist's eye and a storyteller's knack for making complex change human. He mentors emerging leaders on careers, change and the long game.

Sharon Hastie

Senior technology and transformation leader · People-first executive

Sharon is a senior technology and people leader with an extensive background in strategy, information technology and the craft of managing people well. She has built high-performing teams and led large-scale, complex change and transformation programmes, consistently delivering planned outcomes within budget and agreed timeframes. A strong communicator who can translate technical detail into plain language for any audience, she pairs strategic thinking with pragmatism and has a genuine talent for spotting and nurturing people so they reach their goals. Across her career Sharon has led operations, infrastructure, service delivery, applications development, change and customer experience, and she mentors leaders on change management, delivering at scale, and getting the best from a team.

Robin Johansen

Former CIO, one of New Zealand's largest organisations · Director and advisor

Robin is a former chief information officer of one of New Zealand's largest organisations, with a career built on ICT strategy, governance and the delivery of programmes worth more than a billion dollars. An engineer by training and a finalist for New Zealand CIO of the Year in 2013, he has run large-scale projects and R&D initiatives, led geographically distributed teams, spent a decade in a senior Defence role and worked on government procurement reform. Today he serves on boards and in advisory roles, and mentors technology leaders on risk management, delivering at scale, and growing the capability of smaller firms.