Area Model review

All Red Cross people will be invited and encouraged to fill in an online survey.

You will receive a direct email with more information about this.

We'll be sending this email to everyone who gets our regular Inside RED newsletter.

If you've unsubscribed from our newsletters but still want to get information about the survey, let us know by emailing areamodel@redcross.org.nz.

The review team will be engaging with a broad range of people across the organisation. They'll be setting up conversations and making site visits to observe our services in action and talk to people on the ground.

They will make sure these engagements include each of our seven geographic areas, as well as a good representative cross-section of our people and activities. With around 13,000 Red Cross people and our activities happening across Aotearoa New Zealand, it won’t be possible for the reviewers to visit or speak individually with everyone.

If the external review team is going to visit or talk to you or your team online, they will get in touch with you or your people leader first.

These will happen in 2026, towards the end of the review. 

More information about these sessions will be shared via our regular monthly newsletter, Inside RED, and on this page of our website.

Molly Kennedy is a senior management consultant with 18 years of experience in strategy, performance and leadership.

As a consultant, she has supported a diverse array of public, private and not-for-profit organisations, including Volunteering New Zealand, Catchment Communities Aotearoa, Wellington Free Ambulance, Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, Civil Aviation Authority, and Hato Hone St John.

Molly has held roles of Chief Executive for KiwiClass and National Refugee Services Manager for New Zealand Red Cross. She is the current Board Chair of Interpreting New Zealand. She brings a strong focus on equity and social support with and for groups facing socioeconomic barriers. She has experience using Te Tiriti partnership, protection, and participation frameworks both in governance and operations.

Don has extensive international and domestic experience in programme and project evaluation and design. This has encompassed senior UN, New Zealand Government and NGO leadership and governance roles, as well as 10 years of independent consultancy engagement through country programme and project evaluation and design assignments, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, most recently through International Labour Organisation.

As a senior manager of the New Zealand government development cooperation programme within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade between 2002 and 2010, Don oversaw New Zealand’s partnerships with the ICRC, the IFRC and New Zealand Red Cross as part of the broader portfolio of multilateral and NZ NGO relationships. Don also served as the founding Executive Director of the NZ Council for international Development (CID).

Rob is a seasoned management consultant with over two decades of experience spanning public, not-for-profit and private sectors. He works with organisations to assess and develop their organisational strategy, design, and performance.

Rob's experience in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom includes Education, Agribusiness, Defence, Energy, Financial Services, Government, Health, Telco and other industries. His recent mahi has included working with Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, Te Pūkenga, and the Pacific Community (SPC).

Rob was previously a senior Director leading PwC’s People and Organisation management consultancy practice in New Zealand. He's now a founder of Volte – a boutique consultancy of organisational and financial strategists, advisors and analysts.