Our Senior Leadership Team

Samantha McNaughton
General Manager, Learning Design and Innovation
National and regional managers
Talk to us about signing up a new learner and any enquiries on our training programmes.

Amit Kumra
Regional Apprentice Manager, Waikato and Bay of Plenty
Workforce development
Talk to us about supporting your wider workforce development needs. Our Workforce Development team are experts in partnering with customers to understand their needs and developing solutions to meet them.
Strategic engagement
Talk to us about your sector. How is it changing? What are your priorities for workforce development? What do we need to do to ensure we’re best supporting you? The Strategic Engagement team works with stakeholders from across our sectors to ensure Competenz is developing fit-for-purpose and relevant training solutions that support workforce development.
Quality support
Talk to us about:
- New assessor registrations
- Existing assessor scope extensions
- Consent to assess applications
- Forklift trainer registrations
- Forklift assessor registrations
- Moderation – pre and post
- Consistency reviews.
We are responsible for ensuring our learners and the users of our unit standards are achieving consistent and quality outcomes.
Careers
Talk to us if you are interested in working with our national careers team, or you are an employer looking to grow your business.
Our programmes include:
- Maori and Pasifika career development
- Gateway programmes
- Work-ready workshops
Competenz is like the university of the workplace and our national careers team are dedicated to connecting young Kiwis with on-the-job learning opportunities. Young people are faced with huge choice and our careers team can assist with navigating a pathway as well as helping with skills needed to find employment.