27 Feb 2026
Employment law has been changing in NZ. Are you prepared?
It’s shaping up to be a busy year for employment law after a relatively quiet 2025. Several changes...
Kerry Tattersall
Employment Relations/HR Consultant, Licensed Private Investigator, Associate, Hawke’s Bay
Kerry spends most of her time within the employment relations space. Whether this be undertaking workplace investigations, collective bargaining, restructuring and redundancies, providing support and solutions for disciplinary, performance, absenteeism, HR generalist matters or navigating clients through personal grievances, mediations and the employment authority.
As an accredited leadership coach and trained restorative practitioner, Kerry weaves her many skills into her employment relations work.
Specialist Areas
- Employment/Workplace investigations
- Restorative-based workplace meetings
- Employment disputes and personal grievance
- Employment relations advice including disciplinary, performance and absence management
- Collective bargaining
- Restructures and change management
- HR compliance and tailored HR solutions
- Organisational review and development including leadership coaching
- On site secondments
Industry Experience
- FMCG industry
- Civil engineering
- Not-for-profit social enterprise
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
Memberships and Qualifications
- Licensed private investigator (Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority)
- A Certified People Professional in HR (CPPNZ) via The Association of People Professionals (APPNZ)
- Post Graduate in Human Resources Management with a specialist discipline in employment law and employee relations
- Diploma in Business Studies
- Workplace Coaching qualification through the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
- Diploma in Health & Safety and Fire Safety & Risk Management ” National Examination Board for Occupational Health & Safety (NEBOSH)
- Personality Type Indicator Accreditation
- Foundation Diploma of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- A Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD)
- A Chartered Member of the Human Resource Institute of NZ (HRINZ)