Jimmy Stradar
[FYI request #30474 email]
9 May 2025
Dear Jimmy,
OIA 24-25-53: NZTE Coaching Thank you for your email of 20 March 2025 to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE),
making a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). You requested the following
information:
I am writing to request information under the Official Information Act 1982 regarding coaching
services provided internally to staff at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE).
Specifically, could you please provide:
Details of all external consultants engaged by NZTE over the past three years to provide
internal coaching, personal development, and team-building services, including:
-- Name of the consulting entity or individual(s);
-- Nature and detailed scope of services provided;
-- Duration of each consultancy engagement;
-- Total costs incurred per year for each consultant per annum.
Clarification on whether any external consultants have been engaged continuously or
repeatedly (for more than six months), and if so, please outline the reasons for these longer-
term engagements and length of continuous engagement.
Details regarding the approval process and criteria NZTE uses to determine the necessity and
value of engaging external coaching or personal development consultants.
NZTE has interpreted your request to include 1:1 and team coaching specifically for the
calendar years from 1 January 2022 to 20 March 2025. Note this excludes individual personal
development activities as compiling this would involve substantial col ation, so NZTE is
withholding this under section 18(f) of the Official Information Act.
Answers to your questions are attached as Appendix One.
You have the right under section 28(3) of the Act to seek an investigation and review by the
Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.govt.nz or freephone: 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely,
T: +64 4 816 8100
W: nzte.govt.nz
W: newzealand.com/business
Level 15, The Majestic Centre, 100 Wil is Street, Wel ington 6011, New Zealand, PO Box 2878, Wel ington 6140, New Zealand
Melissa Trochon
Director – Board & Ministerial