Geoff Summers

Background

About Geoff Summers

Geoff is one of New Zealand’s foremost human resource management specialists. His qualifications include a Master of Business Administration (with distinction) and a Master of Business Studies in Human Resource Management (with distinction). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand and recieved the HRNZ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia and New Zealand. Geoff’s wide experience has seen him involved in union roles (culminating as the first National Secretary of the NZ Professional Firefighters’ Union), health and safety (he was the first National Safety and Health Manager for the New Zealand Fire Service), over 12 years of remuneration consulting including 10 years as one of the owner-operators of Strategic Pay, and generalist human resource management gained through Executive HR roles in the Fire Service and at Victoria University of Wellington He is a very experienced employment relations advocate. He was appointed by the Minister of Labour to serve on the Ministerial Committee that reviewed the Code of Good Faith for Collective Bargaining in 2004. Geoff was previously a part-time Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington where he taught Management Skills (an Emotional Intelligence course) and Human Resources Management, both on the MBA programme. He also taught Human Resource Management in International Business on Victoria University’s International MBA programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2021 and 2022 he taught Applied Human Resource Management at Victoria University of Wellington.