Deloitte announces new leader of human capital

Deloitte announces new leader of human capital consultancy practice

Deloitte has today announced the relocation of Richard Kleinert as leader of its New Zealand and Asia-Pacific human capital consulting practice teams.

Mr Kleinert, who will be based in Auckland, was previously a partner with Deloitte Consulting in the United States, where he has held a number of industry and geographic leadership roles.

Deloitte New Zealand chief executive Murray Jack says Mr Kleinert represents a significant addition to Deloitte’s human capital consultancy offering, and has a wealth of industry and consulting experience.

“Richard brings more than 30 years’ experience in this field to our practice, and has an outstanding track record. His array of achievements with some of the world’s top companies, working on both the consulting and employer side, are very impressive.”

Mr Kleinert has been involved in organisational transformation across multiple industries and his experience covers the spectrum of human capital issues, including change management and learning, total rewards programmes, HR operations and technology, organisational development, and talent management.

He has worked with Bell Helicopter, Raytheon, Toyota Motor Sales, Nissan, The Walt Disney Company and Hawker Beechcraft among other companies.

Mr Kleinert says he offers particular expertise in the areas of change management and organisation transition, transformation of human resources functions, and developing talent strategy and solutions.

He says one of the many human capital challenges for companies as the economy climbs out of recession is to have in place strategies to overcome talent shortages, particularly as the market now is very different to that of the last recession.

Unfortunately, many companies seem to be relying on recession as their talent strategy. Just because there may be relatively high unemployment doesn’t mean the talent a company requires will be available when you need it, and non-financial rewards can be a critical way for companies to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

“One rule is true for all human capital issues: follow the market leaders. Companies who are winning the best talent are doing so because they view the world differently, and their employees have a different view of them.”

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