Maretha Smit has held a number of senior leadership roles in her native South Africa and New Zealand
The Diversity Works New Zealand Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of new Chief Executive, Maretha Smit.
Smit has held a number of senior leadership roles in her native South Africa and New Zealand, including as Chief Executive of a large member organisation where she effected significant transformational change across an entire sector.
Moreover, Smith has a background and appreciation of the challenges in diversity and inclusion and has held a senior leadership role in an organisation serving the blind and low vision community, as well as delivering programmes within the education and industry training sectors.
“As a small organisation, it is great to have attracted a candidate with such a broad range of skills,” said Diversity Works New Zealand Board Chair Susan Doughty.
“Maretha has senior operational and people leadership experience, extensive funding and stakeholder management experience and a core expertise in customer centricity. She believes in partnering and collaboration to achieve additional reach.”
Smit starts her new role in mid-April and is looking forward to meeting with Diversity Works New Zealand’s member community and other organisations operating across the workplace diversity and inclusion landscape.
Maretha, her wife and their family moved to New Zealand in 2016 to be closer to whānau.
Diversity Works New Zealand is the national body for workplace diversity and inclusion, providing training, education, networks and resources to organisations committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
