Get in Touch
Āpōpō can deliver our learning solutions in-house at your organisation, allowing you to train a larger number of people more cost effectively. This saves both time and travel costs for your company.
We can also develop new courses to meet your individual and organisational asset and activity management needs, ranging from two hours, to multi-day courses.
The main advantages when a team trains together are the ongoing interaction around the new knowledge acquired, and a consistency in skills that provides a return to both the individual and your organisation well beyond the training.
Facilitated discussion can relate directly to your unique business challenges and needs.
Our Facilitators
Steve Browning
Steve Browning
Steve is an asset management specialist with nearly two decades experience managing infrastructure assets in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Steve has worked across the infrastructure spectrum and enjoys cross pollinating best practice from each sector to help asset owning organisations optimise their decision making and tell their investment story.
Steve has worked as a Technical Specialist for Transport for London, Lead Advisor on PPP projects in Canada, and as the Technical Director for the Transport Research Laboratory in the UK. Steve is an energetic trainer with a contagious enthusiasm for this sector.
Steve is passionate about raising the profile of infrastructure asset management.
Priyani de Silva-Currie
Priyani de Silva-Currie
Priyani has nearly 10 years experience as the National Asset Management Leader within an NZ consultancy with a background in Buildings and Property and a broad Asset Management base spanning all public infrastructure sectors.
Priyani trains in asset management and procurement, is an assessor for the New Zealand Diploma in Infrastructure Asset Management and New Zealand Certificate in Infrastructure Procurement.
Priyani has co-lead the development of the BTechEng degree for Asset Management with Weltec and Massey University, in her spare time Priyani also guest lectures at Massey in Leadership.
Glen McIntosh
Glen McIntosh
Glen has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure management and delivery. He has been creating LGA budgets, forward works programmes, and planning documents across the last six LTP cycles. And Glen was restructured enough times to have been responsible for most types of local government assets, and at most levels of management.
This broad experience means Glen has an inside understanding of working across the interface points between asset management, finance, corporate planning, consultancy, and governance.
Glen moved to the dark side seven years ago, becoming a consultant with T+T and now works with councils across NZ, as well as partnering with Āpōpō on industry leadership and training.
Alex Cartwright
Alex Cartwright
Technical Director of Resilience and Emergency Management at Tonkin + Taylor
Alex is a chartered professional who is passionate about better integrating people and the environment, with extensive experience in New Zealand, Asia and the UK. He focuses on developing knowledge and preparedness for natural hazards and climate change. Alex supports critical infrastructure organisations to assess risk and establish approaches to build resilience. Having lived within a community that flooded, Alex acutely understands the disruption that incidents have, helping him communicate with individuals who have, or could, experience disaster.
David Chung
David Chung
David Chung is recognised as a specialist in the preparation of contracts, experienced in procurement and construction contracts and the role of Engineer to the Contract. He has worked throughout New Zealand, Fiji, India, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
David's role within Egis is Principal - Procurement & Contracts, meaning he has expertise and extensive hands-on contract management and procurement experience with contracts of all sizes and types, and works for a variety of Government, Local Councils and commercial clients. He's a member of Engineering NZ's Society of Construction Contract Practitioners (SCCP) Panel, as well as the Kainga Ora's Engineer to the Contract panel.
Jim McMahon
Jim McMahon
Jim has over 40 years' experience telecommunications, information technology and professional services sectors, and has worked with all over the world as a telecommunications engineer.
Jim's specific areas of expertise include product development and marketing; the establishment of new markets for technology and services products; assurance, investment analysis and the quantification and management of risk.
Jim is an accredited Investment Logic Mapping (ILM) Facilitator and Better Business Case writer and reviewer. His clients include most major government agencies, regional, district and local councils and leading public companies. His professional qualifications include an MBA and a Degree in Electrical Engineering, and various project and programme management certifications and accreditations.
Peter Degerholm
Peter Degerholm
Peter Degerholm is director of Calderglen Associates Ltd based in Wanaka. He practices as adjudicator, arbitrator and mediator, and offers dispute resolution, expert witness, advocacy and advisory services to the wider construction industry.
Peter sat on the committees for NZS 3910:2013, 3916 and 39172013, and NZS 3915, and has delivered training workshops on the NZS 391x suite of standard since 2011. He was also involved in the development of the Construction Contracts Act 2002 and its subsequent amendments and has written two books on the subject.
Fixed Costs
Cost-effective solution with an agreed price for budgeting purposes
Save Time
No external travel or accommodation required
Customisable Content
Content alignment to meet your organisational requirements
Flexible Scheduling
Training is delivered on a day that is convenient to you
Teamwork & Collaboration
Involving your whole team improves the likelihood of using and implementing the training in your organisation
Networking & Partnerships
Run training with other organisations for networking and further cost savings
Facilitated Course Catalogue
In addition to the courses below, our facilitators can deliver an in-person learning solution that incorporates any content from our digital badge portfolio. These can be delivered via Teams or in-person at your location.
Āpōpō Learning Ecosystem
Āpōpō provides industry professionals the opportunity to learn from experts, peers, and thought leaders.
The ecosystem consists of:
- Digital badges
- In-person courses, available to all, or bespoke in-house courses
- Thought leadership (webinars, conferences and forums).
This work is all focused on achieving our vision of “Sustainable communities enabled by public asset management excellence.”
Our learning materials are all based on industry standards such as the Āpōpō Guide, the ISO 55000 suite of standards, NZS standards (such as NZS 3910) and other expert publications.
