Finding leaders that make a difference in your business
Authentic is Geoff Shaw, supported by a great collection of experts in their fields. Great clients we have worked with for a long time and the ability and experience to make sure processes and assessment tools help you find, select and support the right people to fit your culture and achieve your business objectives.
Our Clients
Our clients range from household-name brand leaders to niche players across various markets and sectors, from large multinationals to smaller family-led businesses and everything in between. Many of these relationships are clocking up over 20 years, through generations of leadership.
Our Partners
Risk management. What we aren't great at, we know people who are. We work closely with a range of partners, from governance experts and directors, banks to professional services in law and accounting, from psychologists to financial planners.
Our Networks
A critical element to our partnerships is our networks built over 30 plus years with range of senior leaders across NZ business who provide great connections and advice on a range of issues and challenges for our clients
Geoff Shaw
B.A. ( Psychology/Management) .
Geoff commenced his post-graduate career as a Sales Coordinator with 3M New Zealand before spending a tough year in sales with another American multinational.
He joined one of New Zealand's oldest executive recruitment/search firms, APC in 1986, completing industry training and being involved in leadership roles with what is now the RCSA industry body on the membership and ethics groups.
Following the turmoil of the late 80's, he continued the recruitment brand APC Marketing in 1990, specialising in leadership, sales and marketing roles, plus a joint venture with the University of Auckland - Department of Marketing which focused on building talent pipelines across NZ and multinational businesses, including Sanitarium, Johnson and Johnson, SC Johnson, Red Bull, Heinz Wattie and others.
In 2001 APC merged with Swann Group to create Swann Executive ( later rebranded to Saturn Group). Geoff became a partner still working across many of the same clients and increasingly involved in developing the succession/transition offering, bringing new capability and equity into NZ's economic engineroom the small and medium enterprise market .
In 2014 he moved to Wellington to develop the succession transition outside the Auckland market, working with clients across the Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Manawatu and Wellington regions.
Geoff is closely involved with Food and Grocery Council, having conducted the Industry Salary Survey since 1989, sits on the Membership Services Working Group for the FGC