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About
Let's make work better
We are New Zealand’s foremost Information and Knowledge Management experts
Information Leadership is dedicated to making work better for New Zealand organisations.
Our over 200 customers come from all sectors and include councils, government agencies, commercial organisations and utilities. We create award-winning digital workplaces, intranets, and business solutions on Microsoft365 and Teams.
Staff numbers are steadily growing from our continued success with 60+ people located across Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin offices.
We are far from being the usual IT shop. Our team brings multi-disciplinary skills including change management, recordkeeping, governance and human centred solutions design. These skills go hand-in-hand with our deep technical expertise in migration, integration and technical solution design.
Sarah Heal, co-founder and director, recently discussed what we do on the Canterbury Tech Communications podcast:
Hear Sarah talk about how we’ve built IL into the success story it is today
Microsoft Gold Partner +10 yrs
Gold Status Certified in 'Cloud Productivity', 'Collaboration and Content' and 'Application Development'. Silver Status Certified in 'Project and Portfolio Management' and 'Enterprise Mobility Management'.
The first Kiwi company to be awarded this honour - only 41 Microsoft partners worldwide have this honour.
For the second year in a row, Information Leadership won Microsoft's Empowering Employees Partner of the Year 2020 | 2019 - for both private and public sector customers, Todd Energy and Tasman District Council.
Information Leadership case studies on Microsoft.com include; Tasman District Council, Todd Energy. Pan Pac Forests, NZ Forest & Bird and Kaipara District Council.
Documents an assessment by Information Leadership of the capability of Microsoft 365 to support organisations in meeting their obligations under the New Zealand Public Records Act 2005 (PRA). Published January 2021.
Information Leadership and Microsoft co-hosted webinars on Teams Governance & PRA Compliance and Microsoft 365 Supporting PRA Compliance.
Our management team
Grant Margison
Director and Strategy Lead
A co-founder of Information Leadership, Grant combines his experience in corporate management roles with a passion for technology and information. Grant is in charge of strategic direction and innovation at Information Leadership.
Sarah Heal
Director and Operations Manager
A co-founder of Information Leadership, Sarah is an enthusiastic advocate for the power of information. She has a deep recordkeeping, change management and information management background that sets Information Leadership apart.
David Seel
Major Implementations and Technical Services Manager
David is an outstanding technical and project leader who has been with Information Leadership for 15 years. He has deep technical and systems knowledge as well as experience delivering projects across complex organisations in multiple sectors.
Mark Watson
365 Practice Lead
Mark is an experienced technical solutions consultant. He brings cutting edge usability design and best practices in business analysis, infrastructure and information architecture into modern digital workplaces.
Katherine Deacon
365 Implementation lead
Katherine can take charge of any Microsoft 365 project with well planned and thought through solutions to business needs. From intranet, data analysis and governance through to business process review and improvement.
Ian Morrish
Technical Director - Infrastructure and Cloud Platforms
Ian is one of New Zealand's top SharePoint experts, having worked at Microsoft for 10 years prior to joining Information Leadership. His expertise in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is invaluable, and he regularly mentors Information Leadership and customer staff.
Jos Auker-Woor
Technical Director - Development
Jos' experience spans more than 20 years and he excels at sharing new technology and ways of working. He puts his second-to-none trouble shooting skills to work as lead architect for Information Leadership's iWorkplace product line.
Kristy Archer
365 Implementation Lead
Kristy uses her pragmatic and organised approach as a superb project and design lead for ECM projects. This includes a specialty for Council EDRMS and ECM implementations.
A brief profile of our work and customers
Our Customers
We have worked with over 150 organisations on substantive work. These are small, medium and large organisations from many sectors, including science, health, education, local and central government, utility, commercial, and professional services.
Our Location
We have main offices in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch, as well as resources in Hamilton. Visitors are always welcome!
Our Expertise
We have all skills and experience in house- with our master practitioners and technical experts providing solutions across Information Strategies, SharePoint Technical, Information Management, Governance, EDRMS, Intranet, Training and more.
Recordkeeping
We have recognised and proven expertise in recordkeeping and PRA compliance. This includes developing and delivering Archives NZ public PRA compliance training for the last three years.
ECM Technologies
We have done strategy, design and implementation assignments in the bulk of EDRMS and ECM systems used in New Zealand, including Dataworks, Hummingbird (Livelink), Objective, SharePoint and TRIM.
iWorkplace™
iWorkplace is our methodology, training iLabs and Apps for extending SharePoint for PRA compliance, document management, intranets and specific information and knowledge management solutions.
Beginnings
Information Leadership was formed by Sarah Heal and Grant Margison in 2004. Sarah and Grant remain active in leading the business as well as conference presentations and workshops.
Their book on information management, "Flapping to Flying: Getting value not Grief from Information Technology" articulates our user centred philosophy for information and knowledge management. The book's models are regularly used in our consulting assignments and implementations.
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