About Right Start Jobs

Cynthia Johnson has a 30 year career in organisational development working with companies in New Zealand, the Middle East, and China. Her last corporate role was as head of Organisational Development for Fonterra, an organisation employing 17 000 people. She runs the Challenge of Change Resilience programmes in New Zealand and has published in the leadership field, return on investment in HR initiatives, on-boarding, and business acumen. She has won awards for her leadership development work. Cynthia speaks at conferences, including on the topic of how to on-board new employees and manager performance in the first year of a new job.

During her career she has introduced individual and group 100-day programmes for new hires. Cynthia has a Masters in Psychology and is a registered, though not practicing, psychologist.

Cynthia and her team of coaches offer 100-day coaching programmes to managers starting a new role. 

For more information about the work of Right Start Jobs, Cynthia, and her team contact us.

Cynthia Johnson has been invaluable in creating framework and content for our people in their first hundred days and beyond.

We wanted a guide book in plain English that talked about the realities of starting in a new position and the best way to ensure success.

It was learning for our Managers and Cadets alike.  It was written and produced by Cynthia in our language and in support of our aims for our people .

It was extremely well received by the team.

We saw an opportunity to spring-board from that into a series of training modules.

The modules were written and facilitated by Cynthia and the material was current, incredibly well researched and generated the right kind of discussion in the group.

We would have no hesitation in recommending Cynthia and the work she does to any organisation that is serious about setting people up well and seeing value returned in a short space of time.

Alison Morris, People Manager and Director, Cassidy Construction

Cynthia Johnson