Sylvia Wood

Sylvia Wood is a New Zealand business woman, currently serving as President of the New Zealand National Party. She succeeded Peter Goodfellow in 2022.[1]

Wood was raised in the South Island.[2] She owns and runs a human resources consultancy Knowhow. She joined the New Zealand National Party in 2014 and its board in 2021, being elected as its president on 7 August 2022.[2]

Wood has over twenty five years’ experience in human resources and employment relations. Her career at Director level in Corporate organisations led to the establishment of a successful consulting practice. This consulting practice developed a product arm in 2000 to include a range of services for small to medium sized companies. Knowhow offers an outsourced HR service, providing both depth and expertise in human resources management and employment relations for business.

Wood has consulted to New Zealand’s largest corporates, central and local government organisations and to a wide range of businesses in the areas of legal compliance, restructuring, organisational review, strategic planning, employment relations, personal grievance management including mediation and negotiation of settlements, performance management, disciplinary processes, union negotiations, large scale change management projects, high performing team strategies HR policy, system and process development,  performance reviews, remuneration planning, incentive programmes [3]

Wood is a member of the Employment Law Institute and the Institute of Directors.[4]

She currently lives in Auckland.[4]

  1. ^ "National Party elects Sylvia Wood as new president". RNZ. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b Malpass, Luke (6 August 2022). "Sylvia Wood elected as new National Party president, spells out party recipe for 2023 general election". Stuff. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  3. ^ Wood, Sylvia. "LinkedIn".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b "National Party elects Sylvia Wood as new president". 11 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.