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Ann Brennan, Chief Legal advisor at the Ministry of Business and Innovation and Employment (MBIE) the super Ministry’s love child of Stephen Joyce and all-powerful provider of major funding disbursements across a variety of key sectors.
Ms Brennan’s role has been to assist the new organisation to become a cohesive ‘whole’ and to establish clear relationships with clients and suppliers. Wielding considerable power and influence she was reported as saying “Influencing is the ability to lead others outside your control so they make better decisions affecting you and your work.” Influencing approach when trying to get a team member or CEO to come to your way of thinking is much more effective than attempting to be authoritative, she said.
With a law firm litigation background and working previously as General Counsel at the Public Trust on the executive team handling legal and compliance issues among others and a senior counsel with Westpac, Ann Brennan’s position with the Ministry, leading a team of 70, is a highly significant one.
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