Ainsley Benefield
Founder & Director
Ainsley founded Hive to bring to life her passion for achieving positive working relationships through communication, feedback and flexibility.
She spent much of her career working as an employment lawyer in Wellington, Dublin, and London. This included time as an in-house lawyer at a global company going through a significant period of HR issues and transformation. When returning to New Zealand, she balanced her role in London remotely with a more hands-on role for Humankind (an HR consultancy).
This experience has meant Ainsley has worked with a variety of employers across most industries around the world. Her legal background paired with her HR experience means she has a pragmatic, people-focused approach to getting HR and people management issues right. She is also a qualified mediator and specialist in independent reviews and investigations.
Kate Major
HR Consultant
Kate is a senior HR practitioner with 10 years’ experience across a range of public sector, multi-national and small private organisations. She has a strong interest in modern HR practices, in particular those related to change, performance and development, and culture transformation.
Kate has worked with many start up and growth companies, and ensures their people strategies and processes meets the organisation's goals and culture. Kate builds strong working relationships, and loves being able to support and encourage the employers she works with to achieve strong relationships within their own workplaces. She is always looking to new and future workplace practices and technologies and for ways her clients may be able to introduce them.
Caitlin Foley
Business Support
Caitlin is the one who keeps Hive buzzing. She provides all operations and business support, which she manages to do whilst also studying full time for her Masters in Software Development at Victoria University. Caitlin has experience in a range of different HR teams and businesses, meaning you may also come across her providing HR administrative support on work for our clients.
Jamie Gallocher
HR Consultant
Jaime is one of our partners based in Auckland. She runs her own HR consultancy, but we come together to support Auckland based clients when they need it.
Jaime has over 10 years experience working in London and Auckland in both leadership and specialist HR roles. She now supports SME employers across multiple sectors in Auckland – supporting them to have best practice HR and employee experiences that align both business and people strategies.
Jaime quickly builds strong working relationships with those she works with, meaning she has particular strengths in coaching and supporting leaders to manage their staff. Her clients appreciate her straight talking and pragmatic approach.