Career experience

My career falls into three phases:

Early career – 15 years in the Catholic church

• Including 11 years of full-time study and training, four of those as post-graduate study in Rome and Paris, and significant pastoral care and counselling-related training and experience as a priest. 

Middle career – 20+ years in business

• Including:  7 years with international chemicals company ICI,  8 years in the senior computing and systems role (CIO) in three different organisations including the Reserve Bank and Dept of Internal Affairs,  5 years as Principal Consultant with global consulting and accounting firm KPMG, after which I have had my own consulting business.
  [For full detail of my business career see the pdf. file at http://www.bobcavanagh.co.nz/cv.html

Current career – counselling and coaching focus

Over the last seven years I have changed my focus towards counselling and some coaching work, including

• Having my own practice in Pipitea St, Thorndon.
• Full Member of NZ Association of Counsellors.
• Being included on the Wellington Family Court counsellors' list.
• Accredited coach, and facilitator with the government Leadership Development Centre.