30 Oct 2025
Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau has been honoured with the Human-Centred Impact Spotlight Award at the 2025 Best Places to Work Awards, recognising our commitment to creating a workplace where people truly thrive.
The Human-Centred Impact category celebrates workplaces where inclusion, care and human potential drive success - recognising that when people flourish, so do the organisations they power.
“It is exciting to be named as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best places to work,” says Engineering New Zealand Chief Executive Dr Richard Templer.
General Manager – People and Experience Ben Vaughan, People Experience Manager Dee Johnston and Chief Executive Richard Templer accepting the Human-Centred Impact Spotlight Award from Melissa Clark-Reynolds of Cultivating Leadership NZ, the award sponsor.
“This recognition celebrates our people – the way we collaborate, care and create together to build a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported and inspired to grow. It was fantastic that our work on neuro-inclusion, cultural competency and creating a safe space for our Rainbow community has been recognised. This has been staff led working with our partners Neuro Fusion, Papaki Parihau and the Diversity Agenda.”
The judges commended Engineering New Zealand for living our values and setting a powerful example of what it means to put people truly at the centre of everything we do.
“We are committed to building an engineering profession that’s inclusive and diverse – one that reflects the society it serves. We know that a diverse and inclusive profession will deliver the engineering New Zealand needs,” says Templer.
General Manager – People and Experience Ben Vaughan, People Experience Manager Dee Johnston and Chief Executive Richard Templer.
“In any business, your people are critically important. Taking the time to listen to what they value, and what they want changed, then doing it will always deliver results in terms of improved performance, attraction, retention, engagement and customer service. Not only are you doing the right thing, but you will also see a direct benefit to your business.”
Engineering New Zealand is proud to continue embedding human-centred approaches into its culture and ways of working in the year ahead. The organisation was also a finalist in the Small–Medium Workplace category at the awards.
