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Deloitte Young Executive of the Year · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Zealand's most prestigious business awards, the Deloite Top two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: took place last night, celebrating the very best and innovation
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  Speaker 1: and leadership that our country has to offer, and securing
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  Speaker 1: the prize for the Snowflake Young Executive of the Year
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  Speaker 1: was Kate Boyer, general Manager of Airports at in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: who took on the role at the young age of
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  Speaker 1: thirty and Kate joins me, now, good morning and congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, thank you, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel?
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  Speaker 2: Oh a bit surreal, to be honest, I am very
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  Speaker 2: very humbled by it. I think you know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: such an incredible journey we've been on in Airports, coming
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  Speaker 2: out of COVID, rebuilding the team, driving this incredible program
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  Speaker 2: of work, and I'm so proud of them and what
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  Speaker 2: they've accomplished and what they do every day. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I should be recognized, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: very proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: But here we are, so let's do it all right.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like this question is appropriate because it's
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  Speaker 1: about the young. How old are you now? Thirty two?
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  Speaker 1: You're thirty two years old, okay, and you're a head
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  Speaker 1: of Airports for your museum. That's right, Yeah, how many?
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  Speaker 1: How big is your team?
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  Speaker 2: So I lead a team of about twenty six hundred
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  Speaker 2: people all over the country and our global lounge network
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  Speaker 2: as well, so everything from Invercargol to kdy Kitty and
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  Speaker 2: Fungaday all the way to Auckland, our big hub where
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  Speaker 2: we have twelve hundred people working every day. So it's
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  Speaker 2: an incredible team. Every time you're in an airport, you're
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  Speaker 2: going through check in, your bags are being loaded on
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  Speaker 2: an aircraft, the aircraft's being closed for departure, or you're
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  Speaker 2: in the air New Zealand Lounge, that's our team showing
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  Speaker 2: up for you and looking after our customers every day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you've had success, clearly you've won this award. How
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  Speaker 1: did you get here? In a short spice.
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  Speaker 2: Of Tom, Yeah, I feel I've been really lucky in
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  Speaker 2: my career. I've had incredible sort of mentors and guides.
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  Speaker 2: I started my career in consulting working in the US.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I grew up here in New Zealand on the
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  Speaker 2: South Island, just in North Canterbury, but went overseas and
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  Speaker 2: worked in consulting for a while and then started working
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  Speaker 2: for Airlines and when I came back to New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: got my role at Er New Zealand, and the team
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  Speaker 2: just backed me into taking this role coming out of
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  Speaker 2: a commercial strategy role, which is where I started at
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  Speaker 2: Air New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: And I did you feel like you were ready for it?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I think you know, I knew what I
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  Speaker 2: could bring to the role, which is you know, scale
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  Speaker 2: transformation experience, very strategic experience, but the operation was new
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  Speaker 2: to me and it's a very safety sensitive space. It's
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  Speaker 2: a space where you need to make really quick, good
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  Speaker 2: decisions and because.
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  Speaker 1: Bad ones can be bad, right, Yeah, that's right. What
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  Speaker 1: would be your advice because you know, I'm thinking particularly
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  Speaker 1: about young people watching who maybe feeled a bit disillusion
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  Speaker 1: especially the way the job market is at the moment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what is your kind of go to piece of advice
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  Speaker 1: for young people, you know, not just getting into a career,
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  Speaker 1: but actually getting up the ladder And one, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think find a place to show that you can
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  Speaker 2: add value and just go for it. I think in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand we can hold ourselves back and we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to try and you know, stand it out from
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. And I think for young people today, just
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  Speaker 2: back yourself and really go for it, and people will
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  Speaker 2: see how passionate you are, how much you love your job,
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  Speaker 2: how much you care, And I think that's where those
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  Speaker 2: opportunities start to materialize. At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love my job, I love the people
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  Speaker 2: that I work with, and I think that bleeds through
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  Speaker 2: into how I lead, and so putting your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Into it really you You're proud of what you do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of my people.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that you would be where you are
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  Speaker 1: today if you hadn't gone overseas and got that experience?
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  Speaker 1: You know, are the Americans a little more?
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  Speaker 2: I definitely taught me to be less humble, so I
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  Speaker 2: think in America, Yeah, No, I think I'm glad I
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  Speaker 2: had that global experience. It's definitely brought something to the role.
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  Speaker 2: But New Zealand, I mean, is a hotbed of talent.
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  Speaker 2: We have incredible people, very innovative thinkers, very hard working individuals.
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  Speaker 2: So there is no shortage of talent in this country.
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  Speaker 2: We shouldn't think otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to have the attitude to go with it. Yeah,