Meet Our Team

Our team is fundamental to our success. We'd like you to meet some of them.

Our team is diverse and includes recruitment experts, advertising gurus, graphic designers, copywriters and technology developers. This unique combination of talent enables us to create our mix of human services and technology to reinvent the recruitment process. Get to know us, and our best friends!

Sharon Davies

Founding Director and CEO

Sharon is passionate about recruitment and helping companies hire the best people for their team. Her recruitment agency experience combined with her role as co-founder of a successful recruitment advertising agency inspired her to develop a new recruitment model that’s faster and more cost effective and from this Talent Propeller was born in 2009. Sharon is actively involved in the business, setting our strategy, developing new software and identifying the innovation opportunities to pursue. She's a successful entrepreneur, thought leader and sought-after media commentator in the recruitment and HR space.

Beans - German Shorthaired Pointer

Favourite Food: Sausages

Favourite Toy: Tennis Balls

Naughtiest Habit: Sneaking onto the couch for sleeps

Dianne Bow

Operations Manager

Dianne is the invisible glue that holds our business together. She has been involved with our group of companies since 2002, managing the Finance and IT areas of the business. Based in head office she establishes policy and procedures for the finance team and is in charge of the daily operations. She is also responsible for the effective implementation of our business expansion strategies.

Poppy - Maltese Shih Tzu Cross

Favourite Food: Chicken

Favourite Pastime: Playing tug-o-war with her toys

Naughtiest Habit: Chasing cats

Joanna Baker

Senior Recruitment Partner

Joanna's passion is helping organisations to grow and she's been creating great recruitment campaigns that get results since 2002.

A former Marketing Manager (having worked for some of Australasia's best loved brands), she now helps business owners and HR professionals to think like marketers in their quest to attract top talent.

Joanna was a guest speaker at the NZ HR Expo 2018, where she advised on how to harness social media as a recruitment tool and she's been a regular contributor to Talent Propeller's industry journals.

When she is not kicking butt for her Australian clients, she's mum to 3 rescue dogs, is a sessional lecturer and online learning content creator for RMIT and is working her way around the wine regions of the world.

Lucky - Dalmatian

Favourite Food: Carrots

Favourite Toy: Anything that's not his

Naughtiest Habit: Hates being outside and will whine until all doors magically open

Kayly Barks

Recruitment Partner

Kayly joined us in 2021. She’s originally from Canada, has gallivanted her way through the world and is now settled in Queenstown. Having been through recruitment agencies herself, she joined us for one reason – we do recruitment strategies like no other. She understands that one size doesn't fit all and thoroughly enjoys working with clients to define their recruitment strategy and support them on the journey. Outside of the office, you can trust that she’s sipping wine and trying to teach her cat how to fetch.

Pet - Huffy

Breed: Maine Coon

Favourite memory: After 6 years, we found out 'she' was actually a 'he'

Fun fact: Huffy gets a mullet shaved in the summertime

Favourite snacks: Catnip and cute birds

Keith Miller

Recruitment Partner

With three years in the Shortlisters team at Talent Propeller, Keith brings a down to earth and common sense approach to recruiting. Forging genuine business relationships and ensuring his clients are well looked after are his key goals and he looks to use his past experience in different industries to gauge candidate suitability. Passionate about getting the right results, Keith is someone who looks to utilise an engaging style in order to get results.

As the elder statesmen of the business, Keith is a big fan of sports, music and art – he also co-parents George and Lexi, two kittens who enjoy hunting crickets, wetas and anything else they can get their paws on. Oh, and two kids.

Chantel Kruger

Operations Manager

Chantel is our Operations Manager and manages the day to day operations of our New Zealand division, working with clients to develop an effective recruitment strategy that suits our clients' needs. She focuses on building successful business relationships for both our client portfolios. Chantel has an extensive background in recruitment and client relationship management spanning over 20 years and with her passion for people, is an enthusiastic advocate and contributor to our team culture.

Joel Kearns-Docker

Senior Account Manager

Joel has been on the Talent Propeller team since 2016, starting out as a Sales Consultant. With his passion for helping clients find the right recruitment solutions, Joel has worked his way up to Senior Account Manager. On weekends, you'll find him enjoying a concert, watching sports or escaping out of Auckland.