Stephanie Love
HR Consulting

Supporting workplaces that put people first

Who We Are

Kia ora, I'm Steph.

I have a dream of wanting people to live their best lives, and I want work to not be a barrier to that.

The reality is most people will have a job at some point in their lifetime and I want people to feel safe enough to bring their whole selves to work. I want people to have time back to spend it on the things that bring them joy. I want people to be guided in a way that allows them to thrive and I want people to be treated fairly and equally.

So I founded Stephanie Love Limited to support organisations in understanding opportunities to put people at the centre of everything they do and removing barriers to work getting in the way of people living their best lives.

By way of our uniquely developed People First Index framework, we work with business leaders and HR professionals to measure the progressiveness of an organisations people policies and practices, and offer practical recommendations to put people first, leading to increases in employee wellbeing, engagement, retention, attraction, happiness, and reductions in attrition, burnout and absenteeism, ultimately leading to increases in innovation, creativity, productivity, sales, organisations achieving their business goals, and people living their best lives.

Get in touch today for a free 30-minute consultation to see how we can support your organisation on your journey to putting people first.

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People First Index

Beyond Rem: Attraction and Retention Mastery Programme

8-week online course

Commencing Wednesday 19th October 2022

1:30pm on Zoom

The comprehensive 10-step programme to increasing employee attraction and retention at your organisation.

Bleeding people but not sure why?

Know there’s lots of info out there on HR trends but feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start?

Starting out in your HR career and want to get a comprehensive view of progressive HR practices?

Sole-charge HR practitioner at your organisation and want to be connected with other HR professionals?

Want to brush up on your HR knowledge and be ahead of current trends?

Want to impress your organisation leaders?

Join the Beyond Rem: Attraction and Retention Mastery Programme!

What we do

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Business Consulting

How we can help

Our business is built on the belief that the best organisations to work for are the ones that put people at the centre of everything they do.

To support your organisation to be the best, we work with you to assess your organisation's policies and practices against the People First Index, our uniquely developed framework that measures your organisation against progressive, researched criteria.

We provide this feedback to your organisation, so you can understand where and how you can make changes to your working practices and culture that would help make your people feel as though they are treated fairly, respectfully and as though they are as important as stakeholder value.

We aim to support organisations to be the best place to work for their people, so that they are able to:

Be themselves
Give within the bounds they are contracted to give
Be given meaningful work for a cause they believe in
Be treated with fairness and equality

This can lead to:

Increased sales and revenue due to consumers choosing your organisation over competitors
Being recognised as an employer of choice and attracting and retaining top talent
Enhanced innovation, creativity and problem-solving
A decrease in cost associated with absenteeism and employee burnout
Increase in attraction to future generations entering the workforce
Validated and reliable data on the position of people policies and practices that can inform strategy

Learn about People First Index

Meet the Team

Stephanie Love - Founder

Stephanie has over 10 years' experience in HR in New Zealand, USA and UK, working for companies such as Disney, Coca-Cola Amatil and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

She has developed and implemented strategic HR framework for global organisations and has worked in the tourism, FMCG, professional services, hospitality, retail, entertainment, recruitment, public sector and manufacturing industries.

Stephanie has a passion for Equal Pay and whilst at Magic Memories the organisation was awarded the Bronze YWCA Equal Pay award. Stephanie was a finalist in the 2018 HRINZ HR Specialist of the year awards.

She has an undergraduate degree in Business Psychology, a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration (HR Management) both from Massey University and is currently working towards a Bachelor of Laws at Victoria University.

Credited features

Conferences

Why It’s More Important Than Ever to Put People First - DisruptHR, 23 June 2022

Webinars

Recorded Webinars

Gender Diversity Leadership - Global Greens, 12 March 2022

HRNZ: Practically Building Empathy into the Redundancy Process, 27 May 2020

Blue Sky Recruitment: The Ultimate Love Story, 13 May 2020

Podcasts

Work-Life Balance, Gender Pay, & Taking the Leap w/ Steph from Stephanie Love Consulting, The Florescence Podcast, 22 March 2021

Putting people first with Stephanie Love Consulting, Kiwis in Business Podcast, 8 November 2020

Articles

Is the ERA holding organisation's back from progressive remuneration? - HRD, 30 September 2022

Getting a kick out of a seldom-mentioned workplace change, HRD, 9 September 2022

Employers warned they must pay up or risk losing talent, HRD, 5 July 2022

Struggling to hire? Your EVPs just aren't attractive enough, HRD, 17 June 2022

How progressive Pay Practices could save your business, HRD, 5 June 2022

NZ Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020 comes into force: 4 aspects employers need to understand, HRD, 14 November 2020

Lack Of Gender Diversity On NZX50 Uncovered By First-time Investor And HR Professional, Scoop, 6 July 2021

World Breastfeeding Week: an HR perspective on working and breastfeeding, Te Rita Ora, 7 August 2021

Stephanie Love brings together the unique skill of making sense of people and numbers and helping us put the human back into the centre of our decision making.

Stephanie is a master at taking a concept and turning into something magic and I have had the privilege of working with her in multiple roles.

More recently Stephanie has been the engine behind building the new Rainbow Inclusion Stocktake for me at Pride Pledge. She took my concepts and ideas, and now we have a unique and fabulous tool to help organisations on their Rainbow Inclusion Journeys.

I can't recommend Steph highly enough!