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Joana Kuntz

Associate Professor at University of Canterbury

Areas of expertise

  • - Resilience
  • - Leadership
  • - Diversity and inclusion
  • - Organizational change
  • - Organizational interventions: design, implementation and evaluation

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About me

Joana Kuntz is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She gained her PhD from the University of Tennessee, and worked in organisational development in Europe and the United States prior to moving to New Zealand in 2009. She is the co-founder of the Employee Resilience Research group, a team of UC-based researchers who worked alongside government agencies and private corporations across sectors to facilitate the development of resilience capability following the Christchurch Earthquakes. Joana’s current focus is the future of work, and her applied research spans employee resilience and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, and organisational interventions (design, implementation, and evaluation).