Jane Sweeney is one of the industry's most experienced and respected professionals. Her big focus these days is the stuff that keeps CEOs awake at night. She sees communications as a vital tool to solve major business problems and loves rolling her sleeves up and getting into strategic issues alongside her clients’ executive teams and boards.

Strong networks are key to Jane’s modus operandi. She sees herself as a connector and a circuit breaker for the companies she works with. Jane utilises her public and private sector background to good effect to assist her clients. A Champion for Auckland and strongly committed to Corporate Social Responsibility and economic development, Jane finds herself front and centre at many of the major debates that go on around town.

Having started her career in marketing communications, Jane’s skillset now incorporates the full suite of corporate communications disciplines. She loves putting complex teams together who can deliver best in class services to meet a business’s requirements.

Having run a top-ten marcomms agency in London, Jane was trade commissioner for New Zealand Trade & Enterprise in Paris in the mid 1990s. This period of government service offered Jane an entrée to senior Ministers and officials. She has wide-ranging contacts in Wellington, which prove beneficial for corporate clients looking to align their programmes with government policy or monitor legislative change which may impact their business.

Jane holds several industry awards and board positions with private companies.

"I have been very impressed with Jane's ability to bring key resources together to address our broad communications requirements. Everything from significant public relations issues through to improving our internal communications tools has been handled in a professional and timely manner. Jane is also very well connected with New Zealand business and political leaders, and we have drawn on her relationships to good effect."
Graeme Sumner, Former Chief Executive, Transfield Services New Zealand.