About Us

The Playground was set up in late 2009 as a platform for Janette to combine her passion for the creative sector and her knowledge of business practice and project management.   Since then it has steadily grown into a company provides business nouse to the creative sector and creativity to all other sectors.

 

   Janette Searle
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Janette began her career in film and television initially as a loud sound operator (which didn’t really work that well) and wisely moved quickly into the production office where she  spent the next new 20 years managing the full range of screen genres, production types, sizes and budgets, and being as vocal as she liked.  At the same time she was working through a Business degree through Massey University, raising four mischievous boys and managing a small business.  She’s taken all of that experience, added a dollop of the attitude  – miracles I can do, the impossibly may take a day or two longer -  and thrown it at the her work with clients at the business end of their creative and social change endeavours.  She is The Playground's expert on Business and Brand Strategy, Marketing,  Communications and Project Management - especially when applied to the creative and social change sectors.  

She is passionate about cross sector collaboration as a vehicle for long term sustainable change, and believes that collectively we are far more effective than the traditional silo’d approach have been.  She also believes strongly in the role of business in that, not just in resource, but through the contribution of models and practices that have been so effective for so long, to creating sustainable change. 

Carol Searle 
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Carol is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. She is highly skilled and experienced in  social sector business and organisational development, performance improvement, governance, strategic and business planning, coaching, and working with government.

Carol has a believe that strong governance and strategic performance is the key to success and works with organisations to help them achieve that success.