PEOPLE AND CULTURE
Amazing employee experience from start to end.
PEOPLE AND CULTURE
Amazing employee experience from start to end.
What we do:
ROAR is not a generalist HR support service.
We don’t sell policy templates, compliance checklists, or 20-minute phone advice lines.
We operate at the strategic and leadership level, building the leadership systems, culture architecture, and performance operating rhythms that drive real business outcomes.
We treat People as an integrated operating system.
When you engage ROAR, you get a global People & Culture leader with board and SLT-level experience across multiple countries, industries, and business stages.
We understand the unique pain points of small businesses, as well as the growing pains of high-growth stage companies.
Expect practical, commercially grounded advice and decisive action.
Define the leader. Hunt the market. Help them land.
We manage the full search from start to stick.
We sift through the AI noise, reducing hiring time and headaches in a saturated market by proactively headhunting the right leaders.
We find leaders who can actually perform in your environment. And we stick around, helping integrate your critical new hire into your culture and systems with structured onboarding support.
Improve how people experience your business from day one to day done.
We design the critical moments that shape how people feel about working for you.
Culture and values definition, bespoke onboarding design and implementation, offboarding that protects your brand, and full employee journey audits that find the
friction you can’t see.
Build clear standards, better accountability, and stronger leadership practice.
We build the architecture of accountability: performance systems that actually drive behaviour, role clarity scorecards, non-negotiable leadership standards, and practical workshops that equip your leaders to give effective feedback, have hard conversations, and manage underperformance without hesitation.
Hard calls done properly.
Senior-level intervention for the people issues that keep leaders awake at night.
We provide strategic advice and hands-on process management for disciplinary actions, performance exits, personal grievances, complaints, formal investigations, restructures, and high-integrity exits.
No drama. No delay. Just a clear, defensible process.
Use AI in practical ways that save time, improve productivity, and support better work.
We help leaders and HR teams cut through the hype and use AI where it actually adds value.
We start with a targeted assessment of how your team works, then deliver practical, hands-on training so your people can confidently use AI tools in their day-to-day.
For complex needs, we bring in specialist technical partners.
Get senior level support without needing a full time hire.
A global People & Culture leader operating as an extension of your leadership team.
This is not outsourced HR admin; it is strategic, commercial, and confidential.
You get a trusted sounding board for the hard calls, ongoing oversight of people risk and leadership practice, and someone who will tell you what you need to hear.
How we work:
- Project-based pricing is our default. Every engagement starts with a clear scope, a defined deliverable, and an agreed investment. No open-ended timesheets. No surprise invoices.
- Retainer-based pricing is available for clients who want an ongoing strategic partnership, designed for businesses navigating growth, complexity, or change.
- Ad hoc advice is available for immediate, one-off strategic support. Minimum one hour.
- Beyond this guide, we can scope custom services and products tailored to your specific situation. If you have a people challenge, we will find the right way to solve it.
Meet Karly Boast, Lead Consultant
Karly is a senior executive and global People leader with over 20 years of experience helping businesses lift standards, strengthen leadership, and build people systems that hold under pressure.
Having worked across diverse industries and business models in New Zealand and globally, she has led through high-growth phases, complex transformations, and high-stakes people decisions. Warm but direct, commercially sharp, and calm in the hard moments, she helps businesses fix what isn’t working and build a real operating rhythm around people and performance.
Through ROAR Group, Karly delivers decisive recommendations and practical frameworks that clients can use immediately to sharpen leadership, fix broken processes, cleanly handle the tricky people challenges, and build a culture that acts as a true competitive advantage.
Winner of
Best Place to Work Award
2025
NZ HR Director
of the Year
20+
Years Experience
Let's talk.
High Care. High Standards.
Whether you need a strategic partner for the long game or expert hands for a single hard call, ROAR is built to deliver.
Real outcomes. Real impact. No fluff.
The coaching, delegation & feedback skills we have learnt are invaluable."
