Karly Boast
Karly brings over 20 years of people strategy, organisational design, culture experience and leadership capability across some of New Zealand’s most dynamic sectors, including tech, professional services, finance, retail, legal, construction and hospitality.
Named NZ HR Director of the Year in 2025, Karly is recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading voices in commercial people strategy. Karly is a regular conference speaker, panellist, and industry judge, and a featured contributor to HRD New Zealand.
She’s built and led People functions through every stage of growth, from start-ups becoming category leaders, to founder-led businesses scaling into complex organisations, including leading the People function inside an NZ tech business through a Best Places to Work win in 2024.
For Karly, people, culture and leadership impact aren’t the soft stuff. They are a company’s biggest competitive advantage. At the heart of Consult’s continued success is Karly’s belief in helping New Zealand businesses find the right people, and helping those organisations become stronger, more resilient, and built to last.
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