Stephanie Lay

Strategic Advisor – Pou Mahere

Stephanie has over 20 years of experience working across the public sector, including a number of large change programmes. Her previous programme work includes the Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct Programme, Defence Transformation Programme, National Building Consents System Programme, Housing New Zealand’s Transformation 1 Programme and Modernising Child, and the Youth and Family Programme. 

She joined Ngā Taonga in 2019 and established the Digital Transformation Programme to review how our systems contribute to business performance and assess how we can use them to empower and support staff to manage the Archive. 

Stephanie holds a master’s degree in Mediaeval History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She has lived in New Zealand for more than 20 years and enjoys the bush walks around the western suburbs.