The Community and Recreation Department encompasses Greenspace, Community, District Regeneration, Libraries and Aquatics Centres. As a new ‘team’ of managers, we wanted to quickly establish a culture of shared vision and purpose, and develop an overarching strategy for our collective works….Tammi quickly created an energetic and trust-centred environment. Her perceptive approach allowed for some of the more challenging conversations to take place and then build on those, toward developing the shared vision and purpose that will ultimately serve as a foundation for our Departmental Strategy.

Shout out to my tuakana/uso Tammi Martin for journeying with me and showing me how to hold spaces with spherical intelligence, that is to know the theory/intellectual side of engagement, but to also read the signs in the room, the people (emotional intelligence), own our cultural intelligence and trust our 'gut feeling' or intuitive intelligence when steering and navigating talanoa. Some things cannot be taught only caught

Tammi has spent a significant part of the last decade as a full-time lecturer contributing to the SSPE across our two major undergraduate programmes – the Bachelor of Education (Physical Education) and the Bachelor of Sport Coaching. Tammi has crossed discipline boundaries and also taught courses on sociology of sport and physical education as well as mentoring students on teaching and sport coaching practicums. Her abilities here are unquestioned. The quality of her work is always high, her unguarded approach makes her a wonderful work colleague and these traits do not go unnoticed by the students either. Her course and teacher evaluations, which are completed by her students at the end of each course, are inevitably positive and glowing about her delivery, quality of content and openness.