Welcome to IMedi8

Welcome to IMedi8, the website of Roy Johnson, Mediator, Concilliator and Agricultural Consultant, Te Awamutu. 

My Professional Experience includes: 

  • Dairy Farm Consultancy
  • Farm Supervisor
  • Lease Supervision
  • Large Herd Specialist
  • Equity Partnership Consultancy
  • Business Governance
  • Private Employment Mediation
  • Employment Investigation
  • Advocacy

Speciality Areas 

  • Farm Supervision
  • Employment Consultancy / mediation / HR /motivation
  • Arbitration
  • All Contract Milking / Sharemilking Disputes
  • All Rural Mediation Or Advocacy
  • Recruitment, Retention And Manager Coaching.
  • Independent Assessment Of Cow Condition, Feeding Levels Or Grass Cover
  • Dairy Nutrition
  • Budget implementation and cash flow
Large herds are my specialty and I have a wealth of experience in the management of stock and labour. Consultancy must be profit driven. Profitable dairying means fully feeding cows with the lowest cost resources available. Not wasting feed, getting cows in calf and being able to be profitable this year and next year.

In terms of HR, staff need to fit well to the job, be encouraged and adequately rewarded.  In disputes, my experience has proven that prevention is better than cure. Proactive communication on farm regularly is good relationship maintenance.  If the first call can be to mediate a dispute, this is more resolvable and cheaper than becoming an advocate.

Relevant Experience

  • Associate to David Stewart and Associates (7 years)
  • 50/50 Sharemilking for 22 years with 13 being a large herd and 8 with 1000 cows
  • Dairy farm owner for 8 years
  • Current farming interests
  • Previous elected roles in Federated Farmers at provincial and national level.

Area of Specialisation

Alternative Dispute Resolution
 
I am a trained and practicing mediator/conciliator/arbitrator and can offer the complete range from negotiation to arbitration.
  • relationship maintenance and problem solving
  • owner/sharemilking coaching
  • Mediate future focused solutions for business or individuals
  • Sharemilking conciliation, National Panel of Conciliators Member(Sharemilking Agreements Order 2001)
  • arbitrate commercial and farming disputes
  • employment mediator/advocacy
  • advocate for parties in arbitration or mediation
  • Chairing family or business meetings
  • Equity partnerships