Managing Director Loses His Hair For Good

Media Release April 2011

Managing Director Loses His Hair For Good

There’s nothing like a close shave, and one company has surpassed all others in this year’s Shave for a Cure, by raising $20,000 in the annual fundraising drive by the NZ Leukaemia and Blood Foundation. In doing so, DHL Global Forwarding has amassed more donations than any other contributing company, toward a total of $660,000, a single-year record in Shave for a Cure’s nine-year history.

It all came about because of six-year-old Kole Satherley, whose story was recently shared in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. As they say, he’s a tough little cookie. His personal story of diagnosis and treatment for a blood disorder has inspired his mom’s workmates to club together in an initial bid to raise $10,000 for Shave for a Cure.

Today, nine DHL Global Forwarding staff, along with their managing director of more than 10 years, took the challenge to heart and lost their hair for the cause. Having doubled their original monetary goal, all 10 upheld their end of the bargain by submitting to the shaver and bidding farewell to their crowning glory.

MD Brian Broom is himself a father of a young family, with a toddler and twin babies, and is deeply sympathetic to the struggle his staff member Kara and the Satherely family are facing as Kole undergoes treatment.
The DHL team is close-knit, and Brian wanted to offer support to Kara and her family in a way that allowed all staff to help where they could. He says, “In situations like these, people want to lend a hand but often don’t know how they can best assist. I wanted to do something to galvanize staff to contribute whatever they are able to support a great cause and let a valued colleague know we are behind her at a difficult time.
“We also recognize the need for companies to support employees’ families in extraordinary circumstances – it’s not easy to keep coming to work and being productive when you have a seriously ill child.”

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