Maree Roche

Maree Roche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in leadership, employee wellbeing and indigenous perspectives. Roche is the manutaki (director) of the university's Dame Mira Szászy Centre for Leading Māori Workforce Development. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society and of the Positive Organisational Behaviour Institute in the US.

Academic career
Roche is Māori, and affiliates to Ngāti Raukawa. Roche completed a PhD titled Navigating Leaders' Wellbeing: What Does Self Determination Theory Contribute? at the University of Waikato, supervised by Jarrod Haar and David McKie. Roche then joined the faculty of the University of Waikato, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2021, before moving to Auckland, rising to full professor. Since 2023 Roche leads the Dame Mira Szászy Centre for Leading Māori Workforce Development at Auckland. She is a chartered member of the Human Resource Management Institute of New Zealand.

Roche researches leadership psychology, employee wellbeing, and indigenous perspectives on wellbeing and engagement. She covers such issues as the impacts of workplace bullying, workplace productivity, and changes in workforce pressure over time.

Honours and awards
Roche was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society, and of the Positive Organisational Behavior Institute in America.