Angela Green reflects on the annual 2012 Alumni Retreat, where they gathered together in a former café nestled in a dilapidated palm tree grove just outside of Omaha. They shared, caught up and explored authentic leadership.
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Subject matter experts and prominent New Zealand leaders share their knowledge and engage with the audience, sparking new ideas and innovation as minds from different backgrounds converge and focus their energy on a salient issue or theme.
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Read MoreGovernance in the 21st Century
Hayley came to Wellington, expecting the unexpected. What she got was a shift in preconceptions, honest reflections, a tribal performance, an understanding of how to use diversity to leverage power and some hackle-raising stories.
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“Be yourself. Not your idea of what you think someone else’s idea of yourself should be." Henry David Thoreau sums up Kathy's reflection of our Seventh Session, as she saw governance through news lenses at the Army Headquarters, an old garage in Rongotai and the NZ Drama School.
Read MoreA Civil Society - Our People
What are you willing to be arrested for? Whose responsibility is it to prop up our society? What really gets achieved in time-pressured chaos? Session Three raised a lot of question for Jen Linney, Strategic Advisor - Operations Group at ACC.
Read MoreForces That Shape our Thinking
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Dave Wild's session was perfectly timed for Ketan to put his learning straight into action at work. But what about the dance of ‘being and doing’?
Read MoreDinner with a Difference - A Mindful Leadership Experience
In partnership with AUT and Curative, we hosted our annual Dinner with a Difference on 20 July. This year it was “Dinner with a Difference – A Mindful Leadership Experience”, an evening where our guests embraced mindfulness from the moment they entered AUT's Sir Paul Reeve's Building.
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Read MoreForces That Shape Our Thinking
Session Six, the Forces That Shape our Thinking, combined head and heart, Wild speakers and storytellers, creation and curation. Mary from Education New Zealand shares her reflection of the session as she sits in anticipation for the next.
Read MoreMy Year in Leadership
Our Leadership Programme is not all about immediate learning experiences. Somethings you need to think on, reflect, let it sit, reflect some more, discuss and review. Nick Ruane, a 2014 Alumni, reflects on his learnings, his experiences and his leadership journey.
Read MoreSustaining ourselves, our relationships, and our environment
Mat Stone shares his reflection of Session Six as he learns to see more clearly. "Leadership is an authentic act of love that creates hope. The world needs hope. The world needs our leadership."
Read MoreMid-Year Retreat: Sustaining our Wellbeing and Values
Sitting in the airport, ready to depart, Imogen filters through everything that has happened in the last three days. It's half-way through the year and the retreat in Christchurch + Hanmer offers a chance to pause, reflect and retighten her grip.
Read MoreeNewsletter - July 2016
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Read MoreDi Rump - Alumna 2011
On the very day Di Rump began the Leadership NZ Programme in 2011 she was offered a new job.
Read MoreRod Gibson - Alumnus 2007
Rod Gibson did the Leadership NZ Programme in 2007 when it was in the first few years of existing. “It was high calibre,” Rod says “I don’t know how they got such important ‘top of New Zealand’ people to come speak to us back then, but they did, and it has had a profound effect on me.”
Read MoreClass of 2015 Alumni Retreat Reflection
Reconnecting with her 2015 Programme cohort, Lisa reflects on the value of taking time out so that you can know yourself and become a more impactful leader and what all that means for her.
Read MoreAlumni Reflection with Grant Bunting
It's been a while since Grant completed our Programme. He recently shared with us his thoughts the experience, shifting from observer to participant and the things that really stuck.
Read MoreOur Economy
As our 2016 cohort turns a corner in their trust amongst itself, David reflects on Session Four, which focuses on Our Economy.
Read MoreWorking & Achieving Together Programme + Leadership NZ
Leadership NZ is delighted to be partnering with the Working & Achieving Together Programme (Programme W&AT) to design and deliver a professional mentoring programme.
Read MoreA Civil Society - Our People
A homecoming of sorts to a surprising location - Glen Innes. Darren Lee from IRD shares his reflection on Session Three of the 2016 Leadership Programme, A Civil Society - Our People.
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