"The Programme helped facilitate better awareness of the diversity of leadership within Aotearoa New Zealand,” says DUANE STANLEY, Alumnus 2018 of The Mana Moana Experience.
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We hold events for our alumni, friends, and the general public for people to connect with the important conversations in leadership.
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.
Transforming Ourselves Together
For the Class of 2019, The NZ Leadership Programme has been an amazing journey of collective and personal growth and transformation in life and leadership. We emerge at the end better equipped to lead and serve our workplaces, communities and world.
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How to Become a Modern Leader
ROB CAMPBELL, CNZM delivered the keynote address at The NZ Leadership Programme 2019 Graduation ceremony in November about what makes a great leader, including daring to challenge the status quo and toughing out the opposition to change.
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Grounding ourselves
“Empowered indigenous leadership is being connected to your history and grounded in the fanua,” shares BELINDA BETHAM-RAUTJOKI on Retreat Two of The Mana Moana Experience that took place in Northland.
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What is Our Shared Story?
For VICKI CAISLEY, Retreat Six (Governance and Global Issues) of The NZ Leadership Programme created “an opening of hearts, an expansion of minds, an appreciation of our different stories”.
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Hope in Turbulent Times
“Leadership happens in the face of fear, but for me Christchurch brought fear to the fore unlike any other, certainly unlike that I felt on September 11, “ shares The NZ Leadership Programme 2019’s TAYYABA KHAN in LEADERS.
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A Passion and Responsibility to Lead
“At this retreat, I realised that my well-meaning, often private yet genuine, heartfelt support for political ideology needed to step up into outward, political participation and that my voice was critical and could influence change,” shares TUILOMA GAYLE LAFAIALI’I.
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Feeling Different
Retreat Six of The NZ Leadership Programme was “a timely reminder to wake up, take note, get uncomfortable and lead by example,” writes GRAHAM BODMAN.
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How Brave Do I Want To Be?
In this year of Daring Leadership the call is becoming clearer and louder, to act, to change the status quo and to create a better future for those that follow us.
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Beyond Politeness
I want to live in a society that is courteous and polite. But I want something more than that. You see a polite society can still be a cold society. And we need more warmth, more kindness, and more (dare I say it) love,” states MATTHEW GAN.
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How might we create a more civil society?
“We need conversation about our current realities of inclusion and exclusion, acknowledging our past, and looking to our future. What will it take for us, for me, to dare to explore this,” ponders GINA WILLIAMSON.
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Where Does Our Heritage Take Us?
“This retreat was a reminder of many small and large steps of courage taken to get us here. It also showed other steps that might improve the space we’re in - for ourselves and our loved ones and our communities,” writes EUGENE ELISARA.
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Doing Difference Differently - are we ready?
“Leaders as Healers repurposes existing euro-centric knowledge and demands a re-alignment. It questions purpose and meaning in a life lived according to a linear clock, one that is dictated by needs that are increasingly becoming irrelevant in the face of a world keening at the unfolding tragedy across the land,” shares DIONE JOSEPH.
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Our Country at a Crossroads
“I am cognizant that my workplace and my country are at a crossroads where great care, acts of kindness and bravery are required to create and restore the safe space where all can flourish,” says ROSE FENTON.
Read MoreEndless Tears
“Ultimately, the pre-planned session was forgotten….We wrapped our arms around each other as the rest of the cohort wrapped around us in a circle and sang to our pain. Tears ran down my eyes. I was not the only one,” reflects VICTOR RODGER.
Read MoreDARING LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF HEALING
“As champions of daring leadership, this year we will look across our spheres of influence and operating systems to see them with new eyes and think about what a leap in leadership would look like. What we must do as a powerful ecosystem of leaders to help heal our nation #leadersarehealers, to build true relationships of understanding, tolerance and love.”
Read MoreNew paths. New eyes. New connections.
“New paths are being built, new eyes are being opened and new connections are anchoring me in a way I had never considered prior to taking the leap into this vaka with these amazing contemporaries and all of our ancestors,” reflects RAYMOND SAGAPOLUTELE on the first retreat of The Mana Moana Experience.
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(l-r): Avi, Greg, Kaan, Ted, Penny, Pieter
Leadership NZ alumni support Kohewhata Marae
In late February, PIETER TUINDER (NZ Leadership Programme, Alumnus 2017) led an alumni working bee weekend to give back and deepen their cultural knowledge at Kohewhata Marae in Kaikohe.
Read MoreTime to reflect and reframe - together
"This is such a deepening of spirit. We have shared tears, laughter and hugs. We have been digging for that deep essence of our leadership being." The first retreat of The Mana Moana Experience ignited a special fire inside for DR. CHERIE CHU.
Read MoreInvisible Spaces
“ I was changing. I had a challenging situation at work: I used what I’d learned. I took on a project with a new confidence. I saw the world in ways I had never seen before.“
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