Wayfinding Leadership Workshops and Keynotes

Wayfinding is a transformational way to establish authentic leadership. Drawing on many years of research, studying and working with master wayfinders, we have developed a wayfinding programme for all leaders. Our programmes have been taught to a wide variety of organisations including Air New Zealand, Global Women's Breakthrough Leadership, The University of Auckland, Waitemata DHB, Hapai te Hauora, TPK and many others.

We have given numerous keynote addresses across the country to all kinds of audiences such as the District Court Judges, Wellington Principal's Association, Te Rau Matatini, Taiwhenua Hawkes Bay and the Not-for-Profit Association annual conference. We have also given Wayfinding Leadership workshops and keynotes internationally in England, Italy, USA, Canada and Australia.

Our workshops are highly interactive and focused on generating deep, experiential learning. Harnessing the power of reflective inquiry, this is a time to pause, listen and reflect to allow new possibilities to emerge. We love working with leaders, teams and trainers who are committed to transforming their workplaces.

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    Keynotes and interactive, experiential workshops

    Wayfinding Leadership: Groundbreaking wisdom for developing leaders keynote often covers the following topics:

    • What you intend you become
    • Purpose as that which we are becoming together
    • Calling the destination to you by reading the signs
    • The waka is the needle and crafting a dynamic strategy
    • Linear may not be so direct and the map is not the territory
    • Living values
    • Making better decisions
    • Moving from stillness
    • Learning by doing
    • Building more effective teams
    • Mastering change
    • Steering with self-knowledge
    • Harnessing the power of collective will and intention
    • Navigating paradox
    • Refreshing paradigms
    Diversity and Inclusion
    An introductory session on how Māori culture and values can help organisations understand, and be motivated to create, a culture that is genuinely open and embracing of diversity and inclusion. In this session I invite them to consider not just ‘adding Māori to the Multi-cultural Mix” as a kind of clip on or check box – but to look at integrating Māori values in a meaningful way.The wisdom contained in Māori values, developed over the aeons in relationship to the world around us help us create relational trust and wellbeing. This is a world of “I belong therefore I am” and creating a culture belonging is at the heart of “diversity and inclusion.”
    Māori values are system that creates mauri ora in a person, in the group and in the world. This relational wisdom is forged in an intimate, humble and participatory relationship with the world, developed through the generations. These values have stood the test of time – by their very nature, they teach people how to adapt and thrive in a changing world. Values are not singular, abstract ideals that don’t relate to each other. Rather, they are an interlocking system that connects values with each other and to context. Each value illuminates a dimension of relationship and can only be truly understood in relation to other values. They are relationship-base values that guide us how to look after each other, our rangatahi youth, our kaumatua/kuia elders, our unborn generations, our environment. They truly embody diversity.
    Māori values emphasise practice, and often have the suffix ‘tanga’ tagged to the end: that makes the word connote action, a process, something that comes into being as it is practiced. They need to be lived. The tanga’s that are focused on are:
    • Rangatiratanga  - we are all rangatira in our own way, job of leaders is to weave people together into a unified whole
    • Manaakitanga – more than just ‘hospitality’ but to care, give respect, be generous and raise the mana of others through acts of generosity
    • Humarietanga - humility, one of the most powerful leadership qualities in Te Ao Maori. He kumara. Your acts will speak for themselves.
    • Whanaungatanga – community, Not a magic glue that just happens, but is an active building of community and connecteneddness at work
    • Kaitiakitanga – look after our environment, recicprocity, our wellbeing depends on a health environment – kindship with all of creation
    • Wairuatanga –The centrality of the spiritual domain in any endeavour in Māori life reflects a fundamental commitment to nurture a spiritually-centred outlook that emphasises the inter-relatedness of all aspects of creation. In the workplace this means attending to the spirit of the place, its energy (i.e. its mauri)
    • Kotahitanga – not just arrows pointing in same direction but a binding together in spirit of unity. A sense of togetherness. True unity in diversity.

    We work with a team of experts who take participants through an experiential workshops that brings these ‘tangas’ to life. Each team undergoes an experiential learning aspect of Māori culture. Each group will be tasked with presenting back to the others what they learned about Māori culture and values, and what can be taken forward into their organisation to create the kind of business they want to create. The participants to reflect and talk about how the tangas have come to life and how they might be included at work. After the time with the experts the participants return to the main room and give a performance about what the learned. Works best with around 60-80 people.

    Following is a selection of keynote talks, and workshops

    One of the many highlights has been delivering Wayfinding Leadership for Air New Zealand as part of an ongoing programme 'Mahi Rangatira' leadership development programme for 450 Middle Managers and the CEO and Senior Leadership Team over the past 18 months.

    2018
    Jan: Whakaue Research, Whanganui (topic: wayfinding leadership/role: keynote)
    Jan: University of Auckland Campus Life (topic: wayfinding leadership/role: keynote)
    Feb: Not for Profit Association annual conference (topic: wayfinding leadership/role: keynote)
    Mar: University of Auckland Academic Leaders (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: keynote)
    Mar: BDO/Te Puni Kōkiri series of 4 workshops in Northland (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Mar: University of Auckland Law School (topic: Wayfinding Leadership: facilitator)
    May: University of Auckland ASPIRE conference (topic: diversity and inclusion/ role: facilitator)
    May: Harvard University (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: presenter)
    Jun: Te Puni Kōkiri series of four workshops in Northland (topic: Wayfinding Leadership + tourism/role: facilitator)
    Jun: Te Puni Kōkiri staff training Wellington (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Jun: Te Puni Kōkiri staff training Whāngarei (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Jun: University of Waikato (topic: Wayfinding Leadership + tourism/role: presenter)
    Jun: Northern District Court Judges triennial conference (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: keynote/facilitator)
    Jul: TEDx HastingsStreet (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: presenter)
    Aug: Te Puni Kōkiri staff training Wellington (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Aug: Global Women's Breakthrough Leadership programme (topic: wayfinding leadership with Waka Quest)
    Sep: University of Auckland Law School (topic: diversity & inclusion/role: facilitator)
    Sep: University of Oregon (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Oct: BDO/Te Puni Kōkiri Governance and Cultural Match
    Oct: Northpine (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Nov: Hiakai CEO leadership development (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Nov: University of Otago, academic and professional development programme (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Dec: Northern Mystics training workshop (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: facilitator)
    Dec: CCS Disability Action (topic: Wayfinding Leadership/role: keynote)

    2017
    Mar: Regional District Court Judges conference (topic: wayfinding leadership (WFL)/role: keynote, facilitator)
    May: Te Rau Matatini Maori Health Leadership Summit (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    May: Professional Staff programme (UoA) (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Jun: Wellington Regional Primary Principals’ Association (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Jul: Taiwhenua training day, Hawkes Bay (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Jul: Te Putahitanga conference, Nga Hau e Wha marae, Christchurch (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Aug: European Group of Organisation Studies, Copenhagen (topic: mihi in leadership development/role: presenter)
    Aug: Skip Garden workshop, London (topic: WFL/role: workshop facilitator)
    Sep: Science and Non Duality Conference, Italy (topic: WFL/role; presenter)
    Sep: Global Women's Breakthrough Leadership programme: 4 day Cultural Module (topic: wayfinding leadership with Waka Quest)
    Oct: Fairfax senior leadership conference (topic: diversity & inclusion/role: presenter, organiser, facilitator)
    Oct: Waitemata DHB # 1 (topic: WFL/role: facilitator/organiser)
    Dec: Professional Staff (UoA) (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Dec: Asia Pacific Deans of Business Schools (topic: WFL/role: keynote)
    Dec: Waitemata DHB # 2 (topic: WFL/role: facilitator/organiser)