Ways we can work together

I work with organisations, communities and leaders navigating complexity, change and questions of purpose. My work draws on Indigenous knowledge, wayfinding, relational leadership, cultural intelligence, systems thinking and lived experience. Each engagement is shaped to context rather than delivered as a fixed package.

Services include:

  • A facilitated workshop or wānanga for an existing team or leadership group, drawing on Wayfinding Leadership, Catalyst and your wider work according to the context.

  • A keynote or facilitated conversation for conferences, retreats and leadership gatherings.

  • A strategic inquiry for a leadership team or organisation wrestling with a particular question around change, responsibility, culture, stewardship or direction.

Keynotes and conversations

Talks for conferences, leadership gatherings and professional forums that open up new ways of seeing familiar challenges.

Themes may include wayfinding through uncertainty, Indigenous leadership, catalytic change, stewardship, cultural intelligence, relationality and the future of leadership.

Wānanga and workshops

Interactive sessions that create space for reflection, dialogue and practical exploration.

These can draw on Wayfinding Leadership, The Catalyst’s Way, intercultural leadership, Indigenous perspectives, systems change and other areas of my research and practice.

Leadership and organisational development

Longer engagements for teams and organisations working through change, complexity or questions of culture and direction.

This work may involve facilitated dialogue, leadership development, strategic reflection, organisational learning and tailored programme design.

Bodies of work I draw from

  • A spiral of reflection and action exploring activated hope, discomfort, dis-covery, healing, storytelling, collaboration, mobilisation and succession.

  • An Indigenous-informed approach to leadership in uncertainty, developed from traditional Polynesian navigation and contemporary leadership practice.

  • How do we orient ourselves when familiar maps no longer hold?

    This work explores leadership in motion: how we notice changing conditions, work with uncertainty, draw on different forms of knowledge, and remain connected to purpose, people and place while the world around us shifts.

  • Work grounded in Māori and Indigenous perspectives on relationality, collective leadership, kaitiakitanga, responsibility and intergenerational thinking.

  • Exploring how people work across different worldviews, assumptions and institutional settings, and how organisations can respond more thoughtfully to complexity and difference.

  • I have worked with universities, government agencies, health organisations, Indigenous organisations, professional bodies, businesses and community groups in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.

    These have included organisations such as the Atlantic Institute, Harvard University, the University of Waikato, Te Puni Kōkiri, the Department of Corrections, KPMG, Genesis, Global Women and a range of Māori and Indigenous organisations.

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Thinking about working together?

If you are planning a keynote, wānanga, workshop or longer leadership engagement, get in touch and we can explore what might be useful in your context.