Events

See Things Differently With 19 best-sellers to his name, Seth Godin is a marketing and leadership titan. He equips business leaders, marketers and entrepreneurs to differentiate themselves, connect with their ideal customers and spread ideas that demand attention. The New York Times best-selling author of Purple Cow, This Is Marketing, Linchpin and many others, Seth Godin has spent over three decades, challenging the status quo and demonstrating how making a lasting impact starts by seeing things differently. And he’s ready to show you how. Book now A once in a decade opportunity, let the world’s brightest mind in innovation, marketing and business leadership equip you to drive business growth in 2020.    At this practical, highly interactive seminar, Seth Godin will equip you with

Create cultural drivers that enable your people to be sustainably self-innovative, empowered and fearless.  It’s a great idea, but let’s talk about how. Join us at this half day summit, and learn how to craft the cultural drivers that will produce success and drive business growth. From rethinking your organisational design, to analysing team capability vs capacity and balancing individual workload vs wellbeing, our experts will walk you through how to align your people strategy with business goals. Hear from Lindsay Cowley, Chief Executive of Online Republic and Director of Agile Enterprises, as he dives into how to challenge organisational design, and why you need to enable your business as a living, dynamic organism. Lindsay will step through how to

The art & science of creating a high-performance company culture. For 25 years Michael Henderson, corporate anthropologist and high-performance company culture expert, has scientifically studied high performing teams – observing, advising and educating organisations on how to enhance their workplace culture for greater levels of performance, staff fulfilment and customer delight. He’s the secret weapon behind the Crusaders, Coca-Cola, Z Energy (AON Best Employer), 2Degrees, Australia’s Navy, High Performance Sport NZ, BUPA Hong Kong, Suncrest Bank USA, Foxtel TV and others. He only works with Tier 1 companies and larger corporates doing on-going, very expensive retainers but for the first time, Michael is running a course for SMEs. Made up of 4 half-day workshops at Smales Farm, Takapuna, over an

Join the Institute of Managers and Leaders ANZ for an International Women’s Day breakfast panel.  Since 1998, our International Women’s Day events have become institutions around Australia. In 2020, we launch this fantastic event in New Zealand, bringing together passionate and brilliant local female and male leaders to discuss how we can promote gender equality and women’s representation in leadership. The panel will highlight the benefits of gender equality in the workplace and will explore case studies from New Zealand businesses that are leading the way. Panellists will discuss strategies to drive equality and explore the actions and behaviours that leaders can take to implement change. The official IWD theme for 2020 is #EachForEqual – everyone is welcome. Join us

The 2020 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards celebrate organisations making a difference every day for members of LBGTI+ communities.  The judges will be rewarding demonstrations of excellence in workplace leadership, innovation, best practice and collaboration. New to this year are two additional Award categories; The Rainbow Tick Non-Commercial Sector Award and The Pride Pledge Representation in Marketing Award. Other categories include; The Westpac Supreme Award, The Rainbow Tick Training and Development Award, The SKYCITY Community and Advocacy Award, The Simpson Grierson Impact Award, The Partners Life Emerging Award, The Newmarket Business Association Executive Leadership Award, The Westpac SME Award, The Chorus Ambassadorship Award and The Grant Thornton Innovation Award. The Awards will also be accompanied by the New Zealand Rainbow

Business Mentors New Zealand restarts its bite size business webinar series, Small Business Takeaways, for 2020 – kicking off with a 30-minute webinar on the Regional Business Partner (RBP) Network.     As a small business owner, how often do you hear it said that you need to work ‘on’ your business, not just ‘in’ it?  It’s easy for people to say this, but when there are bills and wages to pay and customers to please, it can be a challenge to find the time for anything beyond the ‘in’ it part.  Gaining access to the right knowledge, support, and people is fundamental to business success – that is where the RBP network can help.   The RBP network is