Emerging Leaders: Building confidence, Influence, & Capability

• Recognising how uncertainty, pressure, and shifting priorities impact team performance, engagement, and wellbeing

• Everyday actions that create stability, psychological safety, and credibility, even without formal authority

• Communicating with clarity and confidence, managing emotions, and supporting colleagues through small and large-scale change

Skills Learned: Build confidence to make decisive choices, communicate clearly, manage pressure, and create psychological safety that sustains team resilience

Bindi Shah, Partner, Deloitte New Zealand

Middle Managers: Leading High-Performing Teams through Change

• Diagnosing team needs morale, capability, communication, psychological safety

• Tools for managing resistance, maintaining performance, and engaging diverse groups

• Techniques for balancing empathy with accountability during transitions

Skills Learned: Strengthen your ability to diagnose team dynamics, manage resistance, and lead change with empathy, accountability, and executive presence

Alissa Bell, Partner, Chairperson, McVeagh Fleming; Winner of Australasian Lawyer and NZ Lawyer Elite Women 2025

Senior Leaders: Becoming Board-Ready & Steering Organisational Transformation

• Building the strategic judgement, governance mindset, and executive presence required at the board table

• Identifying the experience, achievements, and visibility that boards look for and how to position your expertise, network, and reputation

Skills Learned: Develop governance fluency, sharpen strategic judgement, and position your experience and influence for board-level impact

Julia Raue, Deputy Chair, Global Women, Independent Director, NZ Rugby, Asteron Life NZ, Southern Cross Healthcare