Leading Change for Good
Creating impactful, positive change in your community, iwi, business, organisation or industry.
A postgraduate certificate that focuses on leadership and transformation for real, lasting impact where it matters the most.
What you'll walk away with
The ability to identify new and emerging business models that prioritise purpose over profit, and adapt them for your context.
The ability to evaluate and apply contemporary leadership approaches to drive change for positive impact on communities, organisations and businesses.
A deep understanding of global and indigenous social change practice and considerations, and how these can be relevant and applicable in your community or workplace.
A detailed change strategy that harnesses leadership to create sustainable, authentic value in NZ’s changing social, economic, political, and cultural environments.
Scholarships
Tangata Whenua Scholarship –
full scholarship for learners who identify as Māori
Pacific Ako Scholarship –
full scholarship for learners who identify as of Pacific Island descent
Taipakeke Scholarship –
full scholarship for learners who are aged 60 years and over
Key topics
Leadership
- Understand contemporary and indigenous leadership approaches, and how to select approaches that are best fitted to your industry, community or organisation.
- Apply relevant leadership skills to amplify, consolidate and add momentum to real change, including communication and collaboration approaches.
- Understand culturally intelligent approaches to community development and partnerships.
Authentic value
- Understand what authentic value is, and determine how you can deliver this in your specific environment; whether this is in your community, your workplace, your business, your industry, nationwide or worldwide.
- Establish positive solutions to changing environments (economic, political, social and natural) that create this genuine and sustainable value.
Sustainability
- Confront sustainability (economic, social and environmental) challenges and identify opportunities for change in your environment.
- Explore and evaluate contemporary, regenerative solutions that promote maximum sustainability across your sector, and other sectors.
- Understand diversity of thinking and sustainable organisational change for maximum impact.
Disruption
- Analyse the nature and characteristics of change, in order to navigate disruption efficiently and ethically in your environment.
- Explore innovative business models alongside the complex and fast-paced growth of emerging and disruptive technologies.
How? The tools and frameworks
- New economic and contemporary business models
- Impact assessment tools and frameworks
- Benefits measuring and planning
- Disruption management tools
- Empathy building & stakeholder engagement
Kaupapa Māori values and approaches
- Analysing social change from an indigenous viewpoint
- Experience teaching and learning driven by kaupapa Māori values
- Kaupapa Māori and indigenous leadership models
- Leaders and case studies who are walking the walk
Meet Saskia Verraes, Programme Lead
Saskia is a devoted fighter for a better world. One that is socially just, economically inclusive & environmentally restorative.
She has years of experience working on collaborative social efforts with vision and engagement and a real focus on action.
“I am incredibly excited to support anyone in any way that I can; the time for change is now, and we don’t have much time, that’s why it’s important to have the tools not only to identify change solutions, but to scale them up, accelerate them, and allow them to have maximum impact.”
“I am so excited to be a part of this programme and look forward to supporting each and every student to help make this world a better place.”
Click here to learn more about Saskia.
Want more information?
Hear from our current students
Two of the students on our September cohort chatted with The Spinoff about what they’ve learnt so far on the programme and the importance of the kaupapa Māori content being covered on the course.
Authenticity + “for good” = a new age of leadership
Whether we like it or not leaders are role models and a constant source of motivation and behaviours to follow. These can be explicit or implicit, verbal and non-verbal, openly agreed or unspoken.
Check out the full article, written by our Industry Expert, Dr Mandy Lacy.
Whether the change you want to create is big or small, for your community, your organisation, or across New Zealand, this postgrad certificate will give you the capability, skills and relevant frameworks to effectively lead sustainable change and create genuine value.
Expression of Interest
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