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 (applications opening soon)
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 your programme lead, Dr Mandy Lacy
Mandy brings a wealth of expertise to the areas of transformation, organisation development, leadership, coaching, change management and modern workplace learning. She holds a Masters degree in Learning Science & Technology and a PhD from the University of Sydney Research Centre for Learning and Innovation, Australia. Mandy is also an international Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in organisational psychology.
Mandy’s love of learning is matched by her big heart – she cares passionately about the unison of professional and personal development in order to bring about real insight and transformation.
“I am very excited to be part of leading this innovative and exceptionally relevant programme – never before has it been so important to be working with people in their quest for leading change for good.”
Want to know more? Sign up for our free online event
Leadership for Good
Thursday 6th August from 7:30am-8:30am, delivered via Zoom.
We’re hosting a series of free online events focused on the key learning topics of Leading Change for Good. Next up is a 1-hour fireside chat, delivered on Zoom, about leadership for good; join us to discuss emerging leadership models and leading with empathy to drive outcomes that prioritise purpose over profit.
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
Register your interest to receive updates on the programme, and be the first to know when applications are open for the September 2020 and November 2020 intakes.