Programmes

Return on Character, Return on Assets, and the influence of character on organisational performance.

How legacy can be built, embedded, and sustained.

Why reality deserves more trust than personal versions of success.

Theories that continue to guide decisions and practice.

The factors that build credibility and the behaviours that destroy it.

The metrics behind staff working from home, and the loss of cooperation, co-dependency, focus, and cultural dynamics.

Return on Character, decision-making, purpose, and measurement in one concentrated session.

Examining issues created by the revised legal Act.

Traces the evolution of management theories and practices over time.

Growth methods that reduce cost of sale and improve the bottom line.

Decision-making when information is incomplete.

Soft leadership skills set against high-impact realities.

The Agile Manifesto as a leadership practice.

Tests where the line sits between legitimate goals and propaganda.

Clinical and academic perspectives on leadership styles, values, and practices.

What happens when leaders leave the helm and get dragged into the engine room.

How leaders survive, apply, and thrive through changing conditions.

Enduring lessons from Jim Collins on why good is the enemy of great and how some companies made the leap.

How companies stay great and thrive despite market difficulties from the work of Jim Collins.

Lessons from the not-for-profit sector.

Shared stories of turning around low-performing social and commercial organisations.

The measures that truly matter and the measurements that make a meaningful difference.

The difference between leaders who 'do' and those who progress the vision.

Is the economic recovery real or merely rhetorical.

Overlooked companies that contribute to wealth and well-being.

Social responsibility within a business model that shapes social entrepreneurship.

Analysis of Jim Collins examples of the fall of seemingly indestructible companies.

What matters more than reputation.

Power, prosperity, impact, and influence.

Whether one size ever fits all in governance.

What becomes clear only after the event.

An idea informing leadership thinking and decision-making.

What happens when the unknown matters more than the known.

Historical case studies from government and governance.

When desire for certainty overtakes our grasp of reality.

From the work of Nassim Taleb, predicting the unknown and unpredictable.

Whether legislation has contributed to New Zealand's decline on the global innovation index.

The value proposition that goes beyond mere product and service delivery.

Translating tangible value from organisational values.

Showcasing innovations successfully tested in the health sector.

New Zealand start-ups and technology companies on a path to success.

Compares franchise and non-franchise business models.

Examining the separate and combined work of Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb.

Anticipating and planning disaster management and recovery.

Guest speakers shared the successes, innovations, and failures.

Opportunistic behaviour contrasted with strategic behaviour.

Building a solid risk management programme.

The pressures and consequences of scaling up or down.

The problems success may be hiding.

Confronting the impact of mindset on a business's growth potential.

Confronts problems that may resist solution.

Products that solve real problems.

Strategies for creating or improving products and services.

Surviving the increase in unpredictable disruptive shocks.

Behaviours that shape market perception.

The return on carbon initiatives.

Service delivery that supports value, values and hits the bottom line.

The tension and value between individualism and diversity.

Maps the company across values, culture, service delivery, staff performance, and results.

How difficult behaviours can be harnessed as a force for good.

Ways to improve the performance of top performers.

The qualities that make an organisation an employer of choice.

Online machine learning and gamification as forces changing how people learn.

How a company's story shapes culture, people, habits, and the future.

The sixteen principles driving a global movement.

Permission, forgiveness, and disregard of instructions.

Rethinks untouchable assumptions.

Reconsiders goal setting from a less pressured perspective.

The mythological beliefs associated with 'managing' sales people.

Balances customer growth, consolidation, and relationship building.

Practical experience from four sales managers in global corporates.

Two sales leaders compared their views on the fundamentals of selling.

Simple, cost-effective ways to create market exposure and improve margin.

Creating growth in a regressing economy.

A market-tiering approach to competitive advantage.

What makes an offering distinctive in a crowded market.

Conveying the messages that attract the right customers.

The fundamentals of brand building.

Intertwining method and application, and how we manage and motivate.

How technology can be used well or badly.

Artificial intelligence and data-governance requirements together.

Technological innovation in practice.

Whether innovation is something new or something reapplied.

Distinguishes essential technology tools from merely impressive gadgets.

Products and the people behind them.

The role of social media in organisational and commercial life.

To what extent should customer needs shape technology decisions.

Emerging technologies being developed by major global organisations.

Applies qualitative analysis to chemical bonding and drug discovery.

The science and application of insect pheromones.

How artificial intelligence can be made explainable.

The science behind the need and method for brain rewiring.

A factual and inspiring programme on health issues affecting corporate leaders.

Methods for the improvement of our mental and physical abilities.

DNA testing and the meaning of genetic indicators.

Guidance from two clinical sleep specialists on health, longevity, and better sleep.

Personal development across physical, mental, and professional dimensions.

Spanning topics from genome sequencing to human endurance feats.

Neural, behavioural, physical, and other disorders shaping health risk.

The mind as something spread through the body, and the damage caused when it believes its own story.