Future thinking and innovation

Dr Cheryl Doig shares her experience hosting Sophie Howe, the first Commissioner for Future Generations in Wales in Ōtautahi.

Dr Lucy Hone suggests ways to avoid burnout and asks questions such as "How can you ruthlessly prioritise your workload each day/week and what’s your go-to strategy to say no?"

Te Kakau works on connecting and developing ‘valuable and vulnerable’  business and community leaders across the Wānaka and Queenstown region to ensure they are able to lead others through the business and community recovery due to COVID-19.

A waiata sung in the darkness resounds, as we look to the Matariki cluster and then out to the horizon. The red hue to the east growing with every passing moment and the promise of a new beginning. Tammi Martin reflects on our Leadership Lab Matariki retreat....

Knowing our calling means we are able to live a life directed to the fulfillment of our purpose. Heady stuff, but also important in an age where people are stretched to their limit trying to be all things to themselves and others. 

Across the globe there are networks of people exploring the ways in which working together can create a movement for positive change. These learning ecosystems approaches are now researched and acknowledged globally as a way to create deep systemic change

Activating and sustaining change across a complex social issue (system) is no easy feat–but it does and can happen. Systems change work is often defined as, “shifting the conditions that hold a system in place”.

We start by identifying the aggravating issue that we all care about, and then co-design solution together

A challenge to consider just how we get the best out of the 'complexity of 'humans'