Strategy and Vision

Jade Beaman, a CliftonStrengths coach part of an 18-month project with Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) , shares his insights and learnings

Sooze Harris reflects on a threat that looms potentially larger than Covid… a divided community. The invitation for leaders is to focus on our shared humanity, on connected relationships across communities, workplaces, families that show care, compassion, creativity and togetherness.

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.

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”.

Reconnecting within ourselves as leaders to allow us to flourish in the face of change and complexity