Our Values

We’re on a mission to empower leaders to navigate today's complex challenges with authenticity, resilience, and grit. Our human-centred approach integrates effective leadership strategies with cutting-edge insights, tailored to your organisation to drive growth and transformation for your leaders and teams across Aotearoa. We are a small, agile team with an extensive network of partners for larger-scale or bespoke work programmes. Our values (we hope) give you some insight on what it’s like to work with us. Enjoy the read and we’d love to catch up for a kōrero (conversation).

Whakawhanaungatanga: Partnership and Connection

This means we:

  • Choose work and partnership opportunities where we genuinely love our mahi and can clearly see the connection to people and place

  • Get to know your organisation and your people deeply, and see ourselves as a temporal extension of your team

  • Develop trusted and enduring relationships

  • Foster connections and seek our diverse perspectives to test our thinking.

Manaakitanga: People and Commitment

This means we:

  • Put people before position or process

  • Care for each other and show manaaki, celebrating the moments that matter

  • Actively manage our energy and pace to be at our best and bring our best selves to our work

  • Lead with vulnerability and empathy, asking for and offering help

  • Are committed to delivering quality outcomes and we hold ourselves accountable to our promises.

Kaitiakitanga: Future-Fit Progression

This means we:

  • Will choose long-term, sustainable benefits over short-term wins

  • Test, refine, and progress (on repeat)

  • Adapt to changing markets and what’s required for future-proofing our initiatives

  • Stay across leading market research in our areas of expertise to bring the latest thinking to our work

  • Will advocate and challenge you to further your goals and stretch your thinking.

  • "We put people before position or process. Because that's where true transformation takes place."

    Whakawhitinga Value Statement

  • "Future-fit progression matters to us. This means we will choose long-term, sustainable benefits over short-term wins."

    Whakawhitinga Value Statement

  • "We believe that better results emerge when different viewpoints are considered - when people connect and truly understand each other."

    Whakawhitinga Value Statement

  • "We don't do things at you, but with you. We see ourselves as an extension of your team for a moment in time."

    Whakawhitinga Value Statement

Let’s kōrero…

We offer free, no obligation, connection conversations to learn more about your context and what you want to achieve. Plus, we hope you’ll get some value just by staring a conversation with us. Let’s kōrero!

Phone: +64 21 443 775