Future of Leadership – Discovering True Potential with Sabine Parry
Join us for lunch on Tuesday 5 December as Sabine dives into what drives leadership style; exploring how to sharpen self-awareness; interrupt disempowering patterns and discovering when you’re at your best.
Being an Entrepreneur for almost 20 years, and founding, growing, selling four successful companies, Sabine began sharing what she learned early in her self-made career as keynote speaker, mentor, franchise advisor and lately in her governance roles.
Sabine has facilitated over 200 Fascinate Leadership Coaching programmes, and loves the versatility and
ability to make a genuine impact. She is experienced in leading high-performance teams and has a results-oriented and compassionate leadership style.
Tuesday 5th December 2023
Powerful Supply Chain Strategies for Difficult Times – with James Makoni
Powerful Supply Chain Strategies for Difficult Times
Join us for an informative discussion with James Makoni on how supply chain is evolving and responding to the game-changing market conditions of today.
We’ll be exploring the critical intersection of service, costs, cash, and the growing spotlight on resilience, and ESG. James draws on 20+ years at the front line of supply chain in New Zealand and promises to deliver unique insights into how corporates are evolving in this area globally.
– What levers do supply chains have in cash flow, financial stability, and profitability?
– Tips and tricks to build resilience, and
– How and why Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles are increasingly taking centre stage.
Functions of supply chain affect every business whether big or small. Seize this opportunity to hear how some organisations are thriving while others are left behind.
Wednesday 11th October 2023
Is Christchurch Ahead of the Game, or Sadly Lagging?
Mark the date in your diary, and don’t miss this lunch time session with Raf Manji, Leader of The Opportunities Party and former Christchurch City Councillor. Hear about what Raf thinks is important to Christchurch going into the election later this year. Where are we in the pecking order? Do we matter to Welllington? This is an active Q&A session, a chance to meet Raf, network with other professionals, and discuss topics that are likely to have an impact on all of us, our city and our region.
A sumptuous lunch will be served, followed by tea/coffee.
Wednesday 31st May 2023.
Ready, Set, Engage – The Future of the Workplace
Join us for an exclusive working lunch and facilitated discussion to discover how others are implementing hybrid and work-from-home policies. Explore ways to have conversations critical to the future of your team.
Should you provide incentives? What’s your policy for video? Can you mandate on-site attendance? Who’s missing out on the collective conversations? How is it affecting productivity?
Such a myriad of questions to grapple with indicate there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. Leaders and managers are invariably developing their own policies, with complex and untested precedents.
With talent shortages in almost every industry, the race to create attractive workplaces is more urgent than ever. This is an active round-table discussion in which you will be able to test ideas, share perspectives and hear how others are tackling these challenges. Erika Jury, IWG Workplaces will introduce the topic, and then it’s over to your table to take it from there. If you have a question to table, or an idea to interrogate, this will be your opportunity. This is an open forum you won’t want to miss.
Enjoy a delicious luncheon by Eliza’s and an exceptional setting. This is set to be two hours of your time from which you will be bound to come away with some new perspectives and a fresh understanding of how others are approaching the post-Covid workplace.
Thursday 23rd February 2023
The Future of Corporate Health, with Matt Vaughan
In partnership with MV Corporate Health and Regus, join us for the final Future of Business event of the year. Enjoy some delectable Christmas hospitality while Matt Vaughan shares his 360 Health Assessment tool.
Through his business MV Corporate Health, Matt is the corporate health coach that CEOs turn to when they want to improve leadership, reduce stress and create a more positive and productive work culture. Check out mvcorporatehealth.com for Matt’s story about his journey from sporting scholarships and contracts in NZ, UK and Australia, and how MV Corporate Health came to be.
Normally Matt charges $250 for this assessment one-to-one, so we’re excited that he’s sharing it free on the day.
The perfect event for heading into the Christmas season with a fresh take on how to stay healthy and get the most out of the holidays.
Wednesday 1st December 2021
Balancing Purpose and Profit – The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility
Hear Tim Jones speaking about his work with organisations on B Corp certification.
What is a B Corp you ask? Certified B Corporations have proven their ability to balance purpose and profit, making decisions that create positive impacts across employees, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. Tim’s own business, Grow Good, is one of New Zealand’s founding B Corps and he has been a B Corp Ambassador in New Zealand since 2015.
Tim is a global expert in business for good, organisational purpose and creating impact led organisations. He regularly works with organisations in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand including Meridian Energy, The Co-Operative Bank, The NZ Defence Force, The Chia Sisters, Bivouac Outdoors and Cookie Time. More recently he’s been co-teaching the University of Canterbury MBA Programme “Creating Impact-led Enterprises”.
Join us as we discuss purpose-fuelled performance, and the role it plays in building successful careers and organisations. It is the Future of Business.
Wednesday 6th October 2021
There is No Such Thing as a Toxic Employee
What creates a toxic culture?
Why do some workplaces become difficult environments to even remain pleasant with each other; stopping groups from becoming teams; stopping people and organisations from reaching their full potential?
We are delighted to have Neuro Leadership Coach, Dave Sewell returning to Future of Business in July. Dave introduces a new way of looking at culture; understanding where toxicity comes from and how to identify if elements of it are present in an organisation.
Author of Safe Leadership – beating stress to drive performance, Dave explains the four reward hormones in the brain that shape our behaviour when we are calm and positive. When we face stressful situations we shift into flight, fight, freeze or forget mode and stop working at peak performance. Dave coaches leaders and colleagues to recognise the signs in each of those stages so they can help and support teams to move back to a positive (and performing) state as quickly as possible.
Dave is a talented presenter and storyteller, bringing to life his leadership research, tools and methodologies through real life examples and a good dose of humour. His unique ability to connect with his audience ensures an engaging and relevant presentation is guaranteed. This fully interactive session will help identify potential risk areas within any organisation and gain some easily actionable takeaways.
When he’s not talking about leadership and helping teams, Dave spends his free time with his family; his wife Kirsty and his two sons Lachlan and Jamie. His other interests are meditating and energetic healing, hiking, mountain biking, coaching his sons football team and Xbox gaming.
7 July 2021 at 5.15 pm
The Future of Wellness – with Dr Patterson Stark, DC, FASLM
Dr Patterson Stark, DC, FASLM Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine takes us through the latest developments in causes of chronic degenerative disease, and what the science is teaching us about the role food plays in health, brain function and “presenteeism” in your business.
A world-leading figure in the emerging field of lifestyle medicine, Dr Stark will give you insight on how you can kickstart and support your energy, stamina and resilience every day – and it’s so simple!
Join us for a master class in wellness: the most essential building block for good teamwork, great decision making and sustainable and authentic leadership.
Wednesday 5 May 2021, 5.15 pm
Future of Business – The Future of Leadership
Five time CEO, professional director, author and former Chair of Swimming NZ, Bruce is a passionate leader of change. He believes that better leadership is critical to improving performance through people.
In his book, The Best Leaders Don’t Shout, Bruce says “There is a need for better leadership at all levels across enterprises of all shapes and sizes. CEOs and middle managers, corporates and not-for-profits, self-employed entrepreneurs and career employees. Everyone can do a better job of leading and managing their organisation. We need to make better leadership a conversation topic.”
Future of Business is delighted to be hosting Bruce as its first speaker in Christchurch for 2021. Bruce’s topic: The Future of Leadership He’ll be sharing lessons learned from fixing broken businesses and rebuilding shattered teams.
23 February at 5.15 pm
The Future of Workstyles
A fun, interactive session that is geared to help you see the wild differences in thinking styles we all have.
Everyone has their own thinking and communication styles which can either unlock or hinder positive behaviours in those around us. As managers and leaders it can mean the difference between high performing teams and teams that are feeling frustrated and out of control.
Join us for this entertaining session facilitated by Jo Fife, a certified practitioner for Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI).
As co-founder of Worplace Wellbeing, Jo works with leaders, individuals and teams, helping them to better communicate, sell, present, and manage.
Wednesday 2nd December 2020 5:15pm
Mental Wellbeing in Changing Times: The Future of Resilience
Michael Hempseed is the author of “Being a True Hero – Understanding and Preventing Suicide in your Community” –a resource now used by the NZ Police, Fire and Emergency, NZ Army, GPs and parents alike.
With a wealth of published articles about leadership and overcoming adversity, Michael will be speaking about mental health in these fast changing times. How to manage for good mental health in the workplace. Signs to look out for in our workplaces and community and how we can make a positive difference to those we come in contact with.
Wednesday 4th November 2020 5:15pm
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Employment
Date: 14th August 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
Dr Cheryl Doig
Cheryl Doig is a leadership futurist committed to exploring leadership trends and connecting them to today’s leadership needs. She has special expertise in the education field having 14 years experience as a principal, a doctorate in education, combined with a background in governance of not-for profit boards.
Her specialties include futures thinking; environmental scanning; scenario planning; challenging inertia; innovation; facilitation; communication; organisational change and complexity.
Hamish Duff, BSC, MSC, MBA
Hamish Duff is passionate about technology and the opportunities it brings to business. He has over 20 years of industry experience and is qualified in both industry and technology management.
What does Hamish do differently? He understands that the key to updating a company to digital systems doesn’t lay exclusively in the system itself – the people using it need to be on board. While this seems obvious, the failure to do so is the key reason that companies are struggling to get there in their digital journeys.
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Leadership
Date: 5th July 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
Enette Pauzé, PhD, FEA – CEO & Founder, Level 8 Leadership Institute
Enette Pauzé has worked across multiple industries (private, public and non-profit), with executives and business families from Canada, USA, Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom, India and Sri Lanka. She is an award winning researcher and teacher who has presented as an academic and professional speaker, globally. Having grown up on a farm, she completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, specialising in organisational partnerships, and is a designated Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA).
Enette is a member of the Global Speakers Federation, was the 2013 President of the Toronto Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and was a faculty member of the Pro-Track Speaker Academy from 2009-2013. Currently, she is a member of the Family Enterprise Xchange and the Purposeful Planning Institute.
She lives with her husband in Oakville, Canada with their three young boys. Family life is filled with competitive gymnastics, batching in Muskoka and quality time with family and friends.
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Leadership
Date: 12th June 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
David Sewell – CEO & Founder, Scaling Up NZ
David Sewell sees his purpose as educating leaders into what those personalities are, how to identify them and then give them the tools to deal with the underlying stressors which in turn will bring back those personalities to their happier more productive positive selves.
His research around the science behind leadership, in particular the reasons behind dysfunctional teams, bullying and office politics is at the leading edge of our understanding. Combining the science and how we did things in our ancient ancestors times provides a completely new approach to leadership that everyone connects with when they learn it.
David, having been the victim of managers that ruled through fear and bulling and been privileged to be picked up under the wing of a couple of amazing leaders, has spent years trying to figure out why he has seen more of the earlier and less of the later. He only now is getting to grips with why bullies are bullies and why great leaders are great leaders. Both are driven by the same reward hormones in our brains, the difference is their own leaders, great leaders grow great leaders, managers create managers.
Carl Davidson – Chief Social Scientist, Research First Ltd.
Carl Davidson has worked in market and social research for nearly 30 years. For the last decade or so he has been the Chief Social Scientist at Research First Ltd (who, as the Twitter summary puts it, is a company of ‘market researchers, behaviour scientists, strategic thinkers, and good buggers’). Alongside all that practical experience, Carl has written a number of books about research and consultation practice in New Zealand and likes to keep his hand in teaching about research methods wherever he can.
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Social Responsibility In Business
Date: 8th May 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
James Tapper – Founder and MD of Benefaction
James Tapper is the Founder and Managing Director of Benefaction, a social impact agency that helps brands to create and communicate authentic social initiatives.
While working for a private consulting firm, James came to the conclusion that the old-fashioned ‘sponsorship-marketing model’ was broken so he set out to fix it.
Since launching Benefaction last year, James has worked with a number of clients to create social good projects and charitable partnerships that earn brands big love at the same time as making a genuine positive impact.
James strongly believes in the ability of enterprise to be a force for positive change and he is passionate about helping businesses unlock the performance benefits of doing good for their communities.
Lisa Mead – Founder and Director of Social Currency
Lisa Mead is a mum of one, 9 going on 16 year old boy, Dakota. She is a born and bred Cantabrian, very much a rugby fan and loves coaching her son’s cricket team.. yes cricket! She’s on the PTA, involved in various organisations and very passionate about what she does which is accounting with a difference.
Lisa runs a social impact business called Social Currency, which is a purpose driven accounting firm committed to giving away 10% of sales to supporting at risk kiwi kids through mentoring programs and charity partnerships. Social Currency does accounting, tax, business advisory, supports social enterprises and creates social impact reports for purpose driven businesses making an impact and wanting to share their story.
Lisa has been working as an accountant since 2008 and is a Chartered Accountant working with many different types of people and businesses all over New Zealand, and globally. With a passion for what she does and the charities she supports coming from a personal struggle against the odds, Lisa’s son is very much the driving force behind her determination. She knew that failure was not an option, and success is no coincidence.
The purpose of Social Currency is to be a positive impact in the lives of vulnerable young people in New Zealand, and is well on the way to fulfilling the mission having already donated over $16,000 to supporting at-risk kiwi kids since November 2017.
Tom Dickie – Property Development Consultant
Tom Dickie has 30 years hands-on experience in the UK and NZ property sectors.
He started off in the field of Land Economics, then became a General Practice Surveyor – RICS becoming involved in commercial and business space property development for the public and private sectors leading on to working for 6 years in New Town development and subsequently became Regional Director in Glasgow of an international property and construction consultancy.
Tom has significant experience in Public Private Partnership procurement having provided Technical advisor services to both public sector procuring organisations and private sector special purpose vehicles in respect of £500m of investment projects.
In conjunction with a team of like-minded professionals the HUB Communities Charitable Trust has been formed. The HCCT team are in the process of launching a design, build, fund, manage and operate community development and affordable housing supply chain platform to act as a catalyst to bring together public sector participants and private sector investors to deliver measurable and auditable open-book housing affordability and positive and measurable social value outcomes to New Zealand.
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Digital Adoption
Date: 10th April 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
Paul Lonsdale – Manager of the New Brighton Business and Land Owners Association & Central City Business Association Manager
Paul Lonsdale has been in retail industry for 37 years in a variation of roles including manager / marketing manager of Merivale Mall and manager of the Palms shopping centre.
Paul helped establish the Central City Business Association back in 2007 and was the central city manager for the business association for seven years.
Post the February 2011 earthquake Paul was one of the key leaders in the Re:Start initiative. He initiated the first steps to bring life back into the city sooner than would have otherwise been possible and then stayed on to manage Re:Start to success.
Paul ran for the mayoralty in the 2013 elections and was elected as Councillor for the Hagley Ferrymead Ward where he served for one three year term. Paul was involved in all aspects of the council and its subsidiaries sitting on six council control company boards and 15 committees and working groups.
Paul now enjoys working with the New Brighton business community as manager of the New Brighton Business and Land Owners Association and again, has taken up the role of Central City Business Association manager.
Brett O’Donnell – CEO at ENTO and Founder of many successful enterprises
Brett O’Donnell is the Owner and Project Manager of Webtools Limited, which manages the development and implementation of online software solutions for clients across Australia and New Zealand.
He is the CEO of ENTO which is a New Zealand-based IOT company that has successfully developed a device currently being trialed around New Zealand and Australia. Check out ento.co.nz for more info.
As well, Brett is the Business Development Manager for Switch Me Limited, which, in 2011, developed and implemented a business energy comparison service commissioned by the Electricity Authority of New Zealand.
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Technology in Business
Date: 13th March 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
Hamish Duff, BSC, MSC, MBA, Technology Management Specialist and Futurist
Hamish Duff is passionate about technology and the opportunities it brings to business. He has over 20 years of industry experience and is qualified in both industry and technology management.
What does Hamish do differently? He understands that the key to updating a company to digital systems doesn’t lay exclusively in the system itself – the people using it need to be on board. While this seems obvious, the failure to do so is the key reason that companies are struggling to get there in their digital journeys.
Carl Pavletich, Director of Sensibel Geo Mapping and Fabriko, co-creator of Emerging Futures Summit, and co-founder of Fab Lab Chch
Carl Pavletich has been quoted as saying that a Fab City is defined as being “locally productive but globally connected”.
Consider if we could carry this concept through to our company culture how much stronger we would be as businesses. Carl has been the founder of many ventures all involving collaboration with other connected groups.
He will explore the Fab lab concept of joining “Fab” cities around the world with the aim of eventually becoming self-sufficient and sharing code to 3D print everything we need.
Selling code or “weightless export” rather then physical objects is ideally suited to New Zealand’s geographical location.
Be fascinated by the advancements in technology and see how your own ventures can take advantage of joining the Fab Lab movement!
Future Of Business
Topic: Future of Collaboration
Date: 20th February 2019
Location: The Canterbury Club
Kurt Janssen, Founder and CEO of Orbica
Kurt Janssen was convinced there were better ways to do things in the geospatial industry, exciting technology frontiers to be explored and a myriad of location data-inspired solutions just waiting to be discovered.
At the heart of it was an agnostic approach: a desire to start with the problem at hand, devise the best solution and then identify the best tools to achieve the desired outcome, rather than designing a solution from a predetermined toolkit.
This propensity to think differently brought about Orbica in February 2017.
Orbica kicked off in shared working space BizDojo with little more than a laptop, copious cups of coffee and a bunch of pretty big ideas. We grew quickly off a stellar reputation for delivering innovative and value-driven solutions.
Today Orbica has a talented team of big thinkers (Orbicans) and a purpose-designed HQ in the heart of Christchurch’s Innovation Precinct. We’ve also got an enviable client-base, we’re an exporter of technology and we’ve got a presence in Europe.
Orbica is pioneering geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), developing unique data visualisation solutions and enabling organisations to gain near real-time visibility of their data – all through geography and the power of location data.
Peter Armstrong, General Manager of Mitton ElectroNet
Peter Armstrong is leading a team of around 75 clever people who as well as helping to keep the power flowing, are following their company vision of disrupting the way they work. Peter will be talking about his journey to effect culture change and agility in an established business, in an industry where the resistance to change has been high.