MĀORI LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2025

MĀORI LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2025

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

MĀORI LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2025

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
  • Pre Brochure Rate Ends In
  • Days
  • Hours
  • Minutes
  • Seconds

Elevate Māori Voices!

The Māori Leadership Summit 2025 marks a historic milestone as the first event of its kind, dedicated to advancing leadership across Aotearoa and beyond. This groundbreaking gathering seeks to place Maori culture at the heart of leadership discussions, ensuring that its values, traditions, and worldview are embedded in the future of governance and business.

 

About the Event

The summit is more than just a conference—it’s a celebration of wisdom, leadership, and innovation. With a focus on empowering Maori voices and fostering transformative dialogue, this event will bring together visionary leaders, cultural advocates, and changemakers to forge pathways for greater representation across all sectors. At a time when leadership models are being redefined, the Maori Leadership Summit offers a unique platform to explore how Te Ao Maori can shape leadership practices for future generations. From the boardroom to community initiatives, we aim to elevate leadership to new heights.

Join us for this momentous occasion, where culture meets progress!

 

Why We’re Here: Supporting Māori Leadership

The Leadership Institute was born from our drive to address a critical gap: the lack of diverse representation at senior levels in Australia, starting with women’s leadership. This vision led to our first Women in Leadership forum, which quickly grew to become our flagship event. The overwhelming response to that forum affirmed a powerful truth for us —that even one event has the potential to ignite meaningful change within individuals, sparking a broader impact over time.

 

Driven by this insight, we expanded our events to support diverse voices across leadership. Our purpose is to create safe, inclusive spaces where people can come together, explore shared challenges, and gain tools to lead with purpose.

 

The Māori Leadership Summit emerged from feedback at our Indigenous Leadership event, where attendees from New Zealand expressed the need for a platform focused on Māori perspectives.

 

In 2025, we’re excited to bring this event to Aotearoa. Our role isn’t to define what needs to be done but to support a space for honest dialogue, inspiration, and collaboration. We’re here simply as facilitators, offering a platform for ideas to flow freely and for delegates to take valuable insights into their own leadership journeys.

 

First Keynote Speakers Confirmed!

MIKE MCROBERTS
Legendary Television Journalist
News Anchor
KIRI NATHAN
CEO Kiri Nathan, Māori Fashion Designer, Entrepreneur
Cultural Ambassador and Mentor
KARENA & KASEY BIRD
Masterchef 2014 Champions, Award-winning Book Publishers
Authors and Television Hosts

Agenda

Pre-Conference Workshop: First Nations Leadership Masterclass

Conference Day 1

Conference Day 2

Post-Conference Workshop

Māori Leadership Summit 2025

  • Hear inspiring stories from successful Maori leaders and gain practical advice on overcoming challenges and thriving in leadership roles.
  • Learn how to incorporate Maori values into your leadership style to create a more inclusive and culturally connected workplace.
  • Get practical tips on how to recruit, support, and elevate Maori talent within your organisation.
  • Discover the strengths of Te Ao Maori and how these can enhance leadership in both business and community settings.
  • Connect with like-minded leaders and advocates committed to growing Maori leadership across all sectors.
  • Take away actionable strategies to promote and support Maori leadership for long-term cultural and commercial success.

Who Should Attend:

  • CEOs
  • General Managers
  • Middle Managers
  • Heads of Department
  • Future Leaders
  • Diversity Managers
  • Anyone that's about to step into a management role who would like to build their skills and gain advice from expert leaders.

Highlights From Our First Nations Leadership Summits

First Speakers for 2025 Announced!

MIKE MCROBERTS
Legendary Television Journalist
News Anchor
KIRI NATHAN
CEO Kiri Nathan, Māori Fashion Designer, Entrepreneur
Cultural Ambassador and Mentor
KARENA & KASEY BIRD
Masterchef 2014 Champions, Award-winning Book Publishers
Authors and Television Hosts
LILLIAN ANDERSON CEO
CEO
The Office for Maori
Kiritina Johnstone
Te Reo Māori General Manager, Te Poutāhū
Ministry of Education
Ariana Estoras Ngāti Maniapoto
Kaiārahi Matua | Director Māori Strategy, Research and Partnerships
AG Research
Nicky Preston
Head of Sustainability & Corporate Affairs
One NZ
Brent McAnulty
Chief Operating Officer
TVNZ
Nikita Brown
Global Health & Wellbeing
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare

Valued Event Partners

Past Delegate Testimonials:

  • Primary Connect, Woolworths Group

Just amazingly inspiring

  • Diocese of Parramatta

Amazing

  • Westpac

Very polished, could easily read her audience.

  • NSW Ambulance

Valued the evidence she presented & personal journey. Wanted to sponsor others after her presentation.

  • AGD

A stand out presentation for me. Well expressed practical advice and examples.

  • Public Transport Authority

very practical session and approach i can take away and implement it for myself and work

  • Kyndryl Australia

Great to see innovative ways to continue to strive for what they wanted

  • Vocus / GM Enterprise and Business

Excellent Day

  • TCL / Director

Inspirational and empowering topics of conversation. Great methods and thinking about alternative techniques to promote women in leadership.

  • Brother INTL Australia

Great choice of speakers and great variety, Authentic and practical advice given.

Blogs