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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!
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!
Valued Event Partners
Fitted for Work is a national not-for-profit with 18 years of experience helping women facing disadvantage find work and build economic security. Our holistic job-readiness programs and services support women, gender diverse, and non-binary jobseekers to establish the tools, skills, mindset, and support network to become ‘work ready’. Our services include resume and cover letter support, personal outfitting, interview practice, job-readiness workshops, and mentoring. Inclusion and empowerment are at the heart of all we do.
We support clients of all ages, cultures, ethnicities, bodies, and abilities. Our national services are available in-person and online so that no matter where a woman lives, we can help!At Fitted for Work, we focus specifically on employment because work provides economic security, independence, purpose, and connection. We believe when you are fitted for work, you are fitted for life.
F-magazine celebrates Australian female success across ages, industries, and lifestyles.
Launched on International Women’s Day 2018, the online magazine – www.f-magazine.online – is supported by a weekly e-newsletter, emailed to 26,000 plus readers each Monday. F-magazine is published by Queensland Magazines, which has three print plus online publications, INDULGE eat. live. play, The West End Magazine, HIGHLIFE Downs Living and The Prestige Property Magazine online.
Past Delegate Testimonials:
Just amazingly inspiring
Amazing
Very polished, could easily read her audience.
Valued the evidence she presented & personal journey. Wanted to sponsor others after her presentation.
A stand out presentation for me. Well expressed practical advice and examples.
very practical session and approach i can take away and implement it for myself and work
Great to see innovative ways to continue to strive for what they wanted
Excellent Day
Inspirational and empowering topics of conversation. Great methods and thinking about alternative techniques to promote women in leadership.
Great choice of speakers and great variety, Authentic and practical advice given.