NZLP—Programme Overview
The New Zealand Leadership Programme (NZLP) is delivered through unique immersive and experiential retreats, which are held over a 9-month period. Our 2025 Programme consists of six retreats.
Each cohort of leaders is carefully drawn from diverse backgrounds and sectors to reflect a balance of profit/not-for-profit, private/public leaders, and a range of genders, cultural backgrounds, worldviews, and regional representation. Aotearoa is a superdiverse nation, and the cultural intelligence of our leaders is a key enabler to achieving ever higher levels of societal cohesion, creativity and innovation. We are proud of our legacy of excellence in creating learning with people who bring diversity of thought and perspective. Our participants and speakers represent the superdiverse spectrum of incredible leaders across New Zealand. We take participants on a journey so that they can become the best leader they can be.
NZLP Class of 2022.
The programme is distinctively grounded in the New Zealand context. It is unique in developing personal leadership skills and awareness while addressing the key issues that New Zealand faces. In addition, participants’ sense of purpose and agency are catalysed and clarified in service of a more hopeful future for all our people. Organisations benefit from participant’s increased capability to lead, learn, innovate and contribute. They are more focused leaders and more able to deal with change, complexity and ambiguity. NZLP alumni can deliver at pace, through collaboration, with alignment and a much greater awareness of what it takes to create impact and results.
Over the course of a year, participants participate in safe and brave learning spaces, and they engage in open and honest discussion about the real issues of these times, building their own capability and capacity for leadership in times of uncertainty and great change. Through experiential individual and group activities and a wide range of tools and resources (including creative and design-thinking methodologies, critical thinking, tools for increasing resilience and managing stress, leading through coaching and more), participants develop unique insights, build greater confidence, self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
Most importantly, they’re given the time, space, inspiration and resources to sharpen and grow their own vision, purpose and leadership.
2026 Programme Information
Thank you for your interest in the 2026 New Zealand Leadership Programme.
At Leadership New Zealand, we’re deeply committed to creating transformational learning experiences that strengthen leadership across Aotearoa. To ensure our programmes continue to reflect the needs, aspirations, and diversity of our communities, we’re currently taking time to review and strengthen the way we work and the experiences we create.
This period of reflection and refinement is an exciting opportunity for our team and our wider network. It allows us to pause, listen, and ensure that our programmes continue to evolve and deliver lasting value to our participants and communities.
As a result, recruitment for our next programme will open a little later than usual. We’ll be sharing further updates, including timing and next steps, in late-November.
If you’d like to be among the first to be updated or to hear when applications go live, please complete our Expression of Interest form or sign up to our newsletter.
Ngā mihi nui for your continued support & patience. We look forward to reconnecting with you soon.
