
It’s time for a new way of leading
" THERE IS A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPING GLOBALLY
We need people with “fresh eyes” who can read the signals of change.
" OLD WAYS OF BEING AND DOING ARE NOT WORKING
Covid-19 has forced us to examine the very essence of how we operate as individuals, teams, organisations and communities.
Leading Calmly from the Heart & Liberating Structures Workshops (virtual or face to face)
Powerful, practical and experiential workshops to improve or change the way work gets done, now and in the future.
Coaching & Facilitation
Individual and team coaching and facilitation that leads to shifts in how people think and respond to the world.
Consultancy
Interventions, co-designed with our clients, that nudge changes in the dynamics of team and organisation culture.
Leadership Coefficient
Transformational deep dive leadership retreats and workshops on systems awareness and coaching. Connecting to, understanding and engaging the system to lead collectively.
Special virtual events
In response to the current global situation
We provide leading edge Collective Leadership development as workshops and retreats. Right now, the Covid-19 message is clear; “He Waka eke noa” – we are all in this together. CLANZ have responded with an understanding of the urgency in creating alternative ways to support organisations through this tremendous upheaval – to not just survive, but to use this opportunity to realign the ways they connect with others.
Check out what’s coming up in the weeks below:
Events
Leading calmly – from the heart
WORKSHOP (Virtual or Face to Face)
We asked ourselves what is the most urgent need of leaders and leadership teams right now?
The answer that we have identified is for leaders to be able to access their calm space so that they can contribute to and influence the collective. We cannot lead others if we are disconnected from ourselves.
Leading calmly from the heart is a mini-programme consisting of two x 2.5 hour sessions run one or two weeks apart.
It is a virtual learning experience available right now.
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Liberating structures
WORKSHOP (Virtual or Face to Face)
The creators of Liberating Structures describe them as offering easy methods for leaders to achieve better results in every situation, provided they are willing to include as many of the affected people as possible. Problem solving, making decisions, planning, or innovating become processes they are facilitating rather than directing. They quickly discover that it is possible, and not that difficult, to include and engage everybody and give everyone the opportunity to contribute.
Liberating Structures are simple methods that anybody can use to improve or change the way work gets done, now and in the future. Every single one of the 33 structures rests on the idea that everybody is included and invited to participate in shaping the group’s shared future. The structures are easy to learn, requiring no lengthy training. They are easy to use and don’t require bringing in an expert.
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Client Testimonials
Collective Leadership Aotearoa New Zealand
Helping You Lead Through Critical Challenges
The time has come to learn how to tame egos and to build deep and meaningful relationships with ourselves. When we build those relationships with ourselves then we can begin to connect with others in ways that will heal our relationship with the world and the damage we have caused.
Old ways of being and doing are not working and are being challenged. There is a new consciousness developing globally. The power of the collective is being recognised. We need people with “fresh eyes” who can read the signals of change and respond to the emerging future. CLANZ offers a uniquely Aotearoa/New Zealand approach to people development. We support your people to build deep and meaningful relationships with themselves so that they can begin to connect with others.
Covid-19 has forced us to examine the very essence of how we operate as individuals, teams, organisations and communities. At CLANZ our mission is to support the understanding and practical application of collective leadership across Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s time for a new organisational model – Collective Leadership is that model. Whether it is coaching, facilitation or interventions, we will work with you to bring about meaningful change.

David Bennett
Leadership Coach
David is an experienced leadership coach and facilitator who speaks the language of business. His transformational coaching helps leaders and managers thrive in a complex and uncertain world by understanding and growing their most important leadership asset: themselves. He balances challenge and support by listening deeply and questioning with humility.

Shona Munro
Leadership Development
Shona is an experienced facilitator committed to supporting people to connect with their authentic selves so that they can contribute fully to their team, their organisation and their communities. She has a PhD in workplace well-being and leadership development and was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar award to further explore her research interest in the relationship between Te Ao Māori (the world of Māori) and collective leadership development.

Kristy Meates
Facilitator/Coach
Kristy is an experienced facilitator and coach who is passionate about supporting leaders in their development. Her style is unique, authentic and powerful. She loves working alongside leaders, enabling and really challenging them to make behavioural and mindset shifts that create positive, conscious and sustainable changes for them, their teams and their organisations.

Ash Patea
Facilitator/Coach
Ash is an ambassador of ancient knowledge and indigenous systems of practice with a mission to inspire people to reconnect with ancient truths that can guide us into modernity. He believes innovation in leadership is key. It is the opportunity to continue crafting, weaving and sharing key messages of empowerment in the ever-changing world we live in. As a descendant of Whanganui River tribes, his strength is drawn from Te Awa Tupua – The
Whanganui.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please don’t take our word for it! Read some of the answers to questions on just how effective the CLANZ approach is and how this relates specifically to New Zealand organisations.
1. What does CLANZ offer that is different?
2. Is Collective Leadership just another buzz word for teamwork?
We say a resounding NO! Good teamwork is really important but what we are proposing is way more than the traditional approach to teamwork. We invite people to begin to build a deep and meaningful relationship with themselves that will enable them to then learn how to capitalise on the collective. We support team and individual learning so that leaders can become fully present; with “fresh eyes,” that can read the signals of change and respond to the emerging future.
3. What is CLANZ’s kaupapa?
4. How credible is the CLANZ team?
If what you have read here resonates with you and you would like to know more – don’t hesitate to contact us any time.
In this video, the CLANZ team discuss what it means to lead your team as a collective, and how empowering this different approach is.
Current models of Leadership training just aren’t working within the complex environments teams are exposed to. The CLANZ approach draws on the latest in neuroscience, in accessing the head, heart and gut – and invites you to lead from those places.
We understand the importance of Leadership roles, Our individual journeys have bought us together – each from a different pathway, with a shared vision of realising the potential of the people that work within organisations. It’s time for a new way of Leading.

We Specialise in Collective Leadership
CLANZ are the New Zealand partners for the global consultancy, Leadership Coefficient. We offer their Collective Leadership workshops and retreats here in New Zealand. At the heart of this innovative systems approach to leadership is a focus on leadership embodiment: enabling leaders to access their whole body intelligence – head, heart, gut – in order to solve ever more complex problems.
Leadership Coefficient offers a pioneering, body-based assessment that reveals people’s strengths through the natural intelligence of the body. This is the Embodied Leadership Strengths Profile (ELSP). This unique methodology provides immediate visibility into a team’s combined strengths, challenges, dynamics and performance opportunities.
Leaders increasingly need to be able to think in more complex, systemic, strategic and interdependent ways. Collective Leadership is based on the premise that answers to complex challenges will emerge from a collective’s full embodied intelligence. Our ELSP approach enables teams to develop unique competencies that are essential for sustainability in the dynamic business environment of today.
Leadership Coefficient clients have measured significant business impacts in employee engagement, productivity, quality improvement and innovation. Leadership Coefficient’s Collective “Leader Being” Model frames our approach in the following:
Embodied Leadership Strengths Profile
(ELSP) is an innovative, body-based assessment methodology that reveals an individual’s inner strengths through the natural intelligence of the body.
This unique methodology provides immediate visibility into a team’s combined talents, strengths, challenges and performance opportunities. Applying this awareness and understanding, collective performance increases.
Focus on the "Being" versus the "Doing" of Leadership
The emphasis is on exploring the core, authentic being that we are, versus the traditional focus on what leaders are supposed to be doing. Through deepened awareness of ourselves and of how we impact others, we can begin to change how we choose to be in relationship.
Leading by Capitalising on the Collective Intelligence
A collective leadership model demands of us increased awareness that we are part of a larger whole. In the complex and dynamic world of today, it is not possible for one person to know everything and leaders must be capable of leading from the intelligence of the whole system.
Leading from the Future as Opposed to only the Past
We address the power of being fully present in order to see with fresh eyes and discover a future that is emerging moment by moment. It requires us to come from future possibility, not only past experience or prior mental models. “Presencing” the future is the place of true innovation.
To find out more about our Embodied Leadership Strengths Profile program please click here
To contact us directly for program information, please click here
It’s time for a new way of leading
Contact us now to learn how

CONTACT DETAILS
David Bennett
E: david@clanz.co.nz
M: +64 21 078 4458
W: davidbennettcoach.com
Shona Munro
E: shona@clanz.co.nz
M: +64 21 271 2368
CONTACT DETAILS
Kristy Meates
E: kristy@clanz.co.nz
M: 027 491 4647
Ash Patea
E: ash@clanz.co.nz
M: 027 843 4313