Wayfinding Leadership: Grounded in Indigenous Wisdom. Delivered Across Aotearoa and Beyond.
Transformative leadership experiences for organisations, teams, and individuals.
Kia Ora, Haere mai.
We guide individuals, teams, and organisations on transformative leadership journeys grounded in Indigenous knowledge and relational practice.
Our approach draws on the ancient art of wayfinding — the navigational mastery of Pacific voyagers who read the stars, ocean swells, and natural environment to journey across vast oceans. This deep attunement to signs, rhythm, and purpose becomes a powerful metaphor for leadership today.
Through wayfinding, we teach leaders how to pause, read the conditions around them, lead with intention, and stay anchored in their values — even in uncertainty. It’s not about having all the answers, but knowing how to orient yourself and your people toward what truly matters.
For over a decade, we’ve partnered with organisations across Aotearoa and beyond — from government and corporate sectors to iwi, education, and NGOs — delivering powerful, custom leadership experiences that foster clarity, connection, and collective growth.
Trusted by organisations across Aotearoa and beyond
Over the past decade, Wayfinding Leadership has partnered with a wide range of organisations across Aotearoa — spanning corporate, government, education, iwi, and not-for-profit sectors.
These partners come to us for leadership development that is grounded in Indigenous wisdom, relational by design, and truly transformative in impact.
They stay with us because of the deep trust we build, the cultural integrity we bring, and the lasting change we help embed within their teams and leadership practices.
Some of the organisations we’ve walked alongside
“Highly recommend this opportunity for anyone who is looking to understand themselves better in order to gain the leadership qualities that will enable change in any environment.”
"Wayfinding Leadership teaches us to lead not by chasing outcomes, but by moving from stillness, reading the signs, and calling our purpose toward us."
— Dr Chellie Spiller
Introducing:
Wayfinding Leadership at the Kupe Waka Center
Immersive, Place-Based Leadership Retreats
For those seeking deeper, embodied leadership development, the Wayfinding Leadership Academy offers transformative, place-based programmes held at Kupe Waka Centre in Northland.
Here, leadership is experienced as a whole-of-being journey. Participants are guided through a multi-sensory, place-based approach to growth — where waka, marae, kai, the star compass, and the rhythms of nature become the curriculum.
At Kupe Waka Centre, all participants will be held in a safe and powerful environment to slow down, listen deeply, and recalibrate your course. The experience is relational, embodied, and rooted in mātauranga Māori — delivered with warmth, professionalism, and deep cultural integrity.
Wayfinding Leadership
Trusted leadership development for teams and organisations.
Delivered in-house, online, or hybrid.
Custom-designed workshops, facilitation, and leadership journeys.
Proven results. Deep impact. Long-term partnerships.
Public workshops are available on an ad-hoc basis.
Wayfinding Leadership Academy
Immersive, place-based leadership retreats.
Programmes based at the Kupe Waka Centre in Northland, Aotearoa
Star Compass, Waka, Marae, Kai, and Indigenous frameworks.
For individuals and teams seeking deep, experiential growth. Schools are welcome.
Ready to begin your journey?
Whether you’re a leader, a team, or an organisation — let’s find the right path together.
