Icehouse Community End of Year Event - Auckland

Every great sporting season has a finish line. A chance to look back at what worked, learn from what didn’t, celebrate the wins, then properly switch off before the next campaign begins.

Business should be no different.

To finish 2026, we’re bringing the Icehouse community together with Darren Shand, who spent almost 20 years as General Manager of the All Blacks, across five Rugby World Cups and including the back-to-back World Cup-winning campaigns of 2011 and 2015.

Darren has experienced the full cycle of high-performance sport, from the disappointment of the 2007 World Cup, through to lifting the trophy four years later. He’ll share lessons from inside one of the world’s great high-performance environments on how to debrief the year, take the lessons, genuinely reset over summer, and come back ready for the next season.

Then we’ll do what our community does best: enjoy a drink, some good conversation and reconnect with other business owners and leaders before we all head off for summer.