Creating a best places to work culture - BPTW x Cultivating Leadership Masterclass
Event description
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Creating thriving, intentional cultures that forge innovative, successful paths into the emergent future
What would your business outcomes look like if your people felt more fulfilled, rewarded, heard, connected, and empowered?
It could be:
- Greater agility and preparedness for the emergent future
- Increased rigour and depth of decision making
- Superior connection and collaboration
- Growth in the team’s capacity for more sophisticated actions and ideation
- Innovation. Loyalty. Success.
Whether intentional or organic, culture sits at the heart of all these outcomes. It influences how people interact, team morale, how decisions are made, how people are rewarded and recognised, strategic direction, productivity, how customers are served, and more.
Culture is organic. It never stops evolving. And as business leaders, neither should we.
Prepare to be challenged and changed, for the better!
Whether you are leading a start-up and are right at the beginning of your cultural journey or have a well-established culture, this Masterclass will open your eyes to another dimension in people-centric workplaces.
Developed and facilitated by global leadership experts, Leanne Holdsworth, Jim Wicks, with keynote speakers Dr Jennifer Garvey Berger and Nicola Taylor from Tax Traders and Taxi.
This will be an incredible day of insight and learning, with practical tools and strategies to put into immediate action in your organisation.
- Learn the mindsets of leaders who are running highly successful people-centric cultures
- Grow your capacity as a leader to lean into more sophisticated decision making that supports your culture for the emerging business landscape
- Understand how to forge deeper and more intentional connection within your team for greater collaboration and agility
- Gain practical tools and strategies to effect cultural change, particularly when other leaders around you are moving in a different direction
- Take away tangible data and an actionable business case for cultural change
- Have a greater sense of your own voice
- Gain a network of other leaders to share ideas and support
Masterclass Programme
- A full day in-person workshop
- A 90-minute follow up online session 7 April, 3.30-5pm to reconnect the group, share insights, ideas, and outcomes of the practical tasks provided in the Masterclass
- Practical online resources to effect change within your own organisation
Meet your Facilitators
The BPTW Culture Masterclass will be facilitated by Leanne Holdsworth and Jim Wicks. They will be joined by Dr Jennifer Garvey Berger, CEO of Cultivating Leadership. Jennifer is well-known on a global stage and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear from her in an intimate setting about the mindsets, actions, and decisions of leaders of successful, people-centric cultures.
You will also hear real-life insights on culture and initiatives from some of the 2024 BPTW Awards finalists and winners.
 | Dr Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer is a co-founder and CEO of Cultivating leadership. She lives in France and teaches around the world. Jennifer designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches Executive leaders and their teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people. In her four highly acclaimed books, Unleash Your Complexity Genius (co-authored with Carolyn Coughlin), Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Simple Habits for Complex Times (co-authored with Keith Johnston), and Changing on the Job, Jennifer builds on deep theoretical knowledge to offer practical ways to make leaders’ organisations more successful, their work more meaningful, and their lives more gratifying. Jennifer has worked with senior leaders in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world (like Novartis, Google, KPMG, Intel, Microsoft, Wikimedia). She has a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University. Formerly an associate professor at George Mason University, you can now find her travelling and working from the French countryside, where she has bought a house with eleven friends who live in a community and try to keep the dog from terrifying the cats |
 | Leanne Holdsworth Leanne stands for a future where it is normal for work environments to be places where human beings thrive, enabling organisations to succeed whilst at the same time, building social capital through how those humans are able to show up with their families and communities. She is the co-author of Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising workplaces and author of the book A New Generation of Business Leaders and has spent 15 years advising organisations, predominantly in the private sector (across most sectors including banking, primary sector, FMCG, tech, pharmaceuticals), as well as the public and not for profit sectors in sustainability strategy and leadership. A big move from Auckland to the Northern Hemisphere happens for Leanne and her family in April 2025 where she is taking her passion for people-centric cultures to support clients in other parts of the world. |
 | Jim Wicks Jim is the Managing Director of Cultivating Leadership, He has an eclectic mix of experiences with roots in rural New Zealand and a career that has been driven by curiosity, an attraction to new things and some key values. This has seen him in very technical roles solving trade finance issues, designing ground-breaking computer systems and moving into senior leadership roles in operations, sales, organisation development and change programs in the finance and health sectors – never a dull moment! He also has over 15 years consulting experience and is an experienced leader, facilitator, coach and consultant. His strength in leadership and governance has been to take a whole of organisation overview that integrates change alongside managing risks and achieving results. His practical technical and leadership experience is complemented by a deep knowledge of adult development concepts, understanding of ideas and approaches relating to complex adaptive systems and a quest to bring those ideas to life for the greater good. He is a certified coach, holds accreditations in a number of tools, has a Master of Commerce and postgraduate DipHRM. Jim has a gift for integrating leadership development with business improvement, innovation, and complexity ideas – bringing people, processes, systems, and technology together to create sustainable and generative cultures. |
 | Nicola Taylor Nicola Taylor is the co-founder of the successful fin-tech company Tax Traders and new start-up Taxi, which together won the overall Best Places to Work award for 2024. Nicola is an award-winning leader and has been credited with the amazing workplace that her companies are known for. |
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