Leading By Design Masterclass with Jade Tang-Taylor — LNZ Masterclass Series 2024

Are you ready to lead the way in creating a sustainable and equitable future for Aotearoa New Zealand?

Leadership New Zealand Pūmanawa Kaiārahi o Aotearoa is excited to invite you to join us for this interactive Masterclass with Jade Tang-Taylor designed to empower senior leaders to navigate complexity and drive positive change through the lens of design thinking, systems thinking, and futures thinking.

Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: Uncover the principles of design thinking and learn how to craft user-centric solutions that resonate with the unique needs of your community and organisation. Through empathy, ideation, prototyping, and iteration, discover how design thinking can fuel innovative problem-solving at a strategic level.

Systems Thinking for Holistic Insight: Delve into the interconnected web of systems that influence our world. Gain profound insights into the relationships, feedback loops, and unintended consequences that shape complex issues. Discover how systems thinking can reveal pathways to impactful and sustainable change, allowing you to lead with a holistic understanding.

Futures Thinking for Visionary Leadership: Anticipate and design for future possibilities by embracing futures thinking. Learn how to identify trends, uncertainties, and potential scenarios to make informed, strategic decisions. Equip yourself with the foresight needed to shape a resilient and adaptable future for your organisation and community.



Who Should Attend? This workshop is tailored for senior leaders, executives, and decision-makers from the private sector, civil society, academia, and government in Aotearoa New Zealand. Whether you are a change-maker, innovator, strategist, or visionary, this workshop offers diverse perspectives and different strategies to drive meaningful change.

Join us for an interactive experience that will enhance your leadership capabilities and empower you to make a significant impact on the future of Aotearoa New Zealand.

About Jade Tang-Taylor

Jade is a purpose-driven, design-led, creative social entrepreneur. Endeavouring to connect across sectors, inter-disciplinary spaces, inter-cultural communities and find ways to collaborate, co-create and co-design better futures, using design thinking, systems thinking & futures thinking.

Currently, Jade is an Innovation Advisor & Facilitator at academyEX, Fractional Director at ThinkPlace | Wahi Whakaaro and Co-Founder & Director of Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

She also serves on a couple of community governance boards, she’s an EHF (Edmund Hillary Fellowship) Fellow, she’s part of the SASS (Systems-change Advocacy, Support and Solidarity) and most importantly she’s a proud working mum.