Evolving leaders alumni

Alumni workshop.

Dr Foliaki presenting to alumni.

Fa'amatuainu, Fepulea'i Margie Apa and Dr Monique Faleafa.

Le Va has had two cohorts complete the Le Tautua emerging leaders programme.

An alumni group has now been formed, consisting of 42 programme participants. This combined group is now called the Le Tautua evolving leaders alumni.

The first ever meeting and workshop for the alumni was held on 28 May 2009, following the graduation and prize-giving dinner for the 2009 cohort.

In November 2009, the alumni had experts from the Auckland Business School deliver workshops on decision making in complex environments. Leading experts Dr Ron McDowall and Peter Withers took the group through a very intense and thought provoking journey into the world of the opposable mind, intuition, naturalistic decision making and much more.

In 2010, Le Va wanted to reinforce this excellent work by continuing with the 'decision making in complex environments' theme.

With this in mind, we invited Dr Ron McDowall and Peter Withers to speak again at an alumni dinner held on 28 April 2010. Dinner guest speakers were Peter Withers, Ezra Schuster and NZ Idol winner Rosita Vai, who also sang for the guests.

A workshop on 29 April was attended by 22 of the alumni members. We were very fortunate to secure Dr Siale ‘Alo Foliaki and Fepulea'i Margie Apa, two dynamic and high-achieving young Pacific leaders, to share their leadership journeys.

The evaluation findings indicated that the workshop was a great success and that all the speakers and facilitators delivered excellent presentation and discussion sessions at the workshop.

Comments from the April workshop included:

Wow lots of learning, reflection and growing…

Excellent speakers!

The case scenarios helped me understand more about making decisions due to the fact that our organisation is going through the same situation.

Inspired by whole day… Dr Foliaki’s quotes (advice) help me to move forward in my leadership journey.

Would have liked to have a tour of the Pacific services for those outside of Auckland.

Fepuleai Margie is an inspirational role model for Pacific women!

Excellent presentations throughout the day.

Very grateful to be a part of the group.

The quality of the presenters has been very beneficial to my work, learning new strategies and ideas every time.

Really good combination of people who facilitated.

Further information

For more information please contact Shana Malio.

Page last updated: 23 August 2011