Rourou Conversations

A faithful reenactment of a family dinner, with guests Semhar Macknight & Gerald Mlambo, two of Zoe Mlambo's many ridiculous siblings. What is Puāwai? Puāwai is a youth development programme that empowers emerging leaders to embrace their identity, strengths, culture, and creativity.

Join Max and Oaklea as they go into detail about music and movies! What is Puāwai? Puāwai is a youth development programme that empowers emerging leaders to embrace their identity, strengths, culture, and creativity.

Come join Galaxie and Aaliyah as they dive into their experiences of being young Māori in today's world. What is Puāwai? Puāwai is a youth development programme that empowers emerging leaders to embrace their identity, strengths, culture, and creativity.

Max dives into Egg Academy with Kane and Juniper. A podcast with laughs, vibes and exclusive stories no one’s heard. What is Puāwai? Puāwai is a youth development programme that empowers emerging leaders to embrace their identity, strengths, culture, and creativity.

Join a young sapphic inter-racial couple navigate the soundwaves of forming a new band, learning new musical skills, and share their new ideas for their upcoming album ‘Normal Formalities’. What is Puāwai? Puāwai is a youth development programme that empowers emerging leaders to embrace their identity, strengths, culture, and creativity.

Join two young women who discuss what it's like to grow up in a generation that's heavily influenced. Puāwai ⁠⁠ is a Leadership Lab programme for rangatahi/young people aged 15-18 designed to connect and develop a diverse network of “potential leaders, innovators, disruptors, drivers” and help them develop real skills, knowledge.

Kōrero with Preach is a powerful and authentic episode of People of Puāwai, where we sit down with Preach, a young wāhine Māori growing up in Ōtautahi. She shares her honest kōrero about wellbeing, culture, community and her journey of embracing her identity and her hopes for the future. Puāwai ⁠ is a Leadership Lab programme for rangatahi/young people aged 15-18 designed to connect and develop a...

Join two young Pacific voices from Ōtautahi as they dive into Moana 2, exploring its cultural representation and the way it brought community together. From the movie to the soundtrack, they unpack what the film means for Pasifika identity and connection. Puāwai  is a Leadership Lab programme for rangatahi/young people aged 15-18 designed to connect and develop a diverse network of “potential lead...

Join three queer teens as they dive into the recommendations of modern media that have queer representation. Puāwai is a Leadership Lab programme for rangatahi/young people aged 15-18 designed to connect and develop a diverse network of “potential leaders, innovators, disruptors, drivers” and help them develop real skills, knowledge.

Erin Jackson (Ep1), Project Gender, holds space for this kōrero with Fi Deehan (Leadership Lab) and Emma Mclean (Ep2), Works for Everyone. The trio reflect on the series, what they learned, what they are curious about what they are going to do next in their feminism journey.  The Future of Feminism? is a series of kōrero exploring a range of issues related to gender equity and equality, hearing th...

In this kōrero, Wiki shares her personal and professional experiences as a Māori, Samoan indigenous wāhine working in wāhine ora health promotion. Inspired by the amazing wāhine in her life, she is driven to advocate for change as she sees the barriers and struggle to advocate for yourself as an indigenous woman. Wiki believes that communities will transform the way health is delivered and that wo...

Ange will jump at any chance to talk about financial wellbeing for women. There has always been a thread of ‘radical positive change for women’ woven through her career. She is a multi-time co-founder who brings her business acumen, strategic focus, research insights and intersectional feminism lens to her advocacy for systems change. Her current project, Hi Money, is changing women's relation...

Nina is a lawyer, campaigner and advocate for ethnic communities, migrants’ rights and intersectional gender equity. She shares her lived experience as a first-generation Filipina migrant and how it fuels her to champion fair pay, anti-racism and women’s rights across Aotearoa. Our conversation goes from being eldest daughters and expert generalists to Ikigai, calling and how we need to look beyon...

Emma is a mother of 3 teenagers, founder of Works for Everyone and NZ’s first Part Time Power List and podcast host. She shares her personal story of how the motherhood penalty took her by surprise and smashed her first career and how she evolved her second career to smash it back. We talk about the power of beliefs and the language we use in leading change and achieving equity for parents, in our...

Erin, a professional feminist and co-founder of Project Gender, shares her own ‘late’ journey into feminism alongside its history and the diverse range of opinions that exist within it. We talk about how an intersectional feminism lens on issues shines a light on the greatest inequities and helps us close the gaps for everyone. Erin shares a range of evidence and practical examples that validate t...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce hosted this webinar on 9 Nov 2023, featuring Alice Dimond and Sam Wixon from Tokona Te Raki.   Alice and Sam present the Māori future-making tool Te Korekoreka, and share about the tool's whakapapa and application.  Learn more about Tokona Te Raki's mahi at https://www.maorifutures.co.nz/ Learn more about the Te Korekoreka model at https://www.tekorekorek...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce hosted this webinar on 12 Oct 2023, featuring Jade Tang-Taylor from AcademyEX and Tech Futures Lab.  Jade presents an introduction to Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, and Futures Thinking, and explores how they intersect. Learn more about AcademyEX's mahi at https://academyex.com/ This series is a Leadership Lab Rourou initiative which hosts spaces to liste...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce hosted this webinar on 14 Sept 2023, featuring Angie Tangaere and Anne-Marie Mujica from Auckland Co-Design Lab.  Angie and Anne-Marie present their systems change model Hautū Waka: an approach to navigating complexity drawn from mātauranga Māori. Learn more about Auckland Co-Design Lab's mahi at https://www.aucklandco-lab.nz/ This series is a Leadership Lab...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce and Dr Chris Jansen hosted this webinar on 25 June 2024. Judy and Chris explore how systems thinking can be used to lead in complex systems. This series is a Leadership Lab Rourou initiative which hosts spaces to listen to contemporary voices, to collaborate with others, and to address gnarly issues. Rourou amplifies marginalised voices for advocacy and to provok...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce and Dr Chris Jansen hosted this webinar on 4 June 2024. Judy and Chris explore how systems thinking can be used to navigate complex systems.  This series is a Leadership Lab Rourou initiative which hosts spaces to listen to contemporary voices, to collaborate with others, and to address gnarly issues. Rourou amplifies marginalised voices for advocacy and to provo...

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce and Dr Chris Jansen hosted this webinar on 7 May 2024. Judy and Chris present an introduction to systems thinking and systems change. This series is a Leadership Lab Rourou initiative which hosts spaces to listen to contemporary voices, to collaborate with others, and to address gnarly issues. Rourou amplifies marginalised voices for advocacy and to provoke syste...

Erica and Kath are back to explore allyship and how it weaves with intersectionality and self-awareness, to advocate with others and provoke systems change. We talk about allyship as a non-linear process, a lifelong journey, an active practice requiring constant self-reflection as well as a collective action for a common purpose for positive impact. As allies, how do we open doors for others who c...

Atarau and Wikitoria share the different threads of who they are, how they are woven together like Wiki’s mum’s raranga. Both agree that the more people we bring on the journey of exploring our intersectionality and owning our whole stories, the more we can create systems change. They share their lived experiences of navigating Pākehā spaces as Māori, the impact of allyship, drawing resilience fro...

Cooper (ia/they/them) is transmasculine, non-binary, neurodiverse and Pākehā. They are an activist, an equity and diversity advocate and cat lover. In our kōrero, we explore the whakapapa of intersectionality, harnessing the power of our strengths and our intersecting identities, managing energy, the importance of self-awareness and the role of holding space for courageous conversations in provoki...

Amanda lives ‘in the grey’, at the intersections of her Māori and Pākehā identities. While she sees the beauty of both, it can also be paralysing. Erica is Chinese, a woman and neurodivergent. She shares how moving to post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch created a non-linear pathway for her to be reborn. We talk about spirit animals, how we all grapple with multiple identities, the two sides of inters...