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CELF Board Profile - Andrew Boyd

Next up in the CELF Board Profile series is General Manager of St John New Zealand, CELF Alumni and Trustee, Andrew Boyd. We asked Andrew a series of questions, and these were his answers....

CELF Board Profile - David Irving

We recently started a series of blogs profiling CELF board members to give you insight into the people behind the Foundation. Next up is CELF's Co-founder David Irving. We asked David a series of questions, and these were his answers....

CELF Board Profile - Simone Molenaar

In today's feature of CELF's Board Profile series  to give you insight into the people behind the Foundation, is CEO of Aspire Simone Molenaar. We asked Simone a series of questions, and these were her answers....

CELF Board Profile - Susan Trodden

Over the next few weeks we will be profiling CELF board members to give you insight into the people behind the Foundation. First up is Co-chair Susan Trodden! We asked Susan a series of questions, and these were her answers....

Leaupepe Rachel Karalus

On Friday 20 November at CELF Class of 2020 graduation Raewyn Jones,  CEO of WEL Energy Trust, announced the inaugural CELF Alumni Leader of the Year 2020 as Leaupepe Rachel Karalus - CEO K’aute Pasifika. Rachel, could not be with us to accept the award personally, however we managed to get her response prior to her departure for Queenstown to run a half marathon.Raewyn said "In my role as Chief Executive of WEL Energy Trust I am in the very privileged position of observing leadershi...

Class of 2020

On Friday 20 November, The Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation, celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2020.  The programme commenced in August 2019, due for completion in April 2020, however COVID changed all that. The final portion of the programme, included an exit residency and waka journey became part of CELF's Leadership week, finishing with graduation of the Class of 2020 and the announcement of the inaugrual Alumni Leader of the Year Award. Pictured above: Front row:&n...

Leadership Award

For the very first time,  CELF  will recognise a CELF alumni for outstanding community leadership.  Leadership may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, for example through impact, or as an agent for change and in both formal and informal roles, including appointed, elected, or volunteer positions within, their own organisation and others.  Contributions are expected to be at a level with broad reach across the community and exemplifying the mission and values of CELF.Nominat...

Covid - Shaping Leadership

Peter Sun of the University of Waikato - Management School,  shared his take outs from a session about leading through this Covid crisis with Marty Linksy. Marty, a faculty member of Harvard Kennedy School (see https://www.hks.harvard.edu/ab. Here, Peter  has broken the learning down into four key components People leadership  |  Task leadership  | Strategic leadership    |   Self-leadership: People Leadership Leaders need to be present in people’s ...

A Leader's Perspective

BY:  Heather Claycomb - HMC...

Leading Innovation

Innovation is a hot-topic among business leaders today.  Over the past 5 years Jeremy Suisted, of Creativate has identified five key steps for leaders to take in leading innovation within their business....

CELF - New Dates

Coronavirus has without a doubt thrown us one heck of a curveball, and each of us be impacted uniquely. Uncertainty is the currency and change is the platform. A Silver Lining The Coronavirus situation has provided a unique opportunity for us to: Pause and reflect on our five years of operation, our performance and programme,  relative to our founding principles, impact and outcomesReview our programme, content, design and delivery  Reset the commencement and timing of the CELF Elevate...

Leadership and Self-awareness

A phone call responding to my request for stories from our CELF Elevate Programme Alumni started like this....

What makes a genuine leader?

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3 R's of Leadership

What your 3 R's of Leadership?...

Leading the Way

The Waikato Story  shares the incredible stories of the Waikato, highlighting, new business, innovation, educators, siginficant economic contributors and community organisations within the Waikato Region. Each story  reveals more of our incredible region.Recently,  The Waikato Story feature one of our own CELFie's, Teresa Bidlake  - Hospice Waikato...  Hospice Waikato runs 8 charity shops. With the business turning over $3.4m last year, strong leadership is crucial ...

A New Chair & New Faces

A new chair and new faces at the Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation (CELF) board table. Raewyn Jones, CEO WEL Energy Trust, recently took up the role as chair of the Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation, with the resignation of John Cook at CELF’s AGM in September. John had chaired CELF since its inception, apart from a short sabbatical in 2018 at which time Raewyn took the helm.  John will continue to be an avid supporter of the programme, wholeheartedly committed...

Orchestrating Outcomes

The reasons for CELF Alumni workshops, as visible in the video clip above from the great session with Aiden Holiday & Brenton Bai: Connect with your cohortConnect with other Alumni across cohortsContinue the learning journey And take time out for you.  Have a little fun along the way. Our next workshop is on the 8th of November - Orchestrating Outcomes Bookings Required...

Meet this year's Cohort

This week we welcomed this year's cohort to the CELF Elevate Leadership Programme.   The residential programme sets up the journey and  cemenst relationships for the 9months ahead and beyond.  It is a time to   review, reflect and connect. Thank you to our partners who make this programme a reality and who believe in growing our leaders for a stronger Waikato....

Class of 2019 Graduates

The Community and Enterprise Leadership Foundation (CELF) celebrated the graduation of the Elevate Leadership Class of 2019 at the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts On Friday 12 April. Julian Williams, 2016 CELF Alumnus MC'd the evening with passion and aplomb.  John Cook, Chair of CELF and Neil Quigley, The University of Waikato Vice-Chancellor acknowledged the partnership between CELF and the University to deliver the  Elevate Programme and the significance and...

COMMUNITY CITIZEN

 - Co-Founder & CELF Trustee David Irving, has formulated a series, reflecting on his leadership and experiences.  Look for the golden nuggets - there are  plenty.  The first in the series looks at the importance of knowing your community and warns of working and living in silos....

Save the Date

The world is facing challenges like never before. Globalization, workforce challenge, climate change and depleting natural resources, technology convergence, and need for community citizenship,...

A New Standard of Leadership

Bill George wrote in the Harvard Business School article about four titans of leadership,  who defined a new era in business during the past decade.  All of  these leaders have recently finished their tenures:  PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. Bill looks at how each of these leaders recognised  the need for business to contribute to society in meaningful ways, not just profit from it.&nb...

7 Ways to Avoid Self-Sabotage

REPOST:    BY RYAN PENDELL Have you seen The Onion headline "Study: Anxiety Resolved By Thinking About It Real Hard"?If you have multiple Strategic Thinking themes in CliftonStrengths (Strategic, Intellection, Learner, Ideation, Analytical, etc.) -- this headline probably sums up your daily struggle pretty well. When in doubt, think more!A tendency toward strategic thinking has a lot of benefits on a team. You can identify roadblocks for others far in advance. ...

“Keeping up with the Kaumatua”

Until I met Rangimahora Reddy, I did not know anything about Rauawaawa Kaumatua Charitable Trust (Rauawaawa), its location, the depth and breath of services it offers across health and well-being, education and activities to support and enhance the quality of life of Kaumatua. I was impressed.  The warmth of welcome, the immediate sense of community and a strong feeling of belonging – gosh what more could one want of a community facility. Rauawaawa is located in Colombo Street, Frankton, ...

Kingsley Fink – Tristam Marine

Waikato Business News talks to Kingsley Fink about Tristram Marine, the journey of the business and of his experience of the CELF programme.Kingsley’s reflected on his learnings and insight gained from the programme and of the valuable connections he has made. ...