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Education Programme Feature | Top student Danel Le Roux

Each semester a prize for academic excellence is awarded to the student achieving the highest overall mark. 

We spoke to Danel Le Roux, one of our top students from the first semester of the 2022 Professional Education Programme, about how this course gave her confidence to ask questions.


Education Programme Feature | Top student Grant Deeney

We interviewed Grant Deeney, our top student for Semester One 2022 who achieved 86.5 percent in the Finance for Decision Making module, about his decision to do the Professional Education Programme while working as a civil engineer and in project management.


How to Bring Diversity and Inclusion to the Boardroom: two NZ directors share their insights

Speaking to a room full of governance leaders, award-winning director Cassandra Crowley and director on multiple boards and former MP Steve Maharey talk about how to bring diversity and inclusion to the boardroom, with MC Ziena Jalil at the Women in Governance Awards 2022.


One advice that helped you on your leadership journey

We asked previous winners of the Women in Governance Awards about one advice that helped them on their leadership journey. This is what they had to say.


Being a minority on a board: two directors share their insights

Speaking to a room full of governance leaders, award-winning director Cassandra Crowley and director on multiple boards and former MP Steve Maharey share their advice on being a minority on a board, with MC Ziena Jalil at the Women in Governance Awards 2022.


Challenges faced by women directors today: two directors share their insights

Speaking to a room full of governance leaders, award-winning director Cassandra Crowley and director on multiple boards and former MP Steve Maharey spoke about the challenges faced by women directors today with MC Ziena Jalil at the Women in Governance Awards 2022.


‘I wish I had known…’ – What four award winning directors want you to know about governance

We asked previous winners of the Women in Governance Awards - what was it that they wished they had known before embarking on their governance careers? This is what they wanted all women on boards to know.


Highlights from COP27: Commentary from around the world

COP27 builds on the outcomes of COP26 to deliver actions on issues tackling climate emergencies, the growing energy crisis, increased levels of greenhouse gas concentration and extreme weather events.

The conference provided an opportunity to global leaders to address their commitments on climate change, and address how the current issues - geopolitical challenges, land war in Europe, diplomatic issues between US and China, increasing inflation and energy crisis - might be holding back the progress on climate actions.

As the conference draws to a close, Governance NZ looked at commentary coming in from around the world.


What are the key challenges faced by female directors?

Limited opportunities to network, mum-guilt and unconscious biases were some of the biggest challenges faced by women in governance, according to three award-winning women board directors.


Truth about Governance: From the founder of Women on Boards NZ

Founder of Women on Boards NZ and past president of Governance New Zealand, Dr Rosanne Hawarden shares her thoughts on why women were not getting onto boards.


    International Women’s Day: Women in tech, are they misrepresented, or is this a myth?

    By Farah Herbert, Chief Executive Officer, Cybercraft, Partners of the Governance 2030 Conference