Connecting Te Ao Māori with Agile

He waka eke noa. “We are all in this together”. We talk about leadership, but do we actually demonstrate it?

Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand and, as such, often see the world through the lens of the natural world. The belief that everything is interconnected permeates Māori culture, alongside an acknowledgement of those who have gone before (ancestors or Tīpuna). Furthermore, the Māori world champions values such as manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and kotahitanga amongst many others. These values (roughly translated as hospitality, connections and unity) can help bridge the human world with the corporate world.

In this talk, Brian Osman will take you on a personal journey of discovery with these values and share how this has helped him better understand how people work, teams form and the ‘why’ that drives them. By building a caring, connected, inclusive and unified space we then start the road to higher performing teams. The world needs leaders that model these values now more than ever.