Ki te Ao Mārama - To the World of Light

Are you ready to address Workplace inequities by making use of your privilege and power?

Have you been thinking about:

  • how to build an inclusive workplace

  • increasing your awareness of privilege

  • increasing your effectiveness in identifying and addressing workplace inequities

  • how to bring others on board to be allies

Emerge into the world of light by increasing your understanding of privilege and power to be an ally and to affect change in the workplace.

Ki te Ao Mārama is an allyship programme interwoven with concepts in te Ao Māori (the Māori world). It is like no other allyship programme because we acknowlege that being an ally in the Aotearoa New Zealand context is different because of our unique history.

Ki te Ao Mārama covers the foundation of what is allyship, privilege and power in the Aotearoa context, and builds your understanding of workplace inequities and how to lead from where you are.

It is a programme suitable for leaders, managers, HR and OD professionals, culture champions and anyone who has a desire to address the inequities in their workplace.

We are having an in-person public cohort in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on Monday 28 July with the virtual group follow up on 25 August. The price is $1100+GST for early birds who register with us before 13 June and the full price is $1250+GST after 13 June. The go ahead for this public cohort will be confirmed on 30 June as we are looking for at least 10 keen allies to join this cohort and a maximum cohort size of 18-20 people. Register your interest here.

 
 

Ki te Ao Mārama

The Allyship training where you will:

  • Understand what allyship is and what it isn't

  • Understand the historical, cultural and social context of Aotearoa, including He

    Whakaputanga and te Tiriti o Waitangi, and how our history has shaped modern

    social dynamics of power and privilege

  • Unpack your privilege in and outside of work, and in the Aotearoa context

  • Learn about the inequities that impact people with less privilege at work

  • Gain insight into your positional power and your unique ability to create change at personal, interpersonal and systemic structural levels

  • Learn from peers to practise allyship and design actions

By the end of the training, you will be equipped to practise allyship and lead from where you are.

We’ve teamed up with a fantastic educator in te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and Aotearoa History, Regan Kupu Stokes, to deliver this training. Kupu’s profile is below. We would also like to credit LeanIn Allyship at Work as we have adapted their training material to suit the Aotearoa context and workplaces.

Programme Structure

The programme is made up of 1x full day training and 1x virtual group follow up session:

  • Introductions: Whakawhanaungatanga

  • Wāhanga Module 1: Understand Allyship and unpack your privilege

  • Wāhanga Module 2: Understand the Aotearoa context and increase your awareness of the different lenses

  • Wāhanga Module 3: Understand workplace inequities

  • Wāhanga Module 4: Understand your positional power and how to create change

  • Design your allyship actions with peers

Who is this suitable for?

Ki te Ao Mārama is suitable for leaders, managers, HR and OD professionals, culture champions and anyone who has a desire to understand and address the inequities in their workplace.

How to get started?

We do this programme in house and can tailor the content to fit your organisational context and tie the allyship actions back to your organisational values. Let’s have a chat if you are interested.

We are having an in-person public cohort in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on Monday 28 July with the virtual group follow up on 25 August. The price is $1100+GST for early birds who register with us before 13 June and the full price is $1250+GST. The go ahead for this public cohort will be confirmed on 30 June as we are looking for at least 10 keen allies to join this cohort and a maximum cohort size of 18-20 people. Register your interest below.

Facilitators of the programme

Suki Xiao (Tangata Tiriti, Chinese)

Suki Xiao is Chinese and Tangata Tiriti. She is the Founder of As You and an ICF credentialed coach (Associate Certified Coach). Suki delivers Aotearoa’s first-ever Women of Colour Leadership programme Accentuated. Suki has worked across the public, private and social sectors, where she has been a recognised coach, mentor and leader. Prior to starting As You, Suki was an Agile Coach at Xero, Meridian Energy and Datacom (through Nomad8), where Suki had direct experience coaching, enabling and supporting teams and leaders to perform better and in new ways of working. Suki served on the leadership team of Xero Partner Products and has worked with a range of people, from CEOs to early career professionals. Prior to her coaching career, she was a Policy Advisor in MBIE and a Tax Consultant at KPMG. Suki has a BCom/LLB conjoint degree, is a Vipassana meditator and was a Youthline phone counsellor. LinkedIn

Regan Kupu Stokes (Ngāi Te Rangi, English) - Educator in te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and Aotearoa History

Kupu is of Ngāi Te Rangi and English descent, grew up in Ōtautahi, and lives in Ōhinehou with his whānau. Kupu has been teaching te reo Māori, tikanga and Aotearoa history since 2012, and is a qualified translator and interpreter. He has Masters degrees in Te Reo Māori (Te Reo Kairangi - Māori Language Excellence) and Education (Hōaka Pounamu - Bilingual Teaching) and works as a self-employed teacher, translator and consultant for Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga (Ministry of Education), Te Papa Atawhai (Department of Conservation), Christchurch City Holdings Limited, AgResearch, Beca, New Zealand Graduate School of Education and a variety of other organisations, schools and businesses across Aotearoa. LinkedIn.