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Level-up My Leadership | The Neuroscience of Performance

In this session Co.OfWomen founder Tara covers off some important brain fundamentals. These create an easily digestible understanding of how we can interact with our brain to create new ways of thinking, being and doing. This is one of our Community’s fave sessions!

How to send off your team with a great mindset for the Holidays.

Now I don’t want to alarm you and drop the C bomb into your November day, but it will soon be Christmas.  For a lot of us, our businesses will shut down, and our teams will go off for a well-deserved Christmas break.

How to Keep a Full Tank of Energy During the Upcoming Busy Season

As we gear up for the busy season, maintaining a full tank of energy is not just about achieving year-end goals; it's also about finishing the year strong and enjoying a well-deserved break during the holiday season. We all want to enter Christmas with enough energy to truly savour our time away from our businesses or corporate careers.

The Family Business in Divorce or Separation

Business and marriage can work well together until it doesn’t. You may either own or have founded your business together, and if so, here’s a question – how does your personal life affect the business? There can be a huge benefit to being married and in business together, where both domestic and business discussions often intertwine and decisions can be fast-tracked.

How To Improve Conversations In Just 6 Seconds

One of my Mum’s favourite sayings was, ‘If you can’t think of anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.’ While there was probably some wisdom in there regarding keeping sibling rivalry at bay, when it comes to our journey as leaders, employers and human-managers, there are problems with this way of thinking.

The Four Well-BEings of Teams By Pip Loader

When I get a call from a new client, usually along the lines of ‘My Teams a little broken’ or ‘We just don’t seem to be getting the results we are looking for’ (or something along the lines of ‘HELP!’), I’m all in. What I typically find, ninety-five per cent of the time, the problem is because one or some of the fundamentals are either missing or a little bit wobbly. 

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Level-up My Leadership | The Neuroscience of Performance

Level-up My Leadership |

In Session One of the programme we consider the context for our default behaviours as woman - why we go small, struggle to prioritise what we need and what needs focus to shift the beyond that to a powerful state that works in synergy with what we most want.

Meet the 1-Billion Dollar founder!

Arguably (or not at all, as we assert) Naomi Ballantyne is one of the most successful people in Insurance in Aotearoa. Founder of three insurance businesses, Naomi is most recently founder of Partners Life - a business she sold for just over 1-billion dollars in 2022 (yup you read that correctly!). She shares her journey with some epic gems to encourage and invigorate your journey.

Intelligence of Success ft. Marnie Hillier

Marnie has made quantum leaps in her evolution as she grew her business and family (now three boys!). Inspired by the possibilities for herself that her journey has informed, she made the decision to sell her business and is now working on a range of new projects. We can't wait to hear more about those!

Intelligence of Success ft. Maree Glading

The passionate, driven and determined Maree Glading has had a remarkable success journey. In this session, Maree shares starting again and blending grit and vulnerability.

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Female Leadership Conference (Podcast Ver)

Get ready and rejuvenated as our founder, Tara Lorigan, provides practical tools to unlock your epic female power to turbocharge your leadership.

IGNITE LEADER SERIES FT. DR LEE MATHIAS ONZM

In this IGNITE Leader Series former Chair of Co.OWomen, Theresa Gattung CNZM chats with Co.OfWomen founding Chair Dr Lee Mathias ONZM about her journey to becoming and serial entrepreneur, health care innovator, and experienced director and investor.

Intelligence of Success Ft. Emily Miller-Sharma

Prepare to be stimulated as our founder, Tara Lorigan, chats with member Emily Miller-Sharma about her life, her leadership, and her growth.

Co.W Talks ft. Christina Wood

Christina Wood, Co-founder of Liberty Brewing, shares her story of taking her brand from the garage to the world one beer at a time.

Co.W Talks - Dame Pieter Stewart

New Zealand Fashion industry legend, Dame Pieter Stewart earnestly weighs in on what made her success possible, her inspirations, and her challenges (and her love of them).

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Intelligence of Success ft. Kaz Staples

Inducted into the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the food industry in 2019, the passionate, driven, resilient and utterly charismatic Kaz Staples has had an incredible success journey. In this Webinar, Kaz talks us through how Pure Delish turned from a home-based hobby brand to a household brand name, with twists and turns that seem more dramatic than most.

Intelligence of Success ft. Brianne West

It's got to be said that Ms Brianne West could be just a little bit unicorn, such has been the epic rise of her awesome solid bar cosmetics business, Ethique. In this live Zoom interview this incredible member shares about that rise and the actual journey!

Confidence Masterclass

In this video we'll get you very well acquainted with the all important success tool CONFIDENCE. Learn how to move through the world with assurance and achieve whatever the heck you want to. Hell yes.

Intelligence of Success ft. Jenene Crossan

Jenene, Jenene, Jenene - our Lady of Resilience. Watch her tell the brilliant story of where she's come from, how she got to where she is and what kept her going through the whole thing. A savvy businesswoman with sass, intellect and a knack for surviving in style.

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Building a Dynasty the Kiwi Way - Cilla Hegarty

Cilla Hegarty made the momentous decision to start not one but several businesses while her firstborn was still a child. Here she shares how and why she made that eyebrow-raising life choice, and the incredible advantages that came from it.

Blazing a trail from the land into the future

Mavis Mullins lets us in on her remarkable backstory, how she ended up where she is, and the unmatched importance of family in her journey.

Growing up blonde and Māori

Sara Orme shares a personal story of life experience based on the distinctive hardships associated with being both white and Māori.

The Business of Fashion - Anna-Lise Sharma

Anna-Lise Sharma (of RUBY) has combined chutzpah and intelligence with a dash of strategy and a healthy dose of confidence to take her down a career path that seamlessly blends her commercial nous with a passion for fashion.

To be the best (Ranjna Patel, Tāmaki Health)

Ranjna Patel and her husband Dr Kantilal Patel have changed the face of Auckland’s healthcare, transcending barriers and using a simple philosophy: Here to serve.

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How Do We Keep Our Relationships Functioning Going into the 'Silly Season'

The first thought we usually have with Christmas fast approaching is relief, followed by fear. The fear is usually when we think about everything that will need to happen before we get to Christmas. We then very quickly consider how we are going to keep everything together, including some relationships which can come under strain leading into the silly season. For those who are working mums, school holidays will bring a sense of relief, but for others, it means going above and beyond to keep schedules and relationships functioning without conflict.

How to send off your team with a great mindset for the Holidays.

Now I don’t want to alarm you and drop the C bomb into your November day, but it will soon be Christmas. For a lot of us, our businesses will shut down, and our teams will go off for a well-deserved Christmas break.

How to Keep a Full Tank of Energy During the Upcoming Busy Season

Taking control of how you get feedback

Years ago, we had just finished building a house when my husband’s Aunty Vesala came to visit. She is a classic old-school European matriarch with a bold opinion to match, and as she sailed in with a confident air, she declared loudly, “I do not like these windows.”

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Level-up My Leadership | Optimising time

Session 5 in this series gets us ready to activate the state of energised tranquillity through learning about how to focus on what's most important and how to harness our time in service of ourselves and our mission.

Closing your work-day off on an high

The 4Qs Review is a neuroscience-based Strategic Reflection tool that studies success so we can amplify it, it addresses what didn't go well in a way that we can apply optimal thinking to it, and, gives us an energy boost to apply to what we choose to do after our work day ends.

The LegUP series - resilience

A masterclass on the scientific and practical theory behind resilience. Get comfy and listen to Tara outline just what resilience is and how our brains can be trained with specific tools to maintain a more consistent level of calm and happiness and ready ourselves for anything.

Case Study: Debbie Sutton (podcast)

Hear Debbie speak about what she’s hoping to achieve with her business, how important her team members are and how she dealt with an almost-disaster with her marketing plan. All this and a raft of fantastic advice too.

LegUP series - leader tips

Hear Tara speak about three things you can do to refocus and replenish your energies, take back control of your time and feel amazing (and amazingly productive).

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Mavis' kupu whakatenatena (words of encouragement & advice)

Mavis Mullins MNZM, shares some words of encouragement and advice to other women pursuing their success journey.

Audette Exel's Top Tips for Success

Audette Exel, the founder of the Adara Group, shares her top tips and tricks to women working on their personal success journey.

Top lessons learned during Cherie's success journey

As a chef by trade, Cherie Metcalfe launched her business Pepper & Me to make people’s lives a little easier, and a lot more delicious with awesome spice rubs, salt blends, sauces, crumbs and cooking pastes. As part of our series interviewing early-stage companies, she revealed the top 5 lessons learned from her journey to date.