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Gathering 18 years of insights from facilitating groups of existing and emerging leaders in Aotearoa, Harv shares his top five tips for leaders to develop emotional intelligence and enable the harnessing of collective intelligence.

Kia ora tātou. Connecting humanity through the power of story and metaphor lights me up every day.

Tim Tracey joined CQ at the early stages of his new cafe venture Pickle and Pie in central Wellington.

In my life I have the luxury of engaging with incredible people doing amazing things, so much so that I often describe myself as “nothing special – but you should see my friends!”. One thing I feel most privileged and grateful for is my engagement with governance leaders. Over the past months, I have witnessed firsthand the frustration and anxiety felt by governance professionals about the complexity of issues they must navigate inleading their organisations. This has spanned government organisations, for profit and not for profit institutions alike, startups, established corporations, and every flavour of structure of organisation in between.

By Harv - What I have enjoyed most about writing this book has been allowing the time to immerse myself in deep reflective time, resurfacing what we have learnt over the years.

By Harv - Many times in my life things just haven’t quite worked out. 2024 is not one of those times, for me anyway. Things have worked out. In my 66th year on this planet, a number of things are coming together.

Kim joined us through the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, where her proprietary building system, Truss House, caught our attention.

Nathan Bramwell is our 2024 Scholarship recipient

I'm a winemaker no longer on the tools. I lead an integrated wine business growing, making, marketing and selling our wines to people in NZ and around the world who are curious about what NZ tastes like....or who already know and want some more!

By Harv - On the eighth week in my tractor, and after about 1000 trips up and down the rows of vines at Te Awanga a very strange thing happened.

"Well it seems, unfortunately, that the subject matter of adaptability might be more relevant to you, then anyone would really want right now…"

I work with courageous leaders to engage and empower the collective intelligences of our worlds, the diverse, divergent and unique people we work, live and re:create with.

Sasha Lockley found CQ via meeting Harv at an Edmund Hillary Fellowship event they were both attending in Wellington. It would be fair to say these kindred spirits hit it off.

By Harv - My last Blog I wrote ‘I’m Buggered’ got over 24,000 views, with hundreds of responses either publicly or directly. And a few apologies, but mostly thanks for openly sharing where I had been and some reflections of their own battles.

By Harv - When I look back, this exhaustion has its roots back in 2018 with the collapse of my right hip from arthritis (which was until then my good hip), five surgeries in 2019, then Covid in 2020… etc etc.

The weekend of February 25-26 I had the privilege of attending the 16th Enspiral conference in the Wainuiomata Valley, Wellington. The venue was a very rustic scout camp, surrounded by native bush, where the sound of the stream and birdsong made for wonderful ambiance.