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What are the top leadership development opportunities for New Zealand school students?

Nine top NZ leadership programs, like Outward Bound and GirlBoss, help students build essential skills. A guide for school teachers.

Meet Esta Chaplin, Young Enterprise CEO of the Year!

Meet Esta Chaplin, the recipient of the Young Enterprise CEO of the Year award!

Empowering the next generation in the mighty kingdom of Tonga - Sept 2023

The picturesque island nation of Tonga bore witness to our first time operating in the mighty Kingdom of Tonga. Embarking on a...

Our latest programme - Cook Is, 01 - 07 Oct 2022

After two years of lockdowns and restricted travel, we’re so happy that our Pacific Student Leadership Programme returned to the Cook...

Student spotlight: Avalldamarie Godinet. Sacred Heart Girls College, Hamilton, New Zealand

"I really hope I leave this program feeling more confident in myself and my abilities, and also with more developed skills. I hope to...

Future Leaders Academy expand their Leadership Courses to Norfolk Island

We are excited to announce our advanced leadership course at Future Leaders Academy (FLA), is expanding to Norfolk Island. This is a...

Leadership in IT

Leadership is one of those subjects everyone has an opinion about. Visit any library or bookshop and you’ll find shelves of books written...

Young Enterprise Scheme National Awards 2020

Malaga (second from the left) pictured with Jay Berwick (centre) from Future Leaders Academy, Maureen Betham, Director Community...

What helps (and what doesn’t) when assisting our young people into employment

In quarter one of 2020, unemployment levels amongst our young people were particularly high in the regions of Waikato, Northland, and...

Cook Islands 2019 - Advanced Student Leaders Course

Students worked on scenarios which taught them how to lead in a group discussion setting and present a workable solution to the hosts. NES w

Advanced Student Leaders Course - Fiji 2019

Deciding to take our student leadership course overseas this year to Fiji, was an exciting prospect, yet it had the Future Leaders team...

2018's Advanced Student Leaders

A group of secondary school student leaders arrived from across the country (including Auckland, Kapiti, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Wellington an

Selecting student leaders

The role of student leaders whether a Head Prefect, Prefect, House Captain, Committee Leader, Sports Captain or whatever your school...

Looking sharp and ready for success

Our latest LSV Course Graduates join us. This week we had 17 Wellington region youth start our LSV Graduate Program. They marched out of...

Project Aitutaki - the adventure!

Feb 26th – Mar 5th 2017. After all of the build up, things put in place, set backs then full acceleration, it was really happening. We...

Our Alumni - Harriett Guy

2017 Executive Student Committee Leader - Arts @ Wellington Girls College In terms of the course itself, it without a doubt helped...

Leading by example

Last week a news piece was published about two well-known sports stars, who were (they've now been sacked due to their behaviour) the...

YES CEO's lead the way

In April we had 11 students from Year 12 & 13 from the Wellington and Manawatu regions attend our two-day Foundation Leadership Course -...

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