Ko Takarangi.

Transform your leadership and deepen your cultural intelligence through the unique courses from Takarangi: the Leadership Lab and Te Ao Māori modules. Designed for organisations and individuals who want to thrive in Aotearoa and beyond, our programmes draw on a time-tested Māori leadership framework and immersive Te Ao Māori insights.

1. Leadership Lab.

Our Leadership Lab offers practical insights into the Takarangi leadership framework—an intergenerational system that has long guided Māori social, cultural, and economic success across Aotearoa.

Through six modules, we introduce Takarangi’s cornerstone principles and explore how they help leaders balance strategy, accountability, wellbeing, and sustainability. Reflecting on real-world examples how the framework in action, like Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei - building a $1.5b asset base and Manawa Honey’s award-winning global success.

The Leadership Lab equips executive teams, organisations, and communities with a proven model to strengthen performance, enhance team and stakeholder relationships, and embed long-term resilience.

Leadership Lab Modules

Together, these modules guide participants to understand the Takarangi model, apply its values-driven leadership roles to real contexts, and strengthen decision-making, risk management, and team alignment through practical, reflective learning.

Leadership lab

Module 1: The Takarangi Team Leadership Framework

Module 2: Takarangi Approaches to Risk and Resilience

Module 3: Applying Takarangi to Your Organisation

Explore the values-driven leadership roles within the Takarangi model and how they work together to drive excellence. Participants will map these roles to their own executive team to identify alignment, gaps, and growth opportunities.

This module examines how Takarangi leadership navigates uncertainty and manages commercial, reputational, social, and environmental risk. Participants will assess their organisation’s risk culture against Takarangi’s values-aligned approach and apply practical tools for strategic planning and decision-making.

Through case studies and peer workshops, participants apply the full Takarangi model to a current organisational challenge—exploring leadership roles, risk approaches, and how values and relationships shape outcomes.

2. 'To The Gate' of Te Ao Maori.

Do you want to grow the your team’s confidence in Te Ao Māori. Takarangi offers a bespoke six-part course into the Māori universe. This is no course to learn greetings, songs and sayings - Grounded in the Māori ritual of encounter (pōwhiri), 'to the gate of Te Ao Maori' guides your orgnanisation's in:

Understand the fundamental Māori aspects, concepts, values, and their applications.
A deeper appreciation of the importance of building relationships with iwi/hapū
Build out a safe engagement strategy to understand the right ways to engage.
Guidance on ethical, Te Tiriti-framed engagement - case-by-case analysis of Article I vs Article II positioning
Insights into tribal dynamics, whakapapa, and cultural landscapes.

This course draws on 30-plus years academic (Māori studies, anthropology, archaeology, museum studies) and customary expertise. It is also informed by 16-years of direct marae engagement experience and relationship ethics developed through 16-years of the Maōri Maps project.

Te Ao Māori Modules

Together, these workshops will guide you across the pacific, time, land, social systems, political framework, colonisation, and contemporary Māori community engagement.

Te Ao Modules

Module 1: People of the Soil

This module explores the origins and relationships of tangata whenua with their lands and waters. Through Pacific voyaging histories, genealogy (whakapapa), social structure (hapū/iwi), and customary values such as mana, tapu, and kaitiakitanga, we =examine how ancestral knowledge shaped sophisticated systems of belonging, stewardship, and community across generations.

Module 2: Kāinga, centre of the Māori universe

This module examines the marae as an enduring Pacific institution embodying mana o te whenua and the symbolic heart of hapū landscapes. Participants will explore the rituals of pōwhiri as frameworks for safe encounter and belonging, alongside key anthropological and Māori perspectives on kinship, social structure, and kin-accountability. The session also considers tikanga governing behaviour within marae boundaries and the dynamic relationship between mana and manaaki.

Module 3: Whose Treaty is it anyway?

This module explores the foundations of sovereignty through He Whakaputanga (1835) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840), examining how language, translation, and interpretation have shaped understandings of partnership and authority. Participants will consider the effects of colonisation, migration, and legislation on Māori boundaries, identity, and governance, and reflect on the continuing pursuit of rangatiratanga.