A World Cafe brings people together to create dialogue around a theme. It gives you a chance to contribute your ideas about that theme and to learn the perspectives of others. A successful world cafe event creates new ideas and inspires creative solutions. It will connect you with like minded passionate people.

Theme: Animal Leadership for NZ's Future 

Last year's World Cafe during leadership week talked about how we could take a global focus to think about local problems. This year we challenge you to think differently about what kinds of leadership is required to make shifts in our society. What can we learn from places that we wouldn't think to look? What happens if we look to the animal kingdom to think about our leadership differently?

Guest Speaker: Sir Stephen Tindall
Founder of the Warehouse,Tindall Foundation, and Founding Director of KEA 

 Sir Stephen Tindall is founder of The Warehouse Group and co-founder and trustee of The Tindall Foundation. The Warehouse is New Zealand's largest non-food retailer with over 7,500 employees and revenues of NZ$1.7B. The Tindall Foundation seeks to fund not-for-profit organisations, assist New Zealanders in reaching their full potential, and help grow a stronger New Zealand. It is the largest private foundation by capital measurement in Australasia. Stephen co-founded the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development in 1999. He served on the Prime Minister's Enterprise Council during the Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley governments, then worked with Helen Clark's government on the Science and Innovation Advisory Board, and chaired the Growth and Innovation Advisory Council. Stephen is a founding and current board member of The New Zealand Institute. He holds honorary doctorates from AUT University and Massey University, and has received numerous awards including: NZ Herald 'Business Person of the Year' 1997, Deloitte/Management Magazine 'Executive of the Year' 1998, Peter Blake Leadership Award 2006, and the New Zealand Order of Merit (KNZM) in 2009. Through his investment company K1W1, Stephen has invested in over 100 New Zealand start-up companies focused on export through innovation and clean technology. 

(Bio sourced from www.KEAnewzealand.com)

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What is World Cafe and why would you want to come?

The World Cafe is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. 

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