I help leaders get better at the people part of leadership
Understanding yourself, understanding others, and getting better at the conversations that shape your team.
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What would help most right now?
Understand Yourself
Get clearer on who you are as a leader, what shapes you, and how you show up with others.
Understand Your People
Get curious about what helps people thrive, what they need, and how to bring out their best.
Have better conversations
Build confidence to listen, ask better questions, give feedback, and have the kōrero that matter.
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Listen Before You Lead
Seven small listening practices to help you slow down, notice yourself, and create conversations where people feel seen, heard and valued.
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Kia ora, I'm Naketa
I work with leaders in public service, education and purpose-led organisations who care about their people and still find themselves wondering why someone reacted that way, why the same issues keep landing back with them, or how to handle a difficult conversation without making things worse.
A lot of the work starts with understanding yourself better — your leadership patterns, how you communicate, what you assume, what you rush to fix, and what you bring into the room.
From there, we work on understanding other people, improving communication, building leadership confidence, and having better conversations that strengthen teams and workplace culture.
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“My coaching session helped me see that I already had the answers.”
— Coaching client
“I instantly felt I had perspective and a clear path forward.”
— Coaching client
“This experience gave me more peace and purpose in my role.”
— Leadership participant
WAYS TO WORK WITH ME
Support for the people part of leadership
Practical support to help you understand yourself, understand your people, and have better conversations at work.
Cultivating Coaching
Private coaching for leaders who need space to think, get clear, and work through the people stuff that feels hard.
Nature of You Wānanga
A practical wānanga to help leaders and teams understand themselves, each other, and communicate effectively.
The Facilitation Garden
Practical tools, ideas and live learning to help you lead better meetings, facilitate learning, and have better conversations with your people.
Cultivating Conversations
A six-week leadership programme for people who want to coach more, ask better questions, and create more thinking and ownership in their teams.
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Thoughts on the people part of leadership
Short reads on understanding yourself, understanding your people, and having better conversations at work.
A little something for the people part of leadership, straight to your inbox.
A few times a week, I’ll send you a short thought, a useful question, or a practical idea to help you understand yourself, understand your people, and have better conversations.
You’re safe with me. I’ll only send things I think are worth your time, and your details stay yours.