Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu
Crown Entity Governance
Essential core governance for all current and aspiring Crown Entity Board directors
- Equipping Board members to lead modern Crown entities and purposeful Crown entity Boards.
- Engage with highly skilled Crown entity governance practitioners about their knowledge and experience on issues relevant to contemporary and good Crown entity governance.
Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu is targeted at current Crown entity Board members (approximately 70% of all participants on every course). While it is neither an induction nor refresher course, an essential part of the Iti Kōpara Trust’s kaupapa is to continue building a diverse talent pool for Crown entity Boards. Therefore, a small number of course participants will be governance practitioners not yet appointed to a Crown entity Board together with a handful of aspiring directors.
Webinar
Pre-requisite for Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu
A short and important introduction to some of the unique features of state sector governance. It is considered a pre-requisite for all courses offered by Iti Kōpara, unless you have an extensive background in the public service and machinery of Government. Please choose a webinar date that precedes your in-person course.
The webinar topics have been agreed with Te Kawa Mataaho | the Public Service Commission and are based on 2026 updates to its Crown entity director induction materials, including the ‘It Takes Three’ monitoring model and conflicts of interest. The in-person course time will assume and extend knowledge from the webinar.
Rongo ki tai | Strategic Financial Governance
Understand the vital strategic financial governance role of Crown Entity Board directors
New Zealand’s public sector is operating in an increasingly constrained fiscal environment, with increased scrutiny on how public resources are allocated and managed. The Government has emphasised the need for stronger investment discipline and more effective use of the Crown’s balance sheet. The Public Service Commission, Treasury, the Audit Office, and the current Government expect crown entities to strengthen their strategic financial management, ensuring clearer alignment between long-term strategy, funding decisions, and the delivery of measurable public value. This course will build your skills and confidence to fulfil these expectations.
The board of a crown entity is responsible for ensuring that finances are managed strategically to achieve specific impacts, outcomes, or objectives. The course is framed around the four inter-related practices of best-practice financial management:
- Governance and accountability
- Budget management
- Financial controls
- Value management
The course is for both existing and aspiring Board directors of Crown entities and Crown entity companies to enhance their skills and knowledge in exercising strategic financial governance of their organisation’s strategy and outcomes. Join us to improve your decision making through understanding accountabilities, performance, and effective use of financial resources
It has been developed in collaboration with the Public Service Commission | Te Kawa Mataaho and Treasury.
The Iti Kōpara suite of public governance courses have been designed to complement each other with no repetition of substantial content and can be taken in any order. We strongly recommend applicants also attend Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu | Crown entity governance to ensure greater depth to your governance knowledge. Contact us to discuss a governance training package that best suits your needs.
Rongo ki te hau | Regulatory Leadership
An absolute pre-requisite for governors and senior executives of entities with a regulatory role
Governance and leadership of a regulator need to be intentional, direct and informed. This industry-endorsed course is designed for Board directors and executive leaders of Crown entities, government ministries and departments, and statutory bodies with regulatory functions, obligations, and powers.
The course focuses on governing and leading a regulator in the public sector. Board directors and leaders of other types of organisations (i.e. incorporated societies) with regulatory or quasi-regulatory functions, powers and obligations are welcome to attend but should be cognisant of the public sector focus.
A well-informed Board needs to understand its ever-evolving regulatory landscape. This course will help you understand the core responsibilities and areas of attention that Board members & leaders need to focus on to provide effective regulatory governance and leadership.
Our courses have been designed to complement and build on each other, and we strongly recommend applicants consider also attending Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu | Crown entity governance, in advance where possible. Strategic Financial governance.
Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu
The course title refers to adorning the bird with contemporary governance knowledge and enabling it to fly to the highest peaks. Iti Kōpara aims to prepare our current and future leaders to aspire to Crown entity governance excellence that has the potential to uplift the mana, knowledge and wellbeing of all in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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