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Humankind acquires Blackbird-backed management training platform The Mintable to address manager capability gap
07
May
2026

Humankind acquires Blackbird-backed management training platform The Mintable to address manager capability gap

Humankind has acquired Australia-based The Mintable’s management training platform, backed by Blackbird Ventures. The move comes as organisations face a growing manager capability gap and rising expectations on leaders to lift performance, engagement and retention.

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Fuelling Growth: The Decisions That Sustain Scale
06
May
2026

Fuelling Growth: The Decisions That Sustain Scale

Insights from our Christchurch event with BNZ and Oxygen Advisors

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What Startup Careers Actually Look Like
24
April
2026

What Startup Careers Actually Look Like

Insights from our 'Careers of the Future: Going Global' event with Icehouse Ventures

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Enztec: Building an Executive team to Unlock Scale in a High‑Precision, Regulated Environment
14
April
2026

Enztec: Building an Executive team to Unlock Scale in a High‑Precision, Regulated Environment

Real cultural change starts with leaders. By influencing at the executive level, we created the structural clarity and leadership conditions for scale in a complex, regulated setting, demonstrating that the fastest path to organisation‑wide change is aligning the CEO and C‑suite on what truly matters.

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Lessons on Going Global
25
March
2026

Lessons on Going Global

What scaling Kiwi companies get right (and wrong) when expanding offshore

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Kernel: Designing a Scalable Hiring Engine for Growth
11
March
2026

Kernel: Designing a Scalable Hiring Engine for Growth

By combining strategy, systems and hands on delivery, we helped Kernel build the hiring engine required for its next chapter.

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Building a system that thrives because of the storm
30
January
2026

Building a system that thrives because of the storm

The leadership required now is not about having every answer. It is about courage over certainty, and humility over heroics. In times of ambiguity, purpose becomes our North Star, and our values guide decisions while the map is still being drawn.

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Syft Technologies: Scaling Sustainably Through People-First Transformation
29
January
2026

Syft Technologies: Scaling Sustainably Through People-First Transformation

Through vision, strategy, leadership, and organisational design, we’ve helped Syft transform and thrive.

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