New Zealand Founder Programme
Join our 3rd annual program to support the leadership development and well-being of New Zealand’s future leaders. The program runs from June to September 2023 and is subsidized 75% by New Zealand public and private partners to ensure all founders can participate.
Scale Yourself, Scale Your Company
With a small time commitment of 2 hours per week, you can up-level your leadership and unlock the secrets to enduring wellbeing. If you’re ready to take a deep look inside yourself with the support of a community of founders, investors, coaches, and wisdom keepers, this program can radically change your experience as an entrepreneur for the better. Here’s what’s included in this highly subsidized program:
Custom Growth
Plan
Self &
Leadership Assessments
Scientific
Measurement of Impact
Digital Learning
Content
Weekly
Community Sessions
Registration is now closed**
Practical Benefits
Cast aside whatever objections your mind throws up and just do it. It will transform the relationship you have with yourself and with others, making you a more effective leader and a better person. Commit to attending as many of the weekly meetings as you can and absolutely sign up for the 1:1 coaching.
2022 Programme Participant
A S S E S S M E N T S
The Journey
Begins with Awareness
Abroad’s Awareness Assessment was used to conduct a landmark global study on how the wellbeing of founders impacts performance, decision-making, and team culture. As part of this program, you will take both the Awareness Assessment and distribute our Leader Assessment to your direct reports to measure your Manager Efficacy.
G R O W T H P L A N
Where the
Deeper Insights Emerge
Once you complete your Self and Leader Assessments, you will meet with an Abroad coach who will review your assessments and ask qualifying questions to get to the mindsets and behaviors driving the results with the goal of creating a custom growth plan for your leadership development.
L I V E S E S S I O N S
Cohort-Based
Learning & Meaningful Connection
After completing your assessments and growth plans, we will gather as a community every Thursday from 11-12:15 p.m. NZT starting June 1st to learn the mindsets and skills that top global founders have used to navigate the entrepreneurial roller coaster with greater purpose, resilience, and adaptability. Beyond the learning, this is an opportunity to create community and meaningful human connection.
D I G I T A L L E A R N I N G
Evidenced-Based,
Practical Learning Content
Abroad’s digital learning content integrates practical, evidenced-based skills with timeless wisdom on what it means to live a purposeful, balanced, and contented life. Throughout the program, you can listen to our content online or offline through our mobile apps to prepare for live sessions and reflect on key learnings. Imagine listening to an audio on transforming scarcity mindsets right before an investor meeting.
M E A S U R E D I M P A C T
Scientific
Measurement of Impact
At the completion of the program, you will retake our assessments and meet with your Abroad coach to celebrate the empirical impact you have generated. This provides you key insights to share with your board and team members that you are taking your leadership growth and development seriously.
New Zealand 2022 Cohort Results
Below are the aggregate scientific results of 50+ Kiwi founders who participated in the 2022 cohort
+31%
+26%
Growth Mindset
Time Management
+24%
+21%
Burnout Resistance
Stress & Anxiety
+18%
Mental Flexibility
As a leader if you learn about the programme and think ‘I’m just too busy for this,” you should have signed up a year ago.
This founder programme is very deep, reflective, and relevant. It’s like re-learning to be human.
This was hands down the most transformational programme I have ever attended. I will be disappointed by mere skills-based trainings after this.
Is This Programme Right for Me?
If you’re wanting to learn more about yourself and unlock your full potential, the Programme is the ultimate tool for your self-growth. Through the programme, you’ll begin to discover the answers to these questions and more:
What if you liberated yourself from your self-imposed limitations?
What if your mind felt more focused and free?
What if you were perfectly balanced amidst the chaos?
What if you strengthened your curiosity muscles to discover new strategies for success?
What if you no longer beat yourself up for your mistakes, setbacks, and failures?
What if you learned core manager competencies to build a thriving company that attracts top talent?
About Abroad
Abroad was founded out of a deep passion for helping leaders reach their true potential as professionals and as humans. We combine research, education, coaching, and life-changing experiences to help committed individuals evolve beyond their previous limitations and move themselves and their companies forward, backed up by empirical data.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Justin Milano
Leadership & Wellbeing
Justin Milano is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and CEO of Abroad. For the past decade, Justin has been helping visionary founders and executives across the globe operate with greater purpose, balance, and self-understanding. Justin was the lead author on Abroad’s landmark global study on more than 1,300 founders and intimately understands the entrepreneur journey. He is an EHF Fellow who recently was granted residency in New Zealand.
Executive Chair AANZ
Suse Reynolds
As the current Executive Chair and former Executive Director of the Angel Association of New Zealand, Suse is championing the development of a healthy, diverse innovation ecosystem in New Zealand. Suse, Bridget and her team have brought together Kiwi founders, investors, and partners to demonstrate to the world how to prioritize the leadership development and wellbeing of our future leaders for the benefit of everyone.
Maori Culture & Wellbeing
Tuihana Ohia
Recognised as one of Aotearoa’s leading wellbeing consultants, Tuihana has won several awards for her work, notably with the launch of Manaaki Peer to Peer Support initiatives in Vodafone and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s wellbeing programme Tau Ora. Her expertise spans all aspects of well-being including strategy, building in-house capacity, workshops, and implementation. Tuihana bring the voice of Maori cultural wisdom to the programme.
Join the Upcoming Programme
Community Sessions: Every Thursday, June 15th to September 21st (11-12:15 p.m. NZT)
Founder Investment: $400 NZD (after 75% sponsor subsidy)
Registration is now closed**
F A Q
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If you want to transform your fear into creativity, prevent burnout and gain back your time - all while scaling your company - then this program is right for you. While we believe this program benefits any human, it has especially been tailored to helping startup founders. Being a startup founder is an exciting and challenging journey. Here at Abroad we’ve worked with thousands of founders and intimately know how to support the most common problems founders face.
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You need to allocate 2-hours per week for the program - 75 minutes for the live weekly session and 30-45 minutes of listening to content through the Abroad mobile apps offline or online. Listening to the content allows the live sessions to be more about practice and application with other participants in the community.
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The live sessions will NOT be recorded. The live sessions are a place for people to share, connect, and learn in a confidential setting. If you miss a session, you will have access to the learning content on the platform, but the live sessions is where the magic happens. Past participants find that once the program is in the weekly calendar/diary, it’s quite easy to prioritize.
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The payment is upfront to secure your commitment. However, if installment payments make it possible for you to join please contact us at service@abroad.io and we can make an arrangement.