If you have ever wondered why some types of work energise you while others leave you questioning your career choices, Working Genius holds the answer. You built a startup with people who look perfect on paper. Technical chops, domain expertise, years of experience at known companies. Yet three months in, the founding team feels like three people rowing in different directions. Meetings end without decisions. Projects stall at the exact same stage every time. Someone is alwa

If you have ever looked at your sales team on paper and wondered why the revenue is not matching the talent, Working Genius holds the answer. Your top performer cannot seem to close deals anymore. Your best relationship builder hates prospecting. Your strategist gets stuck in analysis and never picks up the phone. The org chart says you have everything you need, but the pipeline tells a different story. You have tried new systems, better incentives, more coaching. Nothing s

If you have ever watched two talented people on your leadership team complete the same assessment and still end up misaligned in meetings, you know the assessment itself is not the issue. The question is whether the framework you are using reveals what you actually need to know. Working Genius and Kolbe both claim to diagnose team dynamics. Both give you reports and categories and language to describe your people. But they measure completely different things. One focuses on

Introduction Engineering and infrastructure are not background industries in Australia and New Zealand. They are the physical fabric of daily life. Every commute you take, every tap you turn, every hospital you walk into, and every power grid that keeps a city running is the product of engineering decisions made by people who rarely receive the recognition that economists and policy leaders do. In 2026, that gap between the importance of the profession and its public visibili

Your worship pastor is burnt out, your executive pastor is frustrated, and your volunteer coordinator just resigned with two weeks notice. You hired talented people. You cast vision. You pray together. But every staff meeting feels like you are speaking different languages, and the follow-through after the meeting is inconsistent at best. The gap between Sunday morning and Monday reality keeps widening, and you are starting to wonder if the problem is you. Working Genius

The Enneagram reveals why someone sees the world the way they do. Working Genius, developed by Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group, reveals which types of work energise or drain them. As of June 2026, most leadership teams have the Enneagram but not Working Genius, and they are solving a structural problem with the wrong tool. Use Working Genius first to fix how work is allocated. Bring the Enneagram in when the remaining friction is relational, not structural. Last updated:

Introduction The finance and accounting profession in Australia and New Zealand represents one of the most consequential communities of practice in the region. Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand counts more than 140,000 members, and CPA Australia serves more than 172,000 members across more than 100 countries, according to both organisations’ 2025 and 2026 reporting. Together with the tens of thousands of financial advisers, personal finance communicators, acco

The smoothest meeting you've ever run might be your biggest leadership failure. When everyone nods, nobody challenges the plan, and the room reaches consensus in twenty minutes, it feels like good leadership. The decisions feel clean. The team feels aligned. You leave with momentum. What you likely don't know is that three of your best people spent the next hour in a Slack thread pulling the decision apart, that two of your direct reports have been quietly updating their CVs

If you have ever wondered why your nonprofit team is talented on paper but exhausted in practice, Working Genius holds the answer. You hired people who care about the mission. You have had the strategy sessions and the team offsites. The org chart looks right. But something is still off. People are burning out in roles they should love. Meetings produce nodding but not progress. Your best staff members are quietly updating their resumes, and the exit interviews never tell y

Introduction The most repeated saying in organisational leadership is almost certainly the one about culture eating strategy for breakfast. You have heard it. You have probably said it. And if you are a CEO, principal, or HR leader who has invested serious money in a culture programme that produced beautiful slides, heartfelt offsite moments, and almost no lasting change, you have probably started to hate it. The phrase is widely attributed to Peter Drucker, though researcher

Your team hit every target last quarter. Attendance is strong, KPIs are green, and your engagement survey came back at 73 percent favourable. On paper, you have a high-performing team culture that any leader would be proud of. Then your best person walks into your office, thanks you for the opportunity, and hands you a resignation letter. You did not see it coming. The data said everything was fine. The problem is not that your data was wrong. The problem is that you were m

Why Working Genius Frustrations Derail Good Teams Last updated: 24 June 2026 Working Genius frustrations are not a reflection of effort or skill. They are the predictable energy cost of doing work that sits outside your natural wiring. When leaders and team members spend significant time in frustration or competency zones, performance stays acceptable while reserves drain quietly, producing disengagement and turnover that is almost impossible to catch before it happens. As of

Introduction Healthcare leadership in Australia and New Zealand is being tested at a pace and scale that few other leadership contexts match. The system serving Australians runs on a budget exceeding $250 billion annually, employs more than 1.5 million people, and is navigating simultaneous pressure from workforce shortages, digital transformation, Indigenous health equity obligations, and a population that is ageing faster than the infrastructure built to care for it. A 2025

Introduction Every principal who has sat through a vendor demonstration promising that one platform will solve everything, and every university administrator who has approved an AI policy that was outdated before it was signed, knows the same truth: education technology is not a problem of access to tools. It is a problem of access to clear thinking. The Australian EdTech market reached approximately USD 4.2 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 7.7 billion by 2034,

If you have ever wondered why your remote team has all the right people but still feels slightly broken, Working Genius holds the answer. The tools are good. The people are talented. The meetings happen on schedule. Yet somewhere between the video calls and the Slack threads, work falls into gaps nobody can name. Someone is doing ideation when they should be executing. Someone else is stuck in implementation when their brain is built for activation. Everyone nods on the cal

Your leadership team is talented, your strategy is clear, and you still cannot figure out why nothing is actually changing. That gap between knowing and doing, between the offsite and the Monday morning, between the strategy document and the team meeting where it gets quietly shelved, is not a strategy problem. It is a health problem. Patrick Lencioni has spent decades arguing that organisational health is the single greatest competitive advantage available to any leadershi

If you have ever watched a great idea die not because it was wrong but because the team could not land it, you know the cost of missing this pairing. Leaders with Invention and Enablement as their Working Genius pairing see possibilities that other people miss and then make those possibilities real in ways that feel almost effortless. They are adaptable designers. They create new solutions and they smooth the path for others to bring those solutions to life. This is not com

If you have ever sat through a keynote that had your team nodding along, only to watch every insight evaporate by the time they returned to work, you know the problem is not the budget or the venue. The problem is picking speakers who inspire in the moment but leave nothing behind. Auckland has a strong roster of keynote speakers in New Zealand who do more than deliver a polished hour. They create the kind of shift that shows up in Monday morning meetings. This list focus

Last updated: 16 June 2026 Who are the most essential thought leaders in veterinary medicine globally? Veterinary medicine is a frontline discipline in global health, not a supporting one. When six in every ten known infectious diseases in people originate in animals, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the professionals who understand animal biology sit at the centre of how the world prevents, detects, and responds to health threats. As

Introduction If you work in human resources in Australia or New Zealand right now, you already know that the job has changed. The questions landing on HR's desk in 2026 are bigger, faster, and more consequential than anything the profession faced a decade ago. Artificial intelligence is reshaping recruitment, workforce planning, and performance management simultaneously. Pay transparency is being written into regulation. Psychosocial safety has become a legal compliance mat

If you have ever wondered why some people can design a solution and then relentlessly execute it without losing steam while everyone else around them loses focus, the Working Genius pairing of Invention and Tenacity holds the answer. This is the Methodical Architect. You see the pathway nobody else has built yet, and you have the stamina to see it through to completion. Where most leaders either dream without executing or execute without imagining better systems, you do bot

If you have ever found yourself championing an idea nobody else wanted to touch, then quietly doing the relational heavy lifting to get people on board, your Working Genius pairing might explain why. The Wonder and Enablement pairing is rare. It is the combination of the person who asks the questions nobody wants to ask and the person who rallies support for ideas that have not yet proven themselves. You see what is missing. You name what is broken. Then you build the coali

You walk into the leadership team meeting and within five minutes you can feel that something is off. The agenda looks fine. The people around the table are talented. But the energy in the room tells you a different story. You cannot point to a single piece of evidence yet, but your instinct is already forming a conclusion. And by the time the meeting ends, you are the one who names what everyone else was feeling but nobody wanted to say. Then you are the one who gets the r

Most leaders get stuck choosing between being the person who spots problems or the person who empowers others. You don't have that problem. Your Working Genius pairing of Discernment and Enablement means you see what's truly worth pursuing AND you help people execute on it. You evaluate with precision, then support with generosity. This combination creates what Patrick Lencioni calls the Insightful Collaborator. You bring clarity to chaos, then remove obstacles so others