Programmes & courses

Starts 30 June 2026. Learn the fundamentals of sustainability and how to lead with impact through this micro-credential. Explore a new career or enhance your existing career with better informed insights and research. Turn your focus on sustainability into tangible and measurable actions. This innovative micro-credential will empower you to create positive environmental and societal impact in your workplace or your community.

How do you lead change for good in an AI-enabled world? When climate challenges accelerate, ethical questions multiply, and systems struggle to keep pace? Explore new ways to create positive change .

Starts 31 August 2026. You can take this dynamic post graduate certificate as a stand alone qualification - or use it as part one of your Master of Contemporary Education. As social and technological changes accelerate, educators must continually update their skills to keep pace. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education by challenging traditional assessments and prompting a reevaluation of educational purposes. To navigate these changes, both teachers and learners need to develop new skills and critical perspectives.

Part 1 starts 13 July 2026 and part 2 starts 31 August 2026. Designed for educators, leaders and learning designers who want rethink what learning can be and create a future ready educational system. It's less about theory for theory's sake and more about action, impact and purpose.

Starts 24 September 2026. Understand the technology shaping your world. Then shape it back. This course equips senior leaders who need to make real decisions in a world that's changing faster than the briefings.

Starts 24 September 2026. Lead your organisation through disruption without losing what matters. Change is constant. Resilience isn't about bouncing back, it's about building organisations that can move forward without losing coherence, culture, or purpose. This course is for the leaders already in the middle of it.

Starts 21 April. Skill up in essential AI & Digital Tools in 7 weeks. Designed for immediate application, this Micro-credential is your ticket to levelling-up in the digital world and unleashing your true potential in the ever-evolving workplace landscape.

Starts in July. Learn how to tackle complex challenges with purpose. Explore leading innovation frameworks, build strategic thinking and leadership skills, and design practical solutions that drive sustainable, equitable change - in your organisation, community or career.

Starts 6 Ocotber 2026.
AI is reshaping work faster than most job descriptions can keep up, and guessing your way through it is expensive. Disruptive Technologies gives you ten weeks with Frances Valintine and a cohort of professionals asking the same questions you are, working through real AI tools on real work problems until you actually know what you're doing.

Starts 29 April 2026. Learn directly from Frances Valintine (and her friends), New Zealand's leading voice on disruption, AI, and adaptive leadership. Five weeks of in-person sessions where you'll gain practical frameworks, applied AI thinking, and the kind of peer challenge that sharpens your leadership immediately.

Fortnightly intakes in 2026. Step into your potential with our Health Leadership micro-credential — designed in collaboration with Health New Zealand, specifically for current and future clinical and non-clinical leaders ready to steer change, foster cultural safety, and shape a healthier Aotearoa. Gain practical, future-focused skills to navigate complexity and lead with compassion.

Starts 17 September 2026. Understand the foundations of software development and how to get the best out of software development processes and technologies to deliver successful, sustainable solutions.

Spend 10 weeks in New Zealand gaining hands-on experience in disruptive tech. Advance your career and have the adventure of a lifetime - all while earning 2 world-recognised micro-credentials.
Join us and get access to the academyEX Play Lab where innovation and exploration collide.

Learn how to use data, connectivity and smart technology to develop positive outcomes and measurable impact. Discover how the convergence of software, hardware and sustainability initiatives can support better outcomes for businesses and communities.

You’ve heard so much about Generative AI - now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and learn how to use the tools. This Generative AI bootcamp will provide you and your colleagues the ability to learn how to use AI tools specific to your sector.