Ethical leadership in action

Presentation

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Speaker(s): Kirsten (KP) Patterson
Date: 12:00pm — 2:00pm, 13 June 2025
Venue: Marsh Auckland
Location: Level 11, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West
Price: $55.00 incl GST

Overview

What does it take to be an ethical leader? How are your values and principles reflected in your behaviour on your board and in guiding management and the decisions they make for the organisation.

Join us for this event with IoD CE Kirsten (KP) Patterson CMInstD. KP will provide an overview of ethics, whistleblowing, and speak up culture in organisations. The session will also involve a series of moral dilemmas for boards where you’ll have the opportunity to work together to determine the right ethical outcomes for the organisation.

You’ll come away from this session with a better understanding of your own ethical motivations and how these can be applied to leadership in the boardroom and to your organisations. 

A light working lunch is included.

Kirsten (KP) Patterson

CMInstD

Kirsten Patterson is the CE of the Institute of Directors. In 2025 she was awarded the Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to governance and women.  She is a qualified lawyer and a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand. Her governance roles include:

Chair, Global Network of Directors Institutes (GNDI)
Chair, Brian Picot Ethical Leadership Advisory Board
Board member, the New Zealand External Reporting Advisory Panel (XRAP)
Board member, Voices of Hope mental health charity
Ambassador for the Wellington Women’s Homeless Trust

A strong advocate of diversity, KP is a member of Global Women New Zealand and a founding member of Global Women’s ‘Champions for Change’, a group of senior executives and directors who commit to diversity in the workplace.

KP was the founder and is Executive Sponsor for Chapter Zero New Zealand, a World Economic Forum Climate Governance Initiative hosted by the IoD NZ, to mobilise, connect, educate and equip directors and boards to make climate-smart governance decisions.

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