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Join us for the second episode in our Transition planning webinar series.
This webinar is free for Chapter Zero NZ supporters. When booking the event please enter the code SUPPORTERMAY25.
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, directors face mounting pressure to lead their organisations through complex transitions driven by climate change, regulatory shifts, and stakeholder expectations. Transition planning is not about another standalone strategy or plan, but a strategic shift to support your business’s to gain access to capital, ensure business efficiency, comply with market and regulatory requirements, and support a transition to net zero.
This webinar series is designed to equip board members with the insights, strategies, and tools necessary to navigate this critical area of transformation. Each session will explore key aspects of transition planning, including governance frameworks, climate-related risk and opportunity management, sustainable finance, and stakeholder engagement. Industry experts and experienced directors will share practical approaches for balancing long-term sustainability goals with short-term performance imperatives and the value of moving beyond a compliance-first mindset.
Directors will gain actionable knowledge to future-proof their organisations and build long-term value and resilience. Join us to lead with confidence as we transition toward a low-carbon, sustainable future.
Every challenge presents a strategic opportunity. Directors who embrace long-term thinking and scenario planning are better equipped to anticipate risks, seize emerging opportunities, and drive sustainable business growth. In this webinar, we will explore how scenario analysis helps directors navigate uncertainty—enhancing resilience, supporting market expansion, improving access to capital, and strengthening international trade prospects. By understanding potential future scenarios, directors can make more informed decisions, reduce uncertainty, and position their businesses for long-term success.
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As a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, Alec has focused his career on addressing the breadth of sustainability challenges and opportunities that are increasingly shaping our communities, society and economy. This has included a range of leadership positions in academia, business and the public sector, alongside an active involvement in professional institutions, industry associations and networking groups.
Through these roles, Alec has become well-practised in the identification of strategic and operational sustainability risks as well as the development and delivery of solutions to meet these challenges. Alec has successfully built and led numerous diverse, multi-disciplinary teams through a focus on common values, aligned purpose and trust. His work has ranged from the development of high-level regional strategies on climate change, liveability and wellbeing, incorporating broad stakeholder and community engagement, through to the design and delivery of specific interventions and the creation of impact measures to gauge their success.
Alec’s diverse background means that he can couple an in-depth knowledge of organisational sustainability risks with an understanding of the operational contexts and behaviours that are present within complex organisations. In addition to these broad strategic and technical insights, his strengths include the core communication and interpersonal skills required to effectively engage and collaborate with the internal and external stakeholders that are critical to delivering long term transformation sustainability change.
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Andy Macfarlane is a strategic thinker who is passionate about production, processing, delivery and presentation of food and its co-products to consumers. His on-farm passions include sustainable use of water, extensive plantings of natives for biodiversity, and trees for shelter, shade and aesthetics. He has a long-term commitment to integrating science and education with adoption strategies to help build businesses with values that enhance the NZ Brand.
Andy is a director of ANZCO, Fonterra, and chairs the SFFF Plantain project which introduces the concept of bioactive compounds in pasture at scale. He has chaired the New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management, and Deer Industry NZ. He has served as a director of AgResearch, Ngāi Tahu Farming, spent 12 years as a councillor of Lincoln University, and co-founded Macfarlane Rural Business Limited, one of NZ’s larger farm and agri-business consulting firms.
Andy, with wife Tricia, farm irrigated land in Mid Canterbury, focused mainly on dairy, and their son Tom and his family specialise in deer and beef on South Canterbury hill country. Their farms are recognised for balancing high productivity with positive environmental outcomes.
Andy winds down by spending time running and tramping in our magnificent mountain landscapes, and closely follows NZ Rugby!
Victoria builds networks, strategies and futures - and uses foresight and participatory futures tools to cocreate more adaptive ways of working. She is the Founder of the Aotearoa New Zealand Futures Network, Co-Founder and Director of Design Futures Aotearoa and Creator and Host of The Futures Workshop, a podcast showcasing the world's leading futures tools. She is a Reviewer for World Futures Review, a member of the Global Futures Society and a regular contributor to consumer and academic publications worldwide. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Victoria has worked extensively in governmental, non-governmental, philanthropic and private sector organisations around the world using innovative human solutions to tackle complex global and domestic challenges.
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Judene is a Principal Governance Adviser with the Institute of Directors’ Governance Leadership Centre and Chapter Zero NZ lead providing best practice advice, guidance and advocacy for directors. She is also a trustee of the Rātā Foundation and Network Tasman Trust, and Chair of the Nelson Historic Theatre Trust.
Prior to joining the IoD she ran her own consultancy for over 20 years specialising in governance, policy, strategy and communications working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, health, solid waste, aviation, energy, not-for-profit and infrastructure.
She was a local government elected member for 12 years and a director on a range of private and public entity boards. She has a background in behavioural science and communications and is a Chartered Member of the IoD.
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Gemma Fellowes
Project & Events Executive
+64 9 365 2736
Gemma.Fellowes@iod.org.nz
The Institute of Directors New Zealand (IoD) launched Chapter Zero New Zealand in March 2022. It is the home for climate change governance at the IoD and aims to support directors to meet their fiduciary duties by supporting them with the skills, tools, processes and information they need to act and guide their companies through the challenges of climate change. For more information and to be kept up to date with the latest events, webinars and resources sign up here.
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