ZEDUCATION

A partnership between Spark NZ, Waikato Tainui and Zeducation supporting Māori rangatahi into tech careers through culturally grounded training, internships and pastoral care.

Zeducation CEO Pasitaua Haufano has been named Beta Gamma Sigma NZ’s 2025 Community Champion, recognising culturally grounded leadership that grows workplace capability and delivers real outcomes for Pacific and Māori communities.

After working with more than 1,500 leaders and delivering executive leadership training across Aotearoa, Michael Moka has a clear message: leadership is earned, but success is given. In this article, drawn from our Zeducation Podcast interview, he shares three practical moves you can start today to stop waiting to be noticed, build your next role, and get into rooms where real decisions are made.

A South Auckland-born entrepreneurship programme for rangatahi has reached a major milestone, with two new micro-credentials based on The Cause Collective’s Young Entrepreneur's BOSS programme now formally published on the NZQA framework.

After completing Auckland Council’s Introduction to Team Leadership (delivered by Zeducation), Susana turned new tools into a real promotion—stepping up to Shift Manager at Huhtamaki. Clearer communication, firm boundaries, and calm decision-making under pressure helped her lead eight staff and lift performance on the floor.

Born in Samoa and raised in Aotearoa since 1984, Robert has worked most of his life as a machine operator at Colorcote. He will tell you straight, money used to come in and go out just as fast. Loans, fees, obligations. “Back then I wasn’t educated about money,” he says. “Money come, money go.” After completing Auckland Council's Money Confidence programme with Zeducation , that story changed at home, at work, and inside himself as a husband and father. Here is Robert, in h

Basily Palu shares how simple routines turned into real results. After leadership and money confidence training, he swapped takeaways for home cooking, set a weekly family menu, and saved with purpose. Those choices helped this Fletcher Reinforcing 2IC buy a five bedroom home in Huntly. A practical story of mindset, whānau, and everyday leadership.

Consistency builds trust. I promised my kids a treat for every certificate and followed through, even when inconvenient. That rhythm (promise made, promise kept) made them feel safe to rely on me. Work is the same: trust compounds in the ordinary emails sent, 1:1s kept, loops closed. People don’t trust intentions; they trust what you repeat.

Pacific adults face systemic barriers to literacy and numeracy—poverty, misread cultural values, bias, poor program design, and undiagnosed needs. This article distills Dr Betty Ofe-Grant’s insights and offers concrete actions for employers, training providers, churches, and individuals to build culture-led, safe learning, restore mana, and lift workplace confidence and opportunity.