Business Culture Trends

Michael Henderson is a corporate anthropologist, which means his job is to help organisations enhance their workplace culture to improve business results, customer experience and employee satisfaction.
As an anthropologist, Michael delivers deep insights into culture that go far beyond most organisation's current levels of know-how and understanding. He is vastly experienced having worked with and studied both traditional and organisational cultures all around the world.
He has supported over three hundred company culture transformations across a wide variety of sectors.
His clients include The Australian Navy, The New Zealand Rugby Union, Canon, NZ Olympic High Performance Sports, Westpac Bank, Coca-Cola, Z Energy, McDonalds, The Silver Ferns Netball team, Outward Bound, Sanitarium, Fidelity Life and Refining NZ.
Michael is an award-winning author of eight books on organisational culture, leading culture, culture and values, and is a co-author of a book on Thought Leadership.

Dr Lucy Hone had long been on a mission to translate the best of resilience psychology to help people cope with challenge and change, when personal tragedy transformed her understanding of resilience from the academic to the personal in 2014.

Her book, Resilient Grieving, and her TED talk, 3 Secrets of Resilient People (among the Top 20 TED talks of 2020), has fuelled demand for her Keynote presentations globally. Originally from London, trained by the thought leaders in the field at the University of Pennsylvania, and now at the University of Canterbury, her research is published internationally and her PhD was acknowledged for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science.

She is co-author of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, co-convenor of Wellbeing in Education NZ, presenter on many of NZIWR’s online courses and has featured in the Guardian, the Washington Post, the BBC and ABC, Channel News Asia, Swedish Television, The Bolt Report Australia, TVNZ and TV3.