Rebuilding trust in Aotearoa: insights from the 2026 trust barometer

Webcast

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Speaker(s): Adelle Keely, Kirsten (KP) Patterson
Date: 12:30pm — 1:30pm, 6 May 2026
Venue: Online
Location: Online
Price: $0.00 incl GST

Overview

Join us for a timely webinar exploring the findings of the 2026 Acumen Edelman Trust Barometer and what they mean for directors and leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand. As trust becomes more selective and inward-looking, organisations face growing challenges in building alignment, fostering collaboration, and maintaining performance.

Adelle Keely, Chief Executive of Acumen, will share key insights from the research, including the drivers behind declining trust, the impact on workplaces, and the risks to productivity and innovation. She will also explore the role organisations can play in rebuilding trust and enabling constructive engagement across differing perspectives.

Adelle Keely 

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With 20 years in communications, Adelle is an expert at working with organisations to evolve, strengthen and protect their brands and reputations. Her diverse experience spans New Zealand, the UK and the US including infrastructure, ICT, FMCG, financial services, professional services and health & wellbeing sectors.

Her strength is understanding how brands, consumers, business, Government and communities interact and how to operate in politicised and sensitive environments. She connects communications activity with clients’ purpose and commercial drivers and has extensive corporate and marketing communications capability including business advice, strategy, developing narratives & story-telling, issues & crisis management, capital markets, stakeholder & influencer engagement, brand campaigns, internal communications and media training.

Kirsten (KP) Patterson - facilitating

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Kirsten Patterson MNZM (known as KP) is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors and is a Chartered Member of the IoD. In 2025 she was awarded the New Zealand Royal Honour, 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, Chair of the Global Network of Directors Institutes (GNDI), and a member of the New Zealand External Reporting Advisory Panel (XRAP).  She serves on the Boards of the mental health charity, Voices of Hope, is Chair of the Brian Picot Ethical Leadership Advisory Board at Victoria University in Wellington and an Ambassador for the Wellington Women’s Homeless Trust. 

A strong advocate of diversity, KP is a member of Global Women New Zealand and was one of the founding members 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 – the New Zealand Chapter of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative - hosted by the IoD NZ to mobilise, connect, educate and equip directors and boards to make climate-smart governance decisions, thereby creating long term value for both shareholders and stakeholders.

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