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Our world-class governance development courses have been designed in a distinctly New Zealand context by leading governance practitioners to suit your professional development needs.

Explore our courses below to find the right fit for you. You can download the 2025 course calendar to register for courses still running this year, and the 2026 course calendar to plan your professional development for the year ahead.

We offer in-person, self-paced or blended learning options which are completed through our Learning Management System. Most of our courses can also be delivered in-house and tailored to your board and organisation. Our in-person courses offer a unique opportunity to network with other directors and establish lasting relationships with your peers. You’ll learn from facilitators selected for their governance experience, diverse subject matter expertise, and their ability to enliven content by sharing their own experiences. Our online courses give you the flexibility to learn at a pace that suits your schedule. The IoD's blended learning courses combine self-paced modules with a virtual workshop and an opportunity to collaborate and embed your learning.

Contact us on 0800 846 369 or governancedevelopment@iod.org.nz for any course enquiries. Please see our course terms and conditions for more information on our transfers and cancellation policy.

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35

CPD

three-and-a-half days   •   Face to face learning

Advanced Directors' Course

The ADC is an immersive three-and-a-half-day course designed to future proof directors with the skills and insights to stay ahead and lead with purpose at the board table.
  • Digital transformation

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Advanced Health and Safety Governance

Learn how to meet your obligations for health and safety in your organisation using recent case law examples.
  • Compliance
  • Health and safety

6

CPD

6 hours   •   Online

Advanced Health and Safety Governance Online

Learn how to meet your obligations as a director responsible for health and safety in your organisation.
  • Compliance
  • Health and safety

8

CPD

NEW COURSE

1 day   •   Face to face learning

AI Governance Essentials

Lead your board with confidence in the age of AI. This one-day course will equip you with the knowledge, tools and frameworks to govern AI responsibly and strategically.
  • AI

4

CPD

4 hours   •   Online

AI Governance For Boards

Learn how to effectively govern AI at your board table.
  • AI
  • Digital transformation

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Audit and Risk Committees

Are you asking the right questions about financial integrity and risk? In today's complex governance landscape, effective audit and risk oversight is about more than compliance and about helping your organisation build resilience, protect value, and make sound decisions.
  • Audit
  • Health and safety
  • Liability

16

CPD

2 days   •   Face to face learning

Chairing the Board

Gain the specialist skills needed to succeed as chair. Explore best practice, robust policy, composition, balance, and culture.
  • CEOs
  • Chairing
  • Conflict of interests

8

CPD

12 hours over 5 weeks   •   Blended Learning

Climate Change Governance Essentials

Gain a comprehensive overview of the responsibilities and opportunities associated with climate change governance at the board level.
  • Climate change
  • ESG

50

CPD

five-and-a-half days   •   Face to face learning

Company Directors' Course

A five-and-a-half day course to develop your governance skills and create a significant step change in your professional performance. Residential and non-residential places available.
  • Board dynamics
  • Board meetings
  • Climate change

50

CPD

five-and-a-half days   •   Face to face learning

Company Directors' Course - Non Residential

A five-and-a-half day course to develop your governance skills and create a significant step change in your professional performance. Non-residential places only.
  • Board dynamics
  • Board meetings
  • Digital transformation

0

CPD

Webinar

30 minutes   •   Online

Discovering new revenue models

Sales solve everything
  • Digital transformation

0

CPD

Webinar

25 minutes   •   Online

Don't let a crisis go to waste

Insights on how to make a crisis work for you

8

CPD

12 hours over 5 weeks   •   Blended Learning

Effective Board Meeting Minutes

Learn how to optimise your board documentation processes to better facilitate an effective board.
  • Board meetings
  • Chairing

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Finance Essentials

Learn how to understand the financial information presented to your board in order to perform your duties as a director.
  • Reporting

5

CPD

5 hours   •   Online

Finance Essentials – online module series

Learn how to understand the financial information presented to your board in order to perform your duties a director.
  • Reporting

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Governance Essentials

Gain a confident grasp of board relationships, robust processes, good decision-making, and the main elements of board operations.
  • Board composition
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

6

CPD

6 hours   •   Online

Governance Essentials - online module series

Gain a confident understanding of robust board processes, good decision-making and board operations through this online module series.
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship
  • Compliance

3

CPD

2 hours   •   Online

Health and Safety Governance

Understand your legal obligations as a director under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
  • Accountability
  • Compliance
  • Director duties

6

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Kotahitanga – Principles of Māori Governance

Integrate Māori cultural values, the relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, relationships and mātauranga Māori in governance.
  • Te Ao Māori

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Navigating Boardroom Dynamics

Every director can play a critical leadership role . . . in their boardroom, in the organisations they lead and in their wider communities.  You just need the right tools.

4

CPD

3 hours   •   Online

Not-for-Profit Finance Essentials - online module series

Explore the financial role of a not-for-profit board member.
  • Director duties
  • Due diligence
  • Not for profits

10

CPD

9 hours   •   Online

Not-for-Profit Governance & Finance Essentials online bundle

This bundle includes our online Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials modules and Not-For-Profit Finance Essentials modules.
  • Board composition
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials

Gain a confident grasp of robust board processes, good decision-making, and board operations in a not-for-profit context.
  • Board composition
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

6

CPD

6 hours   •   Online

Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials - online module series

Understand the boards’ role, processes and unique challenges in the not-for-profit environment.
  • Board composition
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

1

CPD

Webinar

1 hour   •   Online

Opportunities in a crisis webinar bundle

This bundle includes our webinars: Don't let a crisis go to waste and Discovering new revenue models.
  • Digital transformation

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Reporting to the Board

Your relationship with the board goes beyond just the reports.
  • Board dynamics
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Risk Essentials

Develop your competence in evaluating the cost/benefit risk assessments that your board receives and understand the implications.
  • Board dynamics
  • Compliance

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Rural Governance Essentials

Gain insights into how to harness the power of a board for your agribusiness with robust processes and good decision making.
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship
  • Family business

8

CPD

1 day   •   Face to face learning

Strategy Essentials

Develop your strategic substance, at board level, so that you can contribute meaningfully to your organisation's growth.
  • Board dynamics

1

CPD

20 minutes   •   Online

The Board's Role in Mental Health and Wellbeing

This online module has been developed to support directors and boards in their role in relation to workplace mental health and wellbeing.
  • Health and safety
  • Wellbeing

11

CPD

11 hours   •   Online

The IoD Essentials online bundle

This bundle includes our online Governance Essentials modules and Finance Essentials modules.
  • Board dynamics
  • Board meetings
  • Board-management relationship

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Why the IoD?

Our courses

Our suite of courses are designed to support you at each stage of your development as a director.

Our facilitators

Our facilitators have real governance experience and are subject matter experts
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A range of formats

An extensive range of governance topics delivered in-person, live online and on-demand.

What our course participants say

“This course was brilliant at focusing on the role of the board in developing strategy from a very purpose-driven perspective.”