1-Day ECD Emotional Change Strategy Course - Delivered by Lotty Roberts, Central Wellington

• Date: Tuesday, 11 March
• Time:  9am - 4:30pm NZDT
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Delivered by Lotty Roberts:

Learn from one of the world's most experienced ECD Certified Consultants and Facilitators - Lotty Roberts.

Lotty is an Emotional Culture Coach, Consultant and Facilitator. Since completing the ECD Masterclass Course in 2018, Lotty has become one of the most experienced Emotional Culture Deck consultants in the world and the first to ever become a Master Level Certified ECD Consultant. Lotty has delivered over 200 Emotional Culture Deck client workshops, as well as dozens of 1:2:1's, helping teams of all sizes, in a variety of industries create more healthy and high performing cultures.

Lotty is also a regular on the speaking circuit delivering talks and presentations on all aspects of emotional culture including change, leadership and resilience.

Lotty's speciality and passion is all about helping leaders, teams and cultures to thrive, flourish and flow in a fast paced world, through the power of mindfulness and embracing emotions.

Lotty is the founder of her business, ‘MiND.U’, where she is devoted to helping companies and individuals build the emotional capability, resilience and wisdom to navigate the ever changing, complex and dynamic world we find ourselves in.

1-Day Emotional Change Strategy Course in Toronto delivered by Joanne Free-Pameli

• Date: 19 March, 2025
• Time:  09:30 - 16:30
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Delivered byJoanne Free-Pameli

Joanne is an ECD Certified Consultant and Facilitator. Since completing the ECD Emotional Culture Crafting Masterclass Course in 2020, Joanne has become one of the most experienced Emotional Culture Deck consultants in Canada and the Leader of the inaugural Canadian Riders & Elephants Chapter, based in Toronto- Ontario. Joanne has delivered multiple Emotional Culture Deck client workshops, as well as numerous 1:2:1 coaching sessions helping teams of all sizes, in a variety of industries create more healthy and high performing cultures through change. Joanne’s expertise and passion is in helping leaders, teams and cultures thrive while moving through their change journey.

Joanne is the founder of Joanne Free Coaching & Consulting where since 2015 she has been devoted to helping companies and individuals build the emotional capability, resilience and wisdom to navigate the ever changing, complex and dynamic world of leading through change.

Delivered by Kate Bacchus

1 Day ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course

• Date: 27 March, 2025
• Time: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
• Location: Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand
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Delivered by Kate Bacchus

Kate has over 25 years' experience in Human Resources, working in Australia, UK and New Zealand.  She is the Founder and Lead Consultant at hr butter.  Kate has been using The Emotional Culture Deck (ECD) both in-house and with clients, facilitation and coaching over the last 5 years, and is an ECD Certified Consultant.

Previous feedback on ECD courses facilitated by Kate:

"After 1 day you come away with a powerful tool, the confidence to use it in your work, and access to powerful resources to support your work." - Maurie Abraham, HMW Lead 

"Illuminating, and ultimately powerful. There is a genuine care and warmth with Kate." - Amanda Assink, Team Recruitment

"Working with Kate and HR butter is awesome. I really enjoyed the first time we worked together and this is my second time which has been wonderful. The room is always lively, full of energy and fun however, it does not steer away from getting into the nitty gritty. We break down topics and explore the uncomfortable AND have a good time too."  - Alisi Kavalu, Oke Charity

"Excellent facilitator, clearly very knowledgeable and knew how to keep it real and relevant." - Paddy McCann, Heart Foundation

Delivered by Kathryn Ruge

1-Day Emotional Change Strategy Course 

• Date: Thursday, 27 March 
• Time:  9:00am - 4:00pm NZDT
• Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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Delivered by Kathryn Ruge

Kia ora, I’m Kathryn Ruge - an experienced communications and change strategist with a deep desire to see humans thrive at work.

After 16 years at one of the world’s most trusted and innovative airlines, I spent a decade helping leaders and organisations build trust through strategic communications - strengthening relationships, managing reputational issues, and leading change.

I specialise in developing trustworthy, emotionally skilled leaders and teams so you can communicate, innovate, and adapt to whatever is in front of you - and have a better time at work while you're doing it.

I'm a PROSCI® Certified Change Management Practitioner and have been a Certified Emotional Culture Deck Consultant for nearly four years. I'm currently the only person in New Zealand to have combined this with Gustavo Razzetti's Culture Design Certification.

With a mission to reduce workplace harm caused by psychosocial factors, I'm also one of a few people in New Zealand trained to use the Fearless Scan as a measure of psychological safety within teams, and equipped to facilitate conversations that enable better performance, stronger collaboration, and healthier team environments.

Delivered by Steven Hargreaves

1 Day ECD Emotional Leadership Development 

• Date: 2 April, 2025
• Time: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
• Location: London, UK
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Delivered by Steve Hargreaves

Learn from one of the world's most experienced Emotional Culture Deck Consultants and Facilitators.

Steve Hargreaves is an award winning Leadership Consultant, Coach, Facilitator and Author of The Compassionate Leader's Playbook.

Steve, has been accredited as a Master Level ECD Consultant. One of only a very small group of people globally, and is the only Master Consultant in the UK. Steve is one of the most experienced ECD consultants in the world, having delivered over 150 Emotional Culture Deck Client Workshops, dozens of 1:2:1 sessions helping teams and organisations of all sizes across a range of sectors to enhance their leadership and workplace cultures. Steve is also an ECD Mentor and supports new as well as more experienced practitioners with the development of their practice.

Delivered by Cathy Shepherd

1-Day Emotional Change Strategy Course 

• Date: Tuesday, 29 April 
• Time:  9am - 4:00pm NZDT
• Location: Hutt Central
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About Cathy!
I am a certified facilitator and trainer of the 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, EverythingDiSC, Wealth Dynamics, Emotional Culture Deck, and the Incredible Years programmes. These are all proven tools for enhancing communication, collaboration, and performance with people from all backgrounds.

As an international speaker, facilitator, coach, and mentor, I have worked with a wide range of clients across various industries, from professional services and education, to tradies, government and financial services. I've worked with people aged from 0 to 80, in 6 different countries in person, and many more online.

My mission is to transform businesses and organisations by developing 'Leaders that Work, Teams that Work, and Workplaces that Work'- Culture Excellence in organisations.

Why? Because having an amazing workplace culture changes EVERYTHING!

Delivered by Cathy Sheppard

1 Day ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course

• Date: 24 June, 2025
• Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
• Location: Hutt Central, Lower Hutt,
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Delivered by Cathy Sheppard
I am a certified facilitator and trainer of the 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, EverythingDiSC, Wealth Dynamics, Emotional Culture Deck, and the Incredible Years programmes. These are all proven tools for enhancing communication, collaboration, and performance with people from all backgrounds.

As an international speaker, facilitator, coach, and mentor, I have worked with a wide range of clients across various industries, from professional services and education, to tradies, government and financial services. I've worked with people aged from 0 to 80, in 6 different countries in person, and many more online.

My mission is to transform businesses and organisations by developing 'Leaders that Work, Teams that Work, and Workplaces that Work'- Culture Excellence in organisations.

Why? Because having an amazing workplace culture changes EVERYTHING!

Learning that works.

Whether you’re changing culture internally or you’re a consultant or coach, this is the right time to build your ECD practice. Our next generation of emotional culture specialty courses is more focused and yet more flexible than ever before.

Specialise immediately

Get straight to the heart of what you want to know. The four specialist courses are based on four of the most pressing emotional culture performance topics. You get practical, applicable guidance that will power you up to use our sanely simple game. Pick a specialty that best meets what you need and get focused immediately.

• Emotional Culture Crafting – managing and influencing what people are feeling at work
• Emotional Leadership Development –identifying and establishing the emotions your culture needs to thrive
• Emotional Change Strategy – recognising and shaping the emotions needed to navigate change effectively
• Emotional Stakeholder Engagement – designing and embedding emotions into the experiences you create for the people you serve

There is no faster or more popular way to lift your EQ in Emotional Culture (EC). Each course teaches you how to apply our Emotional Culture Deck to that particular emotional culture discipline. There’s no maximum or minimum. You can choose one specialty to start with, or hand-pick several if you’re looking to build a more general practice.

Learn the way you like

We offer you a range of ways to learn, based on your learning style. If you like working on your own or for a set time, choose one of our online courses. If you thrive in an in-person, coached environment, we also offer coached options where you learn in-person or a hybrid of online and virtual, either in a group, as a team or one-on-one with one of our ECD Certified Consultants.  

The fastest way to make best use this of simple yet powerful tool

The Emotional Culture Deck is the proven tool to inspire important conversations. Our Specialty Courses teach you how to apply its potential to your situations. You’ll unlock your own full emotional potential and gain the specialist skills to create a more emotionally connected workplace.

ECD Emotional Leadership Development Course 

• Overview: Harness the power of The ECD to lead with heart. Teach leaders to apply The ECD to develop more human-centred leaders that put people at the core of how they lead.

• Focus: Train leaders to IDENTIFY & ESTABLISH the emotions their organisation and people need to thrive.

• Approach: Top-down, leader-led.

ECD Emotional Change Strategy Course 

• Overview: Use The ECD to manage change effectively by harnessing the collective emotions of your people and teams.

• Focus: Train leaders to RECOGNISE & SHAPE the emotions needed to navigate change effectively.

• Approach: Collaborative, inclusive.

ECD Emotional Culture Crafting Course  

• Overview: Apply The ECD to craft the emotional culture of teams within organisations to influence employee satisfaction, engagement, motivation and teamwork.

• Focus: Train leaders to MANAGE & INFLUENCE how their people feel or should be feeling at work.

• Approach: Bottom-up, co-creative

Emotional Stakeholder Engagement 

• Overview: Utilise The ECD to build human-centred stakeholder experiences and partnerships through emotional experience design.

• Focus: Train leaders to DESIGN & EMBED emotions into the experiences we create for the people we serve.

• Approach: Customer-centric, relational