Welcome to the New Zealand Principals’ Federation Conference 2025

Tākina te hau

Nau mai, haere mai, tēnā koutou katoa

On behalf of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation and the 2025 Conference Committee, we are pleased to invite you to join us at the NZPF Conference in our invigorating capital, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington in September 2025.

The conference themes and speakers will be centred around the meaning embodied in the conference title - Tākina Te Hau. This title references the unique and diverse winds that Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, is famous for. The winds are sometimes raging, sometimes soft, welcoming, and calm, but they teach us to treasure and welcome diversity, uniqueness, and change. They are a metaphor for magic, exuberance, sharing and ideas, and they carry things forward.

In the context of the 2025 conference programme, the focus will be on harnessing those winds of change and developing leadership strategies for turbulent times. Speakers will focus on ways principals can leverage the energy and direction of each of the four winds to effectively lead schools through periods of change, uncertainty, and transformation.

The NZPF Executive and Conference Committee are privileged to host you and hope that the 2025 NZPF Conference will be memorable, both educationally and socially. We are currently working hard to deliver an inspiring programme, leaving you with a rejuvenated sense of leadership and purpose in these challenging times. We also hope this conference will provide a refreshing break away, just to network with colleagues. We have the privilege of holding this conference at Tākina Wellington Conference and Events Centre. This state-of-the-art centre was opened in 2023 to acclaim and will provide a fitting venue for this conference located in the seat of Aotearoa’s political power.

This website will be updated regularly right up until conference with the information you will need to make the event enjoyable and worthwhile. We urge you to register early before the earlybird cut-off date. Registrations are open initially to principals only, and if not fully booked, will be opened to allow registrations from other senior leaders from 19 May 2025.
If you do not want to miss this remarkable professional and networking opportunity, book the dates now.

We look forward to welcoming you to Wellington in September 2025.

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Jill Corkin
MNZM
NZPF Conference Convenor

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