Our Story

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CEO Group logo – two interlinked diamonds

The LEADERSHIP DIAMOND is our model which captures the true essence of leadership. , built from the work of Peter Koestenbaum .

The EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIAMOND epitomizes the defining edge between ‘good’ and ‘great’ at the personal level.

The exploding nature of the diamonds represents BREAKTHROUGHS, the real measure of added-value we seek in everything we do.

We have a strong research base to our work, with links to many of the world’s top internationally acclaimed leadership and business development practitioners.

We have achieved many firsts in the people development and leadership fields in New Zealand:

  • To help organisations develop clarity of direction and accountability for results throughout an organisation, the CEO GROUP brought the Management by Objectives programme to New Zealand.
  • To ensure that development interventions delivered the desired outcomes and the learning “stuck”, the CEO GROUP was the first to introduce Criterion Referenced Instruction and have created the unique Multi-Learning System™ approach to learning.
  • To help organisations achieve their breakthroughs we were the first people outside of the USA to be trained and licensed in the now internationally acclaimed Organisational Change technologies.
  • To create leaders with depth who not only achieved business results but did so with a strength of character, we jointly pioneered in New Zealand:
    – Koestenbaum Leadership Diamond based programmes
    – Management and Leadership surveys
  • We were the first to provide all our clients with guarantees for our training programme outcomes.
  • To help leaders transform the results they get from people in their organisation, we have created the first “Breakthrough Coaching and Mentoring Programme” with its unique Coaching and Mentoring Competency framework.
What’s Special About Us?

 We create breakthrough learning experiences that lead to sustained change, growth, potential. We take your agreed needs, outcomes and desired benefits, dialogue it through our 30 years of experience, match it with world best practice, research and experience from our network of internationally renowned learning partners and mentors, to design a solution for you using our unique Multi-Learning System approach.

For us, it’s not a workshop, programme, process, or training. It’s a committed learning journey of discovery, growth, change – together.