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The CEO Table Signals Report
THE CEO TABLE INSIGHTS 2026
Boards & Advisory: Addressing the Proximity Challenge Inside Growing New Zealand Businesses
We put one question to three rooms of CEOs across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch: is it the people on your board, or the model itself? Every room answered differently. Every room described the same problems. What surfaced was a layer priced by convention, judged by feel, and rarely redesigned until the cost becomes visible. Three cities. Five signals. This is what NZ CEOs are actually navigating at the top of the business.
The Unfiltered State
of NZ CEOs
THE CEO TABLE INSIGHTS 2025 • PART 1
The Unfiltered State of NZ CEOs
THE CEO TABLE INSIGHTS 2025 •
PART 2
AI, Leadership and The New Shape of Advantage
The CEO Table Signals Report
MAY 2026 • People Intelligence
From Technological Acceleration to Human Advantage
Is It Your Board, or the Model Itself?
We put a binary question to three rooms of CEOs. They split on the answer and converged on the fix.
What AI Is Revealing About the People in Your Business
Three CEO Tables. Three cities. One consistent finding: the businesses stalling on AI aren't held back by technology — they're held back by culture, identity, and judgment.
The Cost of Waiting: What Wellington's CEOs Said Out Loud
In March, we ran our inaugural CEO Table in Wellington, a room of leaders willing to say the things that don't always make it into polished strategy decks. The topic was AI. But the conversation that kept surfacing underneath that was something older and more familiar: what happens when the people responsible for moving an organisation forward end up being the ones holding it back.
Enduring Smarter: Inside the Christchurch CEO Table. Surviving, and Leading, Through Shallow Waters.
Let’s call it what it is: the Christchurch market feels different.
At our latest CEO Table, hosted by Flux in late August, a cross-industry group of leaders came together to talk about what it takes to lead, sell, and grow in a market that’s not only quiet, but hollowing out.
Winning Work in a Distracted Market: What 8 CEOs Told Us at The CEO Table
Hosted by Flux, this invitation-only breakfast brought together leaders from healthtech, SaaS, manufacturing, and professional services… all scaling through complexity.
How Capability, Culture, Cadence and Outside-In Thinking is the Real Strategy.
Auckland closed the year’s final CEO Tables with two unique conversations: one with a returning cohort who’ve shared a long strategy journey together, and another with a fresh group of CEOs stepping into the room for the first time.
Enduring Smarter in Christchurch: Leadership, Reading Future Signals and Human Execution in Shallow Waters
Auckland closed the year’s final CEO Tables with two unique conversations: one with a returning cohort who’ve shared a long strategy journey together, and another with a fresh group of CEOs stepping into the room for the first time.