About the New Zealand Government Expertship programs

Every quarter, multiple government entities in New Zealand nominate technical subject matter experts to attend the Mastering Expertship program. Over 300 public servants have attended the program. The program gets rave reviews from attendees, including a recent participant who said it was the best program he had attended in his 12 years of public service in New Zealand.

Mastering Expertship is a six-month program aimed to enable experts to deploy their expertise in the most impactful way possible. In addition to attending a combined 4.5 days of face-to-face workshops to network and to share experiences with others, participants also took part in a 360-degree survey, have two individual coaching sessions with their coach, and completed two formal check ins with their manager and coach.

Nominations are open to any government entity. These programs are run by Expertunity, a private provider.

Click on the link to download a two page overview of the program including a guide on how to how to select the ideal participant.

The ideal participant guide is extremely informative for managers of technical expert teams.

Feedback from previous programs

FEEDBACK FROM CYCLE 11: JUNE – DECEMBER 2025

We recently wrapped up the 11th Cycle of our New Zealand Government Mastering Expertship program, with participants from 4 agencies joining us. 83 was the Net Promoter Score that the participants gave to the program overall, defined as ‘world class’.

Some points of feedback from the participants in Cycle 11:

• 100% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that the investment of their time and effort has been worthwhile.

• 100% of participants agreed that the coaching contributed positively to their professional growth.

• 100% of participants agreed that the Mastering Expertship program has helped them feel they have advanced their ability to have more influence and impact in their role.

Schedule for programs

Nominations for the 15th Cycle is now open and the details are as follows:

• Program takes place from April – September 2026

• Key dates are the two face-to-face workshops that occur as follows: Workshop #1 – 17, 18 June 2026; Workshop #2 – 24, 25, 26 June 2026.

• Nomination deadline is 27 March 2026

There is likely to be a program running in Auckland in 2026, please contact us for details.

Nomination process

Arrangements for nomination of participants vary from department to department, depending on whether the program is centrally funded or not, and whether funds are available.

We can advise interested parties on their departments’ process , or alternatively contact your Learning & Development team internally.

Places are usually available up until the deadlines described above.

Departments that have participated in the program so far are as follows:

• Reserve Bank of New Zealand

• Treasury

• Ministry for Primary Industries

• Ministry for Environment

• Commerce Commission

• National Emergency Management Agency

• Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

• NZ Stats

• Inland Revenue

• Ministry of Social Development

• Accident Compensation Commission

• NZ Defence

Free-of-charge briefings

We are happy to brief OD teams, individual managers or potential participants on the program to ensure a good fit. Just connect with us using the form below to arrange such a catch up, free of charge or obligation.

Leader of Experts

We periodically run a Leader of Experts one day program for managers of expert teams. Find our how the program works here.

The next date for this program run face-to-face is 17 March, 2026, in Wellington. We are also running a virtual program for participants based in Auckland and Christchurch, so please contact us if you would like to be involved in that program.