This webinar is for Australian Local Government Staff only.
Most Indigenous engagement is designed from the engager's perspective. A Māori worldview starts somewhere else - with the question of who we are to each other.
This one-hour webinar offers a Māori perspective on Indigenous engagement: not a maturity model, not a how-to guide, but five worldview shifts that change how we think about what engagement is for, who it serves, and how it works. Drawn from te ao Māori - whakapapa, whanaungatanga, time, mana motuhake, and mauri - the shifts apply at every level of practice.
Whether your council is just beginning its engagement journey or already deep in long-standing iwi relationships, this hour offers something. For the experienced leader, somewhere to sharpen. For the newer leader, a foundation that respects their starting point. For the Australian members, a Māori worldview that can be applied to their own Indigenous engagement contexts with care and translation.
You will leave with:
- Five worldview shifts drawn from te ao Māori, applicable across every level of engagement practice
- A different lens on what makes engagement with Indigenous peoples succeed or fail
- Practical questions to take back to your team, your council, and yourself
- A frame that travels - useful for engagement with Māori in Aotearoa, and for thinking about Indigenous engagement in Australian contexts
This webinar is shaped by 20 years of organisational, HR, and Indigenous strategy practice across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, and is grounded in te ao Māori. It is direct, practical, and offered as a contribution to a broader Indigenous engagement conversation - not a prescription.
Principal Indigenous & People Strategist
About the Presenter:
Claudia Faletolu
Principal Indigenous & People Strategist
Claudia Faletolu is a Ngā Puhi wahine and People & Indigenous Strategist with 20 years of experience across organisational development, HR, learning & design, Indigenous strategy, and anti-racism practice. She works at the intersection of culture, leadership, and systems - supporting organisations to engage with Indigenous peoples in ways that are grounded, honest, and accountable.
Her portfolio spans local government, education, the public service, and not-for-profit sectors across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. She has recently delivered the Effective Engagement with Māori - Essentials Series for ALGIM, and her wider work includes Indigenous leadership development programmes, Whiria Te Tāngata pathway and a seat on the TetraMap Global Advisory Board.
Claudia is Brisbane-based and facilitates on Turrbal and Jagera Country. Her work centres whakapapa, cultural integrity, and the belief that engagement is not something we do to Indigenous peoples - it is a relationship we come into with them.
