To navigate our highly uncertain world, we need a new kind of conversation.

Boma offers transformational learning experiences for leaders and changemakers, so that, in a world of dramatic and continuous change, we can be more intentional, intelligent and courageous about the future.

We offer global online cohort-based courses and world-class professional development programmes for current and emerging executives and leaders. We also run the Crusaders Leadership Programme™ for coaches and leaders of teams.

 

“The future isn’t some static thing out there, waiting to happen to us. The future is created by us, by the aggregation of the choices we make every day. It’s time to stop watching the movie and start starring in it. Forget preparing for the future. We need to create it.”

— Kaila Colbin; Founder and CEO, Boma

 

Our vision is a world of intentional, intelligent and courageous leaders.

Imagine a world in which bold leaders build bold cultures, with teams that live and breathe their values, have the courage of their convictions, and are unafraid to pivot, adapt and grow. In which difficult and courageous conversations are the norm and we don’t carry around the unsaid. In which we can bring our full selves to the workplace.

Imagine a world in which the magic of exponential technology is harnessed in the service of humanity. 

Where we combine the wisdom of the past with the possibility of the future.

Imagine a world in which business is a driver of equity and wellbeing. Of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In which we are truly prepared to tackle wicked problems, and overcome the great challenges we face. 

At Boma, we've imagined it. And we're ready to build it.

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We carefully curate topics and programs to support courageous leadership.

At Boma, we operate at the nexus of “what you need to know” — the external trends and disruptions shaping our future — and “who you need to be” — how we need to show up as leaders to effectively confront the challenges ahead.

Cohort-based Courses

Crusaders Leadership Programme™

Open Enrolment Programmes

Transformational Executives and Directors™

Dare to Lead™

Futures by Design

Equity for Leaders

Impact Sessions

Custom Programmes 

Community Events

Boma's way of working is built on three pillars:

 
 

Our core principles

Our theory of change

Our behavioural aspirations

Our Core Principles

The Boma Principles define our brand promise: the standard to which we hold ourselves accountable for every product we deliver.

1. Embrace complexity

Today’s leaders must be skilled at navigating a complex world with no simple answers.

2. Be robust and credible

We don’t offer empty, feel-good slogans. Our work is evidence-based and defensible.

3. Question dogma

We embrace new evidence and are willing to challenge our own status quo.

4. Be inclusive

We actively challenge our own blind spots to expand our world view.

5. Think big picture

We work at the level of strategy, principles, philosophy: how to create the world we want.

6. Embrace global and local

We honour global expertise as well as deep local wisdom and autonomy.

7. Work towards outcomes

Our events and programs are designed to generate tangible results.

 

Our Theory of Change

The Boma Theory of Change defines our process: the journey our customers go on with us.

 

Curiosity

Curiosity is our starting point.

Curiosity is what allows us to learn and grow. It is what allows us to challenge our preconceptions and overcome our limitations. It is what allows us to expand our perspective and contemplate disruption with excitement rather than fear.

At Boma, our first and forever job is to awaken curiosity in our community.

 

Conversation

Once we’ve awakened curiosity, it’s time to dig in.

We engage with our community and clients not only through expert presenters but also through dialogue, embracing questions like:

  • How has what I’ve heard shifted my perspective? 

  • How does this apply to my organisation? To me as a leader?

  • What’s the practical application? 

  • What assumptions have I been making that need to be revisited?

At Boma, we create the space for the kind of robust and courageous conversation that is all too rare and yet abundantly necessary to tackle the challenges we face.

 

Convictions

Through curiosity and conversation, we guide our customers to identify and articulate their convictions.

What are they wanting to accomplish and why? How are they measuring success? What are they willing to do to get there? What are they willing to let go of? 

Ultimately, our aim is to get to the heart of the matter: What is truly important to them?

 

Courage

Convictions are nothing without the courage to act on them.

We equip our customers with the tools to build cultures of courage. To dream big, to lead, and to hold themselves to account against their purpose.

To foster brave, innovative teams aligned to a common vision.

To tackle tough conversations and rise from setbacks. 

And to create thriving cultures fit for a future that looks nothing like the past.

Tihei mauri ora koutou mā. I wholeheartedly support Boma's efforts to help us be more forward-thinking and dynamic.”

— Mavis Mullins MNZM; Chair, Ātihau Whanganui Inc; patron, Agri-Women’s Development Trust

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