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Find out which strategic skill you need most - and get a free cheat sheet to help you on your journey!
How strategic are you?
Transform your career. Go from busy leader to savvy strategist!
Over 500 of New Zealand and Australia’s smartest senior professionals have transformed their life, work and leadership with Not An MBA. These ambitious high achievers found freedom and fulfilment in their work - are you next?
Enrol in the fastest and most effective strategic leadership programme available to enjoy less stress, more progress, and practical tools and strategies to lead in complex environments.
Smash your personal roadblocks
“naMBA allowed me to truly explore what is holding me back and what I can do to push forward as a leader.
The tools were practical and delivered with such clarity. naMBA should be base line professional development in all organisations.
On a side note, but an important one for me - this course is 100% about retaining and building 'mana'.
— Jo Henson
GM Māori and Population Health,
Tū Ora Compass Health
Are you… naMBA material?
You’ll get the most out of this programme if you are:
Experienced - You have 15+ years of career experience
Ambitious - You’re an AHA! (Ambitious High Achiever)
Growth-oriented - You’re a personal development junkie
Challenge-focused - You’re a values-led agitator who challenges the status quo.
Not An MBA is purpose-built for smart, mid-career professionals in New Zealand and Australia.
We’ve helped students in almost all industries - including enterprise development of over 200 leaders from Woolworths, and in-house programmes for SAAS companies like Optimal Workshop and recruitment firm Haines Attract.
We’re popular with public sector leaders, because we’re all about busting through bureaucracy to get things done.
But our students come from all sectors, including construction management, banking, finance, FMCG, science and innovation, manufacturing, engineering and technology companies.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a full range of the companies we partner with for their leadership needs.
We partner with market leaders
Over 100 organisations across all industries choose Not An MBA for their leaders
More learning in 8 weeks than other courses offer in 3 years
“It's really different from any other professional development I've done. It's informal, but you learn so so much. I absolutely loved it - and aI can say in eight weeks, I probably learnt more than I have in many courses that have gone on for three years.”
- Melissa Bailey, OSPRI
Learn the strategic skills…
that an MBA won’t teach you
Not An MBA gives you the skills you wish other leadership programmes had taught you.
Learn to manage your time and energy with confidence. Make smarter decisions and lead through complex change with practical strategies and frameworks that change the way you think, work and live.
“In this moment, we need leaders more than ever. But as Alicia McKay helps us understand, waiting two years for a piece of paper isn’t required to make a difference. Start where you are and start now.”
Seth Godin
Founder, altMBA; New York Times bestselling author
Meet our graduates
Over 500 senior professionals have changed the way they think, work and live with Not An MBA. Are you next?
Join the best of the best!
Organisations who trust Not An MBA to level up their leaders include…
42IT, 7Skies, A J Bates, Abletech, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Access Community Health, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Adapt & Improve Consulting, Advanced Security Group, Agrihealth, ANZ, APL, ASB, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Aviation Security Service, Baseline, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Beatson Company, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, BerryCo, Best Buy Canada, Blumers Personal Injury Lawyers, Callaghan Innovation, CeNet, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Changemaker, Christchurch City Council, City of Moreton Bay, City of Stonnington, CivilPlan Consultants, Colin Carr Agencies, Collaborative Aotearoa, Contact Energy, Datacom, Department of Corrections, Department of Environment and Heritage, Department of Internal Affairs, Dietitians New Zealand, Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Downer New Zealand, Dunedin City Council, Edison Consulting Group, Electricity Authority, Environment Canterbury, Environmental Protection Authority, Feilding, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, FishServe, Franklin Memorial Hospital, Geelong Regional Library Corporation, General Practice New Zealand, Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, Good Earth Matters, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Haines Attract, HamiltonJet, Hanwha Defence Australia, Hato Hone St John, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, HRV, Human Skills Co, Hume City Council, Hutt City Council, Inland Revenue, Insightful Solutions, Integrity1, Invercargill City Council, Kaipara District Council, Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities, L'Oréal, Land Information New Zealand, Landay Rural Services, Lawler HR, Lincoln Agritech, Liverpool Plains Shire Council, Lutra, M. J. Marketing, Ministry for Primary Industries, Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake, New Zealand Automobile Association, New Zealand Customs Service, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Post, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, Ohnyx IT Solutions, Omnimax, Open Polytechnic, Optimal Workshop, Oranga Tamariki, Orion New Zealand, OSPRI New Zealand, Otago Regional Council, PBC, Pernod Ricard, Pharmac, Pinnacle Midlands Health Network, Pāmu (Landcorp Farming), QES, Quadrant Solutions, Quayside Holdings, Redvespa, Revved Events, Roy Hill, Scion, Selwyn District Council, Shopify, Site Safe New Zealand, SkyCity, Smart Loyalty, Southern Cross, Spark New Zealand, Sport New Zealand, Sport Waitakere, Stats NZ, The Switch Agency, Tainui Group Holdings, TalkLink Trust, Tamworth Regional Council, Tautoko Mai Sexual Harm Support, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, Totally Psyched, Transdev Australasia, Tū Ora Compass Health, University of Otago, University of Wollongong, Vector, Waihanga Ara Rau, Waikato Regional Council, Waterx, Wellington City Council, Wellington Water, Wellington Zoo, Wildcard Change, Xaana, Yarra Valley Water.
