After decades in leadership roles and developing leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sue has spent the last two years researching her birth family history and leaning into creative pursuits as a tool for connection, healing and acceptance.

Managing leadership roles by day and exploring her own history in her downtime, Sue has found that honouring the truth of her family history has unlocked a powerful foundation for her leadership practice.

Sue believes leadership is most powerful when it is strongly connected to our purpose,  whakapapa and life experience. In challenging the narrative that to succeed as a leader, we need to present a sanitised version of ourselves, Sue has embarked on several creative projects exploring the past, present and purpose, anchored by her own experience of adoption.

To read more about Sue’s work in the leadership space, visit her business website here: www.connectedleadership.co.nz/