Tag: CEO Update

Leonie Freeman: Disaster vocab

It’s funny how disasters bring a whole new language into mainstream vocabulary. In post-quake Christchurch it was ‘liquefaction’ and ‘red stickered’, the latter of which has seen a renaissance in […]

Leonie Freeman: New year, new Prime Minister

You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the Labour Party’s change of power this week as Leader Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation and Chris Hipkins was […]

Leonie Freeman: Meri Kirihimete

On the first day of Christmas, the Government sent to me800 pages of RM reform to read. On the second day of Christmas, the Government sent to meA Local Government […]

Leonie Freeman: Lifting the people in property

Last month, we celebrated the people in property in the Auckland, Central and Wellington regions with more than 1,000 members of the property community joining us across the three events. […]

Leonie Freeman: Awards, announcements and live events

It has been a huge couple of weeks in Property Council HQ, with over 350 attendees joining us in Auckland for Retail Conference 2022 and a wonderful turnout for the […]

Leonie Freeman: Feedback, the breakfast of champions

That’s right, forget Weetbix, it’s feedback that fuels champions. With over 500 member companies that employ more than 10,000 individual members we receive a lot of feedback, but filtering the […]

Leonie Freeman: Collective impact

Collective impact and influence This being my first missive since the Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards held in Auckland a couple of weeks ago, I […]

Leonie Freeman: When city shapers become city funders

Last week we got word of an extraordinary donation by one of our members, and recipient of the Property Council Member’s Laureate Award, Mark Dunajtschik’s $50 million endowment to help […]

Leonie Freeman: Mānawatia a Matariki

Happy Māori New Year With 2022 marking Aotearoa’s first official Matariki holiday celebration, we hope the new year brings you good health, happiness and prosperity. On the agenda this week […]

Leonie Freeman: Face-to-face in the regions

As post-COVID travel has picked back up, the advocacy team have commenced travelling to the regions to meet with key stakeholders and engage with our members at Property Council events. […]