Real Learning

Nudge.Leadership
Our nudge.Leadership program gives leaders the skills and tools to have robust conversations with their people. Short, sharp learning ready when you need it.
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Nudge.Leadership

We believe in learning by doing, and our program is designed to seamlessly integrate into your daily work routine. Think of nudge.Leadership as your go-to toolkit for all things leadership – whether you’re shaping your leadership mindset, crafting strategic plans, or honing your core leadership skills. You’ll find everything you need to excel as a leader.
What you’ll learn in this programme

In nudge.Leadership, you’ll learn to refine your leadership skills and develop a clear vision for your role. You will explore effective stress management techniques, strategies to tackle challenges, and methods for building trust within your teams. Through improved communication skills, you’ll motivate your team and guide them team through transitions effectively. You will also enhance your skills in active listening, empathy, and coaching to nurture personal and team growth within a supportive environment.

Is this for you?
This programme is designed for all leaders who want to develop their leadership skills and behaviours.

We use a blended approach

Face to face and virtual learning
Micro learning
Performance support tool
Gamification
Coaching

Leadership Skills

Nudge.Leadership equips leaders with the skills to create psychological safety, inspire motivation, and navigate change effectively with their team and business.

Leadership Conversations

Leaders will learn how to handle tough conversations, celebrate successes, connect with their team, deliver effective feedback, and coach to enhance performance, with Nudge.Leadership providing the necessary tools.

Leadership Vision

Through a range of activities, leaders will uncover their personal “why” and develop a leadership action plan to reach their full potential.

Leadership Mindset

Nudge.Leadership provide the tools to develop a leadership mindset.

Why choose Nudge.Leadership training program?

NudgeLeadership: Build leadership that sticks

At Real Learning, we work with organisations that want more than just a training session. Our NudgeLeadership programme is designed to grow confident, capable leaders who reflect your culture and move your business forward.

We know real leadership change doesn’t happen overnight.

That’s why we take a blended, long-term approach that helps learning stick – while making space for reflection, experimentation, and growth.

Why NudgeLeadership?

  • Built around your world
    Every programme is tailored to your goals, values, and leadership challenges.
  • Learning in bite-sized nudges
    Short, sharp, practical content delivered over time – so it’s easier to absorb, apply, and remember.
  • Coaching and workshops combined
    We blend one-on-one coaching, small group workshops, and digital tools to support reflection and accountability.
  • Measurable change
    Grounded in behavioural science and real-world application, with outcomes you can track.
  • Partners in growth
    We’re alongside you and your leaders throughout – supporting, guiding, and nudging when it counts.

Ready to nudge your leadership forward?

Let’s have a kōrero about how NudgeLeadership could work in your organisation.

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Gretchen Young

Learning and Development Specialist NZ at the Police Academy

Leaders are busy people and they often put their own development into the ‘too hard’ or ‘do it later’ basket. Real Learning’s nudge modules provide the perfect answer to that challenge. Experienced and aspiring leadership development just when they need it. Whether you have an hour or just a few minutes to spare, each nudge module offers a range of options from in-depth learning to bite-sized reminders, providing the versatility leaders need to hone their skills exactly when they need to apply them.


As a leadership development specialist, nudge provides the perfect platform for me to integrate in-time learning into a broader learning and development programme, and the flexibility to tailor learning solutions for the specific needs of cohorts, teams and individuals. Beautifully designed and modern, nudge is an attractive leadership development programme to integrate into your organisation’s learning and development system.

Your journey

By the end of the programme, learners will be able to

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Module 1

Understand the why

After this module, learners will be able to:

  • Create your personal leadership vision
  • Identify the shifts required to step up
  • Understand stress and impact on performance
  • Choose how you respond in challenging situations 
  • Operate Build trust with your team by depositing into their emotional bank accounts
  • Understand the importance of psychological safety and how you can create a psychologically safe environment your Circle of Influence
  • Become aware of your communication style
  • Adapt your style to communicate effectively with others
  • Understand the impact of body language and tone

Module 3

Nail feedback conversations

After this module, learners will be able to:

  • Listen with the intent to understand not reply
  • Demonstrate empathy
  • Introduce the TEAM model
  • Plan and prepare to have tough conversations with empathy and care
  • Recognise the great stuff with your people

Module 2

Develop a high performance team

After this module, learners will be able to:

  • Understand what drives motivation
  • Understand the skill/will matrix
  • Understand the Change Curve
  • Identify where your people are at on the Change Curve
  • Create a PLAN to support your people

Module 4

Nail feedback conversations

After this module, learners will be able to:

  • Understand your role as a leader
  • Question with curiosity
  • Introduce GROW coaching model
  • Coach in the moment (1:1’s)
  • Practice having a GROW conversation to create development goals
  • Understand SMART
  • Reflect on your personal leadership vision and your journey so far 
  • Coach each other to build your performance plan.

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Tauvaga Siolo

Development and Delivery Lead

With over 20 years of experience across the fitness, telco, and learning industries, Tauvaga brings a unique blend of energy, strategic thinking, and heart to helping businesses and individuals thrive.

Of Samoan, Italian, and Kiwi heritage, Tauvaga is grounded in the values of connection, service, and aiga (family). He carries with him the Samoan proverb “O le ala i le pule o le tautua” — leadership is achieved through service — a principle that guides how he shows up for people, teams, and communities.

These values have shaped his leadership journey, from heading high-performing teams as a Group Fitness Manager and National Manager of Group Fitness in New Zealand, to driving innovation and customer-led thinking as a Product and Proposition Lead at One New Zealand.

For over 15 years, Tauvaga has worked as a trainer and facilitator, designing learning experiences that shift thinking, lift capability, and build healthier, more connected workplaces. He has created coaching content, developed high-performing teams, and launched purpose-driven businesses that reflect his commitment to people and progress.

What drives him is creating real-world solutions—for people, for teams, and for the everyday challenges that hold us back. He brings a relational, grounded style to his work and a deep belief that leadership, done well, always begins with service.

Eloise Tzimas

Facilitator / Transformation Coach

Elosie is a seasoned coach with a passion for empowering individuals to unlock their full potential. Eloise specialises in communication skills development, professional and performance coaching, and working with individuals, teams and business owners. With a unique blend of expertise, empathy, and a results-driven approach, she has become a sought-after person for those seeking personal and professional transformation.

Matt Wilmot

Virtuoso Media

Virtuoso Media provides full service video production with in-house creative, scripting, directing, shooting & editing. We produce premium content for filmmakers, corporations and private businesses. Capturing the perfect shot is an art and something we are very passionate about. Our keen eye for composition, extensive experience in production & post-production, and relentless quest for perfection ensures that everything we deliver is of exceptional quality.

Nina Velleman

Bunkhouse Graphic Design

Nina is a Senior Graphic Designer and co-director of Bunkhouse Graphic Design with over 20 years of experience working in the industry. She takes pride in her innovative approach to creative ideas and is passionate about visual communication. As the Graphic Designer for Real Learning, nothing gives her more pleasure than creating collateral that enhances and supports the learning programmes and workshops for greater engagement and understanding.

Frans Plummer

Leadership Coach and Facilitator

Frans natural interest in people led to his academic roots in organisational behaviour, completing his honours in Industrial Psychology. His professional career has been a journey through change-, project-, sales-, and general management for start-ups, NGO's, charitable trusts, SMEs, and multinational corporations. These days Frans spreads his time and energy across business development, life coaching for men, couples, kids, and business teams, dispute resolution & mediation, and training facilitation. Frans is keenly interested in the development of human potential and is passionate about every session being an opportunity for further personal and professional growth.

Zoe Burt

Lead Learning Designer - SAFETY AND WELLBEING

As the Lead Learning Designer – Safety and Wellbeing at Real Learning, Zoe is on a mission to create real, lasting culture change in the organisations she partners with.

With a background in Human Resources and Employment Law, she brings a powerful blend of strategic thinking, creativity, and care to her work. Zoe draws on over a decade of experience in learning design to craft experiences that shift behaviour, influence culture, and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

In her role, Zoe leads the full end-to-end design process—collaborating with subject matter experts, managing stakeholders, and applying best practice in instructional design and learning technologies to deliver impactful, future-focused solutions.

Her recent work includes the design and rollout of enterprise-wide Safety Leadership and Frontline Safety programmes, helping organisations foster safer, stronger, and more connected workplaces.

Zoe also brings a deeply personal perspective to her work. Diagnosed with type one diabetes at age seven, she knows what it means to show up every day with resilience, preparation, and heart. That lived experience fuels her passion for designing learning that goes beyond compliance—programmes that truly support wellbeing, connection, and change that lasts.

To connect with Zoe, reach out at zoe@reallearning.co.nz. She’d love to hear from you.

Charlee Neubrandt

Customer Experience Lead

Charlee brings a people-first mindset and a passion for growth to everything she does. With a background that spans leadership in retail, corporate mental health services, and five years shaping transformative programmes at Real Learning, she’s all about creating meaningful connections that help others thrive.

Originally from England, Charlee moved to Aotearoa 20 years ago and quickly made it home. Her career started in retail leadership before moving into the corporate space, where she worked her way from an administrative role to supporting GMs, doctors, and specialists in mental health and addiction services. These experiences shaped her deep understanding of people, systems, and what it takes to create positive impact.

At Real Learning, Charlee plays a pivotal role in delivering standout customer experiences and making sure every engagement is grounded in care, purpose, and impact. She believes in working hard and living fully – whether that’s through her role, time in the great outdoors, or adventuring with her whānau.

Her mantra? “You only get one shot at life, so make it count.” And she brings that energy to every part of her work.

Getting projects out the door is Charlee’s passion, but she also gets involved with the instruction design and development, applying her background in sales and customer service to the programmes.

Heidi Lance

Director and Head of Learning

Heidi believes learning should feel real – relevant, human, and rooted in what matters. It’s why she founded Real Learning: to create learning experiences that shift cultures, not just tick boxes.

With nearly 20 years of experience in learning and development, Heidi brings a rare blend of strategic thinking, creativity, and care. She has partnered with organisations across construction, retail, energy, banking, and beyond – designing tools and experiences that lead to real results: safer sites, stronger teams, better conversations, and more inclusive workplaces.

Heidi’s work is grounded in values – especially courage, connection, and impact. She’s not afraid to challenge thinking, ask bold questions, or have a laugh along the way. Whether she’s designing a leadership programme, building a board game, or coaching a facilitator, Heidi brings empathy, clarity, and a deep belief that people learn best when they feel seen, safe, and stretched.

What drives her is simple: helping people do their best work and go home safe, well, and proud of what they’ve built – together.

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