Business Navigators: Leadership pathway
Develop the skills to inspire and lead others.
Customised courses
Stage 1: BUSINESS 113
Business Navigators 1: Explores pathways for growing sustainable ventures through innovation, entrepreneurship, and international market expansion. Integrates marketing, operations, commercial law, and management perspectives using live New Zealand business cases.
Stage 2: BUSINESS 203
Business Navigators 2: Tackles grand challenges facing business and society through consultancy frameworks and industry engagement. Explores areas including leadership, sustainability, and the future of work using live New Zealand business cases.
Stage 3: Stage 3 Capstone Course
Business Navigators 3: A capstone course where students complete a challenging Leadership project, and draw on the skills and knowledge they have gained in their degree to date.
Note: Course titles and descriptions are subject to final approval through University processes.
Extracurricular activities
Participate in activities including:
- Passport to Business
- Business Navigators Club activities
- Case Club competitions
- Velocity challenges
- Dean's Leadership Award (exclusive to Business Navigators Leadership and Scholarship pathway students in the final year of their degree)
- Exclusive talks, presentations and events.
To complete the programme, students need to complete a minimum of 60 hours of extracurricular activities that are deemed eligible for the programme (over the duration of their degree(s)) and submit a written reflection relating to those activities. Students submit the reflection near the end of their degree(s).
Community-building activities
Business Navigators Club activities, talks, presentations and other events.

"I really enjoyed being involved in the Case Programme. You make a lot of friends and you learn how to critically analyse things in a way that you don’t do in the classroom, which is of course an essential skill to have when you're looking for a graduate role. I couldn't recommend it more highly."
Nicole Rebstock, Graduate: BCom/LLB