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.

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"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