​​We believe that working women should have equal opportunity to progress, be remunerated fairly for the work they do, and have their voices heard.


Cultivate Mentoring Lab supports working women throughout New Zealand, through its free mentoring programme, to navigate the workplace and take charge of their careers.  Mentoring is provided by women who are in senior leadership roles, to women who are in the early stages of their career. 

Cultivate is helping to build the pipeline of women who are ready for leadership and governance roles. Through our collective efforts - as employees and business leaders - we aspire to breakdown the persistent gender inequities present in modern workplaces.

​We do this for the generations who will come after us. We do this for our daughters.
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THE SPINOFF   |   15 June 2016

The face of NZ’s brave business future in the world? Men, men and more men

A 50-strong trade delegation of New Zealand’s finest innovators and business people headed off recently to Israel. Their plan? An “innovation mission”, to learn from a land that has inspired entrepreneurship on many levels and to share our own knowledge as a scrappy start up nation.
Fifty of our finest: but where were the women? Judging by the NZ Herald story previewing the trip, there weren’t any. While the article was written by a woman, no women were mentioned as being part of the heavy-hitting delegation. (Let’s not even start on why, again, we’re Israel gazing.)

So we asked the simple question: which women were going?
The NZ Herald has produced a neat interactive for exploring the gender pay gap in different job types and sectors...
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