Engaging Effectively with Your Stakeholders

Whether you're managing change, driving a policy shift, or leading delivery, your ability to identify, understand and engage stakeholders will shape your success.

This interactive, evidence-informed workshop builds practical confidence and capability across the full engagement cycle from mapping and analysis to communication and follow-up. You'll work on real-world examples, discuss the value of AI and leave with tools you can use straight away.

Facilitator Bio 

Laurna Munro is a facilitator and consultant with deep, real-world experience working across councils, local authorities, and central government. She supports leaders and teams who work in complex environments where decisions are visible, trade-offs are real, and trust matters. Her work focuses on helping people engage more clearly with stakeholders, so decisions are better informed and easier to deliver.

Participants will learn how to

• Identify and prioritise stakeholders who can influence outcomes

• Choose the right level and approach to engagement for different contexts

• Navigate competing interests and difficult conversations

• Identify and evaluate a range of actions that can be used to build stakeholder engagement

• Develop a customised stakeholder engagement strategy for a key stakeholder.

Who this course is for

Anyone working with internal or external stakeholders as part of their role. No prior stakeholder engagement training is required.

Laurna designs and delivers practical learning that strengthens judgment, lifts trust and improves how people work with others. She is known for translating complex issues into clear, usable tools and for creating learning spaces where people can think, test ideas, and leave with actions they can apply immediately.

Course Information

Platform: Microsoft Teams

Equipment Needed

• A working microphone.
• A webcam/video, as interaction with others is necessary and strongly encouraged.
• A quiet space to avoid distractions for yourself and other participants.

Access & Sessions

• You will receive an email with a link to each session.
• We recommend logging in 10 minutes before the start time to ensure everything is working correctly.

Registration Details

• Sessions are limited to 8-16 registrants.
• If minimum numbers aren’t met, we’ll postpone the course and transfer all registrations to the next intake.

If you have any issues, please contact service@algim.org.nz