Supporting capability development that fits your organisation

Building capacity and capability that is fit-for-purpose is not easy. Competing demands on scarce resources, silo’isation, and different views on strategic priorities can get in the way. At E3, we believe that an organisation is only as good as its people and building workforce capablity is a strategic asset rather than a nice-to-have.

Each organisation is different. We take the time to get to know you, your organisation, your processes, and your priorities. Our approach is grounded in mutual understanding, respect, academic rigour, and manaakitanga. You bring your knowledge, we bring ours, and together we create and implement solutions that fit your context.

We enable you with the tools to create solutions, empower you to enact them effectively and efficiently, so they become embedded in your organisation in a smooth, natural, and self-sustained way.

Our guiding principle is the Māori whakataukī:

Mā te huruhuru, ka rere te manu
Adorn the bird with feathers, so it may fly

New Zealand Fantail (Pīwakawaka).
Image credit: Department of Conservation


What we do

Staff and Educational Development

  • Professional development needs analyses

  • Capacity and capability development for professionals becoming teachers / communicators of that profession

  • Design, delivery, and evaluation of staff training and development programmes

  • Mentoring and coaching of teaching staff

    • Mentoring toward AdvanceHE recognition as Associate Fellow, Fellow, and Senior Fellow

  • Quality assurance processes of assessment of prior learning, non-formal teaching, micro-credentials and short courses

  • Curriculum and assessment design

  • Academic quality assurance and programme reviews

Leadership Development

  • Analysis of leadership knowledge, skills, and attribute needs tailored to the organisation

  • Design of professional development pathways pathways to leadership and succession planning

  • Mentoring of early stage leaders or those aspiring to leadership

  • Leadership style development based on personal and organisational needs

Organisational Development

  • Strategy and implementation of

    • Educational change management

    • Organisational development, training and facilitation

    • Organisational policy regarding staff professional development and delivery

    • Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace

    • Merits and drawbacks of generative artificial intelligence in the workplace

    • Institutional readiness for emergencies

  • Capacity and capability development to initiate, execute, and embed self-sustained organisational change

  • Development of staff to assume emergency management roles


Social Science Research & Research Support

  • Mentoring / supervising researchers and buiding a research culture

  • Design of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research studies

  • Interview protocol and survey scale construction

  • Human ethics processes

  • Qualitative and quantitative data analysis

  • Action research and evaluation

  • Implications and translation of research results for practice, policy, strategy, and implementation