Courses and Workshops

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think”

- Neil Degrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist

Course & Workshop Development & Review, Delivery & Facilitation

“You are your own biggest asset.

When you learn something, your wealth of knowledge increases, and that puts you in a better position for future success.’

“It has been my privilege to have Matt as a part of my teaching team.
My sincere thanks for all you have done in making our programme here at Newlands College so successful.”
Colin Wharton
Director
Newlands College Community Learning Centre

Matt has significant experience in developing and delivering a range of courses (including in person, online and blended delivery).

Matt has a passion for adult education and quality course development and teaching. One of his key strengths is being able to tailor content for a specific group of learners and write in an engaging manner.

Matt has developed several online courses for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand as well as developing courses and associated assessments while lecturing at Auckland University of Technology teaching on the Certificate in Business Studies courses (levels 2 and 3).

Matt has also developed and delivered courses at Newlands College Community Learning Centre (teaching an introductory course on Relational Database Management Systems) and Wellington High School Community Education Centre (teaching an introductory programming course).

Workshops

Matt is a skilled facilitator and is happy to work with organisations to develop and deliver unique courses or run workshops on request.

He has previously run courses on Information Management Strategy development, developing taxonomies and tailored workshops with executive teams, organisational leaders and operational groups.

To find out more contact us.

Why use us?

Matt has a wealth of training and facilitation experience having developed and delivered numerous courses and workshops in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Matt places a big emphasis on empowering participants to think strategically through an information lens. This is a powerful construct to solve problems and create new insights and opportunities.

Feedback

While we’re not ones to boast, we take great pride in consistently going the extra mile for our clients and workshop participants. Below is a selection of feedback from those who have attended our workshops or benefited from our course development services.

“Matt facilitated a workshop with our entire Executive team and it was extremely successful. We felt it was important to have buy in from the very top and Matt achieved this through his vast experience and masterful story-telling, which highlighted how information is the basis for everything we do.
As a direct result of Matt’s workshop we now have executive level information champions and have started on our transformation journey. I would highly recommend Matt’s workshop to anyone, and particularly to executive and leadership level to gain organisational buy-in.”
Alix Campbell
Upper Hutt City Council

'“Our information management direction was changing and we needed some ideas on how to manage the journey. Matt’s workshop on developing an information strategy helped us get a better picture of what our information journey might look like and provided us with the tools to undertake a meaningful discourse with other stakeholders and senior players”
Luke Burns
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia

‘It is rare to find a writer as knowledgeable and efficient as Matt. I had the pleasure of working with Matt for the course development of 'Introduction to Software Development', where he produced a high quality course for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.
I was particularly impressed by Matt's ability to create content that engages our students and addresses a range of topics, from requirement gathering to configuration management. And it was great to see difficult content made easy so that students would get the full benefits from our course. It was a pleasure to work with Matt and he would be an asset to any team.’
Nicky Meuleman
Senior Project Manager MBA PMP

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the invaluable knowledge you imparted to us. Your teaching approach was exceptionally effective, engaging each learner in the educational experience. I extend my thanks for the thoughtful gestures and for sharing your expertise.”
Johannes Getarmwai
National Fisheries Corporation

“An excellent workshop - the day was one of insight, with plenty of generative conversation, and I came away with new ways of thinking about information management”
Melanie Squires, Site Support Manager
Fonterra Oceania

'Great ideas, tools, approaches, definitions and principles. Excellent presentations & examples'

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'A wide span of subject matter with real world examples and tools'

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'A number of fantastic tools & methods for monitoring'

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Extremely relevant & the workshop was at a perfect pace'

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'Great ideas, tools, approaches, definitions and principles. Excellent presentations & examples' 〰️ 'A wide span of subject matter with real world examples and tools' 〰️ 'A number of fantastic tools & methods for monitoring' 〰️ Extremely relevant & the workshop was at a perfect pace' 〰️

Portfolio

Below is a portfolio of courses Matt has developed and / or contributed to, designed to empower individuals and organisations with practical skills and strategic insights on a variety of topics.

Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

Kuratini Tuwhera

Bachelor of Library and Information Studies

LIS703 - Leadership and Advocacy for Information Professionals (course writer and subject matter expert)
LIS702 - Strategy and Planning in Information Organisations (Final Reviewer). Final review and sign-off for this in iQualify (online learning management system)
LIS507 - Principles of Records Management (course writer and subject matter expert)
LIS612 - Preservation and Digitisation (course writer and subject matter expert)

Bachelor of Information Technology

BIT601 - Systems Analysis & Design (subject matter expert)
BIT505 - Introduction to Software Development (course writer and subject matter expert)
BIT701 IT Project (course writer and subject matter expert)

Newlands College Community Learning Centre