Our Mission
We grow New Zealand’s leaders. It’s that simple.
About Andrew
Andrew Fox’s leadership philosophy is simple: leaders grow leaders. The real work is creating the conditions where people feel trusted, challenged, and supported enough to step up.
That belief was forged over more than three decades in the New Zealand Army — not just through study, but in demanding operational environments. Andrew led teams in Bosnia, East Timor, and Afghanistan, where leadership was not theoretical. It shaped how people thought, acted, and performed under pressure.
His military career included responsibility for some of New Zealand’s most complex operational deployments and, as Commandant of the Army Command School, leading leadership development across the New Zealand Army. Those experiences gave him a deep and lasting respect for leadership that actually works — with real people, under real pressure, when the stakes are high.
Andrew holds three master’s degrees and has studied leadership, strategy, and executive development at Harvard, Cambridge, and Wharton. He also facilitates executive education through Victoria University of Wellington, working with leaders across business, government, and the community sector.
After his final tour in Afghanistan, Andrew returned with a clear mission: to help grow capable, confident leaders at every level of New Zealand business and community life.
Today, through NZ Leadership, he works with SMEs, senior teams, emerging leaders, and frontline managers — helping people turn leadership thinking into practical action. Based in the Wairarapa, he brings global perspective and local grounding to every room he works in.
When he is not facilitating, coaching, or speaking, Andrew is usually testing his own limits through ultra-endurance events — a useful reminder that leadership, like endurance, is built through discipline, discomfort, and one step at a time.
What We’ve Achieved
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We have worked with companies within Deloitte’s Fast 50 through to others that have been established for over four decades.
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Some of the industries we have worked with include construction, hospitality, transport, landscaping, engineering, electrical, accounting, and property development to name a few.
- Giving back through working with charities as well as providing executive education through Victoria University is our way of reinvesting in the future.