Executive education and short courses
Massey University’s courses don’t just inform, they transform the way you think about learning. We have a broad range of expertise within our executive education area and have worked with some of the leading business people in New Zealand. We are known for our approachable real-world attitude to your learning. You may be in business, or you may work in other industries like science, health or the arts. Whatever your current situation, we can help give you the confidence to progress in your career. Talk to our friendly team about your next steps.
Qualifications
Massey offers a number of innovative professional practice degrees across our areas of business expertise including our Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Professional qualifications
These degrees that have a unique focus to help those already in the workplace achieve a higher-level qualification that can help advance your career.
- Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
- Master of Agribusiness
- Master of Analytics (Business)
- Master of Aviation
- Master of Business Administration (Business Sustainability)
- Master of Business Administration (Digital Transformation)
- Master of Business Administration (International Marketing)
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Master of Health Service Management
- Master of Management
- Master of Professional Accountancy and Finance
- Master of Quality Systems
- Master of Supply Chain Management
Tailored solutions
Massey’s executive development services engage a team of experienced specialists who work with you to identify and solve problems related to staff development, engagement and performance. Companies throughout New Zealand have used our leadership and directorship development services.
We use a highly flexible framework of options that we modify to your particular organisational needs. This could include individual or team interventions, training and development programmes of various descriptions. We work anywhere with organisations of any size. We also have an optional credential pathway for those who want to continue their development with academic recognition.
Short programmes
Get Published! Preparing your research for publication
This course will help postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career scholars to publish an academic journal article or other scholarly publication.
Get Published! Preparing your research for publicationGovernance Development Programme
Massey University offers customised governance development programmes for large private and public sector organisations. We also offer a one-year governance development programme aimed at serving or emerging directors in co-operative-styled companies.
Our course leaders have many years of experience in this area. We have worked with multiple organisations to develop current and future directors through induction courses, development programmes, networking events, masterclasses or conferences.
Governance Development ProgrammeManager Acceleration Programme
Our Management Acceleration Programme (MAP) activates manager thinking, grows manager knowledge and builds manager competence. The MAP programme is for cohorts of managers from a single company. Suitable for new to middle managers, it provides a solid foundation on which to build a strong management career.
Manager Acceleration ProgrammeIndustry-specific short courses
Business experts at Massey run a series of short courses on a regular basis in various areas.
Advanced Certificate in Personal Financial Management
This course builds on 'Facilitating Personal Financial Management'. It is for educators and facilitators who will be teaching or facilitating sessions on personal financial management, but do not want to undertake a full degree or diploma programme. Ideal for educators, facilitators and counsellors in financial institutions, teaching institutions, industry training organisations and community service groups.
CAANZ Instructional Techniques Course
This course is for those training to be a flight instructor. It is a prerequisite for the CAANZ Category D and C initial instructor rating, and is a mandatory requirement before attempting a relevant flight test. You must have a commercial pilots licence to undertake this course. It will provide you with the knowledge, attitudes, skills and techniques to aid you in instructing within the aviation environment.
Facilitating Personal Financial Management
This course is ideal for facilitators in organisations such as financial institutions, industry training organisations, youth service providers and community groups who wish to understand how to facilitate sessions and workshops on the fundamentals of managing personal finances.
Fundamentals of managing your finances
This course extends the understanding of personal financial management fundamentals developed in the 'Your Pathway to Financial Success' course. Participants will learn about the time value of money and its relationship to savings and debt, and strategies for managing debt, savings and investing.
Money Smarts @ Work
This short, flexible financial literacy course is offered in collaboration with industry groups and is suited to those in full-time employment. The course makes learning about the basics of financial capability affordable and easily available to those people who have completed their formal education and do not otherwise have access to education about managing their personal finances.
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
This course is designed to meet CAA requirements for RPAS operators with little or no aviation experience who want to enter the industry or further develop their understanding of the use of RPAS in the aviation environment. The course is designed to bridge the gap between RPAS operators and aviators to enhance the safety of your operation. It delivers a syllabus centred around safe operating practices featuring hands-on scenarios and practical demonstrations by industry experts.
Teaching Personal Financial Management (Educators)
A professional development certificate course suited to people who will be teaching personal financial management in a classroom setting. This course is ideal for teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary learning institutions.
Understanding your financial world
Deepen your understanding of personal financial management by learning about the financial system in New Zealand and local and international influences on it. You will learn about the structure, functions and importance of a modern financial system and understand how local, national and global events can influence personal and family finances.
Your Pathway to Financial Success
Ideal for people who wish to improve their financial literacy and management of personal finances. Participants will learn to set financial goals in relation to their life goals and be able to identify the range of saving options and develop their own financial plan for different stages of the family life cycle and life events.
Meet our graduates
Studying at Massey University has played a huge role in helping me to get to where I am today.
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer
Master of Management (Communication Management)
Most master’s programmes focus on the academic learning whereas I found MALP had a strong experiential aspect to it as well. This meant that I could put what I learned immediately into practice.
Dan Walker
Master of Advanced Leadership Practice
The support I received from my supervisors for the research portion of my degree was outstanding. Not only did they ask insightful questions to help me develop my topic and my approach, they provided guidance and moral support for overcoming the challenges that I faced along the way.
Daria Williamson
Master of Management (Human Resource Management)
As a finance student, I really found the resources in the trading room (Bloomberg and Capital IQ) extremely useful. It was exciting being a student fund manager and managing the funds portfolio and all of these extracurricular activities positively reinforced what I was learning.
Hattaf Ansari
Master of Management (Banking and Finance)
“Massey MBA opened up the door to management consulting for me in 1998; Since then, I have never changed the course of the journey which brings me not only career achievement but also life satisfaction.”
Jack Lim
Executive Master of Business Administration
During the Massey MBA we were taught knowledge, but more importantly we were taught how to apply that knowledge in a systematic and practical way. Learning to think critically meant I knew what to do when I was in new situations. I knew the right questions to ask, to help me decide which steps to take.
Kevin Wang Gang
Master of Business Administration
My favourite part of studying at Massey were the opportunities that I was given around my work, study and connections with the industry. I felt like I really gained an insight to possible career paths.
Lindsay Eastgate
Master of Management (Human Resource Management)
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Massey. I experienced many aspects of tertiary study from living on campus as a first-year student, to studying extramurally while working full time, and then being invited back to lecture an HR paper. The courses I took, particularly in my postgraduate studies, provided an excellent grounding for my career.
Sharon Grant
Master of Management (Human Resource Management)
There is a famous quote by Albert Einstein that resonates well with my experience and MBA journey – “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
Tia Ashby
Executive Master of Business Administration
With ever-increasing education inflation, a master’s degree would help me stand out from the crowd and give me a longer-term investment in myself.
Tim Graham
Master of Aviation
Enterprise and partnerships – working with us
As well as executive education, Massey Business School has many other ways we work with businesses.
We have consultancy and business start-up services and we also work to match partners with students for internships and work placements. This allows our students to gain real-world experience while gaining credit towards their degree and gives businesses talented, young, keen students to help with projects.
Accreditation
Massey's Executive MBA programme is accredited by the Association of MBAs, with programme-specific endorsements in accountancy, finance and aviation.
Massey Business School is rated in the top 5% of global business colleges by AACSB International.
This international magazine for executives ranked Massey's EMBA programme in its top MBA programmes for 2020.
This international magazine for executives ranked Massey's MBA programmes in its top MBA programmes for 2020.
Massey Business School and IMNZ have a collaborative partnership to offer development pathways that transform talented people into valuable managers, visionary leaders and global executives.
Massey University is ranked by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) as one of the top 300 universities for business and management.
Massey University is ranked #1 in New Zealand and in the top 150 universities globally for business administration and finance by ShanghaiRanking.
Meet the team
Professor Ted Zorn
Head of Institute - Massey Executive Development
A professor of organisational communication for nearly 30 years, Ted held positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Waikato University before joining Massey University in 2012. His research in recent years has focused on the use of dialogue and other forms of communication in leading change.
Dr Patricia Bossons
Leadership Development and Coaching Leader
A business psychologist specializing in executive education and personal development, Patricia joined Massey from Henley Business School (UK). She has worked at the interface of academia and business for most of her career, designing and delivering executive education for organisations and individuals.
Dr Heidi Le Sueur
Academic Director
In the capacity of Academic Director Heidi oversees the successful development, direction and delivery of the portfolio of programmes offered by the unit. Heidi held positions at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town in South Africa before joining Massey University in 2020. Prior to joining academia she worked for many years in the arena of management consulting focussing on strategic organisational change.