Programme Directors
Our friendly and professional management team is based at our office in Northern Wairarapa. We also have a large group of expert advisors and programme facilitators based throughout New Zealand.
AWDT graduates feature strongly in our management and facilitation teams. Not only do they bring their own expertise, but having completed one or more AWDT programmes, they understand, first-hand, the power of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded women to provide a rich learning experience for all.
Meet our Programme Directors
We’re here to help – read about each of our roles here. Because we all help each other out in our busy office, when you phone us (06 377 4560) any one of us may answer.
- Loshni Manikam
- Sara Heard
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Loshni Manikam - Escalator
Loshni is our Escalator Programme Director and also facilitates part of the Understanding Your Farming Business programme.
Loshni’s fascination with human behaviour has seen her career progress from law to dairy farming to leadership coaching and training when she obtained her coach certification from the NeuroLeadership Group in 2012.
A graduate of the Escalator programme, Loshni is also a director of a dairy-farming operation in Southland where she farms with her husband and 3 sometimes-lovely children.
She specialises in working in the agri-sector as she firmly believes that people are the key component of the sector’s continued success – unlocking their potential has benefits for the individuals, their communities and the sector.
loshni@awdt.org.nz -
Sara Heard - First Steps
Sara has been working with First Steps since graduating from the programme herself in 2012. She is an accredited International Coach Federation (ICF) coach.
Sara combines coaching and communication skills with her natural empathy and warmth to bring out the best in others, to support their growth and development.
A born and bred farmer, Sara experiences first-hand the multiple roles of a farming woman. She combines her AWDT role with working alongside her husband as an equity partner in a sheep, beef and cropping business.
The final spaces for our newest programme - Our Resilient Farming Business (Pilot) – are now open to all sectors!
Due to high demand for this pilot programme – supporting farmers & growers to cultivate the financial and personal resilience to manage change - additional spaces are now open in several regions.
Farmers & growers across all sectors are invited to register for our upcoming Winton (June 30), Tauranga (June 30), Ashburton (July 07), Feilding (July 07), Amberley (July 08) and Hastings (July 08) programmes.
Learn more at www.awdt.org.nz/programmes/our-resilient-farming-business/
Supported by the Ministry for Primary Industries, Our Resilient Farming Business pilot programmes are free.
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Big Congratulations and best of luck to our friends at Farm Focus, formerly CRS Software!Farm Focus is very proud to be a finalist in the Wellington Gold Awards for innovative technology creators in the Cyber Gold category.
Our awesome team has created world-class technology for our hard-working farmers. Thanks also to our rural communities for your faith, patience and honest feedback! We are proud creators of Farm Focus, easy-to-use time saving, financial management software.
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Finding belonging in Balclutha.
Southland saw our third It’s All About YOU programme for 2021 kick-off recently.
This group of rural and primary sector women chose to come together to support each other on a 2-day journey of self reflection and we’re thrilled to welcome you all to AWDT whānau.
Spaces remain for the Gisborne and Amberley programmes - register now at www.awdt.org.nz/programmes/its-all-about-you/
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A few tickets left for the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Ladies Long Lunch in Whangarei tomorrow!
9.30am – 2.00pm at 213 Tremain road, Ruatangata, Whangarei.
A great event from our long-time partner, the lunch will feature several AWDT alumni sharing their stories of positive impact to empower and inspire other primary sector women.
