Unlock Your Potential with ITP’s Expert-Led Courses!
Whether you're looking to level up your career or supercharge your team’s skills, ITP has you covered. Our diverse lineup of courses—spanning Cyber Security, Career Development, and more—are taught by real industry experts who know their stuff!
Below you will find some of our upcoming courses, which you can register for, as well as year-round courses that run based on interest. Register your interest today and be the first to know when the next opportunity drops.
Scheduled courses:
Professional and Business Ethics Workshop
In an era of polarisation and complexity, ethical leadership matters more than ever. Our Professional and Business Ethics workshop, led by ethics expert Jane Arnott MNZM, provides IT professionals with practical tools to navigate real-world dilemmas, speak up with confidence, apply the ITP Code of Ethics, and recognise personal blind spots.
Incident Response Fundamentals
Many organisations worry about how they might hold up in the face of a real cybersecurity incident.
Stop worrying and start planning! Get pragmatic advice on how to effectively response to cybersecurity incidents from a cybersecurity expert.
Other Courses:
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Creating actionable digital strategy and aligning it with business outcomes
Building personal leadership and emotional intelligence
Leading teams and resolving dysfunction
Navigating ethical leadership, AI, and digital governance
Making the case for digital investment with financial acumen
Influencing stakeholders, managing change, and working at the board level
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Real-world leadership tools and strategic frameworks
Confidence to engage executives and influence outcomes
A peer cohort that lasts beyond the course
Project experience presented to a mock board
Deep insight into governance, AI, ethics, and the evolving workforce
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This Masterclass is for digital professionals ready to grow into leadership, regardless of your job title. You might be a team lead, senior developer, business analyst, service manager, or advisor. If you're ready to step beyond the day-to-day and shape the future of your organisation’s digital capability — this is for you.
Confidently lead digital strategy, people, and change — without needing to be in the C-suite.
Step into leadership with the skills and mindset today’s digital world demands. This high-impact Masterclass is built for professionals who want to lead with influence — whether managing people, strategy, or digital transformation. Delivered in short, sharp weekly modules, you’ll gain strategic clarity, practical tools, and the support of a national peer cohort.
Now in its third year, this course blends governance, leadership, ethics, and innovation into one transformative experience.
About the Instructors
Simon Lloyd-Evans – Consulting CIO with 30+ years’ experience across public and private sectors.
Cherri Holland – Executive coach and leadership strategist with a passion for people-powered change.
Ferdinand Hagethorn – Global cybersecurity consultant known for pragmatic, risk-based approaches.
Murray Wills – Governance expert and ISO standards contributor, specialising in digital oversight.
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Creating actionable digital strategy and aligning it with business outcomes
Building personal leadership and emotional intelligence
Leading teams and resolving dysfunction
Navigating ethical leadership, AI, and digital governance
Making the case for digital investment with financial acumen
Influencing stakeholders, managing change, and working at the board level
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Tools for Increased personal and/or department power to make things happen and get things done!
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This course is to upskill in positively influencing those who don’t report directly to you. For help with those who report to you, choose the People Management Made Easy course. Critical Influencing Skills covers techniques to positively influence colleagues, your manager, C-Suite, board, customers and/or suppliers.
“I have already had measurable success using strategies learned on your DTLM lectures - thank you!”
Cut Through the Noise: Influence with Impact!
Need to get things done through others but feel like you are trying to sprint through treacle? In a fast-paced world, attention spans are shorter and demands are greater than ever – you need quick cut through to win support and make visible progress to demonstrate effectiveness and impact.
Cherri Holland has worked with leaders and service teams from hundreds of client organisations across most sectors in 10 countries, improving their leadership, influence and impact, especially the ‘non sales’ selling skills of technology experts. Cherri provides practical insights and skills to get better results when technology experts rely on the decision making of fellow executives and boards to deliver key outcomes. She has run short courses through IT Professionals NZ since 2013 and is a Fellow at the Institute for Digital Transformation. Cherri authored Influencing 101 and was a contributing author to Digital Transformation Demystified.
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Leading vs managing: the difference and why it matters
Getting people engaged: stimulating internal motivation and self-drive
Agreeing deliverables and results
Monitoring performance (including feedback that motivates)
Reviews that encourage continuous improvement
On-job development: expanding capability
Selecting for high performance
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Easier ways to engage people and get results, with everyone working better and enjoying it more. Participants make immediate (even dramatic) changes in their approach to manage with less stress and better results.
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TThe course is to upskill in positively influencing those who report directly to you. If you wonder if you are getting the best from the people in your team, this course will make a significant difference and lighten your load.
“I really found the course interesting personally and the thinking that you inspired is applied daily.”
Get Things Done Through People – Without the Stress
Managers are often frustrated that things are not getting done in the right way or at the right time, and they are unsure how to correct this. Some are even reluctant to give feedback.
Get people management right with quick and easy ways to engage, inspire and ensure people do what’s needed from their role.
Cherri Holland has worked with leaders and service teams from hundreds of client organisations across most sectors in 10 countries, improving their leadership, influence and impact, especially the ‘non sales’ selling skills of technology experts. Cherri provides practical insights and skills to get better results when technology experts rely on the decision making of fellow executives and boards to deliver key outcomes. She has run short courses through IT Professionals NZ since 2013 and is a Fellow at the Institute for Digital Transformation. Cherri authored Influencing 101 and was a contributing author to Digital Transformation Demystified.