CDANZ provides access to a range of informative events and webinars designed to engage and assist our members in their work.  Here are examples of some of our recent opportunities.

08/12/2022 Global Careers Month: Mānawatia a Matariki

02/12/2022 Global Careers Month:How to build a culturally responsive career practice: Exploring the lived experience of Pacific youth in shaping their career.

01/12/2022 Global Careers Month:Working with Pacific migrants “How adopting a model with cultural significance with your clients can lead to career success”. – Tertiary Education Commission

30/11/2022 Diversity Sessions: Healing loneliness through workplace inclusion

30/11/2022 Global Careers Month:Saili Malo Careers Resources: Level Up! Prepare for your Future.

28/11/2022 Global Careers Month:Journeys of growth – The career progression of Cook Islands women in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Utilising the Tivaevae research methodology

17/11/2022 Global Careers Month:Why Do I Need A Career Professional

15/11/2022 Global Careers Month: CAREER DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE

26/10/2022 DIVERSITY SESSION: EMPOWERING ALLIES AT THE FRONTLINE (CDANZ)

20/10/2022 The Future Interrupted: CareerX/Voc Rehab & Career Development Now and Beyond

29/09/2022 Motivation at Work: Helping Your Clients to Develop Energy and Enthusiasm

28/09/2022 Diversity Sessions: Reimaging binary workplaces

26/09/2022 Mental Health Awareness Week

24/08/2022 Diversity Sessions: Fixing the Career Ladder’s Broken Rung

11/08/2022 Exploring the lived experience of Pacific youth in shaping their career

27/07/202 DIVERSITY SESSIONS: BEATING BURNOUT

13/07/2022 Intro to Neurodiversity with DivergenThinking

08/07/2022 MH101®

05/07/2022 AGM 2022

29/06/2022 Matariki Kōrero and Kai by the fire with CDANZ.

22/06/2022 DIVERSITY SESSIONS: ARE YOU READY FOR THE INCLUSIVE CONSUMER?

20/06/2022 Workshop 3, Culture & Diversity: A world between worlds: Diversity, inclusion and equity, Professor Edwina Pio

25/05/2022 Meet the future How employers gain from helping young people

17/05/2022 PSYCHOLOGY WEEK - FREE to attend! Terrie Moffitt: Improving the mental health of young people to keep them healthy in old age

12/05/2022 Workshop 2, Culture & Diversity: BrownTale: “The Power of the Collective”, Peter Apulu,

27/04/2022 Suzy Keene - Senior Training Adviser at the University of Otago

07/04/2022 CDANZ Online Career Series - Session with Yolanda Li

07/04/2022 Otago/Southland branch: 2nd Lunch and Careers Chat workshop with Dean Delaney, Director Platinum Recruitment,

28/03/2022 Working from Home: Before, During and After Covid-19.

23/03/2022 Rainbow 101. Practical, down to earth knowledge about what Rainbow is, what it all means, and how to respectfully and confidently interact with a rainbow person of any identity

23/03/2022 CDANZ Online Career Series - Session with Tom O'Neil

16/03/2022 WEBINAR: ELMO Software’s Insights Exchange (New Zealand)

08/03/2022 Using Holland Typology to Quickly Assess Career Personality(APCDA)

14/01/2022 Webinars: Employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccination requirements

11/01/2022 Webinars: Employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccination requirements


CDANZ Annual Conferences

The CDANZ Conference is an opportunity to look up from your work to engage with peers from across the country and
bright minds from overseas, to build your networks, share and exchange knowledge, challenge your thinking, catch up
on the latest research, and gain practical tools and insights you can incorporate into your own practice.

  • 2016: Out value. Our Voice
  • 2017: Aspiration and Possibility
  • 2018: Social Justice
  • 2019: Today and Tomorrow 
  • New Zealand Occupational Rehabilitation Conference 2020
  • Future Interrupted! CareerX and the New Zealand Occupational Rehabilitation Conference (NZORC) returns as a two-day online event on Thursday & Friday, 20-21 October 2022

2023 Career Development Association of New Zealand
International Career Conference 11 – 13 October 2023
Auckland, New Zealand