Jacinda Ardern
speaker
169 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 13 Apr
Jacinda Ardern’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can lead just like me.
You know, after I left office, I never particularly saw myself moving into the space of talking about leadership. I thought there are people who have studied this. It's their life's work. You know, just because I've been a leader doesn't mean I'm an expert in it.
But when I sat down and worked through what would have made a difference for me as a leader, having that network of others who understand what it is to be in politics and to be leading empathetically and with a particular view of leadership, it would have made a real difference to me to have a network of others who are doing the same. And
I know, as I've talked about, that there are leaders out there who are leading in that way and may benefit from having that network. And so I started Field. It's a year-long fellowship program for people who are working in and around politics who believe in empathetic leadership. to just support them in their endeavors, just provide that network to help them keep going.
And also to demonstrate that it is a successful way to lead and that there is support for that way to lead from voters, from the public, for the people that we serve.
I remember feeling that after I read it aloud several times. That probably sounds like a really strange thing to do. I think every author should. I read it aloud several times probably because, you know, I'm not an author. I considered myself a speechwriter. I would write all my major speeches.
Shocking as I know that will be for people. And so my training, I think, was speech writing. And so I would always read a speech aloud. And so I thought, I'm going to do that with the book. I read it aloud several times. It was after I recorded the audio book. that I remember standing back from it and thinking, you know, that is the best that I could have done.
And I think actually that's how I felt after I left office. I did my best. And I think when you're someone who does suffer from a confidence gap, that in itself is actually a pretty significant achievement to say, actually, I know I did my best.
And please come back to New Zealand. There's a lot of people wanting to hike with you.
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