Our Mission
We help people and organisations flourish
We help create the conditions where people and organisations flourish — by growing workplace clarity, competency and collaboration.
We work in partnership, tailoring learning conditions and content to your people, your context and your goals. We believe learning is most powerful when it’s practical, relational and relevant to the work people do.
We love seeing the impact — for them, their team, their customers and their organisation.
Some might call that flourishing. We do.
NZ owned and operated.
Founded by Lisa Mandic, Equip Learning is proudly NZ owned and operated — even if Lisa did arrive here via Australia. 🦘
Lisa’s consulting and training work through Activate Management spanned nearly 20 years. Equip Learning was established in 2021 to give the learning and development side of that work its own dedicated focus and identity.
The wider Equip team brings deep experience across Aotearoa and a comprehensive understanding of what makes NZ workplaces tick.
Our Clients.
Lisa and the Equip team have worked with a wide range of organisations across Aotearoa over nearly 30 years — through both Activate Management and Equip Learning. Here are some of the wonderful organisations we’ve had the pleasure of working with along the way:
MTA | Dairy Goat Cooperative | Fisher & Paykel | Fisher & Paykel Healthcare | Dominion Construction | 22 Degrees | Auckland Heat Pumps Ltd | Cushman & Wakefield | MOTAT | Ergo Consulting Ltd | Fidelity Life | Massey University | Hauora Whanui | IMG Ltd | Churchill Hospital | IGENZ | CoSell Ltd | Institute of Management New Zealand | Rosebank Business Association | Komatsu | Insight Online | Cospak | Lynch Phibbs | Skills Group | McLarens Young | Muriwhenua Collective | Altex Coatings Limited | Pool Magic | Red Badge Group | Sysmex NZ | Te Hauora O Te Hiku O Te Ika | Winstone Aggregates | Employers & Manufacturers Association | NZ Strong | OPUS | Mitchell Vranjes Structural Engineers | Construction Cost Consultants | Sika (NZ) Ltd | DHL Global | DHL Express | Tamaki Health | Radius Care | Counties Manukau DHB | Waitemata DHB | Kids After School | and many more…
“We choose to deal with Lisa and Equip as over the years (and many training sessions) they have consistently delivered excellent value for money.
It is apparent that Lisa has a wide and diverse knowledge and that important ability to be able to connect with people. Additionally, Lisa has always been very generous and accommodating with her time and resources: whether it be the initial meeting to discuss my teams’ training needs and distilling those conversations into a customised course, to following up post training and having a touch base session with participants to see how they are progressing.
In recent times Equip have been a great help with improving our training we deliver to customers. We are a software company and while we are very knowledgeable on our product, we are not professional trainers. The Train the Trainer course provided us with very valuable information, tools and tips for delivering training. And even better, we received very positive feedback from our customers after incorporating this learning into our courses.”
“Financial literacy is really important for our people—both those who work with numbers, like QSs, and those responsible for financial results. The training has definitely improved awareness, sparked great questions, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
People are getting a lot out of it—it pulls together the many different pieces of finance in a way that makes sense, helping them see how everything connects. An unexpected bonus is the increased appreciation for what our finance team does, and how each person’s role impacts the wider business. We’ve seen improved compliance as a result.
Working with Equip is easy—they’re flexible, open, and great at tailoring the programme to suit our industry and business. I really enjoy working with them.”
“Equip consistently design and deliver excellent training – our members love them! They learn practical business skills that work, from facilitators who understand them, their industry and their business.
Working with Equip is great – they’re flexible, professional, and nothing is ever too much trouble. They fit in with what we need and provide real value. It’s more than a service – it’s a partnership.”
We had identified that our managers needed training as we were having issues with delegation of work, team engagement and core leadership skills such as emotional intelligence. I reached out to Lisa as I had previously attended a course that was facilitated by her and had really enjoyed her training style and hands on approach. Lisa was very accommodating and came up with a tailored solution for our business.
The workshop style course was a great mix of theory and practical activities which really helped our team to understand and apply the concepts that were taught.
We received very positive feedback from the team and we can see the difference in our managers post training. They have actively been applying the skills and have been pleased to add a few techniques to their ‘toolbelt’ especially around self leadership.
I would definitely recommend Lisa to anyone who wants a hands-on approach to training!
