Members

Rod McDonald - Te Awanga Estate

14 December 2024
What do you do?

I'm a winemaker no longer on the tools. I lead an integrated wine business growing, making, marketing and selling our wines to people in NZ and around the world who are curious about what NZ tastes like....or who already know and want some more!

What Collective Intelligence team you are in?

Shambhala

How would you describe Collective Intelligence?

An irreplaceable forum to reflect on my own performance and a unique opportunity to regularly reflect on our everyday business from a fresh perspective. A perspective provided by my team-members being intelligent, curious, experienced, diverse and having my complete trust.

Key takeaways from being involved as a member?

I continue to be amazed by the power of working collectively to consider, frame, investigate and reflect back regarding questions and challenges posed by individual team members. It has been an immense part of my own professional and personal development of skills to understand what our business challenges actually are and how often I am at the centre of them, being human.