Your Trusted Partner for Business Success

At the Employers & Manufacturers Association (EMA), our mission is to arm Kiwi businesses with the knowledge and connections they need to be successful. Whether its ticking off HR tasks, developing health and safety processes, launching new initiatives or upskilling staff, the EMA team is here to provide solutions that make running your business easier.

Because leadership grows

Cultivating Leadership supports leaders in organisations of all sizes, here in Aotearoa and around the world, to have the tools and mindsets needed to lead in an increasingly complex landscape to both serve the purpose of the organisation and the wellbeing of their people and our planet.

Strategy That Gets You Unstuck and Moving Forwards as One.

We help leadership teams get unstuck, cut through the noise and build business resiliency for times of uncertainty. We co-create adaptive strategies and adaptive systems to empower and align people and purpose, tuning strategy into action and action into real-world commercial performance.

One smart system for sorting all your payroll and people admin.

From setting up new employees, to managing all their information, to sorting their pay and timesheets, Smartly lets you do it all in one place, cutting down your workload and freeing up your headspace.

Business Support that works for you.

Business Central makes doing business easier with essential support services. Through on-hand Employment Relations advice, expert consultancy, advocacy, professional training and more, we help businesses of every size go further.

The Extraordinary benefits platform

Our smart employee card and intuitive platform make it easy to deliver meaningful, tax-compliant perks – like public transport, allowances, rewards, and gifting – without the admin. No more reimbursements, invoices, or gift card breakage. Just real-time, flexible payments that employees actually use.

High performing people, high impact culture.

Your Outsourced Performance Partner. We’re not your full-time employees, but we’re 100% part of your team and 100% accountable. From Chief People Officer to leadership support to employment relations – you’ve got enough hats, we give you extra heads

We help organisations unlock their full potential by transforming wellbeing into a strategic advantage, building resilient teams, empowered leaders, and workplaces where success is the standard.

Being a ‘Best Place to Work’ means creating more than just a great job. It’s about building a workplace where people feel seen, supported, and inspired to grow. We help you create that culture, where wellbeing fuels performance, and every person knows they matter. Because when people feel unstoppable, your business becomes unstoppable too.

Empowering organisations to access the innovative potential of dyslexic individuals.

Unlock Innovation helps organisations ignite creativity, solve complex problems, and build cultures of innovation. Through interactive programs and tools, we empower leaders and teams to unlock their full potential and achieve meaningful business impact.