Germinate Aotearoa

Meaningful learning design for an ever-changing world

We work with you to create learning experiences that are educationally-robust, highly engaging, and tailored to your needs. This will grow your people’s skills and enhance their lives.

We’re experts in designing robust solutions, which lead to engaged and enthusiastic learners. These solutions will always be tailored to your needs and those of the learners; no cookie-cutters from us.

When you need technology that enhances learning, or you want a programme designed to lift achievement in your people, get in touch.

Making Aotearoa a better place to learn

He aha te mea nui?
Māku e kii atu, he tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata.

– Māori whakataukī (proverb)

“What is the most important thing in the world? Well, let me tell you, it is people, it is people, it is people.”

Germinate Aotearoa was formed in 2020 in response to a need for creative, engaging, and inspiring learning resources underpinned by robust educational thinking.

Since then we’ve worked with businesses and institutions that share our enthusiasm for exceptional learning experiences.

Our services

Learning technology implementation

The best learning resources in the world are worth nothing if you can’t get them into the hands of the people who need them.

Our consultants work with you to understand your specific needs and challenges and then identify, recommend, and configure learning technologies to meet your requirements. Learning technologies are the tools and systems used to develop, deploy and support learning.

Learning resource development

Need high-quality, engaging, educationally-robust teaching, learning, and assessment resources for your people?

We can help!

Our learning designers are experts at designing activities that lead to deep understanding and skill development. The resources we create ensure these activities lead to achievement of the learning outcomes.

Learning programme design

Ensure your training, education, or behaviour-change project achieves its objectives by leveraging our mātauranga (wisdom) developed over decades in people-focused roles.

Our consultants partner with you to design the learning outcomes, programme structure, and support mechanisms, and we provide project oversight.

We design programmes that consistently meet NZQA’s requirements.

The total package

Need all of these services?

Engage us as your (almost) in-house learning design team. We’ll administer your learning management system (LMS) – or if you prefer we can use ours – design your learning programmes, and develop the resources needed for these to be successful.

We’ll put the most suitable team members onto each task, so you benefit from having a whole team of experts on-hand when you need them.

Our clients

“Germinate has provided learning design and qualification development expertise to Transpower for a number of years. We have found the Germinate team to be professional, effective collaborators. Working from a strong pedagogical foundation that aligns with Transpower’s, they brought a commitment to excellence, skills, and meticulous attention to detail which contributed to the successful outcomes of the projects they were involved in.”

– Marie Henry, Design & Development Manager

“We have engaged Germinate Aotearoa on several projects including programme design and content development work within the horticulture and business space. The team are excellent to work with – very thorough, knowledgeable and produce high-quality work. Chris and his team have a clear understanding of learning design and the principles that underpin engaging learning, particularly for NZMA’s customer base. They are flexible, collaborative and have definitely contributed to the success of NZMA’s online products.”

– Kirstin Brown, Head of Products & Innovation

“We trust the team at Germinate Aotearoa to provide timely solutions to some of the challenges our business faces, such is our relationship that we see them as an extension of our internal team. We have utilised their expertise on some of our most critical initiatives. We have developed a great partnership and have confidence in their ability to adapt to whatever we need, when we need it.”

– Lindsay Robertson, Training & Technology Solutions Manager

Get in touch anytime

Think our mix of skills and capability will create a solution for your next project, and our values align with yours? Then get in touch and let’s kōrero (talk)!

Our team will get back to you to arrange a one-hour exploratory session. This is free and will help us to get a sense of what you’d like to do and how we can help.

There are no expectations of commitment following this session. If we come away with a win-win approach we can proceed. In that case, we’ll draw up a proposal for you to check, which we’ll then sign-off on and get to work.