September 2025

Accelerate Roadshows

Thanks to our Platinum Partners

Join us in September …

We’re on the road again in September to bring you the latest updates, innovations, and strategies to help drive your business forward.

After an incredibly busy first half of the year for our network we’re excited to reconnect, celebrate our collective success, and share what’s next. These events are your chance to catch up with the adviser community, stay informed on key developments, and hear how we’re evolving our support for your business and your clients.

You’ll also hear from the fabulous and “refreshingly direct” Lisa O’Neill, our keynote speaker, who will be bringing the energy and motivation to transform how you think, work, and show up.

Check out our full agenda and register below—we can’t wait to see you there and share fresh insights and inspiration to accelerate your business success.

Baden Martin
CEO, NZFSG

Registrations now closed

contact [email protected] for any late registrations

Christchurch, 2 Sep

Novotel Christchurch Airport, 30 Durey Road, Christchurch

Parking info

Time: 12.00pm - Registration and light lunch for a 1.00pm start. 

Networking and Refreshments from 5.00pm.

Wellington, 3 Sep

Lower Hutt Events Centre, 30c Laings Road, Lower Hutt 

Time: 12.00pm - Registration and light lunch for a 1.00pm start. 

Networking and Refreshments from 5.00pm.

Hamilton, 5 Sep

Novotel Hamilton Tainui, 7 Alma Street, Hamilton Central

Parking Info

Time: 12.00pm - Registration and light lunch for a 1.00pm start. 

Networking and Refreshments from 4.00pm.

Auckland, 4 Sep

Ellerslie Event Centre, 100 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland

Parking info

Time: 12.00pm - Registration and light lunch for a 1.00pm start. 

Networking and Refreshments from 5.00pm.

Agenda

  • Make sure you arrive early to allow plenty of time to catch up with the team, your peers and business partners over lunch before the main session commences.

  • The leadership team will share the latest in support, innovation in tech and our insurance proposition.

    Baden Martin, CEO, NZFSG

    Nicole Ferguson, National Director, Loan Market

    Gavin Neal, Head of Insurance Distribution, NZFSG

  • Trecia Brown, Head of Customer Outcomes, will share the latest on our evolving Advice Assurance Framework. She’ll highlight how we’re helping advisers stay ahead of the curve, along with our collective progress across key initiatives—including compliance reviews, MyInduction, and Go for Green.

  • Politics and economics feel more uncertain than ever.  We are met with daily headlines of calamity and the global trading system is going through transformational change yet stock markets keep breaking new records. 

    Rupert will unpack what’s happening in the global economy and what it means for markets, and most importantly, what it means for your clients KiwiSaver balances.


    Rupert Carlyon, Director, Koura

  • Avanti, First Mortgage Trust, nib and Prospa will tackle the hot topics facing advisers today and share key initiatives they’re rolling out to better support your clients.

  • Ashish Sharma, Key Partnership Manager, Tower

  • We explore how agentic AI is reshaping the mortgage advisory landscape—shifting from passive data tools to intelligent systems capable of autonomous action.

    We’ll examine how this evolution, when combined with rich property data, will enable mortgage professionals to work faster, think smarter, and engage clients in a more dynamic and impactful way.

    Taran Wiseman, Principal, Client Director, Cotality

  • Join us to celebrate the dedication of our long-standing members and recognise advisers who’ve gone above and beyond to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

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Note: Lisa will be speaking in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland only. Therefore, our Hamilton event will wrap up an hour earlier for networking and drinks at 4pm

Keynote speaker:

For over two decades, Lisa O'Neill has been electrifying audiences with her unique ability to deliver profound messages through side-splitting humour.

After watching countless people struggle with energy, leadership and personal growth, Lisa discovered that transformation happens when hard truths are delivered with lightness and laughter.

She's authored seven books, spoken to audiences of 5000+, and works with major organisations like Ray White, Foodstuffs and L'Oreal.

With infectious energy and practical wisdom, Lisa helps people and organisations get out of their own way to create magnificent lives and exceptional results.