The pathway forward

Māori Cultural Competency Survey

Measuring confidence in Māori cultural competency across New Zealand organisations.

This co-created survey is appropriate for all organisations, both public and private, implementing their own Māori cultural capability strategy.

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Māori cultural competency survey

Māori Cultural Competency Survey

A proven framework for understanding the Māori cultural competency within your organisation

For organisations who want to champion cultural competency and cultural intelligence across their teams, it makes sense to begin with an understanding of your current starting point.


Presenting results and identifying key areas of focus, based on core evidence from survey results.

Overlaying survey priority areas with organisational context to identify areas for further action or deeper analysis.

Maurea can help your organisation measure the progress of key initiatives and involve your people to gain further feedback and ideas to improve organisational performance.

Core Competencies

Our bespoke survey measures the six core competencies of the Māori crown relations capability framework

  1. Understanding racial equity and institutional racism
  2. New Zealand history and the Treaty of Waitangi
  3. Worldview knowledge
  4. Tikanga/Kawa
  5. Te reo Māori
  6. Engagement with Māori (partnerships/external)

How to use our survey

Our Māori Cultural Competency Survey is designed to assist organisations in measuring staff confidence in Māori cultural skills. The intention is that this survey be used for all organisations, both public and private, who are implementing their own Māori cultural capability strategy. By utilising the Māori Crown Relations Capability Framework, organisations can clearly identify core areas of high confidence or low confidence and then use this information to either build a capability plan or to measure their journey from point A to point B.

Discover our services

Maurea’s Services

We offer a range of services; each designed to support the understanding and application of Māori culture.

All our training programmes are designed to be approachable and inclusive. Led by our acclaimed Te Kaa programme, we offer a range of options.

Designed to assist organisations in all things Māori – including organisational transformation, strategy development, branding, public speaking engagements, cultural advisory services and more.

We have a number of translators, including our lead who has been through the rigorous process of becoming Toi Reo Māori Accredited, meaning you can have absolute confidence in the accuracy of our translation services. We can translate either into Te Reo Māori, or from Te Reo Māori.

We partner with organisations that support our vision to see Māori culture drive Aotearoa forward.