Join us for a one-night-only LIVE recording of Disrupting Disasters podcast🎙️🌏
Kamal Kishore, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), joins Elizabeth McNaughton for a special episode of Disrupting Disasters at the Southern Cross.
From global policy to grassroots resilience, they will dive into what it really takes to lead through crisis in a fast-changing world.
Come for the wisdom, stay for the company (and delicious snacks).
This is a limited invitation event for 30 guests only, so reserve your space now.
Date: 8 September 2025
Time: 4pm
Where: Southern Cross Garden Bar, Wellington
This is a LIVE podcast recording event. Here's everything you need to know!
Date: Monday 8 September 2025
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Southern Cross Bar Restaurant
9 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
Limited to 30 participants.
Doors open at 4:00pm, and the recording will begin at 4:30pm, so please be seated by then.
After the interview, the mic opens to you, the audience, for questions, kōrero, and maybe a curly one or two.
Light snacks will be provided. Drinks available for purchase.
This is a podcast about doing disasters differently. It's for people involved in disaster recovery, emergency management, crisis leadership, or for anyone interested in what we can learn together to disrupt disaster.
🎙️ Listen now at disastrous.co or wherever you get your podcasts.
Elizabeth McNaughton is Founder and CEO of Disastrous, an education and training company that helps leaders and teams navigate disaster & disruption.
Her career, leading multi-million-dollar recovery programs for New Zealand Red Cross and her work on the Canterbury earthquakes, brings valuable insights to the masterclass.
She has also worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Elizabeth’s expertise is recognised through various accolades, including being a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a co-author of “Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos.”
Kamal Kishore is the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr. Kishore brings to this position nearly three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development at the global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in government, the United Nations and civil society organizations.
Elizabeth McNaughton is Founder and CEO of Disastrous, an education and training company that helps leaders and teams navigate disaster & disruption.
Her career, leading multi-million-dollar recovery programs for New Zealand Red Cross and her work on the Canterbury earthquakes, brings valuable insights to the masterclass.
She has also worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Elizabeth’s expertise is recognised through various accolades, including being a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a co-author of “Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos.”
Kamal Kishore is the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr. Kishore brings to this position nearly three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development at the global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in government, the United Nations and civil society organizations.
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