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Emily Makere Broadmore

Combining political strategy with with creative intelligence.

Emily Makere Broadmore is a novelist, publisher, and creative intelligence practitioner based in Wellington, New Zealand.

No one else in the room has the full set: a former political adviser to New Zealand Government Ministers, founder of a nationwide strategic communications consultancy, the provocateur behind the fastest-selling new literary journal in Australasia, a Penguin novelist, and an engagement partner to the NZ AI Forum for the creative industries.

Politics taught her how language moves people. Publishing taught her what's worth saying. AI taught her what only humans can still do.

She is, by her own description, politically alert, editorially experienced, and unafraid of discomfort - because provocation is an art form - and one that marks the beginning of change.

Emily works internationally as a speaker, facilitator, and advisor in creativity, workforce transformation and provocation.

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What I do

Beyond Logic Advisory

Helping organisations move their people from AI hesitant to AI fluent, redesigning roles along the way. Workforce planning, role redesign, board-level strategy.

The why before the how.

I am on the Creative Industries Working Group for the NZ AI Forum, and wrote AI for Communicators

Keynotes & Presentations

I speak on creative intelligence, AI and workforce transformation, and the art of provocation.

Across boards, leadership teams, literary festivals and conferences, I support a new way of thinking - one focused on entertaining and provoking grounded in my background as a strategist.

Cultural Curation

I curate cultural moments and enable bold new voices, because someone has to set the scene for change. I built Folly Press and the Wellington Writers' Studio, New Zealand's first co-working space for writers, to innovate and enable our artistic communities.

Through this work, I partner with people and organisations who desire to innovate.

Writer & Author

My commentary and opinion editorials are published by Stuff, NZ Herald, The Post and Newsroom.

My fiction explores power and the people inside it, and my nonfiction is about society and politics. My debut novel, drawing from my time working in parliament advising government, will be released by Penguin Random House in 2027.

“Emily’s facilitation is dynamic, interactive, and incredibly well-paced — but what sets her apart, is her depth of understanding around people dynamics and the inclusive approach.”

— Patrice de Marigny Chair, Apex
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