About Us

We love what we do! Our passion is about stimulating change and transformation in the hearts and minds of our students.

Our broad experience and expertise comes from many years in teaching and curriculum development, teacher education, executive and professional training programs for government officials, study abroad and international student recruitment and relations.

Global Engagements innovative and unique education model brings together the best that New Zealand educationalists, industry leaders, professors and practitioners can offer for each study tour using our experiential-based model of delivery, engagement and development for visiting student groups.

The founder of Global Engagement, Jan, began designing and hosting international university study abroad programs in 2005. The team shares the same values and mindset of global engagement and excellence in delivering life-changing programs.

Meet the team

Emeritus Associate Jan Fitz-Gerald

Founder and Chief Executive

Jan is responsible for program design and development.

Kururangi Johnston (Ngāti Porou)

Accompanying tutor for cultural anthropology, Māori immersion and understanding

We are delighted to have Kururangi join the team as an accompanying tutor,

Laurel Bright

Program Support, Australia (Agriculture)

Laurel is based in Brisbane, has a great passion for agriculture and strong background in education,

Sari Oswald

Program Logistics

Originally from Finland, Sari proudly adopted New Zealand as her home in the early 90s,

Our guest presenters

We engage many local guest presenters, professors, tutors, researchers, experts and industry and professional leaders from throughout the country for each tour.

Our program support

A Global Engagement representative can accompany a group when in-country.