Institute of Organisational Psychology Symposium & ANZOPOB 2026

The Institute of Organisational Psychology Symposium and ANZOPOB 2026 is a two-day organisational-psychology gathering held at Massey University's Albany campus in Auckland on 19-20 November 2026. ANZOPOB stands for the Aotearoa New Zealand Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour Conference, now in its 15th edition, and in 2026 it is paired with a practitioner-focused symposium run by the Institute of Organisational Psychology.

The programme is split cleanly across the two days. Thursday 19 November is the Practitioner Symposium: applied psychologists and consultants share real-world insights through case studies, 30-minute applied talks, 60- and 90-minute interactive workshops, and 5-minute lightning talks. Friday 20 November is the academic ANZOPOB conference, a full day of peer-reviewed presentations on research, theory and practice in organisational psychology, organisational behaviour and management. Each day starts at 9am with welcome, networking and refreshments and closes around 5pm, with a networking event on the Friday.

Who runs it

The conference is hosted by the School of Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. The Practitioner Symposium day is delivered in partnership with the Institute of Organisational Psychology (IOP), which is one of the institutes of the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS) and a member of the international Alliance for Organisational Psychology. The named organising team is Michelle Lee, Stuart Carr, John Eatwell and Joel Majer; Joel Majer also chairs the IOP. ANZOPOB is a long-running series, with prior editions hosted at institutions including the University of Auckland and AUT.

Who it's for

The event targets three overlapping audiences: academic organisational psychologists, postgraduate students, and practising consultants and applied psychologists working in workplace behaviour, leadership, culture, performance and wellbeing. Day 1 leans practitioner; Day 2 is research-led and peer-reviewed, with presenters also expected to blind-review other abstracts. Abstract submission ran through EasyChair with a 4 September 2026 deadline and acceptance notifications on 9 October 2026.

The venue

Sessions are held in the Sir Neil Waters (SNW) Building at Massey University's Albany campus, Dairy Flat Highway (SH17), Albany, Auckland 0632. For context on delegate movement: the Albany campus sits on Auckland's North Shore, off the Northern Motorway (SH1) corridor, and the adjacent Albany bus station is the northern terminus of Auckland's Northern Busway park-and-ride network, giving a direct public-transport link toward the city centre and Takapuna. Accommodation options cluster in the wider Albany and North Shore area, with central Auckland hotels a motorway drive south. Catering is included across both conference days.

Why it matters for NZ MICE

This is a repeat, association-and-academic conference with a stable institutional backbone (Massey plus the NZ Psychological Society's IOP), the kind of recurring professional-body business event that underpins mid-week demand on Auckland's North Shore rather than the CBD. Its split practitioner/academic format and included catering point to a classic campus-hosted conference footprint, and its longevity (15 editions) signals a reliable annual fixture for the organisational-psychology sector in Aotearoa.