George Makapatama

MPP & MBA | Co-founder, FakaFekauaga Catalyst | Fakafekauaga Village Philosophy Pioneer | Government, Community & Social Innovation Leader | Adaptive Leadership Expert

George Makapatama leads from a philosophy that most leadership programmes have never encountered: Fakafekauaga, a Pacific tradition of servantship in which the deepest form of leadership is radical, unconditional commitment to those you serve. As co-founder of FakaFekauaga Catalyst, he has built a village philosophy framework for transforming how organisations think about governance, culture, and collective impact, drawing on Pacific wisdom traditions that predate most contemporary leadership theory by generations.

With an MPP and MBA and experience spanning government, community, and social innovation, he understands the structural dimensions of change as well as the relational ones. He has led across sectors that rarely talk to each other and built connections across communities with genuinely different needs and worldviews, which gives him a kind of cross-sectoral fluency that is rare.

What he brings to the MCOR programme is a perspective that fundamentally reshapes how learners understand what leadership is for. Not performance, not position, but deep, sustained commitment to the flourishing of those you lead.