Interviews with the best in Leadership, Technology, Welllness & more
Dave Letele (AKA, Brown Buttabean) is a walking, talking powerhouse of motivation and inspiration. Having himself lost over 100kg through good nutrition and exercise, he dedicates his time to helping others do the same by teaching them how to live the BBM lifestyle – Brain, Body, Movement. Since 2014, The BBM Program has been focused […]
Few people have had the breadth of experience in the SME and startup space like Andy Hamilton has over the last couple of decades. As the former CEO of The Icehouse (now a Director of its investment arm, Icehouse Ventures), Andy Hamilton’s work has helped a vast number of New Zealand businesses survive, adapt and […]
After studying Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Massey University, Jasnish worked in the gas, petroleum, pipelines and project estimation industries and even had a stint at a goldmine in Papua New Guinea. But the property bug kept getting bigger and bigger for Jasnish and so after years of buying andf holding property he leaped […]
Ira Munn is Founder and CEO of Ierospace Industries International, where the team is developing electric efficiency technologies and 3D printed electric vehicle kits using recycled plastics. Incubating at Accelerating Aotearoa’s We o Tara STEM Learning Centre in Otara, Auckland. Ierospace merged with Los Angeles-based technology company R.E.P.S. Inc. after the BMWi/TED Next Visionaries talk […]
After spending a number of years in the financial services industry, Dean realised that investment options needed to improve in order to put Kiwis back in control of their financial future. Taking a fresh approach to the investment sector, he created Kernel – a fully digital index fund manager and investment platform. On the back […]
Dr. Hannah Wells juggles life as a medical researcher in the field of biotech engineering and a champion triathlete. Hannah shares with us her lockdown routine, how she juggles both lives and her tips for staying focused and disciplined in any situation. Watch More Videos
Innovator, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Barnes has made a career of market-changing innovation and industry digitisation. Most recently, in New Zealand, Andrew triggered a revolution of the entire fiduciary and legal services industries, and the transformation he has led as the founder of Perpetual Guardian has positive implications both locally and globally as evidenced by […]
Stew Darling is a former British army official who led covert operations in deadly wars around the world for 15 years without losing a single soldier/army staff on his watch. He went onto beat a 30 year alcohol addiction and embark on entrepreneurship to coach leaders, with clients including but not limited to Bank of […]
Mark Collins has competed as part of the NZ Cooking Team at the Hotel Olympia in London and has run several multi-million dollar food service, hospitality and food manufacturing businesses; the largest of which turned over $20m a year and employed over 230 staff. Not only now is he a business process consultant, but he […]
Dan Heyworth is co-founder and director at Box, a combined registered architectural practice and registered master builder that is not only changing the approach to building and design, but the focus in terms of creating homes, that people are going to love living in, as opposed to prioritizing industry awards. It’s this customer-first approach that […]
Danu founded RUSH Digital in 2010 and has led its technology teams in developing world-first solutions for global companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Google, Samsung and Nokia. He’s overseen and been hands-on involved in the design, development and deployment of numerous software and hardware projects across a wide range of platforms and disciplines. Not only […]
Theresa Gattung needs no introduction, but for the sake of consistency we will mention a few of her many achievements. Theresa first hit the public spotlight in a big way when she became CEO of Telecom in 1999, making her the first female CEO of a large public company in New Zealand. Since then she […]
John Cleghorn is a Founding Partner of Prime Strategies Group. Prime focuses on business excellence in the Small to Medium (SME) business market. Their ethos is to help SME owners make their respective businesses operate better, become successful and put their lives back on track. Getting good advice and some outside perspective is important, even […]
I was so pleased when I learnt that Lee Child (Jim Grant) had been made redundant back in the mid 1990’s from his television programming job. Because I really didn’t want ask silly questions like ‘what are your influences?’ and ‘who do you read?’ After the big blow of being made redundant, Grant took a […]
