I am co-founder of Whakawhitinga, a consulting partnership anchored in Māori values designed to improve outcomes for whānau and communities through championing diverse and inclusive leadership across Aotearoa.

As a partnership, we see our role as supporting and uplifting internal capabilities so that our clients create the habits and practices to sustain important mahi long after we have finished our work together. My colleagues and I are highly skilled at building engagement and alignment that enables organisations to execute their strategic intent and achieve their goals. 

Whakawhitinga holds the sense of a journey—a transition or crossing to a new way of knowing. Through partnership and accountability, people and connections, and a focus on future-fit progression, we see our work as an experience that will serve the people and place in which we collectively operate.

The logo shows the poutama pattern, known as the stairway to heaven in Māori weaving. Poutama has strong educational and spiritual significance. The stepping pattern represents progression and ascent to higher levels of achievement and progress, as well as the constant pursuit of improvement.

Together, these tell the story of who we are and what we aspire to achieve.