Theme: Culture

TEDxHastingsSt explored culture in its many manifestations. The old adage, culture eats strategy for breakfast, is often pointed at business owners to encourage them to broaden the view of their business. However, the importance of culture stretches beyond the corporate world to every aspect of life. Governments must be conscious of the cultural impact of their policies. Scientists must recognize how their own culture may skew their experiments. Even at the individual level, our own culture constantly fights against our attempts to succeed. Dieting is a classic example because it is never successful unless the dieter can change their personal culture. On 7 July 2018, TEDxHastingsSt took a close look at culture and how we can influence it for the better.

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Chellie Spiller

Professor

Dr. Chellie Spiller, (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa), is an associate professor at the University of Auckland Business School. Called by her elders and mentors to be a Ruahine, a woman who traverses worlds, Chellie brings her Māori lineage together with a commitment to developing leaders dedicated to creating a better world. Chellie speaks locally and internationally on wayfinding leadership, authentic leadership, leadership and decision-making, and how businesses can create sustainable wealth and wellbeing. Chellie’s transformational leadership vision, kaupapa, is bringing humanity and spirituality back into the workplace, empowering people to create both cultural and economic business success both locally and globally. Her vision is to create relational wellbeing and wealth across spiritual, environmental, social, cultural and economic dimensions. Creating transformation in people, enabling them to claim their rightful place in the world, and to embody their sense of self.

David Trubridge

Designer/ Artist

David Trubridge graduated as a Naval Architect from Newcastle University Britain, but since then he has worked as a furniture designer/maker. He settled in New Zealand after a five-year yacht voyage with his family. His design process combines innate craft knowledge, sculptural abstraction, and computer design technology, as it draws on his life's rich experiences. He is New Zealand's best-known furniture/lighting designer and his work, which his own company in Hawkes Bay manufactures, is sold all around the world and exhibited at trade fairs in Milan (every year since 2001), Paris, London, New York, Dubai. Over recent years his designs have featured in countless international publications, including influential Italian magazines and even the Financial Times, as an instigator of the trend of 'raw sophistication' and as an exemplar of environmentally responsible design. In 2008 the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world.

Hal Josephson

International Business Development Specialist

Hal Josephson is an international business development specialist, market strategist, thought-leadership event organizer and author of Life-Size Story, his forthcoming book. Hal is the Founder of MediaSense, a global strategy and biz/dev firm focusing on technology, media, and the digital sectors. In addition to working in the private sector, Hal has consulted with the Chinese, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand governments to help these organizations develop and implement strategies and programs to expand their export potential, as well as bring investment and new business in-country. Since 2011, Hal has worked on economic development initiatives in NZ including the Rugby World Cup 2011. Throughout his career, Hal has lent his expertise to the likes of Apple, Motorola, AT&T, Electronic Arts, InfoTech Canada, Reed-Midem, InternetWire, ATEED, Combridges, InteRetail, and Hong Kong Cyberport. Hal splits his time between San Francisco, California and the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

Joyce Gioia

Futurist

As a Strategic Business Futurist, Joyce concentrates on relationship aspects of the future. This arena includes workforce and workplace trends, as well as consumer, education, and business-to-business trends. Joyce helps clients position themselves for success in the future. Joyce has served clients on six continents and in 43 states. She is also a Founding Member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) as well as being an active Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and The World Future Society. Joyce Gioia holds a bachelor's degree in languages and communications from The University of Denver and a masters in Business Administration (specializing in Marketing) from Fordham University. She also holds masters degrees in Theology and Counseling from The New Seminary. At the age of 28, she was the youngest magazine publisher in the country, publishing The Complete Buyers Guide to Stereo/Hi-Fi Equipment for Service Communications Ltd.

Kahurangi Maori Dance Company

Maori Music & Dance

The Kahurangi Māori Dance Theatre was at the forefront of the renaissance of Māori Performing Arts. Formed in the early 1980’s by Tama Huata and a team who shared his vision to present Māori performing arts in a dynamic and contemporary manner, our touring teams have travelled the world promoting cultural understanding and inviting audiences to participate in their programmes. Kahurangi is based in Hastings, NZ in the territory of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe on the East Coast of the North Island. This tribe is the third largest and covers the second largest geographical region. Through a shared ancestry, Ngāti Kahungunu can trace their roots to Hawaiki in the Marquesas Islands, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and to four tribes in Northland, Tauranga, Gisborne and the South Island. Their touring programmes annually incorporate USA, Canada, Asia, India, Australia and NZ with performances at festivals, schools, embassies and many official performances on behalf of the NZ Government.

Robyn Hewetson

Speech Therapist/ Sales Trainer

Robyn is an artist and a successful businesswoman, proof that art and business are not incompatible. In fact, her art and creativity informed her business life. Robyn Hewetson is a New Zealander with 44 years experience teaching children, adolescents, teachers, and adults as well as 18 years experience doing curative work – teaching speech to children and adults with disabilities. She has trained in State Teaching in New Zealand, in Speech and Drama as well as Steiner Education in the United Kingdom, and then moved to the United States, where she acquired over two decades of sales and management experience. By weaving these threads together, Robyn has developed an expertise in helping people to tell their story well – whether it be a story for a class in early childhood, or giving a large group presentation for a company sales event. I desire to help my clients increase their speaking and presentation skills and gain confidence, memory, and articulation.

Romaine Crawford

MPI Liaison for UN Youth

Romaine is on a path to success, and she wants more young people to join her. Now a graduate of Karamu High School, Romaine Crawford was one of 22 New Zealand delegates selected by UN Youth Aotearoa organization to take part in the 2017 United Nations Global Development Tour. She is particularly interested in changing the lack of equity and accessibility to education for indigenous peoples. She believes this lack of equity and accessibility is holding indigenous peoples back from achieving tinorangatiratanga. She wants to engage, encourage, and inspire young Māori and Pacific Island students to dream, envision, and achieve their goals.

Sue De Bievre

CEO at Beany

Sue is the CEO of Beany, a SAAS company which offers accounting services to small business owners across NZ. She has in addition, owned small businesses of her own. This gives Sue great insight into just how demanding and rewarding small business ownership can be. She loves working within the entrepreneurial community in New Zealand and is involved as a mentor for Startup Weekend, which promotes entrepreneurship globally. When her daughter spoke to her about her non-binary views of gender and sexuality; Sue was uncertain how to respond. Then, she started thinking about how her own business is growing more distributed and less binary. So, there must be value in non-binary thinking.

Zaheer Ali

Science and Mission Operations Laboratory Supervisor for NASA's SOFIA program

Zaheer Ali is the Science and Mission Operations Laboratory Supervisor for NASA's SOFIA program. He flies in a modified Boeing 747 that carries a 38,000 pound, 100-inch diameter infrared telescope in her tail section to carry out seasonal space explorations from Christchurch as well as other parts of the world. Zaheer will be speaking at TEDxHastingsSt soon after his Techweek '18 presentation in Christchurch where he will share his views on Space, the Antarctic, and the technological revolution. For TEDxHastingsSt, he will be speaking about agile software development, how it has improved businesses around the world, and how it is changing mainstream society.