Taranaki Women in Leadership

FREE EVENT:

The first of this series in Taranaki promises to foster enlightening conversations that inspire and empower, bringing together voices from wāhine in diverse sectors.

Join us as we explore the journeys, challenges, and triumphs of these remarkable women, creating a space for connection and growth.

Note: Please let us know if you can no longer attend, so we can reallocate your seat.

Agnes Naera - CEO, Global Women

Agnes Naera Global Women Chief Executive, leans strongly into amplifying the importance of diversity and inclusion and advancing the aspirations of Māori and Pacific people. She is purposeful in her mentorship of emerging female leaders particularly early career academics and professionals.

Agnes is a trustee for a number of charities with a special interest in unleashing the potential of young people to enable them to ‘be the change they want to see’ in Aotearoa NZ. She brings a wealth of experience from her professional, community roles while drawing from her lived reality of her hapu, iwi Ngāpuhi experience.

In the words of Sir James Henare ‘maha rawa wa tatou mahinga te kore mai tonu, tawhiti rawa to tatou haerenga te kore haere tonu’ (we have done too much not to do more, we have come too far to not go further).

Kristen Lunman - Co-Founder, Powrsuit

From a family of entrepreneurs, Kristen is attracted to challenging the status quo. Starting in Canada, Kristen spent over a decade in growth roles. After moving to New Zealand in 2012, her startup journey began with Wipster, a video software as a service solution. More recently, she was the co-founder and CEO of Hatch, an investment app that changed the wealth behaviours of over 200,000 Kiwi. After a successful acquisition in 2021, she sights on a new mission: closing the gender leadership gap. Enter Powrsuit, a career accelerator for women on the way up (including a place for allies). Launched in March with co-founder Natalie Ferguson, it's already smashing every goal, proving that with the right playbook, real change doesn't have to take a century. When Kristen has spare time, it's spent with her family on the sidelines or on a surfboard.