Experience

Maurea Consulting Ltd
• Cultural Competency Consultant

  • Oct 2019 - Present


Contractor

• Sweden
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Cultural Advisor | Te Tiriti o Waitangi Workshops | Diversity Training | Noho Puku

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  - Currently contracted to Puna ki te Puna consultants, Whangarei, providing Tikanga and Te Reo workshops for Northpower - Freelancing - Can advise and raise company competency in māori cultural matters in a team or as principal advisor - Currently contracted to Puna ki te Puna consultants, Whangarei, providing Tikanga and Te Reo workshops for Northpower - Freelancing - Can advise and raise company competency in māori cultural matters in a team or as principal advisor



WOMEX

• Germany
• 1 - 100 Employee

• WOMEX Indigeneous Delegate and Cultural Ambassador 2019 - 2021

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  In 2019 a delegation selected by NZ Music Commission, traveled to Tampere, Finland to represent Aotearoa in music business, artistic growth and to put forward members as representatives for the World Music Pan Indigeneous Network. I was selected to speak at a conference in which I presented a Māori indigeneous viewpoint on Music response from māori at home, Mauri enhancement and current ecological challenges we face locally. This tenure is held by delegates for a minimum of 3 years apprenticeship to develop a world music business acumen, to develop more local talent in NZ. 2020 and 2021, the festival was moved in accordance with COVID, to an online format, in which I am still a delegate. Show less



Māoriori

• Spain
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Vision Holder and Creative Director of Māoriori | Noho Puku | Māori Meditation

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Māoriori provides support from a Māori Rongoā lens, as a restorative practise, helping to release trauma in those who carry emotionally heavy work, supporting others in their work practise. Māoriori provides support from a Māori Rongoā lens, as a restorative practise, helping to release trauma in those who carry emotionally heavy work, supporting others in their work practise.



Centre for Social Impact New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Contractor

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

  Contracted to CSI to gather information from specific māori communities, where Foundation North may be able to rethink their current policy on funding māori housing development projects, to benefit more in Northland and South Auckland. I stepped aside from this role temporarily when Covid crisis happened as this was a face-to-face community engagement role. I studied Web Development in the interim. Contracted to CSI to gather information from specific māori communities, where Foundation North may be able to rethink their current policy on funding māori housing development projects, to benefit more in Northland and South Auckland. I stepped aside from this role temporarily when Covid crisis happened as this was a face-to-face community engagement role. I studied Web Development in the interim.



Queenstown Resort College

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager QRC Tai Tokerau

  • Dec 2015 - Jul 2018

  -Operations Manager of QRC Tai Tokerau Student Hotel, QRC Student Campus and QRC Culinary Kerikeri. -Principal Cultural Advisor - Tikanga, Te reo and Iwi / Hapū /Whānau relationship builder and manager The role required a vast set of skills which really challenged me in a beneficial way. It helped me to realise what I was capable of and here I needed to quickly improve and included: Setting up the school in Paihia, Creating the necessary Iwi, hapū and whānau connections to ensure the community in Tai Tokerau understood the goodwill that QRC was extending by setting up a College where Business and Hotel Management was offered to youth, to benefit the Tai Tokerau region. Active daily recruiting, including travelling throughout the region, visiting whānau at their homes, engaging Iwi Leaders and education leaders to find the right students to receive scholarships. Operations manager of three properties, two in Paihia - A hotel and College premises and a Culinary School in Kerikeri, including community relationship building, facilities management, health and safety, media and communications representative. Student pastoral care manager and life coaching Staff management, appraisals and recruitment Accommodation Manager for the first 4 months of when the school started. It required for mew and my whānau to live in the hotel where students are accommodated, to be pastoral care, education mentoring, campus life programme director, staff manager. Cultural Safety & Competency protocol advisor, for QRC Tai Tokerau, as advisor to Chairman Sir Eion Edgar QRC CEO Charlie Phillips and all staff, to ensure QRC were able to interact with mana whenua with integrity, to create a long-lasting relationship in Tai Tokerau. Show less



Te Kāpehu Whetū School, Whangarei

• Te Reo Māori (language) and Music teacher

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  School teacher teaching Te Reo Māori, Music and music in Te Reo Māori. https://tkw.ac.nz/ School teacher teaching Te Reo Māori, Music and music in Te Reo Māori. https://tkw.ac.nz/



Royal New Zealand Navy

• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Te Taua Moana Marae Manager (RNZN ) Chief Petty Officer

  • Mar 2012 - Jan 2015

  Navy Marae 2008 - 2015. Ascended to Marae Manager Position 2012 as CPO Chief Petty Officer Navy Marae 2008 - 2015. Ascended to Marae Manager Position 2012 as CPO Chief Petty Officer