Stirring The Pot

Tīmoti is Managing Director of Empowering Change and is on a mission to bring about transformation in people and organisations by unpacking the ins and outs of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and it’s implications in the workplace. 

Website: https://empowering.co.nz/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timoti-harris-ab1a0344/

Email: [email protected]

Please get in touch with our Mātauranga Māori Project Lead, Kim Nugent to discuss further! You can email her at: [email protected]

https://www.hera.org.nz/matauranga-maori/

Podcasts:

Wairangi Jones: Cultural cringe and colonisation in the workplace: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-fm5ys-1203647

Dr Joe Te Rito: Move your mentality from the 1940's: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-e7jvn-11a07c7

Hanga Aro Rau: Cultural transformation for industry: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-t3rdt-1127aad

Mahonri Owen: Challenging the status quo, Part 1: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7ctmj-10cbbc0

Paora Tapihana: Challenging the status quo, Part 2: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qtcfb-10dc6c5

Motu Bridge Pou team: A history remembered: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zcjec-10b8376

Renata Hakiwai & Troy Coyle: Te Tiriti at play in governance: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rqdwv-107e668

Phil Hokianga & Graham Burke: Te Tiriti at play in governance: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-txi35-1093598

John Cole: The intersection between Mātauranga Māori & Construction 4.0: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-x5x95-ff5116

Lelan Ruwhiu & Sarah Lewis: An indigenous approach to STEM engagement: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-p7bjm-d242bf

Byron Konia: Addressing the skills gap through diversity: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-efyky-ae4322

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

Kelly is a Senior Consultant for Circular Economy at Aurecon with a background in materials, design and research. She is tasked with helping clients design and implement circular economy strategies.

Join us as we delve in to her specialty topic of the circular economy - in particular, what it is, why it is a focus for Aurecon, and more importantly, why it should be a focus for those working in the construction sector and how this can be achieved!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-mcclean-olatunji-09b8a539/

Website: https://www.aurecongroup.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aurecon/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Aurecon/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aurecon/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aurecon

YouTube: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aurecon/

Circular economy: https://www.hera.org.nz/sustainability/steel-circular-economy/

Materials passport for steel re-use: https://www.hera.org.nz/sustainability/material-passport/

Steel recycling: https://www.hera.org.nz/sustainability/steel-recycling/

Zero carbon steel: https://www.hera.org.nz/sustainability/steel-circular-economy/

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

We were lucky enough to steal some of his time to chat about the intersection between the circular economy and construction whilst he was visiting New Zealand!

Join us as we chat about the underlying concepts of the circular economy and how it interrelates with construction, and strategies that can be taken to make construction more circular in Aotearoa.

Ken Webster is currently a visiting Fellow at Cranfield University and the University of Auckland Business School. From 2010-end 2018 he was Head of Innovation for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a circular economy pioneer organisation. He is also on the supervisory board of the materials passport organisation the Madaster Foundation (NL) and supports the Danish Circular Built Environment Network.

His recent book (with Craig Johnson) ABC&D Creating A Regenerative Circular Economy for All uses food and farming as a focus for exploring the notion of extractive vs circulatory economies and how to transition to the latter. In the built environment he collaborated on Circular Construction and Circular Economy (Eds Felix Heisel and Dirk Hebel). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in the UK.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-webster-28825110/

Twitter: @CircularEconKen

News release: https://www.hera.org.nz/construction40-circular-design/

Website: https://www.hera.org.nz/sustainability/steel-circular-economy/

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

One thing we have come to recognise is that one of the strengths of HERA is our amazing multi-cultural team who bring their life experiences to the table every day to inform and develop our research, training and project work. The twists and turns they have taken in their life and career pathway make for some interesting insights into who they are, what they value, and where their thought process and decision making comes from.

This is something we have started to unravel in our ‘Whanaungatanga 101’ (relationships 101) approach we have taken through the year, where each of our team have shared their personal story. This has been part of our commitment to mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) in the workplace – which has asked us to culturally shift our general approach to relationship building from introducing ourselves as someone who does a particular role at a business, to someone who you know from a much more relational and personal way.

An extension of this learning, is to now share some of our stories with you with our ‘looking under the hood’ podcast series where we’ll chat with our team members about what makes them who they are, and how they apply that to the mahi (work) they do here at HERA.

Website: Kaveh Andisheh

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaveh-andisheh-phd-4139ab36/

News release: https://www.hera.org.nz/research-endeavour-fund/

Website: https://www.hera.org.nz/industry40/

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

HERA has been very fortunate to have been able to forge a strong connection to both David and Waikaraka as Pūhoro are tenants at HERA House! On top of that, we are lucky enough to receive weekly Te Ao Māori lessons from them each week, which has had a massive influence on our ability as a team to better understand mātauranga Māori and its integration within the workplace.

Join us as they chat with our Innovation and Transformation Architect, Greg Buckley around their mahi (work) to encourage young Māori to be active participants in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths, mātauranga) and the STEMM economy of tomorrow. Their focus being to develop a community of future Māori technologists, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, innovators and thought-pioneers who excel in high value careers and are the producers and developers of cutting-edge future innovation and will become self-determined empowered leaders, who can bridge both worlds simultaneously (te ao Māōri and te ao Pākehā). We also get down into how our industry can be a part of their story so they can invest for impact!

Website: https://www.puhoro.co.nz/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/p%C5%ABhoro/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/puhoro

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Puhoro101

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puhoro_tamaki_makaurau/

https://www.hera.org.nz/matauranga-maori/

As part of our Industry Awards in 2023, we have introduced a new award category 'Pūhoro Tautoko' which will recognise the top tauira across the motu within the Pūhoro STEMM Academy program. The Kaihautū for each operating rohe of Manawatū, South Auckland, Christchurch, Hawkes Bay and Waikato nominating their top candidate at the end of their four year journey.

If you have interest to sponsor this project either through funds or an internship offering, we'd love to hear from you! Please get in touch with our Manager Customer Experience, Rebecca Symonds to discuss today!

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

Rebecca is a familiar face to a lot of our members, and is responsible for ensuring they are well supported by delivering smarter solutions that drive our industry forward.

Join us as she chats about what HERA membership involves, the value it brings as well as the some of the key initiatives we have coming up – including member profiling, SME support and our Future Forum conference in 2023.

Website: https://www.hera.org.nz/team-member/rebecca-symonds/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-symonds-93079548/

Email: [email protected]

Our membership: https://www.hera.org.nz/about-our-membership/

Membership benefits: https://www.hera.org.nz/membership-benefits/

We are now leading in the most turbulent times. Adapting and responding to change requires next generation leadership. This is because we are now influenced by constant change, geopolitical volatility, technological disruptions, economic and political uncertainty, climate change, and a growing social conscience.

Future Forum overview

Future Forum key note speakers

Nation dinner & industry awards

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

Mackenzie is a student at the University of Auckland who is currently studying towards a Bachelor of Global Studies in Environmental Sustainability and Māori. We discuss how tauiwi (non-Māori) can be advocates and hold space for Māori to lift the cultural burden in the workplace. This is about how we can make a culturally safe environment in a genuine and appropriate way.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzie-horwood-verstappen-814bb0209/

https://www.hera.org.nz/matauranga-maori/

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

Together we discuss the recent win success of securing Endeavour Funding of close to $10.3 million to carry our a four year Construction 4.0 research project. We are beyond excited about this opportunity to transform the construction sector in Aotearoa New Zealand using Construction 4.0 approaches.

Fundamentally, it will improve productivity for the construction sector more broadly, with key outcomes including better economic performance, building and infrastructure affordability, and a larger workforce which is more skilled, innovative, and digitally literate.

Website: Troy Coyle

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troy-coyle-she-her/

Website: Kaveh Andisheh

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaveh-andisheh-phd-4139ab36/

Website: Michail Karpenko

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michail-karpenko-4ab13730/

News release: https://www.hera.org.nz/research-endeavour-fund/

Website: https://www.hera.org.nz/industry40/ 

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

On this episode of Stirring the Pot, Kim Nugent chats with our Whanake Scholarship recipients Lily Sanson and Lydia Frater.

The future of work is increasingly Māori, and it is predicted that Māori will represent approximately 30% of the workforce by 2030. Specifically for the steel industry, it has already been found that the growth of Māori in high skilled occupations like managers and professionals has been exponential.

Kim dives into how the Whanake Scholarship is positioning the Heavy Engineering sector to become the employer of choice in this fast approaching reality

For more on the Whanake Scholarship and HERA's approach to Matauranga Maori head to www.hera.org.nz/matauranga-maori

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]

On this episode of Stirring the Pot, we’re talking with Black Steel Mobile Ltd General Manager, Stephen Powell.

He has a candid conversation with our Innovation and Transformation Architect Greg Buckley to chat about the challenges industry is facing in terms of labour and skills shortages and how HR innovation plays a part in overcoming them at Black Steel.

From breaking down barriers to initiate new programs, to apprenticeships, attracting and fostering talent, retention and more - there are a lot of gems to take away in this podcast!

Connect with Stephen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-powell-1785732b/

Connect with Black Steel Mobile Ltd

Website: https://www.blacksteel.co.nz/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-steel-mobile-ltd/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackSteelMobile

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BlackSteelMobile/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLa6Ye0LuEvbTQdDrGhI1w

There is a lot of sector specific content, as well as a live technical Q&A session you can tap in to every Tuesday morning if you have burning structural questions you'd like answered.

If you are a user of MetalMind already, flick on those notifications, and keep an eye out as new content goes live.

If you aren't yet, get in touch wth our team at [email protected] to get yourself registered!

Resources and links

• Connect with HERA team - https://hera.org.nz/about-us/our-people/hera-team/
• Learn more about HERA's Industry 4.0 rangahau: https://hera.org.nz/research/industry-x-0/
• Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.hera.org.nz/podcasts/
• For live updates, follow us on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hera-innovationinmetals/

📬 Got questions or feedback? Reach us at [email protected]