On Thursday 6th December the BWN held their annual Christmas Celebration Lunch at Mills Reef supporting the RAW foundation – Annah Stretton’s new charitable social venture. RAW (“Reclaim Another Woman”) works with recidivist female offenders to provide education and work opportunities. Annah and her sister Rebecca established RAW to drive real social change and choice…
Pay equity and the gender pay gap is a topical issue at the moment and it is something that can affect us all. NZ’s current pay gap is 9.2% and while this gap has been reducing since 1998 from 16.3%, it has stalled in the last decade. On Thursday 22 November we held a lunch…
On 18th September as part of Suffrage 125 Week celebrations, the Tauranga Business Women’s Network held a lunchtime panel discussion on ‘Redefining Workplace Roles’. Heather Jones, Trudy Green and Grace Lowe spoke about working in traditionally male-dominated industries to a group of around 40 women at the Tauranga Club. Together with her brother, Trudy Green…
On September 12th we were invited to experience first-hand the brand new premises of Crombie Lockwood on Harington Street. It was a lovely environment where we were hosted by some of the local female team. Jan Rodgers, Group Broking Manager, started the evening by giving us a history of the firm and the part she…
On Wednesday 29th August as part of the Groundswell Festival of Innovation, the BWN hosted a lunchtime panel discussion at KPMG with Liz Maguire – Head of Digital and Transformation at ANZ, Anna Connell – Digital Creative & Strategist, Columnist, Commentator and Writer, and Jodie Tipping – Founder and Chair of Cucumber. Jenny Rudd from UNO…
Getting more women on Boards has been a topical issue in New Zealand at the moment. On 31st July we held a lunch with the Bay of Plenty Branch of Institute of Directors at The Tauranga Club. The Institute of Directors is set up to help directors commit to life-long learning and carry out their duties…
Sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace is a topical issue at the moment and it is something that can affect us all. Following her recent work with the Law Society, we invited Gail Page from Positive Pathways to talk to us about how we can all play a part in standing up against bullying…
This month our Business Behind the Scenes event was hosted by Tauranga based strategic communications consultancy, Campbell Squared. We got a great insight into some of the work and projects they have been involved in. This included Walesi – a Fijian Government initiative to roll-out free digital television to all Fijians, a project that the…
This month we were hosted at Hammon Diamond Jeweller by mother and daughter duo, Julie Hammon and Alexandra Hammon Elliot. Hammon Diamond Jewellers is a genuine “Kiwi family business” with its origins lying all the way back to 1947, when the company was founded in Gisborne by Julie’s parents-in-law. Julie started working in the business…
It has been reported that Amazon’s arrival in New Zealand could dramatically change our retail scene to the point where some shops may be at threat of shrinking or closing. On April 11th Nigel Tutt (Priority One) and Arron Edwards (Bravesight) joined us for lunch to give their view on the impact of Amazon’s entry…
