Committee Member Bridget Cummins gives us an insight into her career at Craigs Investment Partners. How do you balance work and life responsibilities? Working fulltime as an Investment Adviser for Craigs Investment Partners is a very busy role however I do have a certain amount of flexibility. So I’m lucky to be able to…
Here in Tauranga, with New Zealand’s largest export port on our doorstep, we are experiencing exponential growth in both the commercial and export sector. Knowing first-hand the barriers and complexities of getting a product to market, Linda Giltrap wanted to help new exporters become export ready and mitigate risk in doing so. Having 20 years’…
This year was the third time Pacific Coast Lodge and Backpackers won the Golden Backpack Award in Australia for the Best Accommodation in NZ. Coupling this with winning the Tauranga Westpac Hospitality and Tourism Award for the last two years, confirms Sarah Meadows has the right formula to be the top of her game. However, it…
Tami Hadfield has always been creative. She tried working in admin/office jobs but knew it wasn’t for her, so when at aged 16 a job came up in a florist with no experience necessary, she took it (with a bit of coaxing from her mum!). Since then she has never looked back. Her first boss…
When Pauline Wrigley launched her business in 2016, she literally hit the ground running. Aged in her early 50s, and based on nothing more than a “crazy dare”, she took up running and tackled the New York marathon. “I never thought in a million years I’d run a marathon, but once I’d done it, I…
Shelley Varnam has always had a strong interest in renovating her own homes as she loves the creative process and physical challenge. Back in May 2015 she took this love one step further by purchasing Guthrie Bowron Tauranga. Since then she has been on a huge learning curve, working in the back office, updating and…
Dee Collins launched focus, a high quality business and lifestyle magazine specifically created with women in mind, to the Bay of Plenty in October last year. Prior to moving to Tauranga in 2015 Dee was involved in the wedding industry on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. “I owned two wedding expos, had a wedding website that required…
Ciska Vogelzang from Avisa Services works with individuals and organisations to improve communication skills and build effective teams so they can succeed in today’s complex world. With a Masters in Organisational Psychology from the University of Waikato, and a broad coaching and training background, Ciska is an expert in connecting with people so they can…
Hellen Faulkner came to New Zealand from China in 2002 as an international student. As well as falling in love with Mark who she married fourteen years ago, and now has two sons with, she also fell in love with New Zealand’s green and pure nature. She felt this beautiful land had so much to…
In 2014 Chris Duggan left her job as Head of Science at Tauranga Girls’ College to set up the House of Science Tauranga. Her vision was to raise the scientific literacy in the local Western Bay of Plenty community as she was appalled by the lack of science knowledge her Year 9 students had when they…
