I'm sure it's plausible at some point I'll get some kind of professional photo taken but for now I think this works.

ko au. This is me. Purpose driven, values led. I am many things: pākeha/tangata tiriti, genderqueer, tangata whaitakiwātanga/autistic, aroreretini/adhd, product manager, lover of memes and live music, obsessed with houseplants and lord of the rings and run-on sentences; hiker, rower, cohabiting with cat and dog, justice nerd, non-linear thinker ...

My career has spanned legislative advice, workplace learning, business analysis, agile/scrum practice, product management, and inclusion strategy.

I've volunteered with Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Wellington Free Ambulance, the Wellington Rowing Club, and Changemakers Resettlement Forum.

I hold a Master of Change and Organisational Resilience, a Bachelor of Social Sciences (policy, philosophy, economics), and an adhd-worthy array of certificates and standards.

My masters project 'Resilience, retention, and the pursuit of liberation' and some concurrent life events sparked a shift in perspective and priority and a new lens on how I might add value to the world.

I believe that inclusion work or developing inclusive ways of working is a means to an end, just as technology is. It is as vital to core business and high performance as any other practice.

My purpose in creating tiny forest collective is enabling others to achieve their authentic best, through storytelling and systems change.

Bringing together my backgrounds in product/technology and analysis, my research and inclusion work, lived experience and time in activist spaces, I have a unique lens on what creates high performing, impactful, and resilient teams.

When a friend reviewed my site for me their final piece of feedback made me laugh: I didn't notice that I hadn't included my name which apparently is kind of important.

meet my staff: the director of crimes and head of curiosity and wellbeing

From tiny forest;

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