Events

Upper Leith Walk, page 20.  Mostly easy and on the flat.  We will have an informal dinner at Filadelfio’s Pizza before we go, at 6:00 pm, which coincidentally is not far from the start of the walk.    Filadelfio’s is 3 North Road.  

From our talk from Anthony Hamel, I have taken a few of the walks from this handout, Dunedin Selected Walks.  Reference to a page number is the page in the booklet.  All walks start at 7:30 pm. Family and friends are welcome. I am not sure about dogs, you will have to make your enquiries.  My contact number is 0274 360 767 and if you cannot get me or Rajesh, Neville is the alternative.

New Year Dinner at Takeichi on the corner of Great King Street and St Andrews Street.  5:30 pm start.

I believe that a leader is someone who is confident in their abilities, who gives a clear direction and brings their team with them on the journey.

I am an experienced, results-minded company director whose career has spanned multiple countries, industries and world-class developments. My focus is on innovation, transformation and growth, and my mission is to turn industries and businesses around so they are better performers at the bottom line and in their community connections.

I am a successful agent of change in settings where resilience and problem-solving are key – typically complex businesses with multiple layers of stakeholders.

As the CEO of Dunedin Casino, my strategic focus is on the renewal of the Casino licence and transformation of the entertainment and hospitality businesses. Ensuring that the brand value proposition remains relevant to the community has been a major focus to date.

I collaborate and consult on major international projects in the entertainment, digital media, technology and education sectors and provide business advisory, investment and property development consultancy to various parties in the public and private spheres.

I work with organisations and company directors in global markets and provide guidance and organisation-specific advice on how to diversify and manage risk while balancing commercial and community objectives. I’m regularly asked to brief New Zealand Government Ministers, policy advisers and business leaders locally and offshore.

My global experience encompasses the finance, travel, entertainment, and hospitality industries predominantly in Canada, and a family property and investment portfolio (UK, US, Canada and Caribbean). I maintain business relationships in North America and Asia Pacific.

I am a strong proponent of authenticity, transparency and resilience in leadership. As a leader I am accustomed to making tough decisions and staying calm during the storm. However, alongside showing strength I believe in showing my human side and communicating the good, the bad and the ugly with my teams and staff.

Since October 2004, Tony Binns has been Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has worked in the field of Geography and Development Studies for over 40 years and has a longstanding interest in post-conflict reconstruction, food production systems, food security and community-based development.  Much of his field-based research has been undertaken in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published 21 books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters. Tony was President of the Geographical Association (UK) in 1995, President of the New Zealand Geographical Society (2010-2011) and President of the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau (2008-2016). He has a longstanding interest in Geographical Education. He teaches the only course on Africa in New Zealand - Transformations in Developing Countries (Africa). In January 2014, he was made a chief in the town of Kayima in the far northeast of Sierra Leone, West Africa. His title is Chief Manjawah of Sandor.

Time and location to be confirmed.

This is putting out bait stations for wasps in the town belt area.

More details are available from Allen Stacey.  

We are live in Istanbul with Blake to find out what is happening in his world as the Russian invasion has forced him from Ukraine.  

The final part of this year's project is to recover the bait traps from last weekend.  

International speaker and workshop leader Wade Nomura draws on his extraordinary experience as a global humanitarian, community leader, successful businessman and champion athlete, to educate and inspire audiences around the world. In the last 10 years, Wade has presented to over 200,000 people across 15 countries, illuminating on how to maximize success, create impactful projects, and enhance team performance, through presentations ranging from conference keynotes to hands on workshops.

Wade is a well-known strategic thinker and innovator, expert in project creation and management. Within worldwide service organization Rotary International, he has conceptualized, assisted and reviewed over 200 charitable projects across the globe. Projects range from the development of a $1 million interpretive children’s play area based around local Native American history in Carpinteria, California, to an ambulance project in Southern Chile, to largescale water project in Michoacan Mexico bringing water to 250,000 people.

He currently serves as one of only 24 Rotary Cadre Technical Coordinators worldwide, requiring oversight of major projects in water, sanitation, and community and economic development, undertaken through The Rotary Foundation, which invests 250 million into humanitarian efforts every year. He has been on more than 50 international project missions for Rotary, including a polio mission to India, a special passion of his as a childhood polio survivor himself.

Wade has also served as the Rotary International President’s Representative the past seven years in Texas, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Alabama and Mexico.  In 2018, Wade was invited to represent Rotary International President Ian Riseley at Morelia Mexico’s Conference, with Wade presenting in Spanish to over 400 attendees. In addition, he is producer and host of the TV show Rotary Serving Our Community, currently in its fifth season.

Margaret Fitzgerald is the General Manager of The Gut Foundation. It is a charitable organisation that teaches New Zealanders about diseases of the gut to improve diagnoses and early treatment. There is an emphasis on bowel cancer: nine New Zealanders find out every day they have bowel cancer and three of those will die.  Do not let it be you, so if you have friends and family who might be interested in this topic, please invite them to the zoom.  It might save their life! 

 

By all accounts, Cheryl Adams has had a very successful career so far. Starting out as a Mechanical Engineer at Manapouri Power Station, she pivoted a couple of times until she landed at Animation Research Ltd for a time as GM.

According to Sir Ian Taylor, she left after 7 years because he kept changing everything on her - which surprises no-one! But after being away for 7 years, he thought it was time to get, in his words, a “proper” CEO so he head-hunted her back - and now she’s running the show.

So how did she navigate from Mechanical Engineering to consulting to tech and on to leadership of Dunedin’s most prominent tech company, especially as a woman in such male-dominated industries?

Join Cheryl as she shares some of her trials and tribulations along the way and her secrets to getting ahead in tech.

Dr Kappmeier received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Before joining the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, she completed her post-doctoral tenure in the Psychology Department of Harvard University, USA.

How can groups build trust and move towards reconciliation, when their shared past has been shaped by aggression, violence or oppression? This is the question behind Dr Kappmeier’s research and supervision interest which examines intergroup trust and how it can be built upon to improve intergroup relations. Through her research, she had developed the Intergroup Trust Model, which conceptualises intergroup trust as a multidimensional construct. This quantitative model provides a solid basis for understanding how trust between groups can be built but also how it is eroded.