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BUSINESS EVENTS

Business Whangaparaoa are offering a series of evenings in 2019 for local businesses to mix and mingle, hear great speakers and let others know about their business. Subsidised costs for Members and students  (check Membership options). If you have a particular person you would like to hear please let us know and we'll consider them for our future events. Our next event is ...

Tuesday 10 September
​Business Evening - Speaker Alexia Hilbertidou

Venue: Stanmore Bay Boat Club, Brightside Road, Stanmore Bay
Time: 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm.
Cost: Member/student: $17.25 ($15.00 + GST), Non-Member: $34.50 ($30.00 + GST)
Guest speaker: Alexia Hilbertidou
Title: Diversity: Movers Shakers Action Takers – inside the minds of the next generation

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Alexia Hilbertidou

She's joked with the Queen, flown with NASA, had lunch with Jamie (Oliver), tea with Teresa (May) and rubbed shoulders with David (Beckham). Activist, entrepreneur and Girlboss NZ founder, Alexia Hilbertidou, will present an inspiring, funny and surprising insight into the minds of NZ's Gen Z. What are they engaging with online and what do they care about? How will we be impacted by the future of work and how should we be preparing for it? How can we support the next generation and how do we keep up with them?. Through her jaw dropping stories Alexia proves that you are never too young (or too short) to create change.

New Zealand social entrepreneur and the founder of GirlBoss New Zealand, a not-for-profit organisation which aims for diversity in the workplace, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics and entrepreneurship with Gen Z thinking. 

Alexia from Red Beach is the founder and CEO of GirlBoss NZ -  a 10,500 strong army of young women who are determined to achieve gender equality in their lifetimes.
Dismayed by the under-representation of women in leadership roles Alexia founded GirlBoss when she was just 16. Encouraging young women to embrace STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), leadership and entrepreneurship, GirlBoss is now New Zealand’s largest organisation for young women. It’s members are shrugging off the statistics and preparing themselves to take their seats at the table - the boardroom table that is.
At 17, Alexia was the youngest person to lead a research project at the New Zealand Treasury - at 18 - she was selected to seek new stars and planets on the NASA SOFIA mission and at 20 - she spoke at The United Nations Headquarters at the largest UN Forum in the world today. 
She was named the most influential young leader under the age of 25 at the Westpac Women of Influence awards and recently returned from Buckingham Palace where she received the  Queen’s Young Leader medal for services to the commonwealth. She is the youngest Commonwealth citizen to ever receive this honour. 
Alexia proves that you are never too young (or too short) to be an agitator for change.

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Wednesday 4 December
​Network Evening - Speaker - Mark Powell, Former CEO of The Warehouse Group

Venue: TBC
Time: 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm.
Cost: Member/student: $17.25 ($15.00 + GST), Non-Member: $34.50 ($30.00 + GST)
Guest speaker: Mark Powell, Former CEO of The Warehouse Group
Blazing a trail for CEOs in New Zealand. Former CEO at Warehouse Stationery and Former CEO at The Warehouse Group. 
Mark has another CEO role with a marked difference from the commercial world as the first ‘CEO in residence’ at the College of Business at Massey University
​Booking not yet available but if you'd like to register your interest email Sarah at info@businesswhangaparaoa.info - Spaces limited

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Wednesday 19 June
​Network Evening with Murray Thom 

View photos of our evening at SportsCave, Stanmore Bay

Kindly sponsored by: 

Murray is in extremely high demand as a speaker where he focuses on turning small opportunities into healthy revenue streams and winning new business.
​READ MORE ABOUT MURRAY and check out his latest production  The Offering Project