Michael Moka
Founder - Indigenous Growth Limited
Michael Moka is a passionate indigenous entrepreneur. A proud whānau and community member who founded Indigenous Growth Limited.
Topic: Put the Inclusion in “Diversity and Inclusion”, Cultural Authenticity vs Cultural Awareness
Companies are aware of the great benefits of having diversity of thought around the decision making table. The intention to increase the diversity of the leadership and management is genuine but still not hitting the mark. That is why we push organisations and their people to be culturally authentic vs culturally aware.
In this presentation Michael Moka will go over 3 simple steps that you as an HR professional can implement to provide an environment that allows your people to bring their whole cultural self to work.
More about Michael…
Michael Moka is a young and engaging founder of Indigenous Growth Limited – a new organisation with a quadruple bottom line – which feeds his passion which is to empower families to get themselves out of the poverty cycle. Building a strong foundation is the most powerful way of retaining long term growth.
Mike made a conscious decision to pursue his dedication to empower his family and families like his who were trapped in a poverty-mindset cycle – who work hard yet still can’t get directions out of this cycle.
Indigenous Growth is taking a culturally diverse approach to people development. Bringing indigenous values and linking it to community and servant leadership to provide a more diverse and profitable culture for all organisations.
He holds a number of governance and advisory roles for Whanau Organisations, Charities, Learning Institutions and Not for Profit organisations.
He waka eke noa – We are all in the same canoe with no exception.
