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Te Ao Māori
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Start here, go together

In the final of this series, Riki Consultancy’s Janelle Riki-Waaka and Nathan Riki share practical steps to bring tikanga Māori and Te Ao Māori into the workplace.

Nathan Riki & Janelle Riki-Waaka.

Key points
  • What’s at stake? Cultural competency, trust, and performance. How to keep talent, serve customers better, and not get left behind.
  • Background: Siblings Janelle Riki-Waaka and Nathan Riki moved from education into workplaces to lift cultural capability and safety.
  • Main players: Riki Consultancy founders Janelle Riki-Waaka and Nathan Riki, and their clients across corporate, public, and community sectors.

This is the fifth story in our Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori series. Earlier pieces showed how large firms, an industry body, and a small not-for-profit brought tikanga and Te Ao Māori into daily work.

But who do those organisations call when they want guidance? Often it’s providers such as Riki

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Key points
  • What’s at stake? Cultural competency, trust, and performance. How to keep talent, serve customers better, and not get left behind.
  • Background: Siblings Janelle Riki-Waaka and Nathan Riki moved from education into workplaces to lift cultural capability and safety.
  • Main players: Riki Consultancy founders Janelle Riki-Waaka and Nathan Riki, and their clients across corporate, public, and community sectors.
Start here, go together
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