“ E tū ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā.
“Stand at the stern of the canoe, and feel the spray of the future biting at your face”
BE A FORCE FOR GOOD
We believe in changing the world. It is our mission to improve the lives of 10 million indigenous people. The ‘status quo’ fights to maintain its position, we fight to change it. We think differently and mobilise the Te Whare Hukahuka innovators to create change - those you share our beliefs and passion in order to change the status quo.
PURSUE GROWTH AND LEARNING
We stretch ourselves personally and professionally. We are always progressing, and there are no dead-end jobs at Te Whare Hukahuka. We know that inside every team member is more potential than we even realise, and we work to unlock that potential. We believe the only way to solve new problems is by learning and growing ourselves to meet them head on
WE DELIVER ‘WOW’
We think anything worth doing is worth doing with ‘wow’. To wow people, we do things in an unconventional and innovative way. We go beyond the average level of service to create emotional impacts.
We aim high; we think BIG, we take risks, we have a healthy disregard for the impossible. We accept constant change, and embrace it with open arms. We don’t become comfortable with the status quo because we are always thinking of ways to disrupt ourselves – changing processes, perspectives, and opinions, hopefully for the better. Without change, we can’t continue to provide superior solutions. We are not afraid to make mistakes because that’s often the best way to learn. We don’t reinvent the wheel – we copy 80% of existing solutions and innovate 20%.
THINK LIKE ENTREPRENEURS
Sustainable long-term growth and profitability are key to our success. Making money is not evil to us, we believe that represents limited thinking. The more money we can make, the more we can reinvest into doing more good we can continue to do. We are always on the lookout for how to make ourselves more efficient and improve our operations.
NOT FOR LOSS
We are a little weird, we are memorable, we are distinctive, we are remarkable. We are Te Whare Hukahuka.