I have been very fortunate to work in Recruitment, People and Culture, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) alongside some amazing leaders and stunning corporates across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. My company, Hybridges, channels those experiences into a different way of thinking for corporates, where employees from diverse cultures feel excited and engaged to bring their whole selves to work. Working collaboratively with our clients, we discover, design and deliver programmes of change to increase engagement and retention among Pasifika employees. This is my passion, my life's work. I was a founding member, chair and host of the Viaduct Village, an informal and growing network of Māori and Pasifika corporate leaders based in Auckland’s viaduct basin. In 2022 I completed my Master of Technological Futures at AcademyEx (formerly The Tech Futures Lab), bringing Pasifika engagement models from the academic world into the workplace. As head of DE&I at Auckland Transport, I led a team that pioneered the organisation's very first Pasifika Strategy, as well as overseeing the crucial Future of Work, Hybrid ways of working strategy. This work earned me a finalist position at the NZ Diversity Champion Awards 2022. Besides working in Recruitment and Organisational Development, I also serve with my husband Richard for over twenty five years as a pastor in Samoa, Australia and New Zealand yielding invaluable insights into people and culture in a challenging context, crossing barriers of culture, age and gender.