Ākina Impact Supplier: Te Ara Hiranga
Directors of Te Ara Hiranga, from left to right: Stevo O'Rourke, Blair Waipara and Aaron Tait-Jones.
Meet Te Ara Hiranga, one of the Ākina Certified Impact Suppliers. Impact Suppliers are organisations that deliver a range of positive social, environmental, and cultural outcomes through selling their products and services.
Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Te Ara Hiranga is a small team with consulting expertise across a wide range of sectors and topics. Te Ara Hiranga identify and implement solutions that improve the performance of assets from a social, environmental, cultural, and financial perspective - the quadruple bottom line.
Strategy and Performance
Contract Performance Management
Health and Safety Consulting
They have created a tool that measures Te Ao Māori metrics. Their Māori clients have been measuring (and will continue to measure) their activities according to Mātauranga Māori quadruple bottom line principles.
Their values are:
Rautaki (Strategy) - Putting the pieces in place to achieve the vision & desired future state
Hiranga (Excellence) - Solving complexities and supporting people to excel
Arotake (Accountability) - Developing systems & processes that hold people to account
Aroture (Compliance) - Building the springboard to excellence!
One of the things that sets them apart from other organisations is their unique blend of skills and experiences. Their skill sets range from; global corporate health and safety, grassroots whenua Māori projects, PSGE direct governance experience, running major successful investment programmes, to developing primary industry assets on Māori Land. With this experience comes a deep network of valuable contacts and stakeholders that they have cultivated over their careers.
Their impact areas are:
Māori Development
Enabling Others to Create Impact
Ākina Impact suppliers are certified annually. Check our their certification status on our Impact Supplier Directory, and learn more about Te Ara Hiranga here
What is the Impact Directory?
The Impact Directory showcases Ākina certified Impact Suppliers - organisations that deliver a range of positive social, environmental, and cultural outcomes through selling their products and services.
Social Procurement. Sustainable procurement. Supplier diversity. Progressive procurement. Broader Outcomes. Ultimately they all mean the same thing... using your spending power to create change.
Anyone can build positive outcomes into their business through money that’s already being spent.
That’s where the Ākina Impact Directory comes in. Ākina certifies the creation of positive impact through business using our knowledge, experience, and understanding in this complex space.
Who is the Impact Directory for?
Ākina Impact Suppliers can check out who else is certified, and promote themselves as part of the Impact Directory.
SMEs who don't have procurement functions but want to purchase from social enterprises.
The purpose-led business sector.
Anyone that wants to use their spending power to create change.