What shapes a leader? For Ruta Tai Tonumaivao , it wasn’t a qualification or a promotion. It was growing up in a busy West Auckland home where multiple generations lived together and helping others was simply normal. As a young person she often found herself helping her parents navigate systems, translating information, and connecting people to support. What looked like everyday family responsibility was actually the early formation of leadership. Her story reminds us of something we see...

There was a moment in our recent PEP Talk conversation with organisational coach Colart Miles from Praxxis Group that stopped me in my tracks. He said something simple, but quietly radical. Modern organisations, he suggested, are still running on an operating system that’s about 300 years old. The roots of the modern corporation stretch back to the age of global trading companies such as the Dutch East India Company. The structure that emerged from that period was designed for a very...

What does it really mean to build a legacy? In this episode of PEP Talk – the podcast for purpose-empowered people, we sit down with Tuilaepa Tumama Tu’ulua to explore leadership, responsibility, and what it takes to create meaningful change in our communities.