Eva-Sky Gundry

Eva-Sky Gundry

Kerikeri’s Eva-Sky Gundry was just 16 when she launched a business aimed at empowering wahine and sharing her passion for ocean sports. Three years later, Sky’s Surf School reaches up to 100 rangatahi a week across surf camps, weekly lessons, and a weekly academy...
Hayden Smith

Hayden Smith

Hayden Smith came across a floating mass of rubbish one day more than 20 years ago, and it changed his life. “It was a stormy day. I was kayaking up through Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour and found myself surrounded by this rubbish and I thought: why is there no-one out...
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke wish to have more in common with Sir Peter Blake than their sailing prowess. With six World Championship titles to their names, as well an Olympic gold and two silver medals and key roles in the winning team that helped Emirates Team New...
Stacey Morrison

Stacey Morrison

When broadcaster Stacey Morrison was growing up in Ōtautahi Christchurch, she had one fluent speaker of Te Reo Māori in her life – the grandmother she called Kui-Kui. “I grew up in Ōtautahi Christchurch and I didn’t speak Māori at all, actually. I was too scared to be...
Oliver Hunt

Oliver Hunt

In 2017, 23-year-old Canterbury engineering student Oliver Hunt saw a problem, and threw everything he had at fixing it. It was while hunting around for a research project for his Master of Engineering in Management that Oliver had a fortuitous conversation with an...