A Consultancy Founded on & Guided by Te Ao Māori

Junelle Kunin brings two decades of experience across recruitment, workforce planning, personal brand, and career coaching. Her work sits at the intersection of identity, visibility, and opportunity, supporting people to navigate professional pathways with confidence and integrity.

Born and raised in Rotorua and now based in Auckland, Junelle's whakapapa is Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Her lived experience moving between cultural and professional environments shapes a practice grounded in care, cultural responsibility, and whaka mana.

Alongside her core mahi, Junelle has worked in high trust, high visibility contexts, including supporting international tours and public engagements for The Dalai Lama. She later spearheaded and executive produced Inner World, the Dalai Lama's debut musical work, which reached number one on the Billboard charts. This experience informs her work around personal brand, narrative, and the responsibility that comes with being seen.

Driven by equity and wellbeing, Junelle is committed to creating pathways where people can step forward as themselves and thrive.

Angela brings close to two decades of experience across recruitment in both agency and in house settings. Her recent mahi has focused on internal diagnostics and recruitment transformation, supporting organisations to examine how their systems, practices, and environments enable or limit authentic attraction, retention, and progression of Māori talent.

Born and raised in West Auckland, Angela works at the intersection of organisational practice and Te Ao Māori. She specialises in supporting workplaces that are seeking to embark on or deepen their Te Ao Māori journey, weaving cultural integrity into recruitment and workforce practices in ways that are relational, inclusive, and mana enhancing.

Her work is diagnostic, strategic, and transformational. This includes supporting organisations with employer value propositions for Māori talent, culturally aligned role design and advertising, recruitment systems and processes, interview and selection practices, and onboarding approaches such as mihi whakatau. Angela is particularly skilled at navigating complex internal environments, diplomatically bridging worlds to support safer spaces and stronger pathways for Māori kaimahi.

Driven by equity and inclusion, Angela is deeply committed to mahi that creates meaningful opportunity and supports Māori and Pacific people to thrive.

Aretha comes to support Mana Mahi in the capacity of kai karanga. Her presence ensures that tikanga and mana are upheld within the delivery of mihi whakatau.

Her permanent role is Matanga Matua Kimi Tangata (Māori) / Senior Recruitment Consultant at Auckland University of Technology.

A particular strength of Aretha's is her ability to weave tikanga Māori into recruitment practices. Aretha helps organisations attract and retain talent in ways that are culturally grounded, authentic, and deeply human.