Unlocking the potential
As an organisation, EHF supports Fellows to accelerate NZ’s innovation system and grow Kiwi businesses by starting and scaling ventures, leveraging global connections, providing mentorship and investment. Fellows are transforming and democratising technologies, tackling inequalities and working to empower youth, Māori and Pasifika, through advocacy and system redesign.
Tā Mātou Moemoeā (Our Vision)
To Inspire Global Leadership and Solutions for Future Generations
To encourage each of us to put our full human potential to work in collective service of our planet and our people.
Tā Mātou Take (Our Purpose)Partnering with Aotearoa NZ to Solve the Toughest Problems
Partnering with NZ, we want to build solutions to global challenges from our own backyard, which inspire global leadership
Tā Mātou Takohanga (Our Commitment)Recognising and Honouring Te Tiriti (The Treaty)
Committed to recognising and honouring our responsibility as Tangata Tiriti (People of Treaty), we are on a journey of partnership with Te Ātiawa Taranaki Whānui as Mana Whenua (indigenous people of the land) from Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, the birthplace of EHF.
Closer alignment for positive impact
EHF was established as a social enterprise to have a positive impact on the world, supporting and advancing the purposes of its parent organisation, the Hillary Institute, with a focus on Aotearoa inspiring global leadership and solutions for future generations and anchored in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi).
To unlock the potential of two extraordinary groups - Laureates and Fellows - the Hillary Institute and EHF have a single board and unified management structure to ensure close alignment between the two organisations.
Unlocking and Enabling the Potential of the Fellowship
As an organisation, we focus on three key strategic areas of activity:Activating a Thriving Fellowship
Bring focus and function to creating a place of belonging and community, connecting Fellows to Fellows and supporting self-organising communities, to ensure the mana and collective leadership of the Fellowship is unlocked.
We do this by:
A well-designed Welcome Experience to support and enable
Partnering with Mana Whenua to introduce Fellows to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Aotearoa NZ as a bicultural nation
High-impact events/programme
Visa and residence support
Weaving self-activating communities
Partnering with Aotearoa NZ
Bring Fellows and New Zealand leaders together around challenges we face, with solutions that can have a global impact. It requires focus - for example, climate action or transformative industries such as blockchain.
We do this by:
Growing strategic partnerships
Exploring business models/pilot(s) for impact at scale
Fundraising and endowments
Inspiring Global Leadership
We have powerful and inspiring stories within the Fellowship. Now we must bring them to life, through impact case studies, human stories, evidence, artefacts that can inspire NZ and the world.
We do this by:
Powerful storytelling
Collective impact reporting
Internal/external communications
Stakeholder/partner engagement
The Small, But Mighty Team Behind the Fellowship
Core Team
Group CEO - The Hillary Institute & Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Rosalie Nelson
Michelle Parker
Head of Fellowship Experience
Head of Communications and Engagement
Kelly Ley-Dahm
Aynslie Harper
Communications & Engagement Advisor
Events & Operations Lead
Paula Neme
Erica Austin
Community Activator
Shiori Dalton
Dallas Hopkins
Team Co-ordinator
Senior Accountant
Specialist Support
Huia Lambie
Hine Poipoi - Connector
Sharn Maree
Cultural Support and Facilitation
Matt Billington
Social Media & Web Support
EHF and Hillary Institute Board
Hillary Institute Trustee & EHF Director (Kaupapa Māori)
Dinnie Moeahu
Matthew Monahan
Founder, Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Yoseph Ayele
Founder, Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Founder, Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Brian Monahan
Mark Prain
Founder & Kaitiaki, Hillary Institute
Hillary Institute Trustee & EHF Director
Anna Kominik
Chair - Hillary Institute & EHF Board
Camia Young
Hillary Institute Trustee & EHF Director
Andrew Hoppin
Hillary Institute Trustee & EHF Director
Ian Short
Founders
Careers
JOIN THE TEAMThe Hillary Institute and Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) have been aligning our two purpose-led organisations, so as to draw together two extraordinary groups of changemakers and global innovators - our Laureates and Fellows. The management and governance of both the Hillary Institute and EHF have been integrated, and in this next chapter we are progressing a shared strategy to unlock the potential of collective impact at scale, by bringing Laureates and Fellows together.