Date: 14th January 2022 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Platform: Zoom and In-person / Members-only event
Whether you are our in-person or virtual member, you can sign up for our Coffee & Cakes: How to get shit done! session and enjoy a catch up with other Greenhouse Coworking community members over coffee and cake, at our first networking event of 2022.
Our Founder, Ronna, will discuss “How to get shit done” during this hour long event and you will be pumped to start your year on the right foot, surrounded by like minded people with the same sentiments.
Date: 8 September 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Our How-to-Series are monthly classes that will elevate you from zero to hero in a chosen topic as we bring experts and leaders in the Zoom room.
How-to in September:
Have you noticed that more and more potential grant funding for MSMEs are on the rise as organisations channel their efforts to supporting small businesses to survive the pandemic’s effects? This is especially true for ventures whose goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But who has any clue on how to write these proposals? These organisations certainly have a totally different “language” don’t they?
For this September’s class, we’re organising a panel of three who can guide the class on how to write grant proposals that may get you that funding you desperately need!
Meet our Panel of Speakers:
Ken Katafono
Ken is an ICT professional, consultant, and entrepreneur working in technology, agriculture, and fisheries. He co-founded Traseable Solutions in 2017 with his wife, Shauna, and together they have led innovative projects and digitisation efforts in the Pacific agriculture and fisheries sectors.
Rebecca Mcnaught
Rebecca has worked internationally and locally in the areas of climate change, disaster risk management, disaster resilience, sustainable agriculture and revegetation programmes. She currently runs her own consultancy business, Pacific Connections (Aust) which provides research, advisory and training services, and is undertaking her PhD on local level collaboration for resilience.
Marita Manley
Marita is the co-founder of two Fiji companies, Talanoa Treks and Talanoa Consulting, working on agriculture, environmental conservation, sustainable tourism, women’s economic empowerment and community development. She’s an environmental economist and has developed proposals and managed projects of all sizes.
Date: 16th February 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 PM
Platform: Zoom
Most entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses do not have the resources, the time and the know-how to focus on legal matters even if establishing a strong legal foundation is critical in launching and running a business. If this is you, then you won’t want to miss our FREE session filled with specific legal advice and tips that you won’t get by searching on Google and online.
From complying with employment laws to setting up appropriate legal structures for your business to grow, tax considerations to founding issues, and from protecting your data and intellectual property to minimizing legal fees and using your lawyer’s time more efficiently, join us for this introductory session with our speakers, Mr. Richard Naidu and Mr. Deepesh Singh from Munro Leys.
Munro Leys is Fiji’s largest law firm with 140 years of experience. The firm strengths are the skills, integrity, and experience of its people, its commitment to quality work and commercial outcomes. Munro Leys specialises in the practice areas of Administrative Law, Admiralty Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Aviation, Banking and Securities, Capital Markets, Commercial Property Transactions, Company Law, Competition Contract and Commercial Documentation, Creditors’ Remedies, Employment and Immigration, Employee Share Schemes, Energy and environment, Exchange Control, Foreign Investment, Information Technology, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Mining and Resources, Media Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and due diligence, Personal Injury, Taxation Customs, and Stamp Duty, Telecommunications and Tourism.
About our Speaker: Richard Naidu
Richard has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and was admitted to the bars of New Zealand in 1989 and Fiji in 1995. A former journalist in Fiji and New Zealand, he worked in major law firms in New Zealand between 1989 and 1995 before returning to Fiji. Richard now leads the firm’s Commercial Group, advising clients in Fiji and abroad in all major Fiji business sectors, including tourism, energy, finance, media, transport, real property, mining and manufacturing. His areas of practice include competition, finance, foreign investment, media, real property and taxation law. He is also a mediator accredited by the Australian Centre for Dispute Assessment & Resolution.
Richard is an occasional presenter and commentator on legal, media and other public issues in Fiji. He advises a range of NGOs, including the Fiji Red Cross Society and the Fiji National Olympic Committee and holds offices in the Fiji Law Society, the South Pacific Lawyers Association and the International Bar Association.
Richard is also the Honorary Consul in Fiji for Belgium.
About our Speaker: Deepesh Singh
Deepesh attained his Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the South Pacific in 2019. He completed his Professional Diploma in Legal Practice in the same year.
Deepesh joined Munro Leys in December 2018 and was admitted to the Fiji Bar in May 2019. He has a keen interest in bankruptcy and insolvency law.
Date: 3rd February 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 PM
Platform: Zoom
It has never been easy finding the right people for your business and we know it’s definitely not a walk in the park when it comes to managing and leading a team of people. And now with the new normal in the midst and post-pandemic, hands up if you are feeling even more pressure and stress doing all of the above? Say no more and join our FREE online session led by award-winning HR Trainer, Mr Jawal Mangal, on how you can hire, lead, and engage a high-performing team for your business, department or company.
Message from our Trainer:
There is still uncertainty about what the workplace new normal will be, and it is easy for companies to default to old routines and habits. Harvard University has come up with planned opportunities that you should take now to develop thriving employees — those who experience learning and vitality at work and feel that they make difference. By recalibrating expectations, reestablishing commitment, and rebuilding capacity, you strengthen your company’s most important asset (human-capital) to weather the next unexpected, extreme event — whenever it comes. This is planning for future uncertainties too.
About our Trainer:
Jawal Mangal, MBA, PDGBA, B.A. (Psych/PA) Dip in Ed
Jawal has over two decades of professional experience in Organizational Development, Employee Performance Improvement, Diversity Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning and Development and Leadership Development in Fiji. He is an award-winning strategic and innovative HR Executive and Facilitator/Trainer who translates business vision into HR initiatives/innovative teaching that improve performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement. As a leader he supports companies and top executives with a unique perspective and appreciation that human capital is every organisation’s greatest asset. His whole career has been strongly dedicated to being a Human Resources Manager at USP, ATS, and as a Trainer at USP Pacific TAFE. Jawal is a genuine influencer who thrives on tough challenges and translates visions and strategies into actionable, value-added goals.
Date: 28th January 2022 (Friday)
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 PM
Platform: Zoom
Do you feel like someone is speaking in a different language when they try to explain how Tax for business works? So do we….sometimes. Which is why we’re offering a 1 hour introductory session this Friday 28th Jan, from 1pm – 2pm, for small business owners and consultants.
It’s a FREE online session that will set you on the right path to understanding Tax compliance and processes for your business.
Our speakers for the session are Mr Pradeep Patel – Partner at BDO Fiji, and Ms Nikita Khatri – Manager / Tax & Advisory Services at BDO Fiji.
BDO Fiji is one of Fiji’s leading professional services firm providing audit, tax and advisory services to businesses ranging from established multinational conglomerates to growth-oriented organisations, whether public or private.
See you there!
Date: 26th January 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 PM
Platform: Zoom
Cyclone season and the third COVID wave is upon us so it is critical to have a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) now if you haven’t created one yet! Join the Greenhouse Coworking Community for this FREE training led by our Founder, Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi, who is a certified BCP trainer under the ILO and UNDP BCP Training of Trainers workshop held last year.
This training is just an hour so it is an introductory session, but it is enough time to go through a step by step guide on how you can get your BCP started, and what are the most important things to note so you can be prepared with whatever is coming your way in 2022 and beyond.
More info about the Facilitator:
My TEDx Suva talk (Courage in Business)
Date: 21st January 2022 (Friday)
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00 PM
Platform: Zoom
If you missed the last Dreamer to Doer session last year, this is your chance to sign up for this upcoming one!
Join the Greenhouse Coworking Community for this FREE class where our Founder, Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi, breaks it down on how you can get those BIG dreams and goals now. Does fear overcome you and stop you from taking any steps to achieving your dreams? Do you question yourself on whether you are doing the right things? Are you unsure on how to even begin?
Three takeaways that you are guaranteed to learn in this class:
- Learn a practical framework on how to turn your dreams into achievable goals (yes even during a pandemic).
- What to do when the fear and uncertainty steps in.
- How to create strategies and use tools that actually work for you so you are not giving up months later and throwing your long to-do list out the window!
Message from the Facilitator:
Bula I’m Ronna! Chief Dream-Achiever and Boss Momma of Dragons at Greenhouse Coworking and The Greenhouse Studio.
I know what it’s like, to dream so big that you’re left scared shitless. That and the thousand thoughts running in your head on how can you even begin with your multitude of roles, bills to pay, mouths to feed and you maybe think that people will laugh at you.
Over the years I’ve learned that there is a framework and a certain type of mindset that transforms dreamers to doers, and this has helped me in making things happen in every aspect of my life. From conquering the fear of the deep by learning how to scuba dive, hiking up and swimming on a volcano crater, traveling around Europe, bootstrapping a business, meeting President Obama and Michelle Obama (with other chosen Obama leaders but we were in the same room ok?😂), marrying my soulmate and bringing two little souls into the world!
My intention is to inspire and create that spark in you so you can begin to truly take charge of your life. Hope to see you in my class!
More info about me:
My TEDx Suva talk (Courage in Business)
Event Photo Credit: Danielle Macinnes from Unsplash
Date: 25 August 2021, Wednesday
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Join the Greenhouse Coworking Community for this FREE class where our Founder, Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi, breaks it down on how you can get those BIG dreams and goals now. Does fear overcome you and stop you from taking any steps to achieving your dreams? Do you question yourself on whether you are doing the right things? Are you unsure on how to even begin?
Three takeaways that you are guaranteed to learn in this class:
- Learn a practical framework on how to turn your dreams into achievable goals (yes even during a pandemic).
- What to do when the fear and uncertainty steps in.
- How to create strategies and use tools that actually work for you so you are not giving up months later and throwing your long to-do list out the window!
Message from the Facilitator:
Bula I’m Ronna! Chief Dream-Achiever and Boss Momma of Dragons at Greenhouse Coworking and The Greenhouse Studio.
I know what it’s like, to dream so big that you’re left scared shitless. That and the thousand thoughts running in your head on how can you even begin with your multitude of roles, bills to pay, mouths to feed and you maybe think that people will laugh at you.
Over the years I’ve learned that there is a framework and a certain type of mindset that transforms dreamers to doers, and this has helped me in making things happen in every aspect of my life. From conquering the fear of the deep by learning how to scuba dive, hiking up and swimming on a volcano crater, traveling around Europe, bootstrapping a business, meeting President Obama and Michelle Obama (with other chosen Obama leaders but we were in the same room ok?😂), marrying my soulmate and bringing two little souls into the world!
My intention is to inspire and create that spark in you so you can begin to truly take charge of your life. Hope to see you in my class!
More info about me:
My TEDx Suva talk (Courage in Business)
Event Photo Credit: Danielle Macinnes from Unsplash
Date: 27 August 2021, Friday
Time: 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Platform: Zoom
Our Founder Fridays are monthly events that bring together business founders from everywhere as a time not only to talanoa about topics and issues that keep founders up at night but also give them a space to share and unwind on a Friday afternoon after a long, hard week (or weekssss!) with other founders like themselves.
These events are for our Greenhouse Coworking community members hosted by our very own Community Manager, Lana Smith. We’ll invite other founder friends from around the region and the globe too and you can be sure to walk away not just feeling lighter after connecting with other founders, but also learn something new that can help you and your business.
This Founder Friday’s talanoa:
This is our #firstever #FounderFriday so we are excited! For this first one, we will share and revolve around this question –
What is the greatest f-up in your life or in your business that has taught you so much, it propelled you to where you are today?
About the Host:
Community Manager at Greenhouse Coworking. Also, Mama of two not so little humans, a partner, cook, cleaner, advisor, hugger, problem solver, and home keeper.
With a diverse background in Fashion Design, Administration, Film Production, Sales and Marketing, I am able to draw from different experiences and knowledge that will help me navigate, and be impactful in both my career and personal life.
I am realising and fulfilling my purpose, one day at a time, through love, faith, and resilience.
Armed with the right attitude, a strong support system, and kindness …. the possibilities are endless.
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
– Tony Robbins
More info about me:
Event Photo Credit: Shannon Rowies from Unsplash
