Follow some of my story, thoughts and advice in these articles and podcasts that I’ve been on
NBR: Accounting entrepreneur on a mission to lift Māori and Pasifika statistics
Podcast: Better Business, Better Life
WE Summit 2021
We Accounting
The WE SUMMIT is a two-day conference designed to help business owners enhance their transformational leadership style to make a bigger impact on their teams, their communities and the world.
WE want to awaken vision and give business owners insights and tools to help them move forward and achieve real results. The transformational leader within business leaders will emerge so they can better serve our communities.
How can WE uplift communities
Storyo Article
Wyndi was interviewed by the team at Storyo, who asked about her journey into business and the the difficulties she faced getting to where she is today. She also talks about how sports have played a role in her life both personally and professionally.
“There’s a saying… ‘grow the leader, grow the business’. So, every day I am growing. “
Follow through the link to the full article.
Storyo was created to share stories of women and non-binary in Aotearoa New Zealand. Their goal and mission is to show you the vulnerable and honest sides of everyone’s journeys. To show you that we are all here on the same page – raw, unsure, inspired, fighting and figuring stuff out together!
The Female Career Podcast
The Female Career
Wyndi was interviewed by Anna Johnstone on her ‘The Female Career Podcast’, talking about the career path Wyndi had taken to get to where she is today, including dropping out of Teachers College at the age of 21 when she became pregnant with her first child.
Together they also discuss the challenges and preconceptions Wyndi has faced as a Māori woman in business, how she responds when people assume her husband runs the business, rather than her and how she coped after both her Dad and Koko passed away in 2017 and being diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
You can listen to Wyndi sharing her career story on The Female Career website or you can listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts
The Female Career podcast shares stories of inspiring female careers, to encourage women to be more courageous, purposeful and fulfilled in their own careers.
Advisable
By Fathom
Seen as a leader in the accounting industry that delivers advisory services, Wyndi, along with her husband Eli were two of the 30 people invited globally, to share their insights into what they are doing in the advisory space.
Follow through the link to their video interviews
Meet the duo who marry home and work life
By Acuity Mag
Wyndi and Eli share how they manage their work and home relationship, as well as raising 5 boys.
“They are a team at home and at work, and they make the partnership a success. Eli Tagi CA and his wife, Wyndi, work side by side in their Auckland account firm, WE Accounting.”
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A GOAL TO CREATE 100,000 MILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESSES
By Consegna.Cloud
With their business, WE Accounting, Wyndi & Eli have been working together with Consegna and Amazon Web Services to create a platform to better aid them in fulfilling their business vision. Justin Brown interviewed Wyndi and Eli and brings you this article.
“Eli and Wyndi understand that indigenous businesses typically hire indigenous people, which in turn causes a ripple effect within their community, helping many people to climb out of poverty. A shared vision of creating wealth is always top of mind, as is encouraging small businesses to be all that they can be.”
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How to be loudly, proudly brown in a very white industry
By The Spinoff – Alexia Santamaria
When Wyndi and Eli Tagi first opened the doors to WE Accounting and Business Advisory 10 years ago, they received some interesting advice from the people around them: “Maybe don’t advertise the fact that you’re Māori or Samoan too much, it might not be good for getting clients,” they suggested. Worse still: “You don’t want to look too brown.”
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AWS shows off new digs and tech partners in Auckland
By Business Desk – Henry Burrell
A first public demonstration of WE Accounting’s bespoke AI customer service assistant Maia showed the possibilities of scalable products running in the cloud round the clock. Built in partnership with services company Consegna and digital human platform Uneeq, Maia can take and triage queries from WE’s customers. Founders Wyndi Tagi and Eli Tagi said it is hoped Maia will soon be fluent in te reo Māori and Samoan, the languages most spoken by the company’s customers.
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What bosses are learning from Covid-stressed workers
By Stuff – Catherine Harris
Auckland employer Wyndi Tagi of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi knows a little about the struggle to keep well, which means she’s completely on board with the idea of bosses leading the way in that area.
“100 per cent,” she says, when asked whether employers should step up to the plate.
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