Seven people have been inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame, including Theresa Gattung, NBR Lister Ted Manson, and former Auckland Business Chamber chief executive Michael Barnett.

Coralus, a global network that funds startups led by female and non-binary founders, says its achieved its goal of becoming a perpetual fund in New Zealand.

Welcome to the long-form introduction of the Aotearoa Centre for Enterprising Women’s first-ever newsletter. In these quarterly newsletters, I will keep you posted on what has been happening at the Centre and our plans.

Theresa Gattung has a passion for helping girls and women succeed in business.

The Foundation is concentrating on key areas – supporting education and learning opportunities for young women, supporting families in need, relieving poverty through grassroots support, lifting women out of situations of inequality, hardship or violence, and improving the care and protection of animals.

Juliette Hogan already runs a successful fashion business employing 40 staff but she is hoping a new female entrepreneurs programme will help her to expand her business internationally.

Montague said the foundation was focused on four areas – women, youth wellbeing, environment and oral health.

“I no longer think I have unlimited energy, after my physical exhaustion and adrenal burnout in 2018. I have to choose what I do, and I want to be magnificent at that which I choose to do.

“Women, especially women of colour, continue to face deep-seated gender inequality and are massively underrepresented when it comes to venture capital for start-ups. I’m a firm believer that through business, we can create a fairer world.”

“If we let an inch of the gains we have made over the last couple of decades slide, in a blink of an eye the inch will be a mile.”

All of the 25 young female leaders honoured in last year's Y25 Awards were entrepreneurs, she points out.

"There wasn't a single woman there who was working for a pay cheque and had a boss. And that is the future – if women aren't supported to stand powerfully in that future we're not going to be able to create a better world than the one we're currently living in."

Joanna Wane talks to Global Women's Agnes Naera and Theresa Gattung about #BreakTheBias, a worldwide campaign launched this week on International Women's Day.