Women Entrepreneurship Program/Center is a platform that educates, inspires, and empowers women entrepreneurs to reach their full potential to create economic and social value for themselves, their organizations, and society. The Center does this through innovative education programs, events, and workshops by supporting and widely disseminating research about the unique skills and experiences of women entrepreneurs. The Centre also provides mentoring, practical learning, consultancy and is actively researching in areas of relevance to entrepreneurship in New Zealand. It serves as a platform to learn and build a collective entrepreneurial future that creates economic and social value in New Zealand.
The Center also focuses on research on the context and influence of women as entrepreneurial leaders and the ways in which organizations are transforming themselves to most effectively tap the diversity of talent. The Center caters to women from all walks of life including undergraduate and graduate students. It provides access to education, engagement with role models and opportunities to experiment with their ideas.
Objectives
Our main objective of the center is to create awareness, educate, inspire, and empower women entrepreneurs to reach their full potential to create economic and social value for themselves, their organizations, and society. Other objectives include: