About WBNNZ
The WBNNZ, the World Business New Zealand, is a cooperative of business owners and entrepreneurs who desire to work together and to create consciousness by redefining the way in which they conduct their business.
WBNNZ members foster enlightened business relationships by sharing common values, ideas, skills and services in an environment of mutual support and generosity.
Our cooperative is not affiliated with any officially registered business group or religious and/or spiritual organisation of any kind, nor does the WBN NZ receive ongoing financial sponsorship and/or government funds.The sponsorships provided usually are contributed in form of products and services by individuals and core members.
The WBNNZ was founded by Adriane Hartigan-von Strauch in February 2005 as the New Zealand chapter of the Wholistic Business Network in Australia.
Adriane's extensive professional background, not only as an international award-winning Film Editor in the Film- and Arts Industry in Germany, but also as certified and chartered health professional in New Zealand, does provide a great spectrum of understanding for the professional requirements and spiritual needs of individual practitioners in the wholistic sector. Graduated with a Diploma in Arts Management from the University of Auckland in 1997 she well understands the concept of 'business'.
Adriane, when living in Australia in 2004, was introduced to the WBN by founder Sandhi Spiers, who catalysed his networking mission in 2003. The collective spirit and mutual support Adriane enjoyed and benefited from WBN meetings during her time overseas did inspire her to carry the concept of a 'wholistic and conscious' business network to her home country New Zealand.
Between 2005 and 2008 the WBNNZ, the Wholistic Business Network New Zealand, has established a unique New Zealand branding identity - independent from its Australian mother organisation and associated cooperative in Sydney.
Due to the intense emerging and fast raising of awareness towards consciousness in the New Zealand community, Adriane followed the internal and external callings to re-brand the 'Wholistic' Business Network New Zealand to 'World' Business New Zealand in February 2009. The network maintains its identity as WBNNZ.
Adriane and her life - and business partner Jerome Hartigan, international business catalyst and coach, hold a powerful and openhearted vision for the future of the World Business New Zealand. To create an unique and fast growing networking platform in which professionals from all creative and entrepreneurial sectors beyond the wholistic and wellbeing sector can be included, and to raise human consciousness towards global oneness - through the channel of our professional and human relationships.
