The New P&L Speaks to Dan Te Whenua Walker - Global Co-Chair, Indigenous at Microsoft

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This week, The New P&L Speaks to the awesome Dan Te Whenua Walker - Global Co-Chair, Indigenous at Microsoft.

Indigenous at Microsoft’s mission is to honour, share and celebrate Indigenous cultures within Microsoft – those from right across the world – and play a leading role in shaping inclusive technology to empower future generations. Indigenous at Microsoft focuses on raising the Indigenous voice, fostering awareness of indigenous cultures, traditions, and values, assisting in outreach to recruit and retain Indigenous talent; sharing the power of perspective to help shape the wisdom and influence of Indigenous voice within technology innovation and development. We discuss with Dan:

· The background the development of Indigenous at Microsoft

· What good allyship looks like in a business

· The mechanisms in place to ensure this initiative delivers real value to Indigenous employees and doesn’t end up as a corporate virtue signal

· How Indigenous at Microsoft has changed the visibility, and sense of belonging and pride of Microsoft’s indigenous employees

· How it is changing Microsoft’s thinking and its approach to its business more broadly in terms of the products it develops and the communities it engages with

· ‘He Whenua Kōrero - Stories of the Land’ program led by Microsoft in Aotearoa/New Zealand

· The ambitions for Indigenous at Microsoft over the medium term

· Dan's ambition to make Microsoft the 'employer of choice' when it comes to indigenous employees

· Dan’s own personal journey into more deeply rediscovering his Māori heritage and Te Reo Māori (Māori language)

· How to find opportunities for innovation that support indigenous communities

To link up with Dan and learn more about Indigenous at Microsoft, go to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-tewhenua-walker/

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