Clinton Farley, General Manager, The Hotel Britomart

Dedicated to sustainability and community engagement. In 2020, Clinton launched New Zealand’s first 5 Green Star hotel, The Hotel Britomart. Collaborating with Velskov, Clinton and his team also introduced the country's first hotel-led Regenerative Travel experience, Nourishing Nature and have worked on several other community and sustainability collaborations.

Jean-Michel Jefferson, Co-founder, Ahipara Luxury Travel

Authentic and meaningful travel has put Jean-Michel at the top of finding unique New Zealand experiences. His mentoring is helping us to push boundaries, particularly about transformational experiences, such as the Rainforest Cuisine private visits.

Ramona Radford (Ngāi Tai, Te Whakatōhea and Ngāti Porou)

Project lead, Board member at Ngā Pou a Tāne, the national Māori forestry association.

Ramona works as a Board member of Ngā Pou a Tāne, and as a living systems indigenous practitioner to demonstrate regenerative forestry in partnership with global indigenous and private landowners, industry, and government.

Kylie Rae, Founder, Bush Boardroom and Nature & Nosh Travel

Kylie is an extremely talented, creative marketing professional with enthusiasm and drive and the founder of two successful start-ups, both partners of Velskov.

Jacob Grum-Schwensen, Founder, Greybeard Scandinavia Leadership

Management consulting and execution support at the highest level. More than 30 years of experience with management at all levels.

Nicolaj Bak

Creative Director & Founder @ Overtone | Brand identity

As the Founder and Creative Director of Overtone, a brand and design agency, Nicolaj has designing brand identities, typefaces, and digital products for over 15 years. He has a passion for strategic design and a multidisciplinary background in graphic, brand and type design, creative coding and classical music.

Outdoor Concepts has provided the very best in outdoor living equipment since opening its doors in Parnell over 15 years ago. The firm continues to bring the latest and most innovative outdoor heating and entertaining area products to New Zealand, including our outdoor cooking wonders, the OFYR and the Morso. Outdoor Concepts

Kevin Helas, Founder, Head Chef, The Wholefood Kitchen

The Wholefood Kitchen is the creation of Aotearoa NZ born Kevin Helas, who trained extensively in London under the guidance of some of the worlds’ leading wholefood and macrobiotic chefs.

It was at the Concord Institute, under the guidance of Jean Torné and other teachers, that Kevin was first introduced to the principle of ‘cooking with awareness,’ a powerful way of establishing a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us, which informs The Wholefood Kitchen ethos. 

Kevin's connection with cooking sits alongside his experience across a wide spectrum of well-being, self-realisation and spiritual practice, and his work as an Embodiment Coach.