Major Milestone in Trans-Tasman Cultural-Based Export Trade
Murray Saylor (LEFT), Managing Director of Tagai Management Consultants and Warner Cowin (RIGHT), CEO of Height Project Management
Two specialist consultancy businesses, Tagai Management Consultants and Height Project Management have signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining a collaboration which will support First Nations export and trade opportunities across Australia and New Zealand.
Tagai Management Consultants (TMC) is a Torres Strait Islander-owned business based in Brisbane with Height Project Management (Height) being a Māori-owned business with offices in Auckland and Sydney. Good things take time. Like all things in Indigenous culture, relationships take time to grow and mature. Over the past two years, respective CEOs Murray Saylor and Warner Cowin have and developed their business relationship, which is grounded in cultural protocol and focused on social impact. Both businesses share a common passion for equity, service, and community. And as they are also veteran owned, they actively support veterans and service people.
TMC and Height will embark on a collaborative journey to explore mutual business opportunities, leveraging shared knowledge and adopting a reciprocal, place-based, and culturally appropriate approach across Australia and New Zealand. Applying their combined experience and expertise, they will provide specialist services which include:
· Impact-based procurement;
· Indigenous business capabilities uplift; and
· Developing tools which support the application of social procurement which creates impact for Indigenous communities.
TMC was founded in 2014 bringing significant experience in social procurement across various industries including defence, government, technology, and renewable energy. Their support in these areas have delivered social and commercial value of approximately AUD $1 billion since 2017. This was achieved through delivery of wholistic social procurement services, strong community relationships, small business education and training, and other social impact endeavours.
Founded in 2013, Height has specialist expertise in construction procurement and in creating social impact in large government infrastructure projects. Height has successfully delivered a capability uplift programme supporting over 100 Māori businesses to be sustainable and to win work directly with government agencies. This programme has helped businesses win over $34 million worth of contracts since 2021.
Height and TMC will provide additional capability which supports Indigenous businesses across Oceania. This exciting collaboration will deliver value and benefits to people and communities across the Pacific.
Quote attributable to Murray Saylor, Founder and Managing Director of Tagai Management Consultants:
"This MOU between Tagai and Height brings together two dynamic community-driven businesses fuelled by their ancient seafaring cultures and focused on culturally appropriate on country engagement and creating reciprocal social and commercial value.” Said Murray Saylor, TMC Managing Director.
Quote attributable to Warner Cowin, Founder and CEO of Heigh Project Management:
“Tagai and Height values and Kaupapa are aligned. We both care deeply about creating economic impact within our local communities through social procurement and Indigenous business capability uplift” said Warner Cowin, Height CEO.
Tagai Management Consultants is a award-winning management consultancy specialising in Procurement /Supply Chain, Stakeholder Engagement, Business advisory and Innovative Futures services across Australia and the Asia/Pacific region. We are focused on empowering relationships and working with our customers to enhance their commercial and social outcomes within their supply chain and across communities. Get in contact with us today.