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Profile – Nikki Fisher, Legal Counsel at Summerset Group Holdings Ltd
Nikki Fisher It may seem unusual to some that rugby players like Dan Carter and Richie McCaw have invested in retirement homes, but Summerset Group Legal Counsel Nikki Fisher isn’t surprised in the slightest. “It’s a huge growth sector. It’s definitely one of the things that makes this job really fun....
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Seminar - The ins and outs of joint venture arrangements
Businesses working together can often maximise a strategic opportunity, improve market share or strength or achieve best use of their resources and deliver cost efficiencies. Most organisations will at some stage enter into some form of joint venture, shareholder agreement or contractual alliance. In this seminar we look at the nature...
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July 2015
*All the Ways Your Legal Skills Can Be Used* A law degree opens doors. One of those doors is the internal reins of a company or large corporation, the role we often refer to as general counsel (also known as in-house counsel). Read more.
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July 2015
*Why it’s time to forget the pecking order at work* Organisations are often run according to “the superchicken model”, where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion —...
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October 2016
4 reasons to learn a new language English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue. Click here[https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_4_reasons_to_learn_a_new_language] to view.
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November 2016
5 ways to lead in an era of constant change Who says change needs to be hard? Organizational change expert Jim Hemerling thinks adapting your business in today's constantly-evolving world can be invigorating instead of exhausting. He outlines five imperatives, centered around putting people first, for turning company reorganization into an...
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December 2016
Your smartphone is a civil rights issue The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us...
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March 2017
Adventures of an asteroid hunter TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have...
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May 2017
Laura Galante: How to exploit democracy Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence geopolitics is dastardly simple: it's you. Click here[https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_galante_how_to_exploit_democracy]...
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June 2017
Why we need to imagine different futures Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do we want a world where intelligent machines patrol our streets, for instance, or where our genetic heritage determines our health...
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