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Miomo Leadersip Event – Key Speaker Jason Kerrison

Friday 8 April 2011, 11:38AM

By Charity Matters

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Saturday 16th April will see a variety of speakers attend the Miomo Leadership Event at Massey University, Albany.

Special guests include Jason Kerrison, frontman for OPSHOP and organiser of Band Together Community concert for Canterbury Dec 2010.

Other speakers included, Alex Asher and Dino Roberston, two speakers who have powerful stories and insights to share.

Alex Asher cannot be contained by the conventional. Having gained a degree in business and law, Alex spent the next 4 years working in sales for Icebreaker in New Zealand and Germany.

But working for someone else was not to be his future. Alex's passion for the environment and his natural entrepreneurial spirit drove him to set a hairy, audacious goal.

On February 1st Alex Asher arrived in Wellington exhausted but elated after running 55 off-road marathons in 63 days.

He ran 2,300km from Cape Reinga down the entire east coast of the north island, including the Coromandel and East Cape, to the Cook Strait. He had only raced on one marathon before he decided to run and swim the equivalent of the length of NZ.

Now Alex is using his energy and passion for the environment to inspire his latest project, Real Wearth, a web-business designed to help New Zealanders buy food that's better for themselves and our environment.

Dino Robertson will be joining the speakers lineup, he’ll be giving attendees and insight into his past life and the road he is forging ahead.

For many years Dino lived a double life - as a restaurant owner by day and drug user and dealer by night. He was entrenched in a life of deceit, short-term fixes and greed.

In 2008 it all came crashing down as Dino recognised that his life needed to change or he would die either by his own hands or at the hands of someone else.  It has been two years since he has been involved in the drug world. Dino is now restored and is giving back to others who have travelled a similar path.

The stories, tips and advice that are likely to come from this Miomo Leadership Event will help our next generation on a path of self improvement.

As Yvonne Godfrey, creator of Miomo stated “We need to look after the next generation, equip them to take full responsibility for themselves and to live independently of family.

For more information on Miomo and the Miomo Leadership event visit www.miomo.co.nz