Peter Apo
Featured Keynote Programs
Hawaiians and Tourism – A Story of Love and Hate
The impact of tourism on the islands has brought both prosperity and pain. Hawaiians have been irrelevant to industry growth and passions run high on the price of paradise. An examination of the tourism growth model and lessons learned from a native Hawaiian perspective.
Living and Working In Hawaiʻi
A Seminar for New Arrivals
A power point presentation for new arrivals relocating or intending to do business in Hawaiʻi over an extended period of time. Hawaiʻi is unique among the 50 states in its history, cultural diversity, lifestyle, politics, volcanic geography, and tapestry of social systems. New arrivals sometimes have a challenge in understanding what they are experiencing and seeing in their daily routines as they go about their business. This seminar is designed to help facilitate their understanding of Hawaiʻi as a place to live and do business.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs – A Nation in Waiting
A creation of the 1978 Constitutional Convention, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a placeholder until such time that Hawaiians regain some form of sovereignty and obtain control of their own destiny. What does this mean for the rest of Hawaiʻi?
Hawaiians and the Hawaiʻi Economy
After more than 100 years of painful recovery from our loss of sovereignty, dignity, honor, culture, and land, Hawaiians have risen from the brink of cultural extinction to unprecedented capacity to chart our own economic destiny in a way that brings prosperity to all.
Kakaʻako Makai – Out of the Ashes, a Nation
The result of a $200 million dollar settlement with the state of Hawaiʻi, OHA negotiated title to 30 acres of prime shoreline. It presents OHA with a dramatic first opportunity to manifest the physical vision of a nation with sustainable growth driven by Hawaiian values.
Trouble in Paradise – Globalism and Growth
Once upon a time isolated and difficult to access, Hawaiʻi eventually is swept into the powerful currents of global growth with its future tossed about in corporate board rooms thousands of miles away from the people and towns whose lives turn on their decisions. An examination of life in the fast lane of globalism and its impact on the quality of life of the people of the islands.
Cultural History of the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiʻi is the most isolated set of islands in the world whose nearest neighboring land mass is 1800 miles distant. Traces the enviro-socio-cultural-political history of the Hawaiian Islands from their volcanic origins, settlement, and dramatic growth into one of the world’s most celebrated and dynamic places.