VISION
We envision a resilient community and economy where every person works to collectively honor, protect, and perpetuate Hawai‘i’s Soul.
MISSION
We inspire, empower, and leverage the collaborative leadership of top decision makers to create local and global change that is rooted in Hawai‘i’s Soul.
WHAT WE DO
We evaluate and create plans for strategic action to address Hawai‘i’s most pressing problems and to help create a pathway for Hawai‘i’s future. We do so by:
- Bringing together leaders from all sectors of our community to meet entrenched views head-on and to bring transformative change beyond the status quo, to fill gaps, and to support and amplify existing efforts.
- Building a collaborative leadership culture by serving as a convenor and bridge builder, providing backbone support to shared actions.
- Prioritizing building new and unlikely relationships and cultivating existing ones to fortify trust, broaden perspectives, and nurture responsibility and accountability for their actions to each other.
GUIDED BY HAWAIIAN VALUES
In all that we do, we emphasize the following guiding principles:
Aloha au i Aloha | Auamo au i ke kuleana no ko | ʻAʻohe hana nui ke alu ʻia |
HAWAI'I'S SOUL
Living Hawai‘i’s Soul means that everyone on our islands regardless of background or ethnicity – lives with island consciousness and that we must live in a reciprocal relationship with all living things: the ‘āina, the ocean, the sky, the kānaka who originated from the islands, and immigrants and people who call Hawai‘i home. With this heightened awareness of what it means to live with Hawai‘i’s Soul, it is then our kuleana or responsibility and kūlana our role, to care for Hawai‘i and each other so that people and place can thrive together.
OUR TEAM
HEC comprises local CEOs, senior decision-makers, and global leaders who work together on systemic issues and drive lasting change. The reach of HEC’s leadership represents 36,000 employees across the state and over $220 million in philanthropic dollars invested in the community.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Duane Kurisu | Micah Kāne | Ann Teranishi | Ray Vara |
LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
Matthew Cox | Kamana‘opono Crabbe | Terrance George | Robert Harrison |
Peter Ho | Corbett Kalama | Michelle Ka‘uhane | Shelee Kimura |
Colbert Matsumoto | Elliot Mills | Catherine Ngo | Robert Nobriga |
Jack Wong |
STAFF
Hannah Ishida | Lynelle Marble | Kira Diionno | Liana Mausolf | Lynne Hirayama |
ADVISORS
Glenn Miyataki | Kamana‘opono Crabbe |
WHO WE ARE
Hawai‘i Executive Collaborative (HEC) is a nonprofit organization that unites top leaders from all sectors who commit to collaborating with people and resources locally and globally to help develop and act on solutions for Hawai‘i’s most pressing issues.
HISTORY
HEC was founded off of the Hawai‘i Executive Conference that started in 1963 as forum for networking among top leadership since most of the original participants were executives of the Big Five companies and not from Hawaiʻi. In 2018, Duane Kurisu, entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist, and chairman of HEC, relaunched the conference and reimagined its participants as collective problem solvers and change agents, engaging top leaders to commit to working collaboratively to improve the lives of the people of Hawai‘i and to provide templates for global solutions at the same time.
Now, the conference is a key program of HEC and engages leaders beyond business executives to include leaders from all sectors and backgrounds including from government, labor, education, nonprofit organizations and cultural practitioners and kūpuna.