Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. We plan to start with counter service, meaning “seat-yourself,” before resuming to full dining service. We don’t yet know how…
Interview with Linell Dilwith, Kaimukī-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? Communication and collaboration were critical in leading through the transition to…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Buzz's Lanikai never closed completely but we rolled right into take out service on March 19. On June 5, we reopened…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Meeting our clients’ requirements for reopening their business. Each state has different guidelines under which stores must operate and be allowed to reopen. We have been creating new solutions to allow…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, and other physical locations. Ka Makana Ali‘i is home to several essential businesses so the center never stopped operating. Those that remained open included Hampton…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. We are taking an employee-centric and work function perspective that varies upon the department, job responsibilities and our employees’ emotional…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, warehouses or other physical locations. In March, we pivoted to an entirely digital sales experience that used tools such as Webex and Zoom combined with the…
What has been your latest pivot or innovation? Making people love meeting online more than in-person. The slides, the music, the behind-the-scenes tech crew switching cameras and muting/unmuting participants – meetings are no longer meetings. They are multimedia productions! My…
HEC Webinar: In partnership with UHA Health Insurance/HH@WA and HEC Date: June 16, Thursday at 2 - 3 pm Format: Go-To Meeting Webinar Moderator: Steve Petranik, Hawaii Business Join us in this partnership webinar to learn how local leaders…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. Following Mayor Caldwell’s order on May 28, we began a phased-in approach to returning to the office beginning June 5. After an initial…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? We provide health care coverage to more than 100,000 people in Hawai‘i, and partner with over 6,500 health care providers including hospitals and long-term care facilities across all the Islands. Even…
As a result of COVID-19, what has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? In early February, when COVID-19 began spreading across the globe, our firm organized a crisis response team and committed to three priorities: protect the health and…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, warehouses or other physical locations. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, our clinic has remained open and the leadership team has been meeting at 7…
Please describe how Nalu Health Bar & Café will return to your physical locations. We decided to reopen one location at a time to make sure all new safety procedures were being followed and adapted. We opened our South Shore…
Virtual Interview: Kathleen Dimino, Baldwin-Kekaulike-Maui Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? Listening carefully and understanding how health guidelines impact our school communities…
Virtual Interview: Nick Redding, Executive Director, Hawaii Data Collaborative How has your organization been able to continue its core mission(s)? The mission of the Hawaii Data Collaborative is to promote a culture of data-informed decision making in Hawai‘i by making…
Virtual Interview: Sean Tajima, Campbell-Kapolei Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? Our schools have had to look for ways to be innovative…
Virtual Interview: Suzanne Rowland, Managing Director, Queen Emma Ballet What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Queen Emma Ballet’s big pivot was going from classes at our studio locations to totally online live stream instruction. Our latest pivot…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our latest innovation was engaging other creatives to join my “Think Tank Talk” so we can explore ideas and find silver linings in this cloudy pandemic. We have found that by…
Virtual Interview: Lori McCarney, Executive Director, Hawaii Bicycling League How has your organization been able to continue its core mission(s)? Our mission is to enable more people to ride bicycles for health, recreation and transportation through advocacy, education and events.…
Virtual Interview: Trini Kaopuiki Clark, President & CEO, Make a Wish Foundation How has your organization been able to continue its core mission(s)? Although we’ve had to adapt in many ways, our mission of granting life-changing wishes for children with…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, warehouses or other physical locations. Global Village originally targeted June 1 as an opening date based on government proclamations in April; however once given the go…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? The pandemic accelerated the launch of our online store, chefzone.com, which is part of our larger efforts to strengthen Y. Hata’s customer solutions offerings. chefzone.com supports the food delivery models that…
What has been Belle Surf Café’s latest pivot or innovation? Even as we saw the writing on wall, COVID-19 hit us hard. With a quick stop to tourism in Maui and with the unknown risk, we had no choice but…