Heidi Johnston, owner Windowmakers, an award winning manufacturer of window and doors systems. Johnston and her husband Bruce, bought the company in 2002.

Dr Frances Pitsilis, owner of the medical practice Dr Frances Pitsilis and Skinfresh Clinic. She also has a professional speaking, media and TV work career.

Brent Will, of Hale Will Bennison Dental, dentists in Takapuna, which provides general dental services to a largely family-based group of patients.

Julian Smith, director, BRR, an agency for creative thought, brand strategy and design on how to go about branding your business's new division or enterprise.

Andrea Clarke, owner of Milford Dentists, which has recently set up a new clinic to help patients with bad breath.

As dental practice owner, Andrea Clarke says this week, running a small business was never on the undergraduate syllabus at dental school.

Jeff Mann, outgoing CEO of Jericho, a digital marketing business, which he co-founded in 2000, became 100 per cent owned by Asia Pacific Digital, one of the region's largest digital services companies in March this year.

Mark Stuart, partner at Movac, an investment manager that backs New Zealand businesses with the potential for rapid and large-scale growth.

Jacinta Penn, director of WorkBright. WorkBright eLearning provides online training solutions to businesses on a budget using specialised software called Articulate Storyline to create online training courses using customers' training content.

Regus, the global provider of serviced offices, does regular research on flexible working in New Zealand and other countries.

Hannah Crosby part owner of Tax Pooling Solutions. Crosby formerly worked as an associate in the finance team at Slaughter and May in London dealing with a wide range of high value finance transactions.

Bridget Smith, partner Swarbrick, Beck, Mackinnon, (SBM Legal), employment law and human resource specialists talks about the legal issues around offering flexible working to staff.

Employers will again be free to hire temporary labour to cover striking workers under a private members' bill to be introduced to Parliament today.

Most New Zealand workers say they could be more productive in their jobs if they had better management, more motivation, and greater recognition in the workplace.

New Zealand businesses are being urged to follow in Google's footsteps and provide a chilled-out, fun workplace to improve productivity.

Air New Zealand is standing by its policy of not allowing visible tattoos on customer service staff after an internal review.

New Zealanders are beginning to realise the Australian dream is not so perfect and the grass may in fact be starting to become greener over here.

Editorial: Nobody outside Air New Zealand is in a position to question its commercial judgment. Critics do not depend for their salaries on the airline's success.

Women: do you feel like your male colleagues don't listen to you? Men: do you feel like you're walking on eggshells with women in your office?

There once was a little girl whose parents ran strip shows. Now Jacqui Le Prou’s all grown up and creating an erotic empire of her own, discovers Alan Perrott.