Standard western governance models have infiltrated Maori organisations to the extent that many Maori now view them as normal. They are effectively the only model taught at business schools, where the drive for short-term results runs counter to a Maori proposition that 4 states of wellbeing must be achieved for governance to be effective: socio-cultural, environmental, spiritual and economic. The Awatoru way advocates a shift to a more-Maori governance framework, where the entity is deliberately designed to frame our own definitions of states of wellbeing in powerful principles of rangatiratanga and tohungatanga.