Due to restrictions being extended we are moving this event to Term 1 2022…now Tuesday 22 March
LEADER PRENUERS…inspiring innovative leaders
A one day conference for those in senior leadership roles: DP’s/APs and Team leaders
We have a fantastic line up of keynote speakers sharing inspirational stories and messages.
Come along and be inspired by innovative global and local leaders.
| KEYNOTE | PRESENTER | FOCUS |
|---|---|---|
| MC | Pio Terei | Recalibrating in these challenging times |
| Keynote 1 | Welby Ings | Disobedient Teaching in the face of opportunity |
| Keynote 2 | Mark Osborne | Effective Team Leadership |
| Keynote 3 | Nathan Wallis | The Neuroscience of Learning |
| Keynote 4 | Helen Varney | Pasifika Leadership |
| Keynote 5 | Sir Ian Taylor | Innovation/Mātauranga |
Guy Claxton : Powering Up Your School (RECORDED FROM THE UK)
Leading Culture Change for Powerful Learning”.
It’s about getting beyond the hints and tips and growth mindset posters, and really getting a deep, sustained pedagogical shift in the school. “Don’t Do it, Live it!”
NZ Order of Merit
Mrs Helen Varney has been a well-regarded principal for many years, most recently as Principal of Target School, Totara Vale from 2012 to 2020.
Mrs Varney oversaw growth in the roll of Target School, of which 30 percent are learning English as a second language and received strong Education Review Office reports during her tenure. She has been Secretary of the New Zealand Pasifika Principals Association (NZPPA) since 2016, President of North Shore Principals in 2016 and of the Auckland Primary Principals Association in 2018. In 2020, she was appointed Director and Lead Facilitator of Tautai o le Moana – Navigators of the Ocean, a partnership with the Ministry of Education, NZPPA and New Zealand Principals’ Federation. She ran the successful pilot of this programme over 18 months, which supports principals of Pasifika students to build their capability as school leaders to improve outcomes for Pacific learners, and is leading the initiative into its scale-up with the next cohort of principals. She is a qualified facilitator in the Māori Achievement Collaboratives for school leaders to improve outcomes for Māori learners. She has contributed an Auckland and Pasifika perspective to numerous Ministry of Education and inter-agency working groups. Mrs Varney has mentored teachers to become principals.
Mark Osborne ( Leading Learning, NZ)
Effective team leadership
Whether you’ve been a leader for years or are new to the role, you’ll probably know that one of the most rewarding aspects of the job is leading a team. Unfortunately it’s also one of the most challenging aspects.
This keynote will explore two of the most essential elements of a team leader’s role: building a truly collaborative team; and managing resistance. Both are essential for teams to agree on what success looks like and to align their efforts to achieve that success.
In this keynote, Mark will share frameworks and practical strategies that you can start using in your next team meeting. Your team will be humming in no time!
Nathan Wallis (Christchurch, NZ) : The Neuroscience of Learning
Captivating audiences over 200 times per year in New Zealand, Australia and Internationally, Nathan Wallis provides an informative narrative on how our day-to-day interactions with children and young people, significantly the early years, plays a critical role in defining later outcomes for our children.
Reflecting on the latest neuroscience discoveries, Nathan provides in-depth clarity, focusing on how we as individuals and a society as a whole can use this knowledge to create better outcomes for our children and for our future.
Nathan Wallis brings the positive and practical implications of ‘conscious intelligence’ into everyday life.
Ian Taylor (Dunedin, NZ) : One of NZ’s foremost Technology Innovators
Mātauranga
Our mission is to help tamariki learn from the past to navigate the future. Innovation is in our DNA, and with our engaging videos and fun activities, we prove that science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is not something to be afraid of. It’s part of a much bigger world view – mātauranga.
Land of Voyagers
Join us on a voyage of discovery about the technology and innovation that brought people to Aotearoa. Polynesian navigators on mighty waka crossed the Pacific Ocean, guided only by their kinship to the natural world. Armed with their ancestral knowledge and a larger vision of science – mātauranga – they created our land of voyagers.
These extraordinary engineers, scientists, and mathematicians created the paving stones upon which we stand today.
RECORDED FROM THE UK
Professor Guy Claxton is the UK’s foremost expert on practical ways of expanding young people’s appetite and capacity for learning. His Building Learning Power approach has been tried, tested and developed in hundreds of primary and secondary schools.
An international expert on education and the brain, Guy is a cognitive scientist specialising in the expandability of learning capacity and intelligence. Since retiring from university life in 2013, he has focused on writing and consultancy. Much in demand all around the world, his recent books include New Kinds of Smart, Expansive Education and Educating Ruby: What Our Children Really Need to Learn (all with Bill Lucas), and, most recently, Intelligence in the Flesh.
Prior to that, Guy has been Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester. He previously held the same title at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education. He has a ‘double first’ from Cambridge and a DPhil from Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
Guy has consulted and worked with teachers all over the world and has been a regular visitor to New Zealand. He is that rare academic who is able to speak to both the daily realities and the hearts of practising teachers.
Marcus Akuhata-Brown
Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu
Marcus grew up on the East Coast and is a qualified teacher.
He’s led a number of innovative alternative education programmes addressing the learning needs of youth placed at risk and young offenders.
Marcus is the Founder of the Tuia National Leadership Development Programme, which takes an intergenerational approach based on Indigenous development principles to enhance the way in which rangatahi Māori contribute to communities throughout New Zealand.
He founded a global consultancy in 2000 and has travelled extensively around the world as both a national and international representative and advocate. He was a director on the international board of CIVICUS and was Head of the Commonwealth Youth Caucus.
In 2015 he was awarded ‘Educator of the year: Tangata Whenua’ by ACE Aotearoa and in 2017 was accepted as an inaugural Fellow on the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity one of seven global hubs supported by the Atlantic Institute, Rhodes House, the University of Oxford.
Marcus currently is the Pou Whakatere: Deputy Secretary Māori for the Ministry of Justice.
Mark Osborne is Director of Leading Learning Ltd and has been a teacher, school leader and consultant for more than 20 years. He works nationally and internationally on future-focused education, innovative learning environments and educational leadership, helping schools build great places to learn and the capability to make the most of those spaces. Mark is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne currently looking at change leadership in innovative learning environments.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Mark was on the foundation leadership team at Albany Senior High School. He has also worked extensively in libraries, with digital technologies and in maker-spaces, working to create diverse, inclusive communities that help each other learn, innovate and find fulfillment.
Nathan Wallis is a father of three and a foster parent with a professional background in child counselling, teaching and social service management. Until recently he lectured in Human Development at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and was also a board member and senior trainer with the highly respected Brainwave Trust.
In 2010 he founded a private training consultancy, Nathan Wallis Ltd, with the goal of facilitating easy to understand professional development training reflecting the latest neuroscience discoveries and their practical implications for everyday practice. Since then he has been in hot demand, delivering in excess of 150 presentations every year throughout New Zealand and Australia.
He has developed a reputation as a lively and engaging speaker who uses humour and plain language to make this complex topic come to life.
He has worked with children in counselling settings relating to domestic violence, sexual abuse and childhood trauma. Nathan has established and managed educational contracts in Christchurch including Parents as First Teachers and Te Waka Huruhurumanu, a Ngai Tahu indigenous early learning centre.
Pio Terei shares his korero on re-calibrating your life in these challenging times.
He will MC for us again at our Leadership conference in 2021.
Your Content Goes Here
Pio’s numerous appearances as an actor, comedian, musicain and radio and television host over the last two decades have established him as one of New Zealand’s most popular and personable entertainers and MCs.
His starring roles in locally produced shows such as It’s in the Bag, Tangaroa, Are We There Yet?, My Kind of Kai, Intrepid Journeys, How’s Life, Spin Doctors & Matuku have made him a familiar face with an appeal that spans generations. He has twice won Best Comedy Performer at the NZ Film and TV Awards, with his series PIO also winning the Best Comedy Programme at the aforementioned awards. Pio also appeared on screen in the feature film Spooked and the television film The Man Who Lost his Head, further cementing him as a talented and valued screen presence internationally as well as in New Zealand.
His many years of experience behind the scenes as a producer, company director and programme creator for Pipi Productions and 4 Winds Films has given him valuable business insights and built on his ability to relate to a wide variety of audiences.
Pio is a passionate Positive Parenting advocate and spokesperson and has presented No Sweat Parenting shows around the country for many years, as well as helping to write and present a series of the same name for Maori Television.
As a result of these ongoing successes and his natural affinity with people Pio is in very high demand as a MC and keynote speaker for corporate events and community functions throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
Pio was deservedly appointed a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List.Over the last 15 years Pio has been entertaining audiences nationwide on parenting, relationships and living through depression and grief. He is passionate about NZ families and the wellbeing of the people of Aotearoa. “We live in the best country in the world, but sometimes we forget it.”
Disobedient Teaching in the face of opportunity
Damaged hierarchies are normally managed, but rarely led. They can tick boxes and sometimes report well, but they don’t grow innovation – in fact they often consciously drive off innovative thinkers. Yet many of our most talented educational leaders are productively disobedient. For them teaching is a calling, not a strategic professional choice. They question possibility and become covert survivors who not only avoid the pitfalls of cynicism and passivity; but also productively grow protective and innovative sub-cultures around them. You may be intuitively disobedient. If so, then this talk looks at you and the nature of a particular kind of leadership. It asks how you recognise disobedient teaching and how it influences productive change in the face of opportunity.
Your Content Goes Here
Welby Ings
Welby Ings was born in a small community in the South Waikato. He is the son of a shearing contractor and shed fleece-so. He excelled himself at Pukeatua Primary as bin monitor, having failed to learn any more than his two times tables and the how to memorise the entire content of The Hungry Lambs.
By the time he got to high school he could neither read nor write.
Unsurprisingly, Welby was expelled from Te Awamutu College and later suspended from Hamilton Teacher’s College. His practice as a teacher has seen him reprimanded by the South Auckland Education Board, pulled before three boards of governors and two boards of trustees. He has been arrested three times. He has also been awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural, Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence and numerous university medals for his contributions to research and reform. He is an international consultant on creativity and thought and he supervises numerous doctoral research theses in these areas. He is a multi-award winning designer and his films have been shortlisted for the Oscars. In 2019 he was appointed by the Government to the Guardians Group overseeing educational reform in this country. Welby is an outspoken critic of performance-based assessment, ego-driven leadership and limited understandings of the complexity and wonder of intelligence.
… but he is also an incorrigible optimist with a deep respect for teachers.
Your Content Goes Here
Sir Ian Taylor (Dunedin, NZ) : One of NZ’s foremost Technology Innovators
Ian was brought up in a small East Coast village on the North Island of New Zealand. He was seven when electricity arrived at his home. It was 1957. The telephone arrived a couple of years later. He didn’t know it at the time but three years after he got electricity at his house, New Zealand got its first computer.
Ian’s story mirrors New Zealand’s growth from its days as an agriculture-based economy. He laboured in the freezing works during the school holidays. Through the swinging 60s and 70s he was a singer in a rock and roll band, before being called up in the army. By 1980, he had completed a law degree and started an entirely new career in television, where he was part of an industry that went from black-and-white film to colour video and on into the digital age.
Ian founded Animation Research Ltd (ARL) in 1990 on nothing more than a handshake with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago. They bought their first hard drive to make their first TV commercial in 1991. It cost $15,000 and had 1 GB of memory. The computer they used for the America’s Cup in 1992 was the size of a small fridge and cost $500,000. Everything they did on that computer they can now do a mobile phone.
Today, working from their base in Dunedin, ARL covers sports events all over the world. They also have a joint venture with Airways New Zealand, who market the Air Traffic Control Simulator they built for them. They had never built one before. They continue to service the F1 Race Car simulator they built for one of the world’s leading F1 Race Teams. They had never built one before. They built an online Risk Assessment platform for one of the world’s largest mining companies. They had never built one before. They built an online application to demonstrate the power of the IBM cloud-based analytics engine, which they presented to a conference of 22,000 delegates. They built it in three weeks. They had never built one of those before, either.
In 2019, Ian started Land of Voyagers which he says is the “most important work of his life.” Land of Voyagers documents the Polynesian voyage to Aotearoa in a way that’s never been done before, in order educate New Zealanders and to celebrate the incredible story of our Polynesian ancestors.
Ian says he uses the word ‘we’ very loosely. He claims he has no idea how any of this stuff is done. ‘We are where we are because of a very small team who, from day one, arrived with open minds and a belief that there was nothing they couldn’t do. The fact that we only do stuff we like probably helps. In the words of Lord Ernest Rutherford – “We didn’t have the money, so we had to think.” We didn’t discover the digital world: it discovered us. We had already decided that we would take on the world from Dunedin – next stop the South Pole! Someone invented the internet, and they gave us our highway to that world. We have been travelling it ever since.’
