The LEADERSHIP LENS…seeing things from a different perspective
A one day conference for those in senior leadership roles: DP’s/APs and Team leaders
Effective leadership and innovation require seeing things from multiple perspectives, and with experience you come to realize that there is never just one right lens. To maximize your impact, make it a habit to consciously look at someone or something through a different lens.
Come along and be inspired by innovative thought leaders and develop your leadership lens.
| KEYNOTE | PRESENTER | FOCUS |
|---|---|---|
| MC | Pio Terei | |
| Keynote 1 | Gavin Grift | 5 Ways of Being |
| Keynote 2 | Neill O’Reilly | Leading & Learning on a Plate |
| Keynote 3 | Shay Wright | Growing Maori Leadership |
| Keynote 4 | Dr Melanie Riwai Couch | Improving Teaching and Learning for Ākonga Māori |
| Keynote 5 | Annah Stretton | The RAW story |
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.
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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.
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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.
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Gavin Grift is the Founder and CEO of Grift Education. Gavin’s passion, commitment, humour and highly engaging style have made him one of Australia’s most in-demand presenters. Through his keynotes, seminars, and coaching services, Gavin connects with national and international audiences on how to cultivate authentic collaboration, build success in others and genuinely commit to reflective practice. His belief in the development of defined professional autonomy for educators both challenge and connect the head and heart of his audiences.
Gavin is co-author of numerous articles and best-selling books, including Collaborative Teams that Transform Schools (2016), Transformative Collaboration (2016) and Teachers as Architects of Learning (2018). Most recently, he revised Learning by Doing (2018) with Colin Sloper, for an Australian context. He led the development of PLC networks across Australian, culminating in the establishment of the Centre for Professional Learning Communities. He is committed to growing the legacy of Rick and Becky DuFour’s work through the PLC at Work® process, which has been transforming schools in Australia since it’s pilot program in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra in 2010.
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The Five Ways of Being programme supports leaders in the development of their own leadership style and strengthens their capacity to have a major impact on learning. With many competing demands, it’s easy for leaders to forget that learning lies at the heart of everything they do. Based on the book, Five Ways of Being, this program helps leaders gain an understanding, agreement and clear articulation of what being a learning leader in an organisation looks like, sounds like and feels like.
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, INNOVATOR, FUTURIST AND SPEAKER
Shay’s passions lie in the combination of social innovation and education with indigenous knowledge and contemporary business thinking. He uses this mix to disrupt the status quo.
Shay is an indigenous social entrepreneur, who has spoken on stages across the world, set up several enterprises, won numerous national and international awards, and held multiple Government and indigenous enterprises advisory roles. In 2016 Shay was named in the Forbes Asia ‘30 Under 30’ list of top Social Entrepreneurs. Recently Shay was a finalist for 2019 Young New Zealander of the Year.
He is a co-founder of Te Whare Hukahuka, a social enterprise aiming to improve the lives of 10 million indigenous people. Te Whare Hukahuka has developed and runs training programmes that empower indigenous leaders in their ability to grow community enterprises, create local impact and revolutionise our system.
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Dr Melanie Riwai-Couch is the former Kaihautū Māori (National Manager Māori) and an education consultant for Evaluation Associates. Previously she was the Tumuaki (principal) of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Whānau Tahi, a year 1 – 13 Māori immersion school located in Christchurch. For term 4 2017 and Term 1 2018 Melanie was seconded to the Education Council | Matatū Aotearoa facilitating English and Māori medium workshops about Our Code Our Standards and Appraisal.
Melanie is an appointed member of the Ngārimu VC 28th Māori Battalion Scholarship Board and the Competence Authority of the Education Council | Matatū Aotearoa. In 2017 she was a judge for the Senior English section of the National Ngā Whakataetae Manu Kōrero speech competitions held in Taranaki.
Melanie has worked throughout the education sector in schools, kura, for iwi (Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu) and the Ministry of Education. For nine years she trained secondary school teachers at the Christchurch College of Education.
Melanie has a PhD in Education awarded by the University of Canterbury in 2015. Her doctoral research investigated iwi-school communities of practice and their contribution to Māori student achievement. Prior to her doctorate Melanie completed two Ed.D. papers in Education Leadership and Change through Griffith University, has a Master of Education with Distinction (University of Canterbury), a Bachelor of Education specialising in Physical Education and a Secondary Diploma of Teaching.
Recently retired from netball Melanie now lives vicariously through her five children aged 8 – 17 who are active rugby players, netballers, gamers and gymnasts.
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Growing Maori economy and leadership
Check out this 3 min clip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjNfnXOGEs&list=RDCMUCtgvSkmjzkGoFMflc_ztVwQ
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Leading and Learning on a plate
Gordon Ramsey has one heck of a reputation, very mixed, but what is evident is that he cares deeply, passionately and seriously about the food his patrons receive, this drives his passion, high expectations energy and sometimes bad behaviour. How much do we care about what our children receive on their plate, how far are we prepared to go, how well do we teach, coach, challenge and support our cooks- our teachers, leaders and tamariki?
Neill will explore a different perspective of leadership and how leadership impacts on the nurture and learning our tamariki receive….and fair warning he is passionate at times he may use some of Gordon’s infamous vocabulary!
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Business owner, international consultant, school principal, cluster leader, coach, mentor, speaker and passionate educator.
After four years in Honk Kong I returned to New Zealand in July 2021 to establish a high quality early childhood centre in Canterbury and to continue with my passion as a educational leader through consulting, speaking and supporting schools and leadership teams around New Zealand and in Hong Kong.
Prior to heading home I had the privilege of leading Kowloon Junior School (KJS) in Hong Kong. KJS is an international school of 900 Y1-6 students.
In addition to leading KJS I was the chair of the ESF Primary Principals Group, the Chair of the ESF Executive Leadership Council, a member of the ESF Board and a member of the Committee of Principals.
During the last years while in Hong Kong (2017-2021) I continued to share my research regarding the benefits and opportunities of co-teaching and collaborative practice.
I have been an invited speaker to a range of groups including a Keynote to the National Conference for New Zealand Principals Federation, Keynote to the Waikato Principals Association and most recently I have been invited to share my experiences of leading through crisis with Furnware NZ.
In addition to the various leadership roles that I am involved in I also have the pleasure of mentoring new principals supporting schools with strategic development and mentoring an educational technology company.
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Niho Taniwha: Improving Teaching and Learning for Ākonga Māori
Niho Taniwha is a guide for teachers, school leaders and education providers on how to improve teaching and learning for ākonga Māori (Māori students). It aims to help educators make the greatest improvements to the overall quality of the education journey for ākonga Māori in the least amount of time.
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Having survived twenty seven years in the fashion industry, Annah’s leadership journey is a powerful narrative about disruption and continuous reinvention.
From her start-up days as a wholesaler to New Zealand fashion chain stores, to the successful designer, manufacturer and nation-wide retailer that she is today, Annah knows what it takes to survive and grow through all stages of the business cycle. But it didn’t stop there. An entrepreneur well known for both her business acumen and her philanthropic heart, Annah set up her own foundation in 2013 as part of her succession plan.
This enabled Annah to identify new challenges and look for new solutions for some of New Zealand’s more pressing social and fiscal problems.
Annah’s widely recognised achievements in the social ventures space once again showcase her ability to connect, lead and empower through new thinking and adaptive processes.
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Founded in 2014 by fashion designer and entrepreneur Annah Stretton, RAW was set up to help break New Zealand’s ever-growing cycle of intergenerational offending, educational underachievement, persistent poverty and violence for a group of disadvantaged women. Through inclusion, community and opportunity, RAW is building hope, purpose and prosperity one woman at a time. We are creating mana wahine.
