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ISNZ ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday 19 – Saturday 20 June 2015
The Millennium Hotel, Queenstown
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Collaboration seems to be the buzzword across many sectors today
including the education sector.
Why should we collaborate? What are the benefits? Can collaboration
work in a highly competitive environment? Is there a place for
collaborative governance, leadership and management?
The 2015 ISNZ annual conference will be held at the Millennium Hotel
Queenstown on Friday 19 June and Saturday 20 June. The conference
programme has been designed to explore the notion of collaboration
within our schools, between schools, with tertiary and other education
providers, and with business and workplace employers.
Deborah James
Executive Director
Dr Chris Jansen will look at whether collaboration is simply about more
efficient use of funds and other resources or about it being instrumental
in addressing more complex issues and opening up previously unlikely
outcomes. He will explore case studies of partnership, collaboration and
alliancing from beyond the education sector.
Distinguished Professor Rosemary O’Leary has focused her current research on collaboration as a
leadership and management strategy. She defines collaboration as ‘the process of facilitating and operating
in multi-organisational arrangements to solve problems that cannot be solved or easily solved by single
organisations. Collaboration can include the public.’ Professor O’Leary will join us via videoconference and
will share her ten most compelling ideas concerning collaboration today.
Geoff Aigner from Australia will argue that the reality behind the much-heralded trend in cross-sector
collaborations is that many are ending in failure. His presentation looks at when to collaborate and just
what it takes to succeed.
Jonathan Mason has 30 years of experience in financial management roles in the oil, chemicals, forest
products and dairy industries. He will explore cases of managed cooperation, review how the businesses
legally managed these structures and discuss what areas could be relevant for managed cooperation in
the private schools sector.
Ngahihi o te ra Bidois will explore ancient wisdom to develop modern solutions for collaborative
leadership and will outline proven leadership principles from his Maori culture that indicate leadership
collaboration is a key to learning success and economic sustainability.
Peter Townsend, CEO of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce believes effective relations
between the business sector and educational institutions are rare and variable. He will provoke
discussion on the key ingredients in making relationships work, what gets in the way and what can work
better.
These speakers and other professionals will share their knowledge, research and expertise in the area
of collaboration, how it works and how it is becoming increasingly important. They will explore current
organisational culture and how it might be changed to enable collaboration when appropriate.
The ISNZ Annual Conference provides delegates with an invaluable opportunity to network and
collaborate in the interest of strengthening the position of the private schools sector in New Zealand.
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working
together is success – Henry Ford.
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PROGRAMME
Thursday 18 June 2015 4.00pm – 5.30pm
5.30pm – 7.00pm
New Heads Meeting
ASBA AGM: for bursars/business managers only
Registration
Friday 19 June 2015 Rooms / Venue
Meeting room 1
Meeting room 5
Hotel Lobby
Rooms / Venue
8.00am – 9.00am
Registration
Hotel Lobby
9.30am – 10.00am
Presentation of ISNZ Honours Awards
Galaxy 1 & 2
Keynote: Dr Chris Jansen
Collaborate – Why should I?
Galaxy 1 & 2
9.00am – 9.30am
10.00am – 10.10am
10.10am – 11.10am
Opening ceremony
Hon Hekia Parata (video)
Fuji Xerox New Zealand – Platinum Sponsor
Galaxy 1 & 2
Galaxy 1 & 2
11.10am – 11.30am
Morning tea and exhibitions
Keynote: Rosemary O’Leary (video)
Collaboration Across Boundaries: Ten Compelling Ideas
Galaxy 1 & 2
12.30pm – 1.20pm
Lunch and exhibitions
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Plenary: Peter Townsend
Building bridges to business: What real relationships can
deliver and what gets in the way
Galaxy 1 & 2
11.30am – 12.30pm
1.20pm – 1.30pm
2.30pm – 3.30pm
3.30pm – 3.50pm
3.50pm – 4.45 pm
5.00pm – 6.00 pm
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OCS – Gold Sponsor
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
Galaxy 1 & 2
Breakout sessions:
• Governors/Board Members – ISA AGM
• Secondary School Heads/Principals
• Primary School Heads/Principals
• Bursars/Business Managers
Galaxy 1 & 2
Copthorne Conf 1
Copthorne Conf 2
Copthorne Conf 3
Plenary: Victoria Spackman
Taking New Zealand Storytelling to the World
Galaxy 1 & 2
Afternoon tea and exhibitions
2015 ISNZ Alumnus Speaker
Marsh Cocktail Function
Free evening
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
Saturday 20 June 2015 Rooms / Venue
9.00am – 10.00am
Keynote: Ngahihi o te ra Bidois
Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions for Collaborative Leaders
Galaxy 1 &2
10.00am – 10.10am
ANZ – Gold Sponsor
Galaxy 1 & 2
11.10am – 11.30am
Morning tea and exhibitions
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
St Paul’s Centre of Excellence in Agri Science and Business
Peter Hampton, Grant Lander
Copthorne 1
10.10am – 11.10am
11.30am – 12.30pm
Workshop 1
Plenary: Geoff Aigner
Collaboration – Beyond the Fantasy
Galaxy 1 & 2
Workshop 2
St Peter’s School, Cambridge – Lincoln University Joint Venture
Steve Robb, David Heald and Marc Scott
Workshop 3
Collaborative Leadership
Heather McRae
Workshop 4
Leading Collaboration
Geoff Aigner
12.30pm – 1.15pm
Lunch and exhibitions
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
2.05pm – 2.15pm
Marsh – Gold Sponsor
Galaxy 1 & 2
3.15pm – 3.45pm
Afternoon tea and exhibitions
Galaxy 3 & Gallery
4.15pm – 4.30pm
Conference close – Peter Ferguson, ISNZ Chairman
Galaxy 1 & 2
7.30pm
Fuji Xerox Conference Dinner
Speaker: Mark Hadlow
Galaxy Ballroom
1.15pm – 2.05pm
2.15pm – 3.15pm
3.45pm – 4.15pm
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Plenary: Rex Capil
Education Southland – The Power of Collaboration
Keynote: Jonathan Mason
Is Marketing and Advertising a Zero Sum Game? Lessons on
Collaboration and Competition
Final plenary: Lynda Reid
Most great learning happens in groups … collaboration is the
stuff of growth
Pre-dinner drinks
Copthorne 2
Galaxy 1
Galaxy 2
Galaxy 1 & 2
Galaxy 1 & 2
Galaxy 1 & 2
Gallery
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SPEAKERS
Hon Hekia Parata
Minister of Education
Hekia Parata is currently the Minister of Education. She previously served as
Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Minister for Ethnic
Affairs, Acting Minister of Energy and Resources, and Associate Minister for ACC and
for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
She grew up in a large family in Ruatoria and is of Ngati Porou and Ngai Tahu descent.
Her classroom education was enriched by a strong community and a hard-working
family with high expectations. She began her education at Playcentre, then on to
Manutahi Māori Primary School, Ngata Memorial College and Gisborne Girls High
School. After secondary school, Hekia went on to complete an MA in Māori and
New Zealand history at the University of Waikato where she was also the President
of the Waikato Students’ Union.
Having a world-class education has provided Hekia with many opportunities both
locally and overseas. Before entering Parliament in 2008, she had senior roles in a
range of government departments, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with
a posting to the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC, and represented
New Zealand at a number of multinational forums and international indigenous
forums. She also ran a thriving policy consultancy with her husband Sir
Wira Gardiner.
She and her husband have lived in Wellington for most of the past 30 years and have
two daughters in their early adult years. Outside of family and work, she enjoys
reading, movies and netball.
EDUCATION
STUDENTS
COLLABORATION
BUSINESS
ENTERPRISE
KNOWLEDGE
COMMUNITY
TERTIARY
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Dr Chris Jansen Collaborate – Why should I?
Collaboration, collective impact, partnership; all words that are frequently mentioned across
all sectors of society. But why should I? Is collaboration and partnership really the goal or
is it a means to an end, a process that can lead to other sorts of outcomes? Is collaboration
simply about more efficient use of funds and other resources….or could it also be instrumental
in addressing more compelling issues or opening up the possibility of previously unlikely
outcomes?
In this session we will explore reasons why partnership and collaboration might be worth
pursuing. We will suggest that collaboration with like-minded colleagues who are involved in
the same kinds of programmes and deliverables as ourselves is not collaboration at all – simply
networking. Authentic partnership involves diverse partners who choose to gather around
a compelling purpose, a reason to motivate them to momentarily put aside their preferences
and policies in order to explore new approaches. This session will explore case studies of
partnership, collaboration and alliancing from beyond the education sector.
Chris Jansen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, where he teaches and
supervises leaders studying in the Masters of Educational Leadership, Post Graduate Diploma
of Strategic Leadership and Masters of Management. Through his consulting role at www.
leadershiplab.co.nz Chris works alongside organisations in the education, health, business
and community sectors in a range of projects. These include design and delivery of leadership
development programmes, change management initiatives, organisational capability and
strategic planning. This includes work with organisations such as Stronger Christchurch
Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT), Ministry of Social Development, Canterbury Earthquake
Recovery Authority (CERA), Christchurch International Airport, Canterbury District Health
Board (CDHB), New Zealand Transport Association, Foodstuffs New Zealand as well as a large
number of international organisations.
Chris is also involved in executive coaching and regularly facilitates workshops and
presentations for a range of organisations around New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific and Asia.
Chris’s blog at www.ideacreation.org contains a diverse range of leadership resources and
frameworks from many of these projects and presentations above. His qualifications include a
PhD in Management and Master’s degree in Education (Counselling).
Chris has a background in Physical Education teaching and counselling (school and drug
rehabilitation centres). He has also been involved in NGO community development and social
service sector for many years, both locally though Te Ora Hou Otautahi (an indigenous youth
development organisation) and also in the Pacific (Ola Fou development project). Chris has
written a range of international journal publications including ‘Leadership for emergence:
Exploring organisations through a living system lens’ and ‘Leaders building professional
learning communities: Appreciative inquiry in action’.
www.education.canterbury.ac.nz/edstudies/people/jansen.shtml
COLLABORATION BEGINS WITH
mutual understanding and respect
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SPEAKERS
Rosemary O’Leary
Collaboration across boundaries: Ten compelling ideas
This presentation will centre on collaboration as a leadership and management strategy.
Collaboration often is driven by the disjuncture between problems to be solved and
jurisdictional boundaries. Given this imbalance, hierarchy often is not relevant and
collaboration is increasingly important. By collaboration, our speaker, Rosemary O’Leary,
means the process of facilitating and operating in multi-organisational arrangements to solve
problems that cannot be solved or easily solved by single organisations. Collaboration can include
the public. Learn about the ten most compelling ideas concerning collaboration today.
Rosemary O’Leary has had four careers: attorney, public servant, professor, and consultant.
She is the Founder of Rosemary O’Leary and Associates, a firm providing training,
presentations, coaching, and workshops on all aspects of collaboration: Collaborative problem
solving, facilitation, conflict management, negotiation, individual collaborative styles,
management and leadership strategies, collaborative processes, and Futurethink. She is the
author of more than two dozen publications on collaboration as a leadership and management
strategy.
In 2014, Rosemary was an Ian Axford Public Policy Fellow in New Zealand where she
researched and wrote a report titled, “Collaborative Governance in New Zealand: Important
Choices Ahead.” Rosemary also is the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration at the University of Kansas. Previously she was on the faculties of the Maxwell
School of Syracuse University and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana
University-Bloomington.
Professor O’Leary was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Public
Administration in 1995. She is the author or editor of eleven books and more than 100 articles
and book chapters on public management. Rosemary has won ten national research awards
and nine teaching awards. She is the only person to win three National Association of Schools
of Public Affairs and Administration awards for Distinguished Teaching, Distinguished
Research, and Best Dissertation. In 2014 Professor O’Leary won the Dwight Waldo Award
for “distinguished contributions to the professional literature of public administration and in
recognition of a distinguished career as author, educator, and public administrator”.
Collaboration is key,
it takes innovation and
creativity to the next level
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Peter Townsend
Building bridges to business: What real relationships
can deliver and what gets in the way
Effective and valuable relations between the business sector and educational institutions are
rare and variable.
The key ingredients in making relationships work involve, alignment leadership, commitment,
resourcing and measurable value creation for stakeholders.
What gets in the way and what can work better?
Peter Townsend CEO of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce will provoke
discussion on these issues based on his experience as a father, a Board of Trustees
representative, and a long-standing representative of the business community.
Peter Townsend is the Chief Executive of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce
and has held that position since 1996. The Employers’ Chamber, as the largest business support
agency in the South Island, concentrates on assisting members to improve their enterprises;
ensuring members can operate in a business friendly environment; and encouraging new levels
of business activity.
Peter holds several corporate directorships including being a Board member of New Zealand
Trade and Enterprise and the Callaghan Grants Committee. He is also a Board member of
Pegasus Health (Charitable) Ltd and the Air Force Museum Trust. He is involved with a range of
community groups and initiatives in this region that are in harmony with the objectives of the
Employers’ Chamber. Since 4 September 2010, and especially since 22 February 2011, Peter has
been actively involved in earthquake recovery issues. In January 2015 Peter was appointed to
the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Advisory Board on Transition.
Peter is the Honorary Consul for Chile for the South Island, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors
and a Fellow of the Institute of Management. In December 2013 Peter was made a Companion of
the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Peter has a BSc (Hons) and a post Graduate Diploma in Business and in May 2014 Lincoln
University made Peter an Honorary Doctor of Commerce for his services to business. In
September 2013 Peter received the Individual Leadership Award at the AUT Business School
Excellence in Business Support Awards.
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a
gift from the gods but
a skill that requires
effort and practice
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SPEAKERS
Victoria Spackman
Taking New Zealand storytelling to the world
Victoria will talk about her business, the Gibson Group, which she and two of her colleagues
purchased from the original owner a year and a half ago. The company exports visitor
experience technology and services as well as film and TV projects around the world. Victoria
will reflect on how an independent schooling environment might have influenced her life now.
Victoria is one of the owners of the Gibson Group as well as being its Chief Executive. In
her management role she ensures that the company’s hard won reputation for creativity,
innovation and quality are maintained. She leads a group of diverse and talented producers,
creatives and technicians towards the company’s strategic goals. The company’s aims include
continuing the push into new export markets, including China, Korea, the Middle East, the
United States and Egypt. Victoria’s role takes her on frequent trips to international markets,
including Australia, France, Denmark, Egypt, Hong Kong and China.
Victoria’s qualifications balance the creative (theatre and film) and the analytical (law and
linguistics). In 2012 she was awarded the prestigious Private Sector In-House Lawyer of the
Year award to recognise her contribution to the profession and the Gibson Group.
She is a director of Screenrights in Australia, has served 6 years on the board of SPADA (the
Screen Production and Development Association) and was chair of Bats Theatre in Wellington
for around 12 years. In 2013 she spent a month in China trying to learn Mandarin.
COMPETITION
MAKES US FASTER
COLLABORATION
MAKES US BETTER
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Ngahihi o te ra Bidois
Ancient wisdom modern solutions for collaborative leaders
Leadership for what? is a question often asked of educational leaders with the obvious answer
being that school leadership must first and foremost be directed towards the improvement
of learning. Indeed much educational research outlines that successful school leadership
creates conditions that support effective teaching and learning and builds capacity for
professional learning and change. However all of which means nought if the learning institute is
economically unsustainable. People or profits? Academic results or resources?
In his leadership presentation entitled ‘Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions for Collaborative
Leaders’ Ngahihi o te ra Bidois will outline proven leadership principles from his Maori culture
and personal leadership experiences that indicate leadership collaboration is a key to learning
success and economic sustainability. Ngahihi believes that internal school collaboration
between the Board, the Principal, the executive officer, staff and the student, as well as external
collaboration with stakeholders and other family members starts and ends with one person
– you and your collaborative leadership. Ngahihi will help you to improve your collaborative
leadership.
The changing face of educational leadership requires collaborative leadership through the
collaboration of vision, values and outcomes. Ngahihi o te ra Bidois is one of those leaders
and his previous leadership roles have included a Head of Department in a secondary school,
a tertiary Teachers College lecturer, a Kura Kaupapa Maori teacher, an Academic Adviser and
a senior manager in the tertiary education sector where he was the Head of Arts, Fashion,
Journalism and Maori Studies.
His current leadership roles include President, directorship and Trustee roles on several
governance boards and he owns and manages several businesses including an international
professional leadership speaking business, a VIP hosting tourism business and a self catering
cottage business.
Ngahihi holds a Business degree, a teaching diploma and a Masters in Education with honours
from Massey University as well as various awards including New Zealand Speaker of the Year,
Inspirational speaker of the year and MC of the Year from the National Speakers Association of
New Zealand.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean
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SPEAKERS
Geoff Aigner
Collaboration – Beyond the fantasy
The reality behind the much-heralded trend in cross-sector collaborations is that many are
ending in failure. With over a decade’s experience teaching the art and skill of collaboration, this
presentation looks at when to collaborate and just what it takes to succeed. It means recognising
and working with the “Trolls of Collaboration”. These are the trolls of Control, Competition and
Commitment. Unfortunately the result of not finding a way to take on these trolls is only too
familiar to so many: token consultations, re-centralising of power, or restructures. But the
trolls can be taken on.
Geoff Aigner is an experienced executive in the corporate and NGO sectors both in Australia
and overseas. He has been the Director of Social Leadership Australia (SLA) since late 2011.
He joined SLA in 2007 after several years of pro bono work with the team. He has strategic
responsibility for Social Leadership Australia’s purpose of creating better leadership for a better
Australia.
Geoff spoke at TEDx Canberra in 2013 about SLA’s work. To watch the video follow the link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPIiX_wTCv4
Geoff’s career began with a Norwegian shipping line based in Australia and Norway.
He completed an MBA and moved to a role in the strategic change practice at
PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. Before joining Social Leadership Australia, Geoff was
General Manager at the people consulting services company, Lee Hecht Harrison.
His latest book, “The Lost Conversations” written with eight Indigenous and Non-Indigenous
authors looks at the challenge of using power well in cross-cultural work in Australia. He is also
the author of “The Australian Leadership Paradox: What it takes to lead in the Lucky Country”
written with Liz Skelton and published in July 2013 and the author of “Leadership Beyond Good
Intentions”, published in 2011 by Allen & Unwin.
Follow on
twitter @geoffaigner
We’re in this together, and if we united
and we inter-culturally cooperated, then
that might be the key to
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humanity’s survival
Rex Capil
Education Southland – The power of collaboration
“A decade ago you would walk around Invercargill and it was white, middle class New Zealand.
Now it’s a smorgasbord of culture, a mix of nationalities walking around the city and the rural
towns. As a region we are seeing the diversity that offering international education brings, and
the benefits exceed the expected economic ones.” (Based on excerpt from Education NZ –
http://enz.govt.nz/how-we-work/education-business-development/case-studies/educationsouthland-the-power-of-collaboration)
Distance has done New Zealand’s southern-most province no favours when it comes to
international education. Geographically speaking it’s at the end of the line. However, eight
Southland education providers, under the banner of Education Southland, have worked
together to not only overcome the tyranny of distance, but create an international education
success story.
This success has been founded on collaboration between the eight local education providers.
Collaboration ideals have been based on taking an industry-led approach. Institutions needed
to work together to identify target markets, share expertise and pool resources. In essence
collaboration meant improved efficiencies.
Previously schools struggled to effectively market themselves and attract international
students alone. The collaborative model has allowed them, through shared objectives and
resources, to create economies of scale.
Philosophically – do you want to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond –
collaborate and find out…
Rex Capil is the Group Manager Policy and Community at the Southland District Council. He
has been involved with Community Development, Events and Destination Marketing with the
Southland District Council and Venture Southland since 1996. He has an interest and extensive
experience with the community planning and engagement and the education, sport and
recreation and heritage sectors.
Rex has provided the coordination and leadership for the Education Southland joint
international marketing alliance between Venture Southland and educational institutions
over the past decade. Rex has also been engaged by Education New Zealand to assist
Tauranga, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, South Canterbury and Nelson regions to develop a regional
collaborative approach to international education marketing.
If everyone is moving forward
together,
then success takes care of itself
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SPEAKERS
Jonathan Mason
Is marketing and advertising a zero sum game?
Lessons on collaboration and competition
Firms today are increasingly developing more complex relationships with competitors
in which competition is supplemented by areas of managed cooperation in joint ventures
and other structures. Jonathan will explore these cases of managed cooperation from his
business career, review how the businesses legally managed these structures and discuss
what areas could be relevant for managed cooperation in the private schools sector.
Jonathan Mason has 30 years of experience in financial management roles in the oil,
chemicals, forest products, and dairy industries. Jonathan was CFO of Fonterra
Co-operative, CFO of Cabot Corporation (a Boston based chemical company), and
CFO of Carter Holt Harvey. Jonathan also served in senior financial management
positions at US based International Paper and Exxon Mobil from 1985-2000.
Jonathan now is a director of Air New Zealand, Vector Limited and Zespri, on the
University of Auckland Endowment Fund and an Adjunct Professor of Management at
the University of Auckland specialising in international finance. He is married, with two
daughters, ages 14 and 11, who attend Diocesan School for Girls in Epsom.
Unity is strength …
when there is teamwork and
collaboration, wonderful things
can be achieved
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Lynda Reid
Most great learning happens in groups...
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration, says Sir Ken Robinson, is the stuff of
growth.”
Lynda Reid will collaborate with other delegates to reflect on the disruptive power of
collaboration and on the challenges that presents to our independent school paradigm.
Lynda Reid is the Principal of St Cuthbert’s College; she has worked in both the Independent
and State sectors and has worked at national level on a number of initiatives, most recently
the Ministry Advisory Group on the reform of the Teachers’ Council. Lynda is the recipient of
a number of awards including the SPANZ Leadership in Education Award. She has served as
the President of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools, as Vice Chair of ISNZ, as a
member of the Secondary Leaders’ Forum and contributes to a number of university groups.
ALONE WE
ARE SMART.
TOGETHER WE ARE
BRILLIANT
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SPEAKERS
Peter Hampton
St Paul’s Centre of Excellence in Agri Science and Business
Headmaster Grant Lander and Deputy Headmaster Peter Hampton have enjoyed an amazing
journey over the last 18 months. They have visited numerous corporate boardrooms, spoken
to key figures in the New Zealand Agribusiness sector, visited universities, addressed parent
meetings and have gained a not insignificant knowledge of the needs of the agribusiness sector
and how it operates.
Peter is now the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Agricultural Science and Business TM
programme – a joint venture between agricultural industry partners and St Paul’s Collegiate
School. This initiative is based on a private-public partnership model, initially funded mainly
by private sector partners, to produce a viable, fully resourced agribusiness curriculum in
conjunction with the sector. It is designed to be accessible to all New Zealand schools in that it
will be given away.
Grant and Peter view this as the most exciting initiative they have been involved in during their
teaching careers and see it as an opportunity to showcase true collaboration between industry,
schools, tertiary partners and community.
Peter Hampton is currently Deputy Headmaster (Academic) of St Paul’s Collegiate School
in Hamilton. An experienced educator, Peter has held various roles in senior management
in secondary schools over the years and has worked in the private sector as an educational
consultant to schools.
As the Director of the Centre of Excellence he has the task of writing, resourcing and rolling
out an agribusiness curriculum at NCEA Levels 2 and 3 to secondary schools throughout
New Zealand. Drawing on his extensive background in education and knowledge of NCEA,
Peter and his team are crafting a curriculum that the agribusiness sector see as vital; to
produce quality, tertiary capable students interested and engaged in the career pathways and
opportunities within the agricultural science and business sectors.
The spirit of
collaboration is
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penetrating every
institution and all
of our lives
St Peter’s School, Cambridge – Lincoln University joint venture
St Peter’s School, Cambridge has been actively involved in partnerships with local, regional and
national bodies, businesses and sponsors as it has developed programmes and facilities on site, creating
opportunities for students and the wider community. Initiatives in golf, swimming, cycling and a
Demonstration Farm with Lincoln University will be outlined during the session. This is a strategic
approach to partnerships involving financial sustainability creating opportunities, connecting with the
community, and leveraging off these partnerships.
David Heald
Chairman, St Peter’s School, Cambridge. David joined the St Peter’s Trust Board in 2007
and has been the Chairman since 2012. David is a member of the St Peter’s Alumni and
attended the School in the early 1990’s.
David is a Chartered Accountant, a Director at Staples Rodway Waikato, and also holds
various other trustee and directorships within the charitable sector.
Steve Robb
Principal, St Peter’s School, Cambridge, 1996 to present. Steve served as Principal at
John Paul College, Rotorua, 1989 to 1995, and was an Inspector of Secondary Schools,
1986 to 1989. He was Head of Languages at Palmerston North Boys High School.
Previous teaching at Kapiti College, Wellington College, schools in England and France.
Steve brings a wealth of educational experience to an entrepreneurial school which
has forged multiple partnerships with local, regional and national bodies, creating
opportunities for students and the community.
Marc Scott
Marc is a Chartered Accountant, joining St Peter’s School in 2000 after five years in the
Electricity Industry and prior to that five years with KPMG in Tauranga and USA.
Part of Marc’s focus at St Peter’s has been to support the school’s growth from 580 in 2000
to 1080 students today. Marc has played a key role in working with the wider community
to develop school and community facilities and programmes at St Peter’s. These include
St Peter’s golf and equestrian academies, two pools, the AvantiDrome and St Peter’s and
Lincoln University Demonstration Farm.
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SPEAKERS
Heather McRae
Collaborative leadership
As the saying goes “If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be
exponentially better: Be collaborative.”
What strategies and possibilities put this into action within and across our schools and how can
we leverage our collective leadership to grow initiatives and support innovation?
Heather McRae began her career as a biochemistry graduate from Massey University having
won blues in netball and rifle shooting. Her first teaching experience was in Hamilton at
Fraser High School and then at Awatapu College in Palmerston North where she became Head
of Science. Her secondment to the College of Education and then the Ministry of Education in
Wellington extended her experience of the wider education sector.
She was appointed Director of Educational Operations at Multi Serve Education Trust in
Auckland where her projects included developing an International School for the Sultan of
Brunei and consulting in Japan, China, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Her work with international
schools included areas of governance, leadership, professional development, performance
appraisal and curriculum design.
This international experience culminated in the establishment of an International
Baccalaureate accredited school in Beijing where she was appointed as Principal of Western
Academy’s High School and Curriculum Director for students from Kindergarten through to
Year 12.
On returning to New Zealand, Heather led a large state coeducational secondary school
of 2,200 students when she took over as principal at Pakuranga College. She instituted
change management systems that focused the school on academic improvement through
a collaboratively developed learning charter. During this time she won a Sir Woolf Fisher
Scholarship to attend the Hillary Leadership Programme at the University of Auckland. Five
years ago Heather was appointed as the eleventh principal of Diocesan School for Girls in
Auckland.
Heather is widely respected as one of New Zealand’s leading principals. She has been chair of
the Auckland Secondary Principals Association. She is also President of AHIS – the Association
of the Heads of Independent Schools and Deputy Chair of the Independent Schools of
New Zealand (ISNZ). Heather was invited to be a member of the Experts Panel at the inaugural
Prime Minister’s Excellence in Education Awards 2014 and will continue as a panel expert in
2015. She is a well-known innovator in the field of curriculum design and change leadership.
Effectively, change is almost
impossible without industry-wide
collaboration, cooperation
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and consensus
Geoff Aigner
Leading Collaboration
This workshop will look at one of the core practices of leading collaborative work – the creation and maintenance of a
Holding Environment. Collaborations are complex pieces of work. Making progress through the complexity requires a
good understanding of how to create an environment that will foster not hinder change.
(Please refer to the abovementioned profile of Geoff)
DINNER SPEAKER
Mark Hadlow
Mark Hadlow is one of New Zealand’s most prominent actors. He is driven by a passion
for performance: With 37 years as an actor he has performed in over 140 plays, musical
theatre, dozens of film appearances, television series, commercials and radio voice-overs
in the thousands.
Playing the dwarf Dori in The Hobbit Trilogy, is Mark’s third Peter Jackson movie. In Meet
the Feebles he voiced Heidi the Hippo and Robert the Hedgehog, and sang many of the
songs. King Kong saw him rehearsing and performing the role of Harry in the vaudeville
scenes opposite Naomi Watts.
He starred alongside New Zealand Maori comedian, Billy T James in “The Billy T James
Show” – a 26 episode sit com.
Mark has a strong and distinct singing voice, appearing in many musicals and concert
including Jesus Christ Super Star, Rocky Horror Show amongst many, and Little Shop of
Horrors.
Mark has been nominated for and won several awards, including Best Supporting Actor
in a Television Comedy Series for “Willy Nilly”, playing the role of the challenged brother
Harry in the three-season, top-rating sitcom.
He won Best Theatrical Performance of the Year in 1993 for the hugely successful oneman show “SNAG”, and ultimately went on to win Entertainer of the Year in 1995. He won
Best Voice Over Artist in the 2010 New Zealand Radio Awards.
His latest one man show “MAMIL” opened in 2014 and is entertaining audiences
throughout New Zealand.
Mark has also released an audio CD called “Tall Tales” - classic children’s stories narrated
and performed with a Kiwi twist.
His latest film project was the voice over for the Australian short film “Percival Pilts on
Stilts”. Mark has worked for Queensland Theatre Company and performed SNAG at the
Adelaide Arts Festival. He is Australian born.
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REGISTRATION DETAILS
Registration opens Monday 13 April 2015 (costs listed are per person and inclusive of GST)
Full Registration
Partner/Spouse Registration
Early bird rate by Friday 15 May $850
After 15 May $925
Early bird rate by Friday 15 May
After 15 May $725
$800
Full registration and partner/spouse registration includes admission to the Marsh Cocktail
Function on Friday 19 June and the ISNZ Conference Dinner on Saturday 20 June.
Those who may be accompanying delegates and are not registered to attend conference sessions
may attend the Marsh Cocktail function and the ISNZ Conference dinner at the following cost:
Marsh Cocktail Function
ISNZ Conference Dinner
$ 53 per person
$150 per person
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Registration enquires: +64 4 471 2022
Register online at:
ACCOMMODATION
Delegates are responsible for booking their own accommodation.
Accommodation and incidental expenses will be billed to delegates upon check-out.
Booking your accommodation at the Millennium Hotel Queenstown
These rates are GST inclusive and include breakfast.
Superior Room:
$170.00 per night (Single Occupancy)
$190.00 per night (Double/Twin Occupancy)
Junior Suite:
$220.00 per night (Single Occupancy)
$240.00 per night (Double/Twin Occupancy)
Booking your accommodation at the Copthorne Hotel & Resort Queenstown Lakefront (opposite Millennium)
These rates are GST inclusive and include breakfast.
Superior Room:
$150.00 per night (Single Occupancy)
$190.00 per night (Double/Twin
Occupancy)
Superior Lakeview Room:
$170.00 per night (Single Occupancy)
$190.00 per night (Double/Twin
Occupancy)
Junior Suite:
$230.00 per night (Single Occupancy)
$250.00 per night (Double/Twin
Occupancy)
Room reservations can be made at www.isnz.org.nz (follow the link on the home page) or by phoning either hotel on
toll free 0800 808 228 and quoting Independent Schools of New Zealand Annual Conference 2014.
Alternative accommodation
(Lowest room rates quoted are as at 26 March 2015 and inclusive of GST)
Blue Peaks Lodge
11 Sydney St
Tel: 03 441 0437
Email: [email protected]
www.bluepeaks.co.nz
Accommodation from $145
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Earnslaw Lodge Motel
77 Frankton Rd
Tel: 03 442 8728
Email: [email protected]
www.earnslawlodge.co.nz
Accommodation from $105
Autoline Queenstown Motel
4 Dublin street
Tel: 0800 428 734
Email: [email protected]
www.autolinemotel.co.nz
Studios from $130
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Auckland International College
Carncot Independent School
Chilton Saint James School
Christ’s College
Dilworth School
Diocesan School for Girls
Ficino School
Hereworth School
Huanui College
Huntley School
King’s College
King’s School
Kristin School
Matahui School
Medbury School
Pinehurst School
Queen Margaret College
Rangi Ruru Girls’ School
Rangitaiki Independent School
St Andrew’s College
St Cuthbert’s College
St George’s Preparatory School
Saint Kentigern Boys’ School
Saint Kentigern College
Saint Kentigern Girls’ School
St Margaret’s College
St Mark’s Church School
St Michael’s Church School
St Paul’s Collegiate School
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Whitby
Scots College
Selwyn House School
Seven Oaks School
Southwell School
Springbank School
The Cathedral Grammar School
The Corelli International Academic School of the Arts
Waihi School
Wellesley College
Wentworth School and College
Westmount School
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Representing the nation’s leading private schools
Phone +64 4 471 2022
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