Jennifer Moxon was appointed to the role of Managing Director of IBM New Zealand in March 2009.

Jennifer has been in the information technology and business solutions industry for eighteen years and during this time has held a variety of senior roles with IBM in both Australia and New Zealand, including Client Director responsible for IBM's business in the telecommunications industry in Australia; Director, Distribution and Industrial Sector for IBM Australia/New Zealand; and Government Manager and South Island Manager for IBM New Zealand.

Jennifer is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington with degrees in Business and Psychology. She has also completed the Business Leadership Programme at Harvard Business School and the Business Skills Program at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

After completing a zoology degree at Massey University, Steven started his first radio station, Energy FM, in his home town of New Plymouth, at age 21. Along with two business partners, he built up The RadioWorks both organically and by acquisition over 17 years until, as a listed public company, it consisted of 22 local radio stations and four national radio networks with 650 staff in twenty branches around New Zealand. Along the way he launched nationwide music stations The Edge, and Solid Gold FM, and developed The Rock network.

In August 2006, Steven was appointed Chief Executive of NZAX-listed Jasons Travel Media Limited, a tourism marketing company based in Auckland, with interests in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. He continued in that role for two years before leaving in order to enter politics. He has also been a director and Chairman of Taranaki-based hospital bed manufacturing and export company Howard Wright Limited, and a consultant to National Leader John Key. Steven chaired the National Party's successful 2008 national election campaign and was successfully elected as a list MP at the same election.

Gaye has been involved in education for the past 20 years She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Education at Canterbury University. She works in the post-graduate area of special education. She is the Past President of Kidsfirst Kindergarten after a four year term as President.

Gaye has extensive experience in the early childhood sector both as a kindergarten teacher and as a pre-service lecturer. As an RTLB she has also worked in both primary and secondary schools focusing on students with learning and behavioural needs.

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of behaviour and learning. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis "The Social Development Project: Assessing Social Development."

Having graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and Christchurch Teachers' College with a Diploma in Teaching Trevor began his education career at Waimate
High School.

Being brought up on a sheep and cattle farm at Clinton, South Otago, coupled with involvement in the early days of live deer capture, took him back to mustering, farm managing and eventually
ownership of a sheep and deer unit in Northern Southland.

The demise of Muldoon in 1984 and its associated interest rate rise and agricultural price falls saw him return to teaching in Queenstown, Waimate and then Timaru Boys' High School as Deputy Principal. October 2003 saw the beginning of the Headmaster's position at Christchurch Boys' High School. Over the years his main extra curricular involvement has been Rugby from club to National level.

Trevor currently sits on the University of Canterbury Council, Young Designers Awards Trust and the CPIT Trades Innovation Institute Advisory Board and is a member of the CERA Community Forum.

Chris Jansen is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, where he teaches and supervises school leaders who are studying towards a Master's degree in educational leadership. He has been involved in education in a range of tertiary and secondary settings, including Mangere College, Auckland, and regularly facilitates workshops and presentations for a range of organisations around New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific, and Asia.

Chris is currently undertaking a doctoral research project that involves leaders exploring their own leadership using a process called appreciative inquiry. He has also worked as a counsellor in several settings, including the Department of Child Youth and Families "AIKI" programme, where he worked with adolescent offenders and their families, and substance-abuse treatment programmes in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hong Kong. chris.jansen@canterbury.ac.nz

He has developed specialisation and a high level of knowledge in coaching and mentoring through experiential facilitation techniques and learning processes in a variety of leadership contexts. In addition, he facilitates numerous professional learning groups of leaders.

He has been an elected executive member since 2002 and is a team player and believes in using the strengths of the team to provide a balanced voice with well-reasoned advocacy. The need for a strong sense of collegiality both locally and nationally remains great. Given the growing roles, perspectives of broader issues and experience gained from two years leading the Federation, he looks forward to continuing the work at the national level.

Sue is a Hamilton-based Labour MP and is Labour's spokesperson on Education and Early Childhood Education. She is Deputy Chair of the Education and Science Select Committee. She was recently promoted to number 12 in the Labour Caucus rankings.

Sue was Junior Whip for the Labour Government in the years 2007/08 and she also chaired the Labour Women's Caucus from 2005 until her recent promotion to the front bench. Prior to her parliamentary career, Sue was involved in various campaigns to improve the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. They included campaigning to keep the Waikato Plunket family centre open, against health cuts in the 1990s and working to protect and improve low-paid workers' wages. She also chaired the Waikato Coalition for Public Health.

In former employment, Sue has been a self-employed trainer of health and safety representatives, a union organiser and educator for the NZ Nurses' Organisation, regional educator for the Trade Union Education Authority and National Secretary for the NZ Equine Workers' Union. Sue also has a background in journalism and has been a journalist and editor for community newspapers as well as working as a journalist for the Northern Hotel, Hospital and Restaurant Workers' Union. She was awarded CNA Young Journalist of the Year in 1983. She is married to Shane and has two sons.

She was formerly a deputy secretary in the Ministry of Education with responsibility for tertiary education; school and early childhood curriculum, teaching and learning. She has also been an advisor on education policy in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and was a secondary school science teacher and head of department.

Workshop Facilitator and Commentator

Workshop: How to lead in the face of uncertainty and surprises

Helen Baxter is MD of Mohawk Media, a futurist, keynote speaker, and reporter for the g33k show. She is a judge in the Yahoo! New Zealand Digital Strategy Awards, the annual Mix & Mash NZ remix competition, a XMediaLab mentor, and sits on the advisory boards of Creative Commons Aotearoa and Digital New Zealand.

Helen is also a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, lectures in Visual Media Technologies at Unitec and runs digital workshops at AUTs Colab.