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WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL, 2017 CONFERENCE GUIDE LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2017 31

“IT IS OUR CHOICES, THAT SHOW WHAT WE TRULY ARE, FAR MORE THAN OUR ABILITIES” - J.K Rowling

This booklet is a guide to share with you what the The aim of any education is to day that will benefit others. I Launching Leaders Conference is all about. provide well rounded individuals believe that service is a major who can contribute positively component of leadership and it is It contains each of this year’s guest speakers and to their society. Increasingly all my sincere hope that in doing this workshop hosts and why they are enthusiastic to sectors of society are seeking you can assist others in whatever share their story with you. young people with leadership leadership roles you hold or skills. Young people have a aspire to. I trust you will enjoy the It also contains information on each of the six passion for many causes and day. You are the future leaders of workshops to help you choose which four to attend offer much. The aim of an event our city, nation and world. You on the day. like this Launching Leaders can and will make a difference. Conference, is to provide a Make sure to register online for the Launching forum for discussion and some We hold this event annually and Leaders Conference by Friday 31 March at motivation from those who are in in our fourth year we are very www.scotscollege.school.nz/launching_leaders leadership positions. excited to extend our invitations to the wider Wairarapa and I am excited to invite you to Hawke’s Bay areas. join us at this conference and to share with you this booklet, filled Yours sincerely with those who have stories and advice that I hope will challenge Graeme Yule you to take something from the Headmaster, Scots College LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2017 MC 3

Programme Joel Bouzaid

Wednesday 5 April, 2017 Director of Leadership, Scots College

8.30 - 8.45am REGISTRATION Joel Bouzaid is the Director Joel is an advocate of getting of Leadership at Scots folks to think for themselves 8.45am WELCOME BY MC & COLLEGE HEADMASTER College. Having been and increase self-awareness Joel Bouzaid, Director of Leadership, Scots College appointed in 2015, he is with regard to ‘the message Graeme Yule, Headmaster, Scots College responsible for the Leadership we send the world’. 9.00am KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 Programme at the College A businessman, father, Jason Buckley, Marketing Manager, HELL Pizza and has a large focus working coach and trainer, Joel’s closely with the Year 13 9.45am BREAK - MORNING TEA purpose at Scots College is to Prefects. increase personal excellence, 10.00am WORKSHOP BRIEFING Joel comes in by appointment possibility and leadership

Libby Carson only to work specifically to in every boy he comes in 10.15am WORKSHOPS COMMENCE certain outcomes. Currently contact with. Each student will participate in 4 workshops. Joel is working with the Workshops are 40 minutes long - allowing 5 minutes to move between rooms. Year 13, 12 and 11 levels to ensure Leadership is woven 1. A View Into the Political Landscape – the Local and Global Perspective throughout the three final 2. Ethical Practices and Sustainability in an Ever Changing World years at Scots College. 3.Drugs & Alcohol and the Teenage Brain 4. Food & Nutrition for the Teenage Body 5. What does it mean to be a leader? Lessons from NZ’s best coaches and athletes 6. 8 Steps to Your Dream Job 1.15pm BREAK FOR LUNCH 1.45pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2 Paul Rataul, Director, Millennial Mindset 2.30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 Stacey Shortall, Partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts 3.15pm CLOSING ADDRESS FROM MC 3.30pm CONFERENCE CLOSES LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2017 5

Workshops

Everyone will participate in four of the below six workshops. You will choose which workshops to attend on the day. Each workshop will run four times, each session 40 minutes long with five minutes in between each. 1. Chris Bishop National List MP & MP for Mana WORKSHOP 4 WORKSHOP 5 WORKSHOP 6 2. James Bushell Chief Executive, Motif Food & Nutrition for the What does it mean to be a 8 Steps to your Dream Job 3. Michelle Dow Education Support Manager, Life Education Trust Teenage Body leader? Lessons from NZ’s Jason Buckley best coaches and athletes. 4. Jo Mortimer Programme & Development Manager, Life Education Trust Jo Mortimer Jason will share with you his 5. Alex McKenzie Coach Accelerator Programme Manager, Jo will cover off a range of Alex McKenzie 8 steps to finding your dream High Performance Sport New Zealand topics surrounding food and In this workshop Alex will job. Based on his extensive 6. Jason Buckley Marketing Manager, HELL Pizza nutrition for the teenage explore some of the notions experience and the challenges body. Information that will of leadership, and draw he faced in finding his WORKSHOP 1 WORKSHOP 2 WORKSHOP 3 prove useful not only for upon his work with some optimum role, he is perfectly A View into the Political Ethical Practices and Drugs & Alcohol and the you today but as you head of New Zealand’s most positioned to provide some Landscape – the Local and Sustainability in an Ever Teenage Brain into a life beyond school. successful coaches and common sense guidance in an In this workshop, Jo will be athletes to make connections ever challenging workforce. Global Perspective Changing World Michelle Dow exploring: between leadership in high Chris Bishop & Kris Faafoi James Bushell We’ll all be exposed to drugs Jason will provide some 1. What is meant by the word performance sport and in Here’s your opportunity to Let James share, first-hand, and/or alcohol at some stage humour, rational argument diet? Exploring the key other areas of life. get some first-hand feedback his views on driving ethical in our lives and never has and provide practical input elements of a balanced Participants will come away from two of New Zealand’s practice and sustainability it been more important for into helping you on your diet. from the workshop with a journey into the working most popular Young Gun not just in New Zealand but us to understand how these better understanding of: politicians. Chris Bishop aboard. James will impart his substances affect our brains. 2. What do food advertisers world. and Kris Faafoi work at the stories about trekking through Michelle’s workshop delves want us to believe? • What leadership is coalface of Government Laos, volunteering locally into the teenage brain and Identifying the marketing • Who are some great and they will share with you and globally and how he explores what happens when ploys used by food leaders their views on the political transported cocoa beans back teenagers indulge a little or a producers – ordering food landscape – both locally and to Wellington from Papua lot. This interactive workshop packets based on which is • Why they are regarded as globally. New Guinea in a Fijian vaka. will explore the ever complex perceived as healthiest. great leaders human brain and provide you A fascinating story with a 3. Is this a healthy choice? • The behaviours and with the opportunity to find powerful message where Reading nutrition panels to characteristics of great out everything you wanted James will share with you make informed decisions. leaders. to know about our most about how you can learn important organ. 4. Fact or Fiction? Myths • How you can develop and be part of an ethical and about food and nutrition. these attributes (because sustainable future. you can!) LAUNCHINGKEYNOTE SPEAKER LEADERS 1 & CONFERENCE HOST WORKSHOP 2017 6 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2 7

8 STEPS TO YOUR DREAM JOB

Jason Buckley Paul Rataul

Marketing Manager, Hell Pizza Director, Millennial Mindset

or write until he was 10 years Taking a change in direction Paul Rataul is a 24 year However, Paul has turned old and still, today, he continues in 2004, Jason purchased two old Scots Old Boy who down these lucrative offers to experience problems with Hell Pizza stores in Hawke’s Bay has completed a BCom/ to focus full-time on his pronouncing some words. He and moving his young family to BA majoring in Finance, own company, Millennial was relentlessly bullied by both Wellington in 2008, he took over Economics & International Mindset, launched in May teachers and students throughout Hell’s busiest store in Cuba Street school and never achieved with over 50 staff to manage. Business at the University of 2016. He’s now pursuing his anything higher than 50% in any During his time as a store owner Auckland. passion full-time to coach and inspire millennials to master test he sat. He failed all his School he won the Hell Marketer of the Paul has spent the last 18 Certificate subjects in Year 11 Year Awards in 2005, 2006, 2008 their skills and mindsets in months living in Singapore, with 29% his highest score. and 2009. In 2010 and 2011, he order to live the life of their as a Prime Minister’s Scholar was awarded Store Owner of the dreams, through a number of Life didn’t look too good for for Asia. He has received Year. online programmes and live Jason academically, but the world multiple investment banking underestimated his amazing Seeing Jason’s potential, Head seminars. and management consulting talents as a business visionary. Office came looking and in 2012 appointed him Hell Marketing internships and graduate Jason bought his first business Manager. Since that time Jason offers from J.P. Morgan, at 19 years old – a hairdressing has led Hell into a new phase Bank of America Merrill salon appropriately called resulting in 2015 being the Lynch, Strategy & (formerly As Hell Pizza’s phenomenal CHAOS, and whilst he failed biggest year in Hell’s history. Booz & Co.) and The Boston Marketing Manager, Jason every written exam as an Buckley one of the brains behind apprentice hairdresser, he went Jason has been married for 16 Consulting Group (London). Hell’s legendary marketing on to own three salons with years and is the proud dad of campaigns. His level of over 25 staff. Jason won the three boys aged 14, 13 and 11. enthusiasm, passion, drive and Wellington Men’s Hairdressing motivation is beyond compare Award and four of his staff Jason’s story is about resilience, and his enthusiasm for branding won the Wellington Women’s courage, risk-taking and bravery. is second to none. Hairdressing Awards. He is passionate about personal brand awareness and about It hasn’t been all plain sailing From 2000-2003, Jason was youth. for Jason. Born in 1970, Jason a Rugby Manager for eight couldn’t speak sentences, read professional rugby players, four Hurricanes and one All Black. LAUNCHINGKEYNOTE SPEAKER LEADERS 3 CONFERENCE 2017 HOSTS WORKSHOP 1 9

A VIEW INTO THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE – THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Stacey Shortall Chris Bishop & Kris Faafoi

Partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts

Growing up on a sheep and beef Stacey also developed a prison CHRIS BISHOP Brownlee. Between 2011 and KRIS FAAFOI farm in the Manawatu, Stacey programme to help jailed National List MP 2013 he lived and worked in Mana MP has always been committed to mothers maintain meaningful Auckland as Corporate Affairs excellence, service and family. A connections with their children. Manager for Philip Morris New litigation partner at the Minter Called the “Mothers Project”, Zealand, before returning to Ellison Rudd Watts law firm, the programme now runs in Parliament to work as a Senior a passionate advocate for the the Auckland and Wellington Advisor to Hon Steven Joyce. wellbeing of women and children, women’s prisons. “HelpTank”, and a mother of four, Stacey is which is a skilled volunteering He has a strong record of the founder of the WHO DID website, is the latest project being contributing to the community, YOU HELP TODAY™ social launched under the WHO DID and was the 2006 Young movement which seeks to YOU HELP TODAY™ umbrella. Wellingtonian of the Year. For encourage us all to help each many years he has coached, other more. In a career notable for organised and judged schools professional success as well as debating competitions in Stacey has been recognized a deep commitment to making Wellington and around New as a Blake Leader, Women of a difference in her community, Chris Bishop was elected to the Zealand. He was President Kris lives in Titahi Bay, Porirua Influence Award winner, Kiwibank Stacey worked for top litigation as a of the New Zealand Schools’ and was elected as the Member Local Hero recipient and was firm Paul Weiss in New York for National Party List MP at the Debating Council for four years, of Parliament for Mana in Law Fuel’s 2015 NZ Lawyer 11 years while working pro bono 2014 election. and continues to be involved in November 2010 following more of the Year for her work with on numerous challenging projects debating around New Zealand. than a decade working as a Chris was born and raised women and children. In New to support vulnerable women and journalist at both TVNZ and the in Lower Hutt, attending Zealand, this work has included children in New York, and taking He is a skilled debater and BBC. Eastern Hutt School and Hutt the development of a weekly a sabbatical to do the same for public speaker, having won Intermediate. He holds a first Kris is the Labour Member of homework club programme women and children who were ten intervarsity debating class Honours degree in Law and Parliament for Mana and was first that partners businesses or victims of violence in Ghana. tournaments, including at the a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria elected in the 2010 by-election. organisations with low decile Cambridge Union and Sydney University of Wellington, and Union, and a range of awards for primary schools. Known as He is also the Chief Opposition has been admitted to the bar as a legal argument and oratory. “Homework HELP Clubs”, the Whip and the Labour Party’s Barrister and Solicitor of the High programme seeks to have more Spokesman, Tourism and Racing. Court of New Zealand. In the 2014 Parliament he kiwi kids open doors to brighter serves as Chair of the Finance futures. He worked as a researcher for and Expenditure Committee, the National Party in opposition a member of the Justice and before spending two and a half Electoral Committee, and a years working as a Ministerial member of the Regulations Advisor to the then Minister Review Committee. of Energy and Resources and Leader of the House, Hon Gerry He lives in Petone. LAUNCHINGHOST WORKSHOP LEADERS 2 CONFERENCE 2017 HOST WORKSHOP 3 11

ETHICAL PRACTICES AND SUSTAINABILITY DRUGS & ALCOHOL AND THE TEENAGE BRAIN IN AN EVER CHANGING WORLD

James Bushell Michelle Dow

Chief Executive, Motif Education Support Manager, Life Education Trust

James Bushell is an entrepreneur Bushell is the chairman and Michelle started her career as 30 years ago Trevor Grice with a resolute drive to business adviser at Wellington a primary teacher in Porirua. (Founder and Director) brought improve ethical practices and Chocolate Factory, and recently After teaching for 10 years she Life Education to New Zealand sustainability globally and at spent three months transporting was sitting in the back of the and she is proud to help continue home. cocoa beans back to Wellington Life Education Mobile classroom his vision - to educate and from Bougainville in a traditional thinking “What a great job. I empower children to make Ever since finishing “the longest Fijian vaka. would love to do that!” Soon healthy choices so they can live sleepover ever” in 2003 as a Scots after the Wellington City Life full and heathy lives. College boarder, Bushell has He is the founder and chief Education Trust position came up kept busy setting up businesses, executive of Motif, a specialist and she became their Educator, trekking with local militia in Laos, investment and business advisory visiting Wellington schools in the and volunteering both abroad and service that supports companies mobile classroom for the next locally. in their move towards a more seven years. equitable and sustainable world. Michelle left working in schools to join Life Education’s national office in 2010 and is now the Education Support Manager. Her primary role is to support Educators around the country, help train new Educators, and assist with the mobile classrooms. LAUNCHINGHOST WORKSHOP LEADERS 4 CONFERENCE 2017 HOST WORKSHOP 5 13

FOOD & NUTRITION FOR THE TEENAGE BODY WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A LEADER? LESSONS FROM NZ’S BEST COACHES AND ATHLETES

Jo Mortimer Alex McKenzie

Programme & Development Manager, Life Education Trust Coach Accelerator Programme Manager, High Performance Sport New Zealand

Jo Mortimer is a primary trained of Life Education. Her interest in Alex McKenzie works for High whose athletes and teams have teacher from the Hutt Valley and Health and Physical Education Performance Sport New Zealand won Olympic & Commonwealth has taught at Johnsonville School, and the general wellbeing of as the Manager of the Coach Games medals, World Muritai School, Eastern Hutt children led her to take on this Accelerator Programme, which Championships and World Cups. School and Rata Street School challenging role. aims to develop coaches who are over the past 23 years. capable of coaching World and/ Alex completed his PhD in Sport In 2017 Jo was offered a position or Olympic Champions. Psychology from the University In 2008 she worked for Life with Life Education Trust of Victoria in Canada, and taught Education Trust as a health National Office in the role of Alex has been in this role since at Otago University’s School of educator in an environment that Programme and Development the programme’s inception in Physical Education for 10 years is specially designed to stimulate Manager. Her primary 2009, and since that time over 60 before taking up roles with the a child’s imagination. The job responsibility is to develop high performance coaches have Highlanders and Hurricanes of an educator relies on having and create relevant teaching participated in the three-year Super Rugby Franchises. He has sound knowledge of the New resources for the educators, programme. Notable graduates been a mental skills consultant Zealand Curriculum, excellent school teachers and children. include Steve Hansen (All Blacks to numerous high performance communication skills, strong Head Coach), Mike Hesson athletes and teams for over 20 organisational skills, flexibility, Jo believes that adults need to be (Black Caps Head Coach), Janine years, and an active coach for and an ability to get along with a excellent role models for children Southby (Silver Ferns Head over 25 years in both rugby and variety of people and teach at a and lives her life practising what Coach), Gordon Walker (Coach cricket. Alex lives on the Kapiti variety of levels. It also involves she preaches. She has four step of World & Olympic Champion Coast with his wife and two working with a lovable giraffe children who live at home along Lisa Carrington) and a host of teenage children. called Harold who is the mascot with her husband Scott and two other high performance coaches spoilt cats. She is currently in the process of building a larger family home in Lower Hutt for her growing family! LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2017

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