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MONDAY 9 APRIL, 2018 CONFERENCE GUIDE LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2018 2

Programme

“WE MUST BECOME THE Monday 9 April, 2018

CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE” 8.30 - 8.45am REGISTRATION - Mahatma Gandhi 8.50am WELCOME BY MC, JOEL BOUZAID & COLLEGE HEADMASTER Joel Bouzaid, Director of Leadership, Scots College The aim of any education We hold this event annually Graeme Yule, Headmaster, Scots College is to provide well rounded and I would hope that you 9.00am KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 individuals who can contribute can return to your respective Hannah McQueen, enableMe positively to their society. schools and mentor others. I Increasingly all sectors of trust you will enjoy the day. You 9.45am KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2 society are seeking young are the future leaders of our Justin Lester, Mayor of City people with leadership skills. cities, nation and world. You 9.55am BREAK - MORNING TEA Young people have a passion can and will make a difference. Bean quesadillas, classic cheese rolls in wholemeal bread, shitake steamed dumplings, for many causes and offer chunky vegan guacamole with bruschetta sticks, cut fruit platters I would also like to take this much. The aim of an event like opportunity to thank all those 10.10am WORKSHOP BRIEFING the one you attend today, is to who have participated in Libby Carson provide a forum for discussion making this day happen from and some motivation from 10.15am WORKSHOPS COMMENCE organisers to presenters and those who are already in Each student will participate in 4 workshops. sponsors. Events of this scale leadership positions. Workshops are 40 minutes long - allowing 5 minutes to move between rooms. do not happen without the I congratulate you on making efforts of many people. To you LOCATION PRESENTER the decision to be part of this all, a very sincere thank you. CL1 Hannah McQueen, enable Me event and it is my hope that C11 Noa Woolloff, Inspiring Stories Yours sincerely you will take something from AR1 Pera Barrett, Shoebox Christmas Aotearoa Graeme Yule Hall James McCulloch, Inspire Group the day that will benefit you Headmaster, AR2 Irene Wakefield, Prepair NZ and the others you lead. I Scots College GR1 Bonnie Howland, Inidgo & Iris believe that service is a major GR2 Samantha Hannah, Wellbeing Academy component of leadership and it is my sincere hope that in doing 1.15pm BREAK FOR LUNCH this you can assist others via Packed salad (vegan and gluten free), a wrap, choice of muesli bar or fruit the leadership roles you hold or 1.45pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 aspire to. Noa Woolloff, Inspiring Stories 2.30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4 Pera Barrett, Shoebox Christmas Aotearoa 3.15pm CLOSING ADDRESS FROM MC 3.30pm CONFERENCE CLOSES LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2018 4

SEE PAGE 5 FOR A MAP OF WORKSHOP LOCATIONS

WORKSHOP 5 WORKSHOP 6 WORKSHOP 7 Workshops Location: AR2 Location: GR1 Location: GR2 Irene Wakefield, Prepair NZ Bonnie Howland, Indigo & Iris Samantha Hannah, No matter where we are, or How to be a Boss Wellbeing Academy what we’re doing, we are In this workshop Bonnie will The Mindful Future Leader Everyone will participate in four of the following seven workshops. You can choose which workshop to leaders in our own right. share clearly - step by step In this workshop, Sam will attend and these work on a first come first serve basis until the workshop is full. Each workshop will run Everything from what you - how she started and grew talk about why it is vital that four times, each session 40 minutes long with five minutes in between each. choose to post on social Indigo & Iris and ways you can our future leaders learn to WORKSHOP 1 WORKSHOP 2 How would you spend your media, to the way that you lead creatively make your career lead mindfully, and how this Location: CL1 Location: C11 next summer if you knew it was people, demands an element something you love doing while impacts on engagement, of leadership. Making the right being your own boss. She will mental health outcomes and Hannah McQueen, enableMe Noa Woolloff, Inspiring Stories your last? Pera can’t answer that for you, but he hopes his decisions for ourselves and our share her advice on how to effective leadership. Sam Property and Business - Finding Your Feet workshop encourages you to people is made easier when we come up with a business idea will share her experiences of how to stop being scared, Noa will talk through how come up with the answer. understand what it is that we and then execute it, making burnout while she was at the and start being strategic he has driven his business to value most. yourself really proud and top of her game - think two TV We need to plan for our success and what drives him to WORKSHOP 4 opening up opportunities for shows, a successful nationwide retirement - okay, we get it. But give back to the world. He will Location: Hall Along the journey there have your life. There will be time to business built from nothing, can we plan to have fun too? share his struggles, challenges, James McCulloch, Inspire been challenges, difficult ask questions and Bonnie will training for a half Ironman and Can we plan to retire BEFORE successes and highlights of Group decisions and many changes. answer all and any questions! playing premier level , One thing that has always 65? Can we plan to take a year setting up his business, working 10 ways to soar as a leader while juggling kids, marriage remained the same are Irene’s off and travel the world without alongside people with their own in 2018 and friends. You’ll discover how having to backpack and hostel inspiring stories and how he values and her organisation’s mindfulness played a crucial Working in leadership our way through it? The answer is helping bring leadership to values. Our values are like our part in Sam realigning her development is a wonderful is yes. So the next question is, youth. true north star. But, we can world, which took her business privilege. You get to dip in How? only use them if we know what and personal life to new WORKSHOP 3 and out of a whole range they are. heights of success, and how Hannah will step you through Location: AR1 of locations, cultures and you can introduce essential what leverage is, how you can Pera Barrett, Shoebox environments - meeting an During this presentation you mindfulness practices into your use it to build a business or play Christmas Aotearoa equally diverse bunch of people will hear the leadership story life immediately. monopoly for real, and why along the way. of Irene Wakefield, CEO & Counting down your days you should stop being scared Founder of Prepair NZ. It will But that same elevation of these big ideas, and start This session will break down help you tap into your own beyond what some would call a putting a strategy into place. the important things in life, and values, uncover why they’re ‘normal’ job gives another role how many (few) of those we important and begin to develop The return on a successful - one of trusted advisor. This is actually get. Pera will spend a blueprint around how they business not only sets you up when the client, learner or next some time talking through how might play out for you as a for life, but provides a sense of person in the coffee queue asks to make decisions in a way that leader. purpose and satisfaction that delivers the most value from about YOUR leadership journey can be hard to find elsewhere. each of those moments and days. and the nuggets of personal advice you would give. He will provide a visual break down of how many days each In this workshop, James will of us have left, then how many explore this further with you summers, how many days with and give you his insights into friends, parents and so on and how to become a successful how to make the most of those leader in 2018. days and value them like we should. LAUNCHING LEADERS CONFERENCE 2018 MC 6

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PROPERTY AND BUSINESS - HOW TO STOP BEING SCARED, MASTER THE MILLENNIAL MINDSET FOR SUCCESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY & START BEING STRATEGIC

Hannah McQueen Justin Lester enableMe Mayor of Wellington

worked with the University of Hannah is a Chartered Justin’s priorities as Mayor Auckland to create a calculus Accountant, holds a Masters include kick-starting the formula that would enable her of Taxation, is the founder economy, making housing to pay her loan off as quickly and managing director of affordable, improving as possible, with as much enableMe, the author of three Wellington’s transport, flexibility as possible. Realising books, a mother of two and the replacing outdated bylaws and she was on to something, go-to media commentator on prioritising arts funding. He also she patented the formula. personal finance issues. wants to establish the country’s Helping people understand the first wet house. His Council Today Hannah will be psychology of their spending, has already established a rates addressing How not to follow create a plan and generate a rebate for first-home builders Hannah McQueen is a financial your passion into a dead end. surplus to make the most of and is working on creating force of nature who is driven by A successful career and happy that formula is the foundation the world’s first predator-free a desire to make Kiwis smarter life are made up of more than of enableMe. capital. about money. She’s proud just following our passion. True, of the fact she been able to Hannah is now turning her to enjoy our work we have to Justin grew up in Invercargill change the lives of thousands attention to making kids more be interested in it, but being Justin Lester was elected Mayor with his mother and two of clients, by giving them financially capable, sooner. interested and being passionate in 2016. He joined Wellington brothers. He has an LLB control over their finances. She In researching her latest are not the same thing. City Council as a Northern and a BA (German) from the has no time for doubters. If book “From Pocket Money University of Otago and a In the first place, to follow our Ward Councillor in 2010 and someone tells her she can’t, she to Property” she realised that Masters of Laws (LLM) from passion we need to have the served as Deputy Mayor from will – and she has. while this generation will need the University of Heidelberg cash to do it. We also need the 2013 until 2016. to be much more financially in Germany. In his mid- Hannah’s business, enableMe cash to live the lifestyle we astute than their parents, no During his time as a Councillor, twenties he co-founded Kapai a – Financial Personal Trainers, want. one is equipping them for that Justin championed the living Wellington food enterprise. has been a game changer for reality. In 2018 Hannah will be wage, prioritised good quality thousands of Kiwis since she launching a new online tool to local services and supported founded it 10 years ago. It teach teens the money skills local businesses. He feels now has 10 branches around they desperately need, and a strongly that good local the country, but its roots lie in coaching programme to help government services make Hannah’s own experience of teenagers select and work a huge difference in people’s her first mortgage. Running the towards a fulfilling career. lives. sums, she realised no matter how good the rate, she’d be paying three times the original loan back to the bank. So, she LAUNCHINGKEYNOTE SPEAKER LEADERS 3 AND CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 2018 HOST 2 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 4 & WORKSHOP HOST 3 10

COUNTING DOWN YOUR DAYS A VIEW INTO THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE – THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Noa Woolloff Pera Barrett

Inspiring Stories Shoebox Christmas Aotearoa

Since his TedX Talk in novel called The Man Who Wellington, Noa has spoken Writes the Dreams, in his words, to more than 6,000 people “to show my daughter that if in schools and leadership she wants to write a book, she conventions. Noa is helping can.” other young parents find their He works on other charity feet by raising cash to send initiatives and projects aimed them on leadership courses. at making life better, especially Noa, then 18, hit the headlines Between being a father of two for the young and vulnerable, in 2017 after being made Head and husband, Pera Barrett is and is currently working with a Boy at his high school, Aotea a social entrepreneur, author, team of software developers to College, following the birth of rapper, and leader at BNZ build a Maori language learning his daughter Kyla. Digital. app. Since leaving College, Noa He started Shoebox Christmas Pera gives talks based on his has begun working full time at Wellington in 2014, a project philosophy and approach to Inspiring Stories as the Youth which last year connected 3,000 life, often centred around a car Engagement Manager, and volunteers and delivered 4,500 accident he survived, sharing on his ‘side hustle’ Increase Christmas presents to children his experience to uplift others Clothing. Increase Clothing sells in low decile schools across and increase capability. t-shirts of which 100% of the greater Wellington region. Pera is a director of Kapiti profits are used to provide other As a rapper he has performed Island Nature Tours and Kapiti teen parents the opportunity alongside some of the biggest Island Honey. He is originally to further their leadership names in hiphop, from Otaki, Wellington and is development by attending his music video Whoa is still of Ngati Toa, Te Ati Awa, and courses such as Outward Bound being looked to as one of Ngati Raukawa descent. and Festival for the Future. Wellington’s best hip hop videos of all time. He is the author of an ongoing series of letters to his daughter and son based on lessons he learns throughout life. He self- published his first book last year, a Young Adult fantasy LAUNCHINGWORKSHOP HOSTLEADERS 4 CONFERENCE 2018 WORKSHOP HOST 5 12

10 WAYS TO SOAR AS A LEADER IN 2018 NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE, OR WHAT WE’RE DOING, WE ARE LEADERS IN OUR OWN RIGHT

James McCulloch Irene Wakefield

Inspire Group CEO & Founder, Prepair NZ

James is the director of meaning. Prepair NZ started leadership development at as a blog and an Instagram Inspire Group. He is one of account. They were launched those unflappable sorts with while in the middle of a constant smile on his face frantically wrapping presents and loves turning your big on Christmas Eve 2015. leadership challenge into a positive. Since then, Irene has taken Prepair NZ to the TEDX stage, Having travelled the world partnered with major retailer as a leader and CEO in the Glassons and been responsible public, non-profit and advocacy for engaging and connecting sectors, James has now made hundres of thousands of NZ New Zealand and Inspire Group Prepair NZ is best described as women all across Aotearoa. his home, and can think of no the older sister figure helping One thing that remains greater place from which to young women to navigate constant throughout this change the face of leadership relationships, emotional abuse journey of leadership and development globally! and self-love. Irene and her Prepair NZ is the need to build team connect with young He is a positive, engaging and upon a foundation of solid women nationally through determined guy - who loves values. to lead by example every workshops, talks and social day, whether in growing the media everyday. As a leader, what we value is what our people value. leadership world at Inspire From a young age, Irene was Group, enticing his two boys always creative, loved talking When people are driven by away from the screen and into and aspired to be an influential values we create impact that the outdoors, or in his latest leader. By the time Year 13 is both meaningful, purposeful crazy road cycling challenge! rolled around, finding the right and promotes positive change. Because leadership starts with avenue to pursue a career in how you lead yourself! this space was unclear. This meant at the age of 17 Irene became a banker instead of going to university. After almost 10 years in the bank, Irene decided to pursue a career path with much more LAUNCHINGWORKSHOP HOSTLEADERS 6 CONFERENCE 2018 WORKSHOP HOST 7 14

HOW TO BE A BOSS THE MINDFUL FUTURE LEADER

Bonnie Howland Samantha Hannah

Indigo & Iris Wellbeing Academy

Bonnie Howland is 21 years old vocations. She’s had two TV and grew up in North Canterbury. shows, written for several She spent one year at university magazines, including NEXT and in Auckland before leaving to had a regular slot in TVNZ’s start her company Indigo & Iris. Good Morning Show. Running her business has taken her all over the world - New York, This year Sam has expanded Kenya, Italy, Vanuatu and more. her business into high schools throughout NZ by creating With no business experience NZQA level 1, 2, 3 and 4 she went from googling business plans to now securing contracts wellbeing workshops that help with the world’s biggest retailers teenagers learn important life such as asos.com and Mecca. She skills such as self-confidence has brought on a business partner, and self-resilience. Sam Hannah Duder, to manage the is a registered yoga and logistical side of the business mindfulness teacher, life coach, while Bonnie now focuses on all certified ACT therapist and things creative. soon to be author.

Late last year Bonnie and With a Bachelor of Education When she’s not drinking Hannah raised $130k in pre-sales and Diploma of Teaching, matcha lattes and geeking of Indigo & Iris’ first product, Sam started her career as a out on wellbeing feeds on levitate mascara. Now they kindergarten and new entrance Instagram, you’ll find Sam are preparing to launch sales teacher. But as much as she at Fit45, running in the hills worldwide next month. Indigo & or on her yoga mat. It’s also Iris is a social enterprise makeup adored the energy of the kids quite possible that Sam will be company donating 50% of all and traveling the world using playing taxi driver to her two profit to charities working in the her degree, it wasn’t quite her Pacific Islands. calling. Sam’s love of yoga, teens or coaching a kids sports meditation and helping people team, mostly netball - another get unstuck is where her true passion of Sam’s. passion lies. Over the past 10 years Sam has cultivated a thriving business coaching people in all areas of life from overcoming unhappiness and overwhelm to personal style and life 15 Invited Schools

Aotea College Napier Boys’ High School St Matthew’s Collegiate Porirua Napier St Oran’s College Porirua Newlands Central Hawkes Bay College St Patrick’s College Waipukurau Johnsonville Kilbirnie Chanel College Otaki College St Patrick’s College Masterton Otaki Silverstream Chilton St James School Paraparaumu College Taita College Lower Hutt Paraparaumu Taita Hastings Boys’ High School Porirua College Tamatea High School Hastings Porirua Napier Hastings Girls’ High School Queen Margaret’s College Taradale High School Hastings Thorndon Napier Havelock North High School Havelock North Masterton Tawa He Huarahi Tamariki College Te Aute College Tawa Kilbirnie Otane Sacred Heart College Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Upper Hutt Lower Hutt Wairarapa Masterton Hukarere College Sacred Heart College Eskdale Napier Upper Hutt Hutt International Boys’ School Samuel Marsden Upper Hutt High School Wainuiomata Samuel Marsden Lower Hutt Whitby Masterton Paraparaumu Masterton Wairarapa Teen Parent Unit Masterton Karamu High School St Bernard’s College Hastings Lower Hutt Wellington College Mt Victoria St Catherine’s College Greytown Kilbirnie Wellington East Girls College Mt Victoria St John’s College Masterton Hastings Wellington Girls’ College Thorndon St Mary’s College Porirua Thorndon Wellington High School Mt Cook College Lower Hutt

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