KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr Pat Bullen

Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland

Pat is a Senior Lecturer specialising in youth development and youth mentoring in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. Her research and teaching focus on the factors that contribute to youth thriving, particularly during times of transition. 

Pat’s work is grounded in the concept of knowledge mobilisation – leveraging stakeholder knowledge and expertise to promote positive social change.  As an applied social scientist, Pat is interested in contributing to the development of strength-based research-informed policy and practice. Therefore, much of my work is conducted in partnership with community groups such as schools, youth programmes, and not-for-profit organisations.

Pat is also a Co-Director of Campus Connections Aotearoa a therapeutic youth mentoring programme for young people in alternative education and is actively involved with several youth-development focused research projects – Growing Up in New Zealand and the Adolescent Health Research Group/Youth2000 Survey Series. 

Jimi Hunt

Live more Awesome

Jimi is the co-founder of the charity Live More Awesome and is most well known for his work in reducing the stigma around mental health in a distinctly colourful way. He is a Guinness World Record holder, two times TEDx speaker, a regular panellist on morning radio/TV shows and has been the subject of a documentary and two feature episodes of a major US Network show highlighting his unique and highly successful exploits into raising awareness of mental health.

Jimi is committed to affecting radical, positive change in people’s lives through his unique perspective on mental wellness and offers simple, effective life skills and techniques for individuals to implement.

Suzi McAlpine

McAlpine Coaching

Suzi is a leadership coach who specialises in leadership development, including executive coaching, leadership programmes for CEOs and executive leadership teams, and organisations throughout New Zealand. She is the author of the bestselling book, Beyond Burnout, which reached the top 10 non-fiction book sales in Aotearoa New Zealand - and is the author of the award-winning blog, The Leader’s Digest, which has been named in CMOE’s Top 100Socially-Shared Leadership Blogs, Serve To Lead’s Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs, Charles Specht’s Top 50Global Leadership Bloggers and Hubworks Global Top 25 Leadership and Management Blogs.

She has been featured in the Sunday Star Times, ONE News, the Sunday programme, Radio New Zealand, the NZ Herald and Inc. Magazine. Suzi is also the creator of The Leader’s Map, a blended leadership programme for organisations wishing to equip their emerging leaders with the necessary leadership capabilities for success.

Prof Melinda Webber

Te Tumu – Deputy Dean, Te Kura Akoranga me te Tauwhiro Tangata, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Melinda is of Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Kahu, and Ngāti Whakaue descent. Melinda teaches and researches at the Faculty of Education and Social Work at The University of Auckland. She leads a number of research projects focused on better understanding the effects of Māori student motivation and academic engagement, culturally sustaining teaching, localised curricula, and enduring school-family-community partnerships for learning.

MC

Jehan Casinader

Conference MC

Jehan is a journalist, keynote speaker and mental health advocate.

He was named “Broadcast Reporter of the Year” at the Voyager Media Awards in 2020, and “Reporter of the Year” at the New Zealand Television Awards in 2018.

In the aftermath of natural disasters, terror attacks, sporting triumphs and everything in between, Jehan has helped hundreds of Kiwis to share their vulnerable and deeply personal stories with the rest of the country.

He is the author of This Is Not How It Ends: How rewriting your story can save your life (HarperCollins).

With a passion for education, leadership and wellbeing, Jehan returns as our MC for NASDAP Conference 2023.

Dinner speaker

Cam Calkoen

That Awesome Guy

Cam dreams of a world where everyone is inspired to embrace their opportunity and our physical being is no barrier to succeeding in our dreams and aspirations. It is dreams that have brought the world to what we see today and our aspirations that will propel it into the future. 

No one can walk and talk at birth. Some people like Cam, are presented with this likelihood for the rest of their lives. He chose to defy the odds, and now showcases what can be achieved when we identify a challenge, leverage our opportunities and uniqueness, and indeed live for awesome! 

He is a living example that life is what we make it, and the values needed to achieve awesomeness are simple - we need to believe! In doing so, we leave no stone unturned. Through charisma, stories and artistic flair Cam's presence sees people identify the unturned stones on the path, he ignites, inspires, enlightens and delights others by modeling what it looks like to dream big and achieve more!

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