Ursula Cheer on a varied career in Law
Ursula Cheer is the Dean of the Canterbury Law School. In this interview we find out about her life and the fact that she has really had three careers out of her law degree: as a lawyer, as an academic…
Steven Moe
Virtual Impact Unconference
Announcing the first New Zealand Virtual Impact Unconference on 24 April 2020. Collaboration is our future. This unconference wants to get us out of silos and encourage discussion and cross fertilisation across specialties. Website: www.impactunconference.nz The short version of its origins…
Shamubeel Eaqub on the impact of COVID-19 and foundations for the future
Shamubeel is one of New Zealand’s leading economists so this interview provides a fascinating insight into COVID-19 from an economic impact perspective. But we end up talking about a whole lot more than that – like what the crisis is…
Tamara Smith on her love of Music
Tamara is a flautist, composer, dancer and much more – in this interview we talk about her love of music and how that began as well as her band Mundi. We hear about her early days as well as getting…
Coronavirus: Professor David Murdoch on infectious diseases
The headlines are dominating on the topic of Coronavirus / COVID-19 and I just woke up remembering that I interviewed one of the world leading experts on infectious diseases last year: Professor David Murdoch. So I pulled out the part…
Chris Taylor on career changes, busyness and developing winning habits
Chris switched career in his early 40s and in this interview we find out about what led him to do that. We also hear about his family dynamics growing up (with a Father who left to work in Saudi Arabia)…
Dr Brett Mann on the impact of stress on our bodies, psychotherapy and ‘somatisation’
Brett is a generalist with a deep interest in many areas. While practising as a GP he has done a lot of research into psychotherapy and the connection between life events, stress and a person’s health and ‘somatisation’ – the…
Raphael Nolden on the future of Tech and developing Amy, an AI powered maths tutor
In this conversation we hear about Raphael’s life and his background. That starts out with finding more about his childhood and what he studied at University, the chance meeting at a Startup Weekend which led to a new venture and…
Souhila Abdelazziz on immigrating to NZ and founding The Metamorphosis Path Academy
Souhila Abdelazziz shares with us some of her journey, what it was like growing up in Algeria, the decision to move to New Zealand, being a new immigrant, the importance of attitude to all circumstances, the impact of the shootings…
Scott Gilmour on founding ‘I Have a Dream’ NZ and supporting kids growing up in material hardship
Scott founded ‘I Have a Dream NZ‘ and in this interview we learn all about the impact it is having on the lives of kids through a programme that helps children from low income communities reach their education and career…
