Maria is a Director, Public Schools with the NSW Department of Education, Sydney Australia, responsible for supporting and working alongside 32 principals who lead primary, secondary and special schools.
Her work involves collaborating with colleagues at a school, Network and system level to ensure that principals are positioned and supported to successfully lead their school communities. A primary focus of her role is to harness the potential of collective efficacy to acknowledge, share and celebrate leadership and actions that positively impact on success for students.
Michele is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) working in Mental Health in Melbourne (Australia). She has been working in mental health for 30 years. Michele has been practising SFBT for the past nine years.
She currently leads the Brief Intervention Team of senior clinicians who use SFBT.
Michele has been a Board Member of the Australasian Association for Solution Focused Brief Therapy for the past six years.
Michele held the acting DON (Mental Health) and Associate Program Director (Adult Acute Mental Health Services) for eight months from 2016 – 2017.
Nic Vidot is a recently retired, experienced secondary school principal. He has had a successful career spanning fifty years in schools and senior system positions including New South Wales, Victoria and Northern Thailand.
He has a passion for nurturing future leaders, using coaching and mentoring to give them a voice. Solution Focused Coaching has been integral to his leadership practice.
Peter McLean is a not for profit specialist having led 5 Australian Charities in 4 sectors. He currently is CEO at the Can Too Foundation, a charity which trains participants to achieve goals in running and swimming events, while raising money for cancer research. Peter initially worked in State and Local Government before moving into the not-for-profit industry.
Peter holds a degree in Environmental Management and is a Master in Business Administration.
Rod Sherwin is a solutioneer, executive coach, team catalyst, facilitator and professional speaker who uses solution-focused approaches as a direct route to create Business Agility and respectful lasting change for individuals, teams and organisations. These SF approaches allow companies to respond and adapt to the rapid pace of change and competitor innovation.