Emma is a former Health and Physical Education teacher, the reigning Best and Fairest for the Western Bulldogs AFL Women’s (AFLW), a 2017 All Australian player, and is also a cricketer for the Melbourne Stars in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL).

Emma loves teaching young people and seeing their development into adulthood. She has been a HPE teacher for the past six years and has seen the positive impact the AFLW season has had on her students, particularly females. Throughout the AFLW and WBBL season, she was working full-time as a teacher and although this was challenging, seeing the enthusiasm that her students had towards her efforts and achievements was very rewarding.

Steve is an accomplished long-distance runner that has represented Australia at the 1986 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal, as well as having competed in the marathon at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Atlanta, Barcelona and Seoul.

Among his many race accolades, he won the Tokyo Marathon, the marathon at the Commonwealth Games and Sydney’s iconic 14 km City 2 Surf no less than four times in a row – setting the course record of 40:03 in 1991.

He is now a personal development consultant with the Ministry of Education and chair of the Victorian Review into Physical and Sport Education in Schools.

Rob is Executive Director of the Australian Secondary Principals Association (ASPA Ltd) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University.

He is Deputy Chair of the Board of Principals Australia Institute (PAI Ltd), Chair of Edith Cowan University Applied Health Research Centre Advisory Board, Director of the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) Advisory Board and Executive member of International Confederation of Principals (ICP).

Rob taught Health and Physical Education for many years and has extensive experience in metropolitan and regional Senior High Schools in Western Australia particularly in low socio economic areas. He is passionate about developing exemplary leadership to provide high quality secondary education to all young people no matter what their geographic, social or personal circumstances.

Dennis is currently President of the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) and was previously the founding principal of Harrison School, a new Preschool to Year 10 School catering for over 1400 students in Canberra. He has been involved in education for over 30 years, including the positions of teacher, executive teacher, consultant and Principal of a small country school, a large regional school, Special School and establishing a large metropolitan P-10 school. His experience includes both catholic and government primary and high schools in NSW, NT and the ACT.

Dennis has held positions as Co-President of the ACT Principal’s Association, Vice-President of the Australian Government Primary Principals Association and executive member of the Australian Primary Principals Association. He has presented at State, National and International conferences on leadership, school culture, 21st century learning communities and implementing a coaching culture to improve leadership and teacher performance.