2011: Professor Stephen Jacobson, Professor of Educational Administration in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York.
Sustainable School Leadership Success (drawing from the International Successful School Principalship Project).
2010: Dr Graham Smith,
CEO of Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane. Distinguished Professor Smith is a prominent Maori educationalist who has been at the forefront of alternative Maori initiatives in the education field and beyond.
2009: Professor Christopher Day, University of Nottingham,
UK
2008: Dr Narottam Bhindi, Director of The Australian
Centre for Educational Leadership at Wollongong University, Adjunct
Professor in Strategic Leadership at the University of Fiji, and
is currently Visiting Professor at AUT. "Sliding Through The Mud: Sources & Consequences
of Impoverished Leadership"
2007: Anne Milne, Auckland, NZ: “Educational
whitewash! The realities for marginalised learners in our education
system in Aotearoa/New Zealand.”
2006: Dr. Manulani J Meyer, Hawaii, USA: "Indigenous
Hermeneutics: Leadership and World Awakening"
2005: Dr. Hirini Mead, Wellington, NZ
2004: Dr. John Hinchcliff, Auckland, NZ
2003: Dr Margy Whalley, Pen Green Centre for
Under 5's & Their Families, UK
2001: Dr. D. Annie Henry and Dr. Mike Milstein, New Mexico, USA: “Resiliency: A Path to School Improvement”