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Retirement Villages Association Annual Conference
28 – 30 May 2007
Wellington
Programme and Keynote speakers:
Key times for your planning:
28th May
- 8.15am Annual Ambrose Golf Tournament at Paraparaumu Golf Club
- 6.00pm Cocktail Party among Trade stands featuring The Beat Girls!
29th May
- 7.30am Official Conference Opening Breakfast
- 9.00am Conference Opening and Government Minister
- 5.00pm Annual General Meeting
30th May
31st May
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Speakers:
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Jim Hopkins
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Glen Capelli
An author, songwriter, radio and television presenter and creator of
the 'Dynamic Thinking' course for Leadership, Glenn Capelli has
delivered a message of creativity, innovation and 'thinking smarter' to
audiences around the world. Glenns ability to bring together meaningful
learning and laughter is the key to his successful presentation style.
Glenn is also a former 'hobo' who backpacked his way around the world
for seven years, working in a variety of roles including a fish farmer
on a kibbutz in Israel, a comedian in Los Angeles, a travel writer in
Kenya and a summer-camp counsellor in North Carolina.
In 1987, he returned home to Australia and founded the True Learning
Centre, a company focussed on quality learning and creative endeavour.
Glenn's award winning television series 'Born to Learn' aired weekly to
26 million households throughout the USA. He is the co-author of
'Maximising Your Learning Potential' and 'The Thinking Learning
Classroom'.
The highlights from his 2001 year include receiving the award of
'Presenter of the year' from CPA for his many corporate and industry
keynote speeches including those in Madrid, Orlando, Queenstown,
Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, Bali, Linderman Island, Sydney,
Gold Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and at home in Perth. Glenn's
message is one of quality, creativity, maximising your potential and
maintaining humour, health and enthusiasm.
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Clayton Cosgrove
Clayton Cosgrove is the Minister for Building and Construction in the
current New Zealand Government, as well as Minister of Statistics,
Associate Minister of Finance, Associate Minister of Justice and
Associate Minister of Immigration. Mr Cosgrove was educated at St
Bedes College, Christchurch and the University of Canterbury where he
gained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree (triple major) and a Master of
Business Administration
(MBA) degree. He joined the Labour Party at age 14 and held a
number of positions at a local, regional and national level, including
Senior Advisor to the then Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon Mike
Moore. Mr Cosgrove was elected to Parliament in 1999 representing
the Waimakariri constituency, a mixed urban and rural Electorate in and
around Christchurch, and was re-elected in 2002 and 2005. Before
being elected to the Cabinet in 2005, he was the Chairman of
Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, and before
entering Parliament worked as a public affairs manager and a corporate
affairs manager in the private sector, as well as running his own
business providing strategic advice to companies regarding government,
communication and public relations.
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John Davey
John began his working life in the mid 70s in hotel management at The Savoy Hotel in London.
He left the hotels and trained as a remedial yoga teacher, working mainly with multiple sclerosis and cancer patients.
He learnt to juggle and became a charity fundraiser, juggling over long
distances to raise funds for worthy causes. The longest of these
was 321 kms and remains a world record to this day.
John began presenting to audiences as a professional busker.
Under the name The Amazing Mr. Moon, he performed on streets, at
festivals and on TV in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji, USA, Canada,
UK, France, Holland, New Zealand and Australia. He finally packed
up his street show in 1998 after 15 years.
He is now an international speaker, presenter and the
originator of the Performance Communication style of
presenting. Performance Communication is a fusion of street
performance and speaker/presenter skills.
His highly successful business is called “The Ideas
Agency”. Together with his wife and co-director, Trudi
Urlwin, he trains street performers (buskers) to be presenters
and sends them out to deliver “UniSmart”, a
live survival guide for many thousands of first year students at
Universities in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
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Peter Hillary
People are inspired by great adventure. And the name Hillary is
synonymous with adventure. Peter Hillary is a powerful and
dynamic speaker who takes his audience “with him” on one of
his many extraordinary experiences: to the summit of Mt Everest;
traversing Antarctica to the South Pole; feeding a pod of sharks; or
making a terrifying descent of a vast vertical rock face in a vicious
storm on K2. He ably connects such dramatic achievements to the
challenges faced by individuals and teams striving for excellence,
coping with change, and overcoming obstacles in their own fields.
Like his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, Peter has climbed Mt Everest and
has reached the South Pole overland; widely recognised as two of the
most significant accomplishments in the world of adventuring and
exploration. In May 2002, Peter climbed Mt Everest for a second
time in commemoration of his fathers 50th Mt Everest ascent.
Peter also assists with raising funds for the Himalayan Trust,
established by his father, which runs 42 schools and hospitals for the
villages at the foot of Mt Everest. He has a wealth of
stories to tell from a lifetime of high adventure, including over 30
alpine expeditions on mountains throughout the world; stories of
challenge and achievement that are inspirational and
entertaining. Peter has spoken to over 300 high-profile
organisations in a variety of settings from select executive groups of
12, to a vast audience of 12,000 at the Melbourne Tennis
Centre.
His considerable achievements, and his eloquent, natural speaking
style, have led to an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman,
and an interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America via
satellite live from Antarctica. His articles have been published
in the New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald; Melbourne’s The
Age, and other high profile dailies. He is the author of six
books. Now, in 2005, Peter is featured in two films:
“Surviving Everest” by National Geographic, and
“Fearless, Peter Hillary” by the Outdoor Life
Network.
Despite the high-risk nature of his expeditions, Peter’s survival
is testament to one of his greatest strengths - his sound judgement. In
his presentations he talks about developing skills of use in any field;
of seeing excitement in uncertainty; of balancing risk with caution;
and of achieving extraordinary goals through preparation and
perseverance.
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Matthew Parsons
Matthew Parsons has a PhD and Masters in
Gerontology from The Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, The
University of London and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Human Biology
from Kings College London and is a registered nurse. In the UK, he
developed and managed numerous community based rehabilitation teams, of
which the supported discharge team model was implemented across the UK.
He has been a senior lecturer in Gerontology in The Faculty of Medical
and Health Sciences at The University of Auckland for seven years and
latterly established GERAC, a gerentology research unit at The School
of Nursing.
He has participated in numerous national strategy development groups
including the Health of Older Person Strategy and the Specialist Health
Services for Older People framework. He is the principal investigator
on a number of key national evaluation projects such as ASPIRE and the
interRAI evaluation and has 12 publications and in excess of 30 key
note conference addresses and countless media appearances.
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Bill Rainey
Facilitator/mediator LLB, AAMINZ (Med Panel), Assoc. M. LEADR
Bill has extensive practical experience in facilitation, conciliation
and mediation. He was admitted to the Bar in 1980, has been a lawyer
for 27 years and now works nationwide as an ADR specialist.
He is a LEADR and Bond University trained mediator, LEADRNZ Board
member (Vicechairman) and an Associate and mediation panel member of
AMINZ. Bill is also a member of the Weathertight Homes Resolution
Service mediation panel and he co-authored the ADR section of Brookers
Environmental Handbook.
In 2002 Bill helped establish Concordia, a leading organisational
development and conflict management business in New Zealand and the UK.
During his many years of court work Bill progressively focussed his
practice on ADR. He has facilitated a wide range of environmental,
commercial, organisational, employment and property disputes. As an
independent planning
commissioner he has chaired several high profile applications such as
the lowering of Lake Wakatipu for flood control in 2002 and the
redesign of Canterbury Museum in 2004.
Bill has strongly contributed to the community including local
authority representation, school trustee and community group leadership.
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