Brigid Carroll, University of Auckland 
Biography
Dr Brigid Carroll is the Principal Researcher and a lead facilitator at the New Zealand Leadership Institute and a senior lecturer within the Department of Management and International Business at The University of Auckland Business School. She is extensively published overseas and has won awards in both the USA and UK for what has been considered original and groundbreaking work in leadership theory and practice. She brings a particular expertise in firstly the use of language and story to both leadership research and practice, and secondly in terms of processes of leadership identity construction and development.
Brigid began her career in secondary school education as an English teacher at Avondale College and then as Head of English at Rangitoto College. University life then called her back and she completed a MBA in New York before embarking on a PhD at Auckland. Her PhD thesis looked at professionals from education and law and their move into management roles and identities. She has retained a strong interest in schools, educational policy and educator professional development.
Keynote presentation - Leading change/changing leadership: Redefining the relationship between change and leadership
Increasingly we all live and work in terrains characterised by not just constant change but uncertainty, unpredictability and turbulence. Traditional models of change management with their sequential, linear and compartmentalised logic seem to bypass the pace, intensity and ambiguity with which we have to learn to survive and even be comfortable in. This presentation aims to flesh out a new kind of leadership required for the complex challenges that we are likely to be facing already, and can count on confronting into the future.
Brigid Carroll's keynote presentation powerpoint
Keynote workshop: Why should I be led by you?: Crafting a leadership self
This workshop looks at leadership, not just as something you do, but as something you 'be'. It explores how leadership might sit amidst all the other things you are required to be at work and supports participants to carve out a leadership practice that draws on their own authentic experience and ways of knowing.