Matt Cowdrey returned home from the 2012 Paralympics in London as Australia's greatest ever Olympian. With 13 gold medals, Matt surpassed Australian runner Tim Sullivan's previous record of 10 gold. He finished the Games with 23 medals, an incredible achievement…more ›

Professor Carla Rinaldi is an internationally-renowned advocate for children and childhood. Her expertise, work and experience continue to influence and inspire children's learning and growing around the world. Carla is the President of Reggio Children and the Found…more ›

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, is the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a spiritual leader revered worldwide. His travels in the cause of peace and a free Tibet have made him an international celebrity. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989 for his non-violent strugg…more ›

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is a leading researcher in the field of motivation and is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on how to foster the motivation and resilience that people need to reach their goals. She has lectured to education, bus…more ›

Dr. Todd Kashdan is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Center for Consciousness and Transformation at George Mason University, where he was awarded the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year. Kashdan is one of the leading authorities…more ›

Mia Freedman is the editor and publisher of Australia's fastest growing women's website Mamamia.com.au. Having built her career around creating communities of women in magazines (as Editor of Cosmo and then Editor in Chief of Cosmo, Cleo & Dolly), Mia began …more ›

Dr Wendy Mogel is an internationally acclaimed clinical psychologist and author. She frequently appears on national US television programs as a guest expert and is regularly interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR. She serves on the advis…more ›

At the age of 16, Yassmin Abdel-Magied founded Youth Without Borders, an organisation that enables young people to work together for the implementation of positive change within their communities. Born in Sudan and moving to Australia at the age of two, she recently gra…more ›

Gretel Killeen is the author of more than twenty books. She has hosted radio and television programs across the country, worked as a journalist, stand-up comic and voice artist and written and directed works to raise awareness of AIDS orphans in Zambia, unexploded ordin…more ›

Professor Patrick McGorry is Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health (OYH), a world-renowned youth mental health organisation. He is also Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and founding member of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation…more ›

Marc Prensky, coiner of the terms “Digital Native” and “Digital Immigrant", is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, innovator and visionary on education and learning. His focus is on understanding students and their future needs in our dramatic…more ›

Dr Simon Longstaff's distinguished career includes being named as one of the AFR Boss True Leaders for the first decade of the 21st century. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge and prior to becoming the inaugural Executive Director of St James Ethics Centre in…more ›