2012 Combined Queensland Principals Associations State Conference

Click on the State Conference link below to watch a video about the conference.

 2012 State Conference Video - click here to view it

Hosted in conjunction with our colleagues from QSP10/12SAA and members from the QASSP Ipswich Branch, our State Conference looks sensational and will take place from Thursday 7th June to Friday 8th June at the Sofitel Brisbane.

Some of the speakers include:

Malachi Pancoast is President and Founder of The Breakthrough Coach, a management consulting firm dedicated to working hands-on with school administrators at all levels. Mr. Pancoast has been helping organisations produce breakthrough improvements in performance, productivity, and employee satisfaction for over twenty years. From 1986 through 1996, Mr. Pancoast founded and ran his own business consulting firm. After working with him, client companies typically reported a 200-300% increase in profitability in less than one year.

He has been applying his Breakthrough Coach Management Methodology™ to his work with instructional leaders since 1998. His efforts in education have led to dramatic increases in employee satisfaction and retention, student achievement, and the productivity of administrative teams.

He holds a B.S. from West Virginia University. He has led seminars and workshops on transformational leadership throughout the United States and internationally. He has been a guest speaker at numerous professional conferences including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the University of Edinburgh, and the National Associations of Elementary and Secondary School Principals. To read more click here.

Tom O'Toole is a baker. He knows the taste of deprivation, failure and despair. A man who knows what poverty and being illiterate feels like. He also happens to know how to turn a failing little bakery in an isolated and dying country town with a population of 3,000 into a company with an annual turnover of $12 million, serving over one million customers per year. A bakery that has become one of the highest earning single bakery retailers in Australian History!

To read more about Tom OToole, please click here.

Ian Jukes from the USA is the director of an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum design and publication, change management and so much more. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and considers himself an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. His mission in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for the future rather than society’s past. As a result, he tends to focus on many of the pragmatic issues that provide the essential context for educational restructuring.

Sharon Cohrs from the Sunshine Coast, stood on the summit of Mount Everest on 20th May 2011 and in doing so became the first Breast Cancer survivor in the world to achieve this incredible feat. As a determined young woman, she is triumphant despite the incredibly hardships she had overcome, and now reborn, rejuvenated and with a new outlook on life, is ready to take on the world. Through Sharon’s experiences in life, from battling cancer through to the physical and emotional demands required to scale the world’s highest mountains, she will motivate and inspire all of us to overcome challenges and succeed in the face of adversity.

Dr Michael Hall from Colorado is a developer, researcher, coach, trainer and prolific author in the Cognitive Sciences having developed the most cutting edge new concepts in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and NS (Neuro-Semantics) today, the Meta-States Model, the Matrix Model, and co-developed the Axes of Change Model. He brings playfulness and humour to training and is known for his passion and integrity. He co-founded the International Society of Neuro-Semantics and The Meta-Coach Foundation.