Dan Haesler is a coach whose work focuses on creating happier, healthier and higher performance.  He works with leaders in order to help them, and the people they lead, to thrive, professionally and personally.

He is also the best-selling author of The Act of Leadership which has already topped the Australian Business Book Charts (probably because it’s about people not business).

 He is also the host of one of Australia’s most popular management podcasts, Habits of Leadership.

 Dan’s clients include elite athletes and Olympians, as well as corporate and educational leaders.

 As a Director of Cut Through Coaching, he is also an international keynote speaker and regularly presents alongside industry leaders on topics of leadership, mindset, motivation and peak performance.

 Before moving to Australia, Dan was also once identified, on national TV, as the UK’s worst housemate.

Dr Michael Nagel is an Associate Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he teaches and researches in the areas of child and adolescent development, behaviour and learning.  He is the author of twenty books on child development and learning used by teachers and parents in over forty countries and has delivered over 300 workshops and seminars for parents and teachers nationally and internationally.  

Nominated as Australian Lecturer of the Year each year from 2010 to 2017, Dr Nagel has been an invited guest on ‘TV New Zealand Breakfast’, ‘Canada AM’, ‘Sunrise’, ‘A Current Affair’ and ‘The Project’.  Dr Nagel is also a member of the prestigious International Neuropsychological Society, and has been a feature writer for the ‘The First Five Years’ online parenting platform and for ‘Jigsaw’ and the ‘Child’ series of magazines which collectively offers parenting advice to more than one million parents.   

Rachel is a TEDx presenter, speaker, trainer, award winning artist and the author of the Outstanding Book of the Year Award 2015 IPPY New York, Super Power Baby Project. This exceptional book celebrates the lives and abilities of children with chromosomal or genetic conditions, and was inspired by Rachel's late daughter Evie, who was born with a very rare condition herself.  

In the two and a half years of Evie's life, Rachel learnt a lot about the use of language in the health and education systems, and has spent the subsequent years continuing to explore the impact and implications of how it is used by health professionals and educators - To positive and negative effect.