Professor Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt (Stream:  Reflections on professional development)

Director of OZI (Ortrun Zuber International) Pty Ltd, Australia

Professor of Professional and Organisational Development, International Management Centres Association (Headquarters, UK)

Adjunct Professor , Faculty of Education, Griffith University, Brisbane

Visiting Professor in South Africa, Germany, Austria, Holland and New Zealand

Co-presenter: Doctor Thomas Kalliath

Department of Psychology

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Professor Peter Reason  (Stream:  Reflections on professional development)  

Professor of Action Research/Practice

Director of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice in the School of Management at the University of Bath

Professor Cheryl de la Ray (Stream:  Leader practices)

Deputy Vice-Chancellor: University of Cape Town (current), South Africa

Responsible for research, innovation and post-graduate studies, institutional transformation and government and community relations

Professor Susan Weil (Stream:  Organisational learning and the future of work)

Professor of Social and Organisational Learning and Founder Director of SOLAR

(Centre for Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research), University College, Northampton (UK)

Dr Ineke Buskens (Stream:  Leader practices)

Cultural anthropologist with a passion for research methodology, women's empowerment and Africa

Currently heading a major South African HIV/AIDS research project looking into infant feeding practices

Professor Richard Bawden (Stream:  Organisational learning and the future of work)

Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, USA

Researches the application of systems principles to the process of development

Visiting Professor at the Open University in England, the University of Natal in South Africa, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India and Rutgers and Cornell Universities in the USA

Tim Dalmau (Stream:  Organisational learning and the future of work)

Dalmau Network Group, Australia

Well-known expert in Process Management, Professional and Organisational Development

Consultant to the public and private sectors

Ben Boog: Lecturer in community organisation/education and secretary: Dutch Network (Participatory) Action Research.

Margaret A Fletcher [with Brendan Bartlett]: Faculty of Education at the Griffith University in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.

Judith McMorland: Senior lecturer in the Department of Management and Employment Relations, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand and a change management consultant.

Susan E Noffke: Susan has extensive experience of working with primary school learners and is, inter alia, involved in pre-service teacher education and curriculum design.

Chris Kapp: Founder member and past president of SAARDHE (The South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education) and founding editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education. His current research includes projects on post-graduate supervision and the training and leadership development in higher education.

Eileen Piggot-Irvine: Director of the New Zealand Principal and Leadership Centre and a part-time senior lecturer at Massey University, Auckland.

Yoland Wadsworth: Yoland has been involved in in-depth action research for many years, working as a researcher, participatory action research facilitator, author, research paradigm activist and consultant. Her interest in Fran Peavey dates from 1990 when they met through the Australia-New Zealand Heart Politics Movement. Fran Peavey is a Berkeley San Francisco-based peace and human-centred activist and author involved in large-scale projects like the cleaning of the Ganges River.

Strategic questioning: Drawing on the work of Fran Peavey.