Please come and join fellow AWE Network members, families and friends to celebrate 2019 and hear from the AWE Network NZ Chapter Leads.

Elizabeth McNaughton and Jolie Wills will jointly present on the common challenges of disaster calamity from their experience, and then have a curated conversation over dinner.

Elizabeth will tell you, “My career has quite literally been a series of disasters.” She has worked in disasters around the globe and made it her mission to learn all she can about resilience and recovery so that she can bring that knowledge to helping others. Elizabeth has worked for large aid agencies, led disaster recovery efforts, worked within government and has studied disaster leadership. She led multi-million-dollar recovery programmes for New Zealand Red Cross and was the Executive Director at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet leading work to create a learning legacy from the Canterbury earthquakes. Internationally, Elizabeth has worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in South Asia, the Maldives, the Philippines, and the Pacific. Her areas of interest are workforce resilience, strategy, leadership and design.

Jolie is a cognitive psychologist and will tell you, “I didn’t come looking for disaster, it came looking for me.” In 2010, disaster came knocking on her door, or you could say gave it a good rattle. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquake and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She developed services and training to help her fellow citizens for the Red Cross, local government and academia. Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviours are impacted by stress. Jolie’s areas of interest include workforce resilience and wellbeing, psychosocial recovery, behavioural change and leadership.

Your ticket includes:

• two course dinner
• complementary drink on arrival
• a fantastic evening

We hope to see you there!