Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford
Our inaugural speaker is All Blacks legend No.8 Wayne “Buck” Shelford. In the “Battle of Nantes” – Shelford went down in folklore history as he continued to play on after having four teeth knocked out and ripping his scrotum. The physio stitched his scrotum up after the game! It was his uncompromising attitude and lack of self-preservation which made him a fan favourite. Shelford assumed the All Black captaincy in 1987 and under his reign – 1987 to 1990 – the All Blacks did not lose a single game. Shelford revolutionised the All Blacks by teaching his team-mates the proper version of the ‘Kamate Kamate’ Haka which the All Blacks still perform to this day. In June 2007 it was announced that Shelford faced the biggest battle of his life after being diagnosed with a form of cancer labelled lymphoma. He made a full recovery from the disease. We are honoured to have Buck Shelford join us and can’t wait for his tough humour and frank stories.
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Phil Richards
Phil Richards told the New Zealand Herald “I left Whangarei at 18 with two goals: to become an accountant and to get a job on Queen St. After university the largest accounting firm in the world at the time, Arthur Andersen, offered me a job. I used to see everyone working really hard in their corporate jobs, with no work life balance, and it wasn’t a future I wanted.” Since pledging better things for himself and his family Phil Richards has started eight businesses including a chain of optometry stores, the cloud-based payroll company SmartPayroll, an international butter chicken business and a chain of accounting practices. And still has time to compete in Iron Man competitions around the world, enjoy golf and spend time being a proud Dad of two. Phil is passionate about helping others achieve a better balance in life. What an inspiration! We are delighted that Phil will join us and share how he has done it!
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Sir Richard Faull
Sir Richard is celebrated for his research into brain diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. In 2007, his team at the University of Auckland proved that the brain can repair itself by generating new cells, debunking the theory that, once fully formed, the human brain could only degenerate. In 2009, he established the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research (CBR), to facilitate interactions among different groups and to promote new treatments for brain disease. In 2005 he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand’s Liley Medal and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. In the 2017 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medical research. We are honored to have Sir Richard join us as our guest speaker. As the patron of Alzheimers New Zealand and one of the world’s leaders in his subject we can expect to be humbled by his passion and shear depth of knowledge on his subject.
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Max Quinn
Dunedin-based internationally-acclaimed wildlife cameraman Max Quinn is prepared for all eventualities. His work life and passion intertwine to become a unique lifestyle of travel, adventure, survival and art.
From spending almost a year in Antarctica, where temperatures rarely rose above minus 25 degrees and where there was a three-month period when the sun never rose, to filming the diverse animal population of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona in temperatures close to plus 50 degrees, Max has seen it all.
Max was the first cameraman to film Emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica hatching and the male birds handing the new-born to their partners after balancing the eggs on their feet for 60 days. He has been stalked by an angry mother polar bear protecting her cubs in the Arctic, where he was also on hand as a US nuclear submarine surfaced through the ice cap.
Southern right whales, long thought to be extinct in New Zealand waters, emerged before Max’s camera lens in another first, he has filmed the construction of some of the world’s genuine megastructures, and has worked on such global success stories as Our Big Blue Backyard and Abalone Wars. In recent months he has trekked, heavy camera equipment on hand, in China and Tibet where he is considered a legend by major television companies. The Otago Daily did a fantastic feature on Max …https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/wild-heart
Back to EventsFrom spending almost a year in Antarctica, where temperatures rarely rose above minus 25 degrees and where there was a three-month period when the sun never rose, to filming the diverse animal population of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona in temperatures close to plus 50 degrees, Max has seen it all.
Max was the first cameraman to film Emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica hatching and the male birds handing the new-born to their partners after balancing the eggs on their feet for 60 days. He has been stalked by an angry mother polar bear protecting her cubs in the Arctic, where he was also on hand as a US nuclear submarine surfaced through the ice cap.
Southern right whales, long thought to be extinct in New Zealand waters, emerged before Max’s camera lens in another first, he has filmed the construction of some of the world’s genuine megastructures, and has worked on such global success stories as Our Big Blue Backyard and Abalone Wars. In recent months he has trekked, heavy camera equipment on hand, in China and Tibet where he is considered a legend by major television companies. The Otago Daily did a fantastic feature on Max …https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/wild-heart