Speakers
Kelli Sullivan, Waka Kotahi – NZ Transport Agency
Kelli Sullivan is a Northland (NZ) based communications and engagement practitioner.
She has over 15 years’ experience in the transport sector, spanning professional services consultancy, contracting and, for the last six years, as Principal Advisor at the NZ Transport Agency.
Kelli’s role at NZTA centres around capability uplift, ensuring their Engagement & Regional Delivery teams across NZ have the resources, guidance and tools they need to deliver best practice engagement.
Kelli also provides strategic advisory to NZTA’s largest infrastructure programme – the Roads of National Significance.
Marion Short, Chief Executive Officer – Engagement Institute
A transformational leader with almost 20 years’ experience as a CEO in the not-for-profit sector, coupled with extensive senior management experience in the private sector and over 20 years’ experience working within collaborative models.
Marion joined the Engagement Institute (then IAP2 Australasia) in August 2017. Under her leadership, the organisation focused on delivering a suite of valued initiatives to members which has resulted in tremendous growth, membership has more than tripled to almost 16,000 and revenues have likewise increased.
Marion has an MBA from Henley Management College, UK. She has been married to Kevin for over 30 years and is enormously proud of her two adult sons.
A resourceful optimist, she grew up in the Northern Territory, and much of her life has been shaped by her dad’s words “well it can’t be that hard”.