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NEXT Woman Of The Year Awards
The NEXT Woman of the Year awards were annual awards in New Zealand, conferred by ''NEXT magazine'' (published by Are Media), to "celebrate the outstanding achievements of New Zealand women". The awards, generally announced in October, were first held in 2010, and had five categories, Health & Science, Arts & Culture, Sports, Business and Community. By 2019, two further categories had been added: Education, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. From these category winners, a supreme winner, the NEXT Woman of the Year, was selected. When Bauer Media exited magazine publishing in New Zealand in 2020, ''Next magazine'' ceased publishing, and the Woman of the Year awards have not been made since. 2019 awards 2019 winners were announced at an event held at the Cordis Hotel in October 2019. * Supreme Winner: Diana Sarfati, public health physician and cancer epidemiologist * Health & Science: Diana Sarfati * Business & innovation: Helen Robinson, former managing director of Microsoft NZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Leberman
Sarah Isabella Leberman is a New Zealand sport management academic, as of 2012 is a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1999 PhD titled '' 'The transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace: a New Zealand case study ' '' at the Victoria University of Wellington, Leberman moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor. Awards and honours In 2019, Leberman won the NEXT Woman of the Year awards, NEXT Woman of the Year in the Sport category. In the 2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Leberman was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women, sport and tertiary education. In 2020 Leberman received the Zonta New Zealand Woman of the Biennium Award. Selected works Books # Leberman, Sarah, and Lex McDonald. ''The transfer of learning: Participants' perspectives of adult education and training''. Routledge, 2016.;- Peer reviewed journal articles For up to date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Upston
Louise Claire Upston (née McGill, born 14 March 1971) is a New Zealand politician of the National Party. She has represented the Taupō electorate in the House of Representatives since the . In the Fifth National Government, led by Prime Minister Bill English, she was the Minister of Corrections. Early life Louise McGill was born in North Shore and grew up in East Coast Bays. Her parents are Ian and the late Norma McGill. The youngest of four children, she has two sisters and one brother. She attended Rangitoto College, from which she graduated in 1988, and where she was friends with Amy Adams. Since before the age of ten, she had wanted to become a member of parliament. McGill dropped out of law school and instead founded a management consultancy firm, McGill Manning when she was 19. Her clients included Air New Zealand, Russell McVeagh, and Datacom Group. She then studied at the Waikato Management School and graduated with a Master of Business Administration. McGill ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Henry (New Zealand)
Tuhbenahneequay (1780–1873) was a Mississauga woman from the Burlington Heights area of Upper Canada. The daughter of chief Wahbanosay and Puhgashkish, she married Augustus Jones in a Mississauga ceremony sometime in the 1790s. Their first child, Thayendanegea, was born in 1798. The same year, Jones married another woman, Sarah Tekarihogen, in a Christian ceremony. Polygamy was an acceptable practice among the Mississaugas, and Jones lived with Tekarihogen at his farm in Stoney Creek and with Tuhbenahneequay as his wife while surveying. Tuhbenahneequay was baptised ''Sarah Henry'' by an American Methodist circuit-rider in 1801. She was the first Mississauga woman baptised a Methodist. Despite her baptism, she refused to become a Christian. Her second child by Augustus Jones, Kahkewaquonaby, later known as the missionary Peter Jones, was born in 1802. The same year, Jones ended his relationship with Tuhbenahneequay as he wanted the respect of his white Christian nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Jordan MNZM (cropped)
Billie may refer to: People * Billie Allen (1925-2015), American actress * Billie Bird (1908-2002), American actress and comedian * Billie Burke (1884-1970), American actress * Billie Joe Armstrong (born 1972), American singer and guitarist for the band Green Day * Billie Dove (1903–1997), American actress * Billie Eilish (born 2001), American singer-songwriter * Billie Fleming (1914–2014), British long-distance cycling record-holder * Billie Frechette (1907–1969), American Métis singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer known for her relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger * Billie Holiday (1915–1959), American jazz singer * Billie Jean King (born 1943), American professional tennis player and gender equality advocate * Billie Lourd (born 1992), American actress * Billie Moore (1943–2022), American basketball coach * Billie Mae Richards (1921-2010), Canadian actress * Billie Piper (born 1982), British singer and actress, who first recorded under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Gattung
Theresa Gattung is a New Zealand businessperson and the former chief executive of Spark New Zealand, Telecom New Zealand (1993–2007). Early life Gattung was born in Wellington, the eldest of four daughters. She was educated at John Paul College, Rotorua, McKillop College, Rotorua, the University of Waikato (graduating with a Bachelor of Management Studies in marketing) and Victoria University of Wellington (graduating with a Bachelor of Laws). Career Gattung worked in senior marketing roles at National Mutual and at the Bank of New Zealand before taking up a similar role at Telecom New Zealand. In April 1996, she became Telecom's Group General Manager Services. In October 1999, she took over from Roderick Deane, Rod Deane as Telecom's Chief executive officer, CEO of the telecommunications business with a $5 billion turnover operating in New Zealand and Australia and listed on the NZX, ASX and NYSE. Gattung was the first woman to run a large New Zealand public company. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Pye
Dame Wendy Edith Pye (born 1943) is a publisher from New Zealand. Her company, Wendy Pye Group, is considered one of the world's most successful educational export companies. Pye was born in Cookernup, in rural Western Australia, the youngest of four daughters. After finishing high school, she studied at secretarial school, but left to take a position as a copywriter at a radio station in Perth when she was 17 years old. Four years later she moved to New Zealand and joined the New Zealand News group. She progressed through the company, holding positions managing its magazine and trade publication divisions, and selling its children's books in the United States. In 1985 Brierly Investments bought and restructured the company and she was made redundant at the age of 42. She decided to move into educational publishing and established Sunshine Books, specialising in early reading and mathematics books, and concentrated on selling in the United States. In 1994 her United States bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Te Au-Skipworth
Heather may refer to: Plants *The heather family, or Ericaceae, particularly: **Common heather or ling, '' Calluna'' **Various species of the genus '' Cassiope'' **Various species of the genus '' Erica'' Name * Heather (given name) * Heather (surname) Arts and media * '' Heathers'', a 1989 film directed by Michael Lehmann ** '' Heathers: The Musical'', a musical by Laurence O'Keefe based on the film ** ''Heathers'' (TV series), a 2018 television series based on the film * "Heather" (''The Secret Circle''), a television episode Music * Heathers (band), an acoustic singing duo from Ireland * "Heather" (Beatles song), an unreleased 1968 song by Paul McCartney and Donovan * "Heather" (Conan Gray song), a 2020 song by American singer Conan Gray * "Heather", a song from fusion drummer Billy Cobham's 1974 album ''Crosswinds'' * "Heather", a 2001 song by Paul McCartney from the album ''Driving Rain'' * "Heather", a song from ''Patent Pending'' by Heavens * "Heather", a version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Cheung
Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness" and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark". at Perseus project Borne in its Latin form by two saints, Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger,Behind the Name /ref> the name was introduced to England by the Norman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjna Patel
Ranjna Patel is the founder of the Gandhi Nivas family violence prevention programme in New Zealand. Work Patel founded the Gandhi Nivas family violence prevention programme in 2014. The programme partners with Counties Manukau Police and Sahaayta Counseling and Social Support to deliver services to New Zealand men considered at risk of committing domestic violence, to support them to change their behaviour. The "ground-breaking" programme removes men from the family home and places them in specially-run homes in order to support them to understand and change their behaviour. In nearly 60% of cases, men who have completed the programme do not go on to re-offend. Patel is also a co-founder and director of Tamaki Health, a primary healthcare group. Patel sits on a number of advisory boards, including New Zealand Police's National Ethnic Forum, the Mental Health Foundation and Diversity Works, New Zealand's national body for workplace diversity and inclusion. Honours and aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Van Zon
Carla Marja Olga Van Zon (born 20 January 1952) is a New Zealand retired artistic director. She worked on international opportunities for New Zealand artists at Creative New Zealand, before becoming artistic director of the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 1996. From 2013 she was the Artistic Director of the Auckland Arts Festival, where she was responsible for commissioning works such as the opera ''The Bone Feeders''. Van Zon has been responsible for supporting the careers of many New Zealand artists. She retired from the Auckland Arts Festival in 2017, following a diagnosis of kidney disease in 2016. Early life and education Van Zon was born in Te Atatū in West Auckland on 20 January 1952. Her parents were Dutch immigrants who had arrived via Indonesia. Van Zon's mother was a contemporary dance teacher and her father worked for Pan Am. She studied contemporary dance at the University of Otago in Dunedin, earning a degree in Physical Educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Bartlett
Kristine Robyn Bartlett is an aged care worker from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. In 2012, Bartlett lodged an application with the Employment Relations Authority that she was not receiving equal pay as per the Equal Pay Act of 1972. She argued she had worked for 20 years for very low pay because aged care work is largely performed by women. Over the next five years, Bartlett's case, '' Terranova Homes & Care Limited v Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Incorporated'', was heard by New Zealand's Employment Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. In 2017, a settlement was reached which raised wages for workers in residential aged care, disability support services and home support services. In 2017, Bartlett won the NEXT Woman of the Year Supreme Award. The panel of judges stated that Bartlett had taken responsibility for the pay equity fight and had improved the lives of many thousands of women. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Bartlett was appointed a Companion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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