Kim Hill has been presenting RNZ's award-winning Saturday Morning programme for the last 20 years. Her earlier career included television, and radio and print in Aotearoa, UK and Australia. For RNZ, she worked in Greymouth and Gisborne before joining Checkpoint, Morning Report, and Nine to Noon. Kim looks forward to returning to the ICNZ Conference as MC.

Dr Lucy Hone is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today. Having been trained by the thought-leaders in wellbeing science, at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy went on to attain her PhD in public health at AUT University in Auckland. She now assists organisations – from the UN and government agencies, to Fortune 100 companies and schools – distilling the best of resilience science into actionable tools. A member of the NZAPP Executive Committee, conference convenor for Wellbeing in Education NZ, and New Zealand’s only representative of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN), Lucy’s research has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Positive Psychology, Social Indicators Research, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the International Journal of Wellbeing and NZ Journal of Human Resources Management. Her best-selling book Resilient Grieving is published in NZ, Australia, the US and England and her latest book, The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing is published by Taylor & Francis London and is a global publication for the UK, Asia, US and Australasia. Her TED talk, the Three Secrets of Resilient People, has had over 6 million views and has been translated into 15 different languages. After being promoted to the official TED platform, Dr Lucy’s TEDx has been recognised globally as one of the top 20 TED Talks of 2020.