Fiona Humphries is an experienced teacher, school counsellor, and careers advisor with more than 30 years in education. She currently works at Fiordland College in Te Anau, in the lower South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Over the course of her career, Fiona has spent over 20 years in counselling and careers education roles, alongside extensive classroom teaching experience. She holds qualifications from Dunedin Teachers’ College, the University of Otago, and Massey University, including teaching and education degrees and a Master’s degree in Counselling. Fiona has recently completed her Doctor of Education, which explored the wellbeing of New Zealand teachers and examined the factors that influence it from teachers’ perspectives. Her research highlighted the impact of workload, leadership, and collegial relationships on educator wellbeing, and identified that teachers report lower wellbeing than the general population. The findings from this work continue to inform her professional practice and her commitment to supporting sustainable wellbeing in educational settings. Fiona is an experienced presenter and has shared her work at educational conferences, focusing on teacher wellbeing, professional sustainability, and practical approaches to supporting positive change within schools.

Audrey Lachance, Ph.D., is a supervisor in individual and group career counseling and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in this domain. Her research interests focus on career counseling processes, clinical supervision, and professional development. She is also interested in workplace mental health.

Dr Mary McMahon is an Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, School of Education. She holds the position of Vice-President of the Career Industry Council of Australia. Mary is a developer and co-author of the Systems Theory Framework of career development. She researches and publishes on career development across the lifespan, narrative and systems approaches to career counselling, qualitative career assessment, and supervision. Mary received the 2020 European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling award for distinguished contributions to vocational designing and career counselling and the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asia Pacific Career Development Association.

Dr Deborah Munro is a Senior Lecturer in Career Development and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where she has spent more than a decade coordinating a graduate program in career development and counselling. With a background spanning high school, TAFE and tertiary teaching, career counselling practice, and academic research, she brings both real-world experience and scholarly rigour to her work. Deborah's research sits at the intersection of career decision-making and educational equity — interests that began with her doctoral work examining how women with caring responsibilities navigate decisions about higher education study. Her current work extends these concerns into culturally responsive career counsellor education, with a particular focus on how graduate programs can better prepare practitioners to work with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Pacific Islander communities. As a non-Indigenous researcher, she is committed to working in respectful partnership with Indigenous communities in this endeavour.