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What Matters in Career Education: Designing a Curriculum That Counts

Tracks
Track 2
Thursday, November 26, 2026
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM

Speaker

Ms Lee Brodie
Director & Career Practitioner
Career Dynamic

What Matters in Career Education: Designing a Curriculum That Counts

Biography

Founding Director of Career Dynamic. Lee has an employment background including classroom teaching and general management, training & development and human resource management roles in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. She established her private practice as a career consultant in Auckland 3 decades ago, supporting private clients and government, NGO and corporate organisations. She has 15 years' experience working with Professional Athletes from rugby, cricket and high-performance Olympic athletes across all sporting codes in New Zealand and Australia. Lee has also developed a range of career decision-making tools that are sold globally via her website careerdynamic.com, holds a Commerce Degree with a major in Human Resource Management, has taught at tertiary level in career development at AUT and the University of Auckland, has held the position of President of the Career Development Association NZ (CDANZ) and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Mrs Beth Nalter
Careers Educator
St Dominics College

What Matters in Career Education: Designing a Curriculum That Counts

Biography

Beth has a long history in the careers profession, starting at the Employment Service working with assisting youth into jobs. From here she embarked on working with Careers NZ working with schools and ACC and long term unemployed clients. A stint in the UK saw Beth working with Staffordshire Careers Service, and during this time was seconded to the Probation Service assisting people into work who had been incarcerated. Upon returning to NZ Beth worked at Rangitoto College in North Auckland, and Green Bay High School in West Auckland as a careers advisor while completing her Masters in Education. Needing a change of scene Beth worked for a year for MyMahi an online platform assisting young people with their career decision making and then for Hanga-Aro-Rau a workforce development council where Beth helped schools connect with industry. Beth currently works at St Dominics Catholic College in Henderson, as a careers educator. This involves teaching careers lessons to all Year 11 and 13 students as well as individual appointments with students. She is on the Careers and Transition Education Executive group, helping organise professional development for career advisers across Tāmaki Makaurau. Beth is passionate about pathways straight into employment for young people and is currently working on her EdD on employer engagement in education with Year 10 students to help with their aspirations and subject decision making. Beth is also on the Youth Employability Aotearoa Stewardship group where her passion lies in educating employers around ways to connect with educational organisations.
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