Rachel McNae is the Director of The Centre for Educational Leadership Research - and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of  Waikato, New Zealand.  She is also a Director of The Good Human Project - an organisation supporting young people to flourish in education.

With a background in high school and tertiary education Rachel's research interests have always been to combine academic research with innovative leadership development approaches.  Her work involves  assisting passionate and innovative leaders to develop and enhance their leadership capacity through strength-based approaches.  

Underpinned by actions of social justice Rachel's research and consultancy involvement supports organisational transformation processes, change management, personal leadership formation and the co-construction of workplace and school based leadership learning.