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Meet the Thought Leaders Driving System-Level Wellbeing Change

Professor Grant Schofield

Professor of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology
Chief Science Officer, PREKURE | Director, Centre for Human Potential

Professor Grant Schofield is one of New Zealand’s most influential voices in public health and prevention science. His career spans physiology, psychology, nutrition, and behavioural change — with a consistent focus on redesigning systems to better support long-term human potential.

A former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Grant now leads research and innovation at AUT and PREKURE. He’s a driving force in shifting public discourse from illness treatment to wellbeing enablement — with the data to back it.

In his keynote, Professor Schofield explores how evidence-based frameworks can move health, education, and workplace systems from reactive to proactive — sparking measurable change across sectors.

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Charlie Meaden is a fintech entrepreneur and systems thinker redefining the future of financial wellbeing, wealth, equity, and access. As Co-Founder of Eccuity, a cutting-edge investment platform, Charlie is on a mission to democratise wealth-building tools through building financial literacy, intelligent automation, and user-led design.

With a background in product innovation and deep experience across AI, gamification, and finance, Charlie has led several ventures focused on empowering people to take control of their financial journeys to achieve their dreams. His work sits at the intersection of financial and economic wellbeing, disrupting limited ideas of wellbeing, leading digital disruption, behavior change, and future-focused thinking — making financial wellbeing more inclusive, responsive, and human.

At The Prevention Imperative: New Zealand Universal Wellbeing Conference 2025, Charlie will unpack how intention, technology and systems innovation can support the long-term financial and future emotional wellbeing of communities — and why a prevention-first model must include finances, economics and social justice.

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Dr Julie Glover Avery

Director, TIIDE Aotearoa – Trauma-Informed Implementation Development and Evaluation

Dr Julie Glover Avery is the founding Director of TIIDE Aotearoa, an organisation advancing the integration of trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and system-aware practices across Aotearoa New Zealand’s education, health, and social care sectors.

Julie is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University (Health & Social Care Unit, School of Public Health & Preventative Medicine), where she contributes to research on trauma-informed education and workforce capability. Her work spans across systems design, culturally grounded prevention, and interdisciplinary leadership development, with a focus on transforming how services and policy support collective wellbeing.

A long-standing advocate for relational practice and equity in service delivery, Dr Avery has worked across disciplines to support professionals, leaders, and organisations in embedding trauma-informed ways of working that honour and empower whānau, tamariki, and communities.

She is especially known for her thought leadership in creating the conditions for sustainable change — where wellbeing, social justice, and belonging are positioned at the centre of organisational and practice frameworks.

At The Prevention Imperative: New Zealand Universal Wellbeing Conference 2025, Dr Avery will offer critical insights into trauma-informed leadership and the systemic shifts needed to support meaningful prevention and wellbeing at scale.

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Charlie Meaden

CEO & Co-Founder, Eccuity – Financial Wellbeing & Intelligent Investing Platform

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