Scientific Committee

Dr Lynette Reid (Ngāti Konohi) is a kaupapa Māori career development scholar and practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in Aotearoa. Her work spans roles as an employment advisor, career counsellor, senior lecturer at AUT, and researcher and evaluator in the education and philanthropic sectors.

Grounded in her upbringing in Whāngārā-mai-tāwhiti (north of Gisborne, North Island) and guided by the whakataukī “Ka tū tonu koe i roto i te aroha,” be true to the love within, Lynette’s mahi centres on compassionate, culturally responsive career counselling and advancing kaupapa Māori approaches to career development.