2025 Conference Co-Facilitators
Mary Hudson
Mary Hudson is an educator whose work across tertiary, government, Catholic, and independent sectors reflects a deep commitment to transformation through learning, relationships, and leadership. Her practice centres on the belief that schools are living systems where dialogue, collaboration, and trust open space for meaningful and enduring change.
As Director of the Leadership Institute and the Centre for Innovation, and a Senior Educational Consultant with the Association of Independent Schools of South Australia, Mary leads initiatives that honour the complexity of learning and the role of educators as researchers in their own contexts. Her work in practice-led research—most notably the Student Agency Project and the Innovative Models of Learning Recognition Project—has been informed by international collaboration with thought leaders Charles Leadbeater, Valerie Hannon, and Michael Bunce.
Mary’s advocacy for school renewal is rooted in the conviction that all learners—students and educators alike—deserve environments that nurture agency, creativity, and belonging. She champions a reimagining of educational purpose: one where schools are sites of possibility, where leadership is shared, and where the collective construction of knowledge and meaning leads to more just, humane, and sustainable futures.
Louka Parry
As one of Australia’s top innovators Louka Parry speaks on futures, leadership, education, and transformation; having worked with thousands of leaders and educators from diverse contexts across the world, including in high-level policy fora such as the OECD, UNESCO, the European Commission, and with all Australian States and Territories.
An award-winning educator, speaker, facilitator, and adventurer, Louka’s powerful ability to communicate ideas with clarity allows him to guide thinking about learning, leadership, and life to new places, earning him a place in 2022 as a Top 100 Innovator for Australia.
As CEO + Founder of The Learning Future, Louka is committed to transforming learning structures, systems and societies that further empower individuals to develop the key human capabilities that matter most now and into the future.
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