Chellie Spiller (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa) is a professor of leadership at the University of Waikato Management School, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research explores wayfinding, authentic leadership and how businesses can create sustainable wealth and wellbeing. Chellie is a co-author of a book on traditional Polynesian navigation Wayfinding Leadership: Groundbreaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders (2015) with Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr and John Panoho. Wayfinding Leadership is a best-selling book for Huia Publishing. It was shortlisted for the Māori Book of the Year awards, 2016. Wayfinding Leadership is included in the list of 150 books by leading Māori authors assembled by the Royal Society of New Zealand to celebrate 150 years of Māori non-fiction publications. Wayfinding Leadership has catalysed a new approach to leadership development that is growing fast and programmes are currently being taught nationally and internationally.

After a rewarding experience as Leader in Residence at the Atlantic Institute, Oxford University in 2023 Chellie has just released The Catalyst’s Way – A Handbook for People Who Want to Change the World and the companion guide The Catalyst’s Way – Foundational Storytellers. The purpose of this book is to ignite and support catalytic efforts around the world. That means you - for whatever lights you up. The Catalyst’s Way, designed as an embodied process, seeks to empower changemakers by providing them with tools to be more effective and to support their life-long transformational journey.