Dinner for Year 12 students. Held off campus in the evening, it brings together over 200 students and approximately 120 professionals from the parent and alumni community, local industry, and universities. Students rotate between tables, spending time with professionals in fields that interest them, learning about real-world career paths and often forming mentoring relationships that extend beyond the night itself. For a young person considering nursing, engineering, law, medicine, or creative industries, the opportunity to sit down and talk candidly with practitioners is invaluable. A PRINCIPAL WITH A GLOBAL LENS Corbett’s own journey into school leadership has shaped his view of what education can and should be. He did not begin with an expectation that he would become a teacher, let alone a principal. Initially studying sports science at university, he discovered a love for coaching and decided to try teaching. After completing his initial degrees in New Zealand and teaching there for three years, he headed overseas and spent the next twelve years in Asia, including seven years leading international schools in Hong Kong and five years as secondary school principal at the largest international school in Malaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur. During that time, he completed a Master’s degree in leadership and administration at the University of Hong Kong and worked with students and staff from a wide array of nationalities, cultures, and perspectives.After having children, he and his family moved to Australia, where he served as a Head of Campus at a large grammar school in Melbourne before taking on the role at All Saints on the Gold Coast, where he also has family connections. “All those adventures and contexts shape how you see education,” he reflects. “You arrive in a new school with a broader lens and a deep appreciation for diversity, for different ways of doing things, and for the common threads that make great schools great.” 42 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 07, ISSUE 12
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