Robin Janson heads Ecosynergy Group Ltd, which has several divisions. These include Applied Educational Research working with the Microsoft New Zealand Partners in Learning initiative, and the Agro-Environmental division which looks at issues of sustainability in agricultural production and life long learning in the Agribusiness field.

Robin has an eclectic background in Science and Education. Having completed tertiary studies at the University of Jerusalem, Israel and MIT in Boston, in Agriculture with a PhD in Microbiology, he took a post graduate diploma in teaching before migrating to New Zealand where he did post doctoral research into methods for detecting fungal pathogens of biosecurity concern to the delicate ecosystem in that far flung land. 

His expertise lies in the interface as manifest in needs for environmental protection and the constraints imposed by Agricultural production. Currently, he is using his broad experience in developing and applying methodologies gleaning tacit knowledge from experts in wide ranging disciplines in secondary education and tertiary research institutions.  

Annick Janson co-directs egl and is also an Associate with the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research at the Victoria University of Wellington 

Annick is the current Microsoft NZ Research Director, ‘Partners in Learning’ programme. She previously held the positions of inaugural Research Director, New Zealand Leadership Institute, University of Auckland Business School; Researcher in Residence, INSEAD and Visiting Research Associate at the Gallup Leadership Institute and Harvard School of Consulting & Clinical Psychology. 

As the Principal Investigator of the Leadership Pathway research at the Royal Society of New Zealand she is designing the first electronic New Zealand leadership archive, enabling storytelling analysis and web-based dissemination toward leadership tacit knowledge learning. This work also pioneers a visual research reporting methodology for the Social Sciences. 

Annick received a Gallup Positive Psychology Award in Sept. 2006 for research in Leadership Formative Experiences and represented New Zealand at the Global Leadership Summit, Gallup Leadership Institute, Washington 2006. She served on several advisory boards and government steering committees and as editor for a number of refereed publications in her areas of expertise. She has a Ph.D., Management Systems, University of Waikato, New Zealand (emergence of online leadership), an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and is a registered Clinical and Educational Psychologist. Annick's online bios are also in various other publishers' sites...  

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