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Job title: Head of school.

For: Massey University Graduate School of Business.


Robyn Leeming, 55, has come full circle. A Canterbury-born and educated sociologist, she was a lecturer at Massey University in Palmerston North in the 1970s and early 80s before an 18-year stint in corporate management with the likes of Fletcher Challenge and New Zealand Post.

Her challenge at Massey: "To take the Massey MBA to the next level," she says.

"We've got to redefine it for a New Zealand context. We've got international MBAs [in this country] and they are world-class, but I think MBAs have traditionally been thought of as a degree for aspiring senior managers.

"I believe they have a great deal to offer the smaller to medium business entrepreneur, which is where New Zealand's development is going to come from."

Massey is a business education heavyweight, claiming more than half the country's MBA enrolments.

There are 14,000 students enrolled in Leeming's College of Business, and 6800 are full-timers.

The new post adds another credential to a very full CV.

Leeming has also been a Palmerston North city councillor, and a board member of the Employers Federation, the Universities Academic Audit Unit and the Secondary Schools Choir Trust.