These are all titles he could just about currently hold. Henry is the big picture guy. He comes up with a vision of how he wants the team to play and assistants Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith as well as specialists Mike Cron and Mick Byrne do the detail; the hands-on technical coaching needed to fulfil Henry's plan. It's a system that works extraordinarily well and the All Blacks have a management model that is the envy of many of their rivals. So why change it?
That's the question that will be asked in the next few months when the New Zealand Rugby Union begin interviewing for the head coaching job.
If the World Cup is safely in the cabinet, Hansen will be the overwhelming favourite. Experience and success will be the two key criteria and he cleans up on both counts.
Where he's likely to make the board a little edgy is in the overall punch of his wider management team. Smith is moving on to be technical director at the Chiefs and it is understood Hansen wants to work with former Chiefs coach Ian Foster and use current skills specialist Byrne in a wider role.
That package lacks the rugby capital, expertise and authority of the existing team and it could be that the NZRU would be keen to see Henry retained in some advisory capacity to ensure a steadying hand.
It wouldn't quite be a shuffling of the deckchairs but nor would it be far off. Ultimately Henry and Hansen would be in the cockpit - pilot and co-pilot - but in which seats? Does it really matter? The wider perception would be that the All Blacks are persevering with largely the same coaching team they appointed in late 2003.
Maybe that's not such a bad thing. The All Black forwards were lethal last Sunday and not far behind in the way they dismantled Argentina the week before. Their lineout hasn't malfunctioned for nearly two years and in Owen Franks, Sam Whitelock and Kieran Read they have the potential to continue their dominance next year.
Hansen, for all his critics, is making a difference. He's also not quite so obviously the policeman in interviews he once was and has learned not to be quite so obtuse and belligerent in the public arena.
He seems ready to graduate to the head post yet Henry, it could just as easily be argued, seems to be at the zenith of his powers. As he joked the other day: "I'll be a bloody coach when I'm 80."
More seriously, he talked about how the more experience he's gained, the more he's learned, the better he's become. If he could lose some of the travel and auxiliary demands of his current post and be left to focus on just the rugby; just the All Blacks and helping make them a better team, then maybe the NZRU would be plain daft to let him shuffle into a retirement where he'll undoubtedly drive his wife mad within minutes without an outlet for his passion.
"You are not going to turn round and say you don't want Dan Carter because he's been there for nine years, or Richie McCaw. What you want is for these people to keep growing and coaches are no different," was Hansen's view when he was asked in June whether he felt that, instead of standing for head coach, he should move on. That's a reasonable answer to a question that will be asked. Should the NZRU pat Hansen and Henry on the back, thank them for a great eight years and then bring in an entirely new coach and management team?
Retaining Henry in some role is a nice theory but would it work if anyone other than Hansen were head coach? Would a new man want Henry looking over his shoulder?
It was the prospect of this very scenario that thrust English rugby into chaos earlier this year. The RFU wanted to create the role of performance director and place him above Martin Johnson - who understandably told them to get stuffed.
There are big decisions to be made after this World Cup but intriguingly Wallaby coach Robbie Deans hinted he knew the likely outcome.
Asked whether he felt the semifinal would be the last time he'd coach head to head against Henry, he said: "I doubt this is the last we will see of him. He will be back in a different guise."
