Tim Hawkes is an educator, social commentator and author. For most of his professional life, Tim has worked in schools both in Australia and overseas. His teaching career began at Loughborough Grammar School in England and continued in Australia at Knox Grammar in Sydney. Thereafter, Tim was appointed Principal of St Leonard’s College in Melbourne. In 1997, Tim accepted an invitation to become headmaster of Australia’s oldest independent school, The King’s School, Parramatta in Sydney where he served for nearly 20 years before retiring in 2017. The recipient of an Australian Government – Excellence as a Headmaster Award in 2007 and an OAM for services to education in 2014, Tim has also been a frequent contributor to educational debate with many radio appearances, including Richard Glover’s ‘Political Forum’ on the ABC and regular television appearances. Tim has been instrumental in establishing a number of educational organisations and was the Founding Chairman of the ‘Australian Boarding Schools’ Association’. Dr Hawkes has authored a dozen books including, Boy Oh Boy: How to raise and educate a son, the Learning Leadership series, Ten conversations you must have with your son and Ten leadership lessons you must teach your teenager. Still living in Sydney, Dr Hawkes continues to write and manages his companies, ‘Training In Leadership’ and ‘Truwell’ (the latter being a wellbeing program for schools).