Anna Sullivan

Anna is the Managing Director of Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga and has led the organisation for over a decade. Raising ākonga achievement and reducing disparity is what drives her, and she feels incredibly grateful to work amongst some of New Zealand's finest educators and thinkers, who are driven by the same purpose. 

A career-long educator, Anna has held a variety of roles focused on professional learning and development. She is a long-standing member of the executive of the Professional Learning Association of New Zealand (PLANZ). She chairs the national advisory group for the beginning principals' programme that EA has delivered for the past eight years and was one of the writers of the Standards for the Teaching Profession. 

Earlier in her career, Anna managed the Te Toi Tupu professional development consortium through its establishment and beyond. She has worked with the Ministry of Education, developed international PLD programmes, and worked as a school management advisor in the Middle East. She began as a primary and intermediate teacher and was assistant principal of a full primary school. 

Anna believes deeply in partnership, and in what organisations achieve when they work together. 

When not at work, Anna loves the outdoors, travel, and time with friends and family. She is based in our Auckland office, and she loves to spend time in Queenstown, where her partner hails from.