Chellie Margaret Spiller is a New Zealand academic and is of Māori descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.

[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In 2015 she co-authored Wayfinding Leadership: Groundbreaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders with Hoturoa Barclay -Kerr and John Panoho.

The featured academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Maori has meant for them in their work.

In 2022 Spiller was appointed as a Leader-in-Residence with the Atlantic Institute, University of Oxford to develop a global leadership programme for catalysts of change.

Working with a group of Foundational Storytellers she produced a book "The Catalysts Way: A Handbook for people who want to help change the world".