SIMON'S SPEAKING TOPICS
Simon presents on-stage, in boardrooms or digitally. Simon is happy to answer audience questions or run a workshop as well. Below is a list of just some of the popular topics Simon has been speaking on recently. Every presentation is tailored to the themes of the event and the audience and Simon will take a detailed briefing to ensure the success of the presentation.
Rebuilding a better Australia
New businesses, work practices and consumer behaviours will emerge, and local manufacturing will be prioritised. The experience of working from home delivers a new productivity, lessens commuting, upskills the workforce in self-sufficiency and creates new businesses in technology. This changes the urban landscape. Post-corona we will see a large nation-building infrastructure program strengthening the suffering middle-class.
Businesses and workers must prepare for the post-corona world right now. This is a unique chance to build a fairer and better Australia.
Global trends shaping Australia
Will China come out of the crisis strengthened? Is the US losing ground? How is the world changing and how is Australia positioned to succeed in such a world? Global demographics favour Australia as a destination for migration and international investment during the 2020s, our economic profile will serve us well in the short term but must be overhauled in the aftermath of corona.
Demographics are stronger than the virus and Australia will prosper yet again in the world post-corona.
How COVID shifted consumer behaviour
Relationships with our loved ones strengthened during corona. We rediscovered local products and our neighbourhoods. The early selfishness of hoarding and non-observance of lockdown shifted as the death toll rose and we focused on acts of kindness and love. Households will be more caring, more prudent, more cautious and perhaps also less narcissistic following this experience. The new businesses will have a stronger balance sheet. Relationships tested by adversity will be stronger. The home becomes a more important space and people demand larger dwellings
Australians will be kinder and stronger on the other side of adversity.
Creating opportunities for regional Australia
We will experience years of lower migration. The largest demographic driver in the 2020s are Millennials reaching the family formation stage, working from home and demanding larger houses. Four-bedroom houses are unaffordable in the inner city and Millennials can be encouraged to move to the regions if the case is made in the right way.
This is an extremely rare opportunity to strengthen our regions! We must get the planning and storytelling right though.
Career reset in lockdown
Use the corona crisis to reassess, rethink and reinvigorate your career. Acquire the skills needed to succeed in the post-pandemic world. We need entrepreneurial, adaptable, technologically adept allrounders. We can’t all become tech-workers of course. Australia discovered a new appreciation of lower paid essential workers. Big public spending projects and the establishment of local manufacturing of essential goods is likely to lead to a reinvigorated middle-class.
Don’t let a crisis go to waste and realign your career and business now.
