Simon Dowling

Smart, funny and engaging, Simon Dowling is one of Australia’s leading thinkers on leadership, teams and collaboration.

The author of the best-selling Work with Me: How to get people to buy into your ideas, Simon is passionate about creating workplaces that thrive on human connection – where people are empowered to do their best work. He works closely with some of Australia’s most interesting organisations, helping them to build engaged, high performance cultures fuelled by collaboration and courage.

Simon’s background and experience means he brings a unique blend of creativity and pragmatism to everything he does. Having spent the first part of his career as a commercial lawyer and then mediator, Simon is also well known in Australia as an improviser, regularly performing with leading improvisation company Impro Melbourne and as a regular cast member on Working Dog’s hit TV show Thank God You’re Here.