Phil's Biography

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Short Bio

Phil’s a performance, purpose and innovation speaker who’s an expert on purpose-driven solutions to business challenges.

After many years leading high-performance teams in corporate roles, he spent time with Harvard Business School leaders in the business purpose field where he developed unique insights into innovation strategies and performance outcomes.

He’s authored Connecting Profit with Purpose, many case studies and was recently quoted in AFR report on purpose in business.

Audiences value his warm and engaging style, and experience delivering across virtual, hybrid and in-person platforms.

 

Long Bio

Wth leaders and organisations under pressure to respond to powerful trends, disruption and change, many are turning to purpose-driven approaches to stay in the game and ahead of the game.

They engage Phil for guidance on purpose-driven solutions to their business challenges.

Creating a purpose-driven work culture unlocks potential because people are engaged, energised and bring their best to work every day, fuelling performance, innovation and bottom line outcomes.

His main speaking topic, Purpose-Fuelled Performance, engages audiences in the opportunity, including sub-themes of building purpose-driven work cultures, aligning people with an organisation’s purpose and goals, and discovering breaking-through innovations using a purpose lens.

He tailors his material to the context and session objectives of his clients, ensuring attendees are engaged, inspired and equipped to put their learning into practice.

Phil provides deeper exploration opportunities through workshops, working sessions and programs, and is a highly experienced host of events, conference panels and in-house forums.

Since leaving a corporate career where he led high-performance teams, he was invited to Boston to spend time with Harvard Business School leaders in the business purpose field.

With more than 15-years of experience, he’s developed unique insights into performance improvement and purpose-driven innovation methods.

He’s the author of Connecting Profit with Purpose, numerous case studies and was quoted in the AFR report on purpose in business.

Phil’s worked with companies such as BlueScope, Challenger, IAG, JLL, NRMA and QBE, as well as a wide range of nonprofits and government entities.

He’s also helped sponsors of complex multi-sector projects achieve buy-in with critical stakeholder groups, including Just Reinvest (Bourke), the Wagga Wagga Local Employment Initiative and packaging industry peak body, APCO.

Phil’s the co-developer of various purpose, collaboration and shared value canvas tools and an associate director of Janellis, a firm specialising in critical thinking techniques to improve decision-making quality and organisational resilience.

The purpose of his own work is to help people and organisations elevate their performance and impact so they contribute to a healthy planet with shared prosperity.

Chocolate is his kryptonite, and you’ll often find him running it off on the tracks and trails of Bulli, one hour south of Sydney, Australia.

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