Simon Banks Travels from Sydney, NSW

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Creativity / Innovation
Leadership

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Simon describes his geek out spot as the intersection of creativity and design, learning, people and passion. He uses his artist’s curiosity combined with his 20-year corporate career to help build a more creative, innovative world. The aim is to help business thrive in the modern age through cutting-edge reimagination, co-creation and radical collaboration. To ignite results and keep innovation rolling. Drawing on the practical world of creativity and design, Simon’s big point of difference is an active, hands-on approach for everyone present and learning by doing, which is at the heart of how creativity works.

Simon has substantial experience, with over 1400+ events facilitated across Europe, Asia, America and Australia. He’s worked to turn creative thinking up to 11/10 and bring innovation out of teams. Simon’s clients span diverse industries, but they all value the biggest result he delivers: a shift in their thinking so they can reimagine what’s possible and then building the lasting innovation skills to deliver that change.

Creativity is at the heart of everything Simon does. He has exhibited his art across the globe, lectured at the National Gallery of England and developed and delivered programs for institutions such as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Vivid Sydney and the Sydney Fringe Festival, and continues to have a foot firmly planted in both the creative and corporate worlds. It’s also why he loves drawing live in all of his keynotes.

Simon lives by the mantra, no one ever went to an event and said, ‘you know what? I wish I had a more boring time1’ Simon is known for his energy on stage and the question everyone asks is “where do you get it from?” He’s night quite sure but it’s definitely legal.

He prefers a moped to a Harley Davidson, and surfing over a corporate commute. And the question that everyone asks? Yes, all drawings in his presentations are his own.

Keynote Titles

Creativity, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again
Leading with Innovation: Now we’re talking!
Curiosity may kill cats, definitely not humans
Occupational Philosophy: The new compass to navigate uncertainty
The Art of the Story (or not sending your audience to sleep)

Testimonials

I just wanted to say thank you so much for yesterday’s session! We had over 300 staff attend the live session and over 200 have registered for the webinar recording. I’ve received the feedback, and it reflects what we saw during the session – that staff really enjoyed the topic, were engaged and loved your creative presentation style.

Australian Taxation Office

We loved having you as part of our DevFest events and Leadership Summits–thank you again for spending time with us and sharing your many talents. Your storytelling session was by far one of the most popular!

Sportsbet

Ticket to Ryde was our first all staff conference to be delivered over 4 days–and we knew we had to create a memorable and high energy event with impact! Simon was a true professional. From our first conceptual brainstorming session, Simon worked closely with us until we moulded the prefect blend of information, fun and connection into our program. We went into the event knowing Simon would deliver and engaging, thought provoking keynote and he went above and beyond in facilitating our workshops with high energy and purpose. With 4 keynotes and 16 workshops facilitated over 4 days, it was a huge thankyou to Simon for inspiring our staff to be curious, creative and imaginative–bringing our ideas to life!

City Of Ryde