Simon Hammond

Cultural anthropologist, author, brand strategist and creative director

For two and a half decades, Simon Hammond has pushed the boundaries of traditional thinking to provoke creative change within Australian business. From his early career as an investigative journalist to today, as a successful business advisor, creative director and author, Hammond has consistently defined the real drivers of social change and consumer behaviour.

As the country’s most sought after brand strategist, Simon Hammond’s specialty is looking at why we do what we do before applying that insight into helping businesses better connect with their human customers.

He has founded four of the country’s most talked about creative agencies, created BE branding, the new benchmark in brand philosophy, strategically positioned and advised many of the nation’s most loved brands, authored three ground breaking books on consumer insight and created the world’s first theatrical rock show for business.

His research and development of the concept of belief within society and business has made Hammond a prolific speaker and business advisor in North America, Europe and Sth East Asia.

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Key Points for Simon Hammond

Simon Hammond reshapes organisations and engages them to rethink their strategic approach. His goal remains: to re-engage and re-link organisations to their customers through emotional drivers.
Passionate on brand connection, Simon Hammond's radical new advertising and branding methodologies are currently being used by some of Australia's top companies.
His Social Insights program and keynote addresses are in huge demand across Australia for their ability to challenge executives and teams to think differently about consumer connection, team culture and brand uniqueness.
As an innovator, Hammond has published three acclaimed books and wows his audiences with a full rock version of his business insights presentation.

Topics for Simon Hammond

BE Brands - Belief, Belong, Behaviour
Branding - the power of a great brand
Converging media
Customer connection
Finding a real corporate voice
GUTS - Gut Instinct, Tribalism and Courage - Essentials for Progressive Change
Social Insights - Fundamentals for Business Success
The power of your people -Cultural Change
Tribalism

Testimonials for Simon Hammond

Professional Conference Organiser

The team at ICMI offer a fantastic and professional service that allows us (event organisers) to focus on the delivery of our events

Corporate Client

I was very happy with the whole process from initial call through to performance, every question or detail was explained in a professional friendly manner. I will definitely be in touch with ICMI again.

Insurance Client

All ICMI staff I dealt with were exceptionally efficient, collaborative and responsive to ensuring our talent was informed.

Government Client

ICMI were flexible and accommodating, this year finding a speaker for your event that would work in a virtual setting was a challenge, but we ended up with a very successful event and the perfect speaker! Always patient and responsive to my calls or emails.

Corporate Client

Association Client

We were impacted by a COVID-19 outbreak in South Australia that threatened to de-rail our Northern Territory based event, but the ICMI logistics team made it happen when the window of opportunity arose.

NFP Client

ICMI listened to our needs and were very supportive with the change of plans with dealing with the pandemic. They gave great advice and helped us secure the right talent for our event.

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