Phil Simon
Books, keynotes, advice, and ideas that catalyze senior leaders, event attendees, teams, and organizations.
Books, keynotes, advice, classes, and ideas that catalyze senior leaders, event attendees, teams, professionals, organizations, and students.
ABOUT
I am a world-renowned technology and collaboration authority • A dynamic keynote speaker • An award-winning author of 14 business books, most recently The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace • An independent writer and advisor • A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Wired, The New York Times, and many other prominent media outlets • A technology and analytics professor for hire • The host of the Conversations About Collaboration podcast • A fan of obscure quotes and the serial comma
HUBS AND SPOKES WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF WORK.
BOOKS
I have penned 14 books, three of which have won awards. My latest creation dropped in April 2023. It’s called The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace. It’s the fourth installment in a series on the future of work.
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BORING SUBJECT. THERE ARE ONLY BORING SPEAKERS.
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
Both in person and virtually, I regularly speak to organizations of all types and sizes. Topics include the future of work, low-code/no-code, Big Data, platforms, analytics, communication, collaboration, and emerging technologies. Since 1997, I have given more than 400 talks, presentations, and workshops to more than 40,000 people on three continents and in eight countries. I’ve delighted hundreds of organizations, including Netflix, Zappos, Autodesk, Harvard Business School, eBay, and SAS.
TODAY THE COSTS OF INACTION TYPICALLY EXCEED THE COSTS OF ACTION.
SERVICES
For more than a quarter-century, I have worked with individuals and organizations in a wide variety of industries and capacities. At a high level, I help organizations collaborate, communicate, and use technology better.
All companies are tech companies. Some just haven’t realized it yet.
Blog
I write about the future of work, low-code/no-code, collaboration, communication, platforms, higher education, technology, and other topics. I pepper my posts with humor and pop-culture references. Oh, and I freakin’ despise jargon. Over the last decade, I’ve penned thousands of posts, more than 1,400 of which live on this site.
POD
Conversations About Collaboration is my timely and multi-disciplinary podcast about how we work together. I chat with interesting and smart cookies about collaboration and adjacent topics: the future of work, remote work, low-code/no-code, communication, productivity, technology, workplace culture, and business processes. At the risk of name-dropping, prior guests have included Kevin Roose of The New York Times and Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek.