THE NINE IS NOW OUT

Phil Simon

THE WORLD’S FOREMOST INDEPENDENT EXPERT ON WORKPLACE COLLABORATION & TECHNOLOGY 🇺🇦

Books, keynotes, advice, classes, and ideas that catalyze senior leaders, event attendees, professionals, teams, organizations, and students.

HOW I HELP

Books, keynotes, advice, classes, and ideas that catalyze senior leaders, event attendees, teams, professionals, organizations, and students.

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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 13 books, including the award-winning The Age of the Platform. My latest creations are timely ones: Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace and Low-Code/No-Code: Citizen Developers and the Surprising Future of Business Applications.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BORING SUBJECT. THERE ARE ONLY BORING SPEAKERS.

KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Whether in person or virtually, I regularly speak to organizations of all types and sizes. Topics include the future of work, 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 spoken at organizations such as Netflix, Zappos, Autodesk, Harvard Business School, eBay, SAS, and hundreds of others.

KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Whether in person or 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 spoken at organizations such as Netflix, Zappos, Autodesk, Harvard Business School, eBay, SAS, and hundreds of others.

Today the costs of inaction almost always exceed the costs of action.

SERVICES

For more than two decades, 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.

INSIGHTS

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.

PROFESSOR

Over the years, I have taught thousands of students a wide variety of management, data, and technology courses both in-person and online. These days, I give guest lectures and serve as a professor for hire.

COURSES

I have created several online courses that lie outside of the peculiar world of academia. The audiences consist of driven writers and professionals looking to acquire new knowledge and skills.

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.