Influential work
- Led multi-year strategic planning for a financial services institution engendering significant improvement in service delivery, expansion into new service areas and improvement in internal capability
- Led work with a financial services institution to transform their workforce and culture; including developing an employee value proposition, a reward and recognition strategy and a talent management framework
- Led a complete transformation for a New South Wales Government agency across service delivery, systems and processes, capability, leadership and culture
- Led the design of a new operating model for professional services for a Go8 university, including development of a new onboading experience for staff using a customer centric, human centred design approach
- Developed a substantial report on Australia’s mental health system that provided the first comprehensive calculation of health and non-health expenditure, documented the fragmentation in the system, and presented external examples of successful reforms.
Outside of Nous
Simon’s earlier professional experience includes working for the Victorian Government in New York City, with responsibility for attraction of foreign direct investment to Victoria and assisting Victorian exporters. He has also worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia as a research economist and US and China country expert; the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC; and the Australian Productivity Commission.
Simon holds a PhD and an Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. His PhD thesis, published as The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia (2005), received rave reviews.
Simon was a Cub Scout leader for ten years.
In his spare time...
Simon enjoys the outdoors, cooking and books, and spending time with his two young children. He agrees with the assessment that ‘Flying High’ is the greatest comedy of all time.