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demographer
media commentator
engaging speaker
BUSINESS ADVISOR
Researcher

Simon Kuestenmacher is a rising star globally in the field of data management and insight. 

He is the Co-Founder of The Demographics Group based in Melbourne. He is a columnist with The Australian and The New Daily newspapers. Simon is an engaging speaker who backs his opinion with data and evidence. 

Call Fiona on +61(0) 415 328 532 to discuss how Simon can contribute to your event. 

 
 
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I spoke at the Australian Water Association OZ Water conference this morning to 800 online delegates. I highlighted how demographic pressures will shape the water sector over the coming years. Due to COVID19 population growth will slow for a few year
In this interview with @SBSNews I’m explaining how the lockdown is impacting Australian demographics. No, there won’t be a lockdown / corona baby boom. Source: https://buff.ly/2XdlHAc
At The Demographics Group we spent the last six weeks with our heads deep into demographic data to understand how #covid19 will impact #Australia throughout the 2020s. You might've seen that between Bernard Salt AM and myself we now publish four colu
I’ve taken to summarize my columns for @the.australian in little YouTube videos. Type my name into YouTube and my channel should pop up. Feel free to subscribe if you are interested in the demographic analysis that I’m publishing from the
At the The Adviser Magazine Better Business Summit in Brisbane I tried to convince the audience that they don’t need to hoard toilet paper for long. Global demographics and the growth profile of our population in Australia are very favorable. D
At the Instil - Engaging bright minds conference in Sydney I spoke to 75 executives from the customer owned banking sector. I first made the point that in the long run demographics are stronger than the #coronavirus. The Australian economy will rec
In my current column I discuss the usefulness of median house prices.⠀ ⠀ I think median house price aren't too useful for home buyers any more. In Melbourne, the median house price is about $900,000. For low-income earners, it doesn’t matter wh
I presented at the fabulous #Towards2030 conference on injury management in Australia run by Safety People Australia.⠀ ⠀ Even though our economy transitions away from agriculture, manufacturing and mining to seemingly safe knowledge jobs we won't see
At the Better Business Summit in Perth I first described the demographic challenges facing Western Australia. Overall I’m bullish for the decade ahead in WA. Due to the strong mining sector WA has arguably the strongest middle-class in Australi
Today I presented at the athlete wellbeing summit run by the Australian Institute Of Sport. What kind of workforce do athletes face in the 2020s and are they prepared for it? I argued that athletes establish many transferable mindset skills that will
Presented and ran a workshop today for the HR leadership team of Monash University. We analyzed how to react to the coronavirus and workshopped responses to demographic changes facing Australia in the 2020s.
Spoke to 100 business leaders at the @gartner_inc International Executive Forum and argued that #Australia is an excellent place to do business in during the 2020s. The list of things working in Australia’s favour is long but there is the issue
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SIMON is one Of THE WORLD's top 50 influencers in data science

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LATEST blog posts

 

I am always driven by data and focus on cities, the workforce, demographics and megatrends in my writing. I also write about my favourite books on these topics.

 
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Trapped in the search for meaningful work
Trapped in the search for meaningful work

Our obsession with having a meaningful job is a mental health crisis in the making. We will never run an economy solely on meaningful jobs and we must change our attitude towards work.

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My top 3 books to prepare you for the world of work after COVID-19
My top 3 books to prepare you for the world of work after COVID-19

Lifelong learning means lifelong reading. These three books helped to shape my thinking about the future of work. Rereading these in the light of a post-corona world of work was very insightful.

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Proven city design plans never lost in translation
Proven city design plans never lost in translation

Australian cities can learn important urban planning lesson by looking to cities near and far. We focus too often on futuristic innovations in urban planning. It might be more cost-effective to select the best tried and proven ideas from abroad and import them to Australia. The German fahrradstrasse and the Spanish superblocks might be such ideas.

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Need for speed drives housing decisions
Need for speed drives housing decisions

Australia’s biggest cities grew massively over the last decade. The speed of this population growth meant we needed a lot of housing fast. Only big developers could provide housing at that scale in such a short period of time. As a consequence housing was mostly built in the city centers and on the fringes. Also, much of the housing stock ended up being sub-standard.

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Capital cities need multiple CBDs to spread jobs, reduce congestion
Capital cities need multiple CBDs to spread jobs, reduce congestion

Once a city reaches a certain size it must spread its jobs across the urban fabric rather than concentrating them in a single CBD (central business district).

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