Advisory Partners Client Presentation

Keynote speaker Bernard Salt Bernard Salt AM is a futurist who uses demographic and social data to interpret how society and business is changing. He believes that Middle Australia is on the move… morphing in a new post-pandemic direction which is having an impact on consumer spending and on the way we work. He draws on a range of data sets to interpret social change both now and into the future. He argues that social and cultural change are powerful forces that are reshaping the way we live, the way we work and even how we form relationships. Bernard is a corporate cpeaker, columnist, business advisor, media commentator who is perhaps best known to the wider community for identifying and tagging new tribes and social behaviours such as the “Seachange Shift”, the “Man Drought”, the “Goats Cheese Curtain” as well as the “PUMCINS” and the “VESPAs”. Bernard popularised the seachange shift in the 2000s. This morphed into the treechange shift later in the decade. Then came the rise of the Millennial-inspired inner-city-based hipsters. The common theme was the pursuit of lifestyle. Bernard delivers keynotes at conferences, conducts workshops, speaks at corporate retreats and delivers boardroom briefings throughout Australia & New Zealand. He writes two weekly columns for The Australian newspaper that deal with social, generational and demographic trends. Bernard has popularised demographics through his books, columns and media appearances over 20+ years. He appears regularly as a guest on various radio and television programs. He has hosted a popular business podcast called “What Happens Next” and a business TV chat show called “The Next Five Years” broadcast on SkyNews. Bernard heads The Demographics Group which provides specialist advice on demographic, consumer and social trends for business. Prior to that he founded KPMG Demographics In Australia. He was an adjunct professor at Curtin University Business School between 2010 and 2020 and he holds a Master of Arts degree from Monash University. Bernard was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2017.