Teaching audiences to reimagine how they create relationships with their communities.
Simon Dixon has dedicated his career to understanding how perceptions and communication dynamics shape relationships between individuals and groups. He has applied these insights to craft powerful strategies that drive measurable results in real-world challenges.
Currently, Simon is working on highly impactful campaigns addressing issues related to opioids, DUI, suicide prevention, marijuana, Rx misuse and mental health destigmatization, among others, and toward numerous target audiences diversified by culture, race, and age. These campaigns draw on his deep understanding of human behavioral dynamics and the ways that the interplay between identity, power, and stigma shape our interactions and decisions.
In his talk, The Relational Intersect: Who Do You Have to Be, to Be with Me? Simon leads audiences through an engaging and transformative experience. He introduces core “perceptioneering” constructs including “Where’s the Power?”, “Ignorance vs. Intransigence,” and “Love vs. Like,” challenging participants to rethink their perceptions and relationships with their neighbors, communities and loved ones.
Simon’s participatory and thought-provoking approach gives audiences the tools to shift their perspectives and achieve more meaningful connections. By the end, participants leave with fresh insights and practical strategies to reshape their relationships and achieve their goals whether at the personal, community or national level.
Simon Dixon has spent his career studying the ways that perceptions and communications develop between individuals and groups and has used these insights to develop effective communications strategies that deliver measurable results.
Simon is currently working on critically important campaigns concerning opioids, marijuana, DUI, DUID, suicide prevention and Rx abuse, amongst others.
The insights and strategies formed from his studies and his career are the basis for his talk, “The Relational Intersect: Who Do You Have to Be, to Be with Me?”
Explaining various “perceptioneering” constructs including: “Where’s the Power?”, “Ignorance vs. Intransigence” and “Love vs. Like,” Simon walks audiences through a participatory, entertaining, thought provoking and, ultimately, direction-changing journey to open their eyes to repositioning their relationship with their communities.
Audience members will leave with new ways of thinking about their goals and new strategies for how to achieve them.
Simon's previous speaking engagements include:
“It’s not communication when you say it. It only becomes communication when the other person hears it, and thinks about it.”
– Simon Dixon
“No-one cares what you do. They care about what happens because of what you do.”
“When one group is communicating to another, for example, law enforcement communicating to a minority community, it’s not enough to address what you think of them and what they think of you. It is critical to address what they think you think of them — because that will be influencing every word they hear.”
“A brand is the answer to the question: what do people think about, when they think about me? Whether ‘me’ is a person, company, agency, or issue.”
