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 is a national speaker, author and independent scholar, specializing in human behavioral dynamics and strategic communication. With decades of practical experience and continuous scholarship, Simon has dedicated his career to exploring how perceptions and communications form and evolve between individuals and groups. He harnesses these insights to craft powerful, measurable communication strategies that inspire positive behavioral change.
Currently, Simon leads critically important public health campaigns addressing some of today’s most pressing issues, including opioids, meth, marijuana, loneliness, suicide prevention, and prescription drug abuse. By skillfully integrating lessons from his extensive background in branding, advertising, and strategic storytelling from the private sector, Simon translates proven techniques of persuasion, motivation, and perception management into impactful public health and safety initiatives.
These combined insights and strategies form the core of Simon’s compelling keynote, “The Relational Intersect: Who Do You Have to Be, to Be with Me?” In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, Simon introduces innovative “perceptioneering” constructs such as “Where’s the Power?,” “Ignorance vs. Intransigence,” and “Love vs. Like.” He guides audiences through a participatory journey that is as entertaining as it is enlightening, ultimately inviting listeners to redefine and enhance their relationships within their communities.
Audiences will leave Simon’s talks equipped not only with fresh perspectives but also with practical strategies for achieving their goals, driving meaningful change, and fostering stronger, more authentic connections with those around them.
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.”
