Simon T. Bailey

Leadership Imagineer

Simon T. Bailey is a global authority on brilliance and human potential, fusing ancient wisdom with cutting-edge research to transform leaders across 2,500+ organizations in 55+ countries. His latest work, Resilience@Work—How to Coach Yourself Into a Thriving Future, earned the Next Generation Indie Book Award and Independent Press Award, speaking directly to today’s exhausted workforce seeking renewal. With 11 published books, LinkedIn Learning courses reaching 400,000+ professionals, an Executive MBA from University of East London, and three honorary doctorates, Bailey doesn’t just study brilliance—he activates it in leaders who refuse to settle for surviving when they’re built to thrive.

  • Simon T. Bailey Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Florida, USA

  • Simon T. Bailey Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Florida, USA

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Spark Next Level Leadership

Key Takeaways: Inspire heads, hearts, and hands to flourish through wellness Learn simple strategies from best-in-class leaders in 13 different industries Lead with heart-centered intelligence based on Caring Science research ...

Key Takeaways:

  • Inspire heads, hearts, and hands to flourish through wellness
  • Learn simple strategies from best-in-class leaders in 13 different industries
  • Lead with heart-centered intelligence based on Caring Science research

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Spark the Customer Experience

Key Takeaways:

  • Infuse 5 simple principles to keep customer for life
  • Engaging all stakeholders and lines of business to obsess about the customer
  • Caring and Serving are ways to sell

Elevate Your Culture

Key Takeaways:

  • Activate team members through a positive employee experience
  • Advance talent with intentionality and inclusivity thinking
  • Appreciating team members for their meaningful contributions

Release Your Brilliance™ – Forget Your Title and Transform Your Job

Key Takeaways:

  • Increase your performance with the Top 5 Skills based on research
  • Be an Intrapreneur who innovates and owns the moment
  • Develop High Impact Habits that influence your team and organization

Leading with SPARK: Create a Culture Where Everyone Matters

Transformational leaders are divergent thinkers who refuse to settle to a status quo culture. They are relentless in creating an environment where everyone belongs and brings their best selves to work. This is a conscious inclusive mindset that fosters growth, high ...

Transformational leaders are divergent thinkers who refuse to settle to a status quo culture. They are relentless in creating an environment where everyone belongs and brings their best selves to work.

This is a conscious inclusive mindset that fosters growth, high performance, and trust. Culture us more that the mission and vision of the organization. Culture happens when no one is looking. As business changes at the speed of light, an organization’s culture will stand the test of time if it’s built on the right foundation.

Leading with Spark is understanding that the purpose of leadership is to invite people on a journey to discover the leader within themselves while they’re following you. A leader can only take people that they have already experienced.

Leading with Spark is understanding that innovation only happens when everyone has a seat at the table and their voice can be heard.

Leading with Spark is releasing the need to always be right and shifting to create a culture that evolves from “me to we.”

Forward thinking leaders are forward looking leaders who understand the difference between effectiveness and busyness. Culture is the game changer that attracts talent, engages customers, and establishes a brand in the next decade.

Key Takeaways for Leading with Spark

  • What is culture and how to establish one where everyone believes they belong
  • How to create a deeper connection with talent so that they become the ambassadors for the brand
  • Spark a relationship with customers by understanding culture+connection+customers=revenue

 

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SPARK: Act like an Employee and Think like a CEO

People with SPARK understand that a paycheck is given to people who show up, and opportunities are given to those who think and work beyond what they are paid to do. This is a fresh way of thinking in 2020 and beyond. As CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of your life, you&#...

People with SPARK understand that a paycheck is given to people who show up, and opportunities are given to those who think and work beyond what they are paid to do.

This is a fresh way of thinking in 2020 and beyond. As CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of your life, you’re intentionally accountable to having a fluid career vision, high performance behaviors, positive habits, and consistent execution. You have the uncanny ability to produce uncommon results in uncommon times.

Are you that person that the organization cannot live without?

Team Members with SPARK are transformed thinkers that positively impact everyone else around them by raising the vibrational levels to produce tangible results. When everyone else is saying NO! Team members with SPARK find a way to say YES!

People with SPARK are leaders without titles who leverage relationship capital to do what is common in an uncommon way.

People with SPARK stop waiting for human resources to assign a new role and pivot from a job description to doing meaningful tasks.

People with SPARK fire themselves from their jobs and re-hire themselves as “intrapreneurs” intending to take their organizations to the next level.

When I served as Sales Director at Disney Institute, I learned when I sparked moments for the people I was serving, I also sparked something in myself. I realize we spend so much time at work, if we’re going to revolutionize our lives, we have to leverage the moments we’re on the clock. Now, I’m dedicated to helping you uncover your inner fire and grow it each and every day. I want to teach you the mental algorithm to be a SPARK so that you can accelerate your results.

Key Takeaways for SPARK: Act like an Employee and Think like a CEO

  • How to upgrade your skill and stop waiting for the organization to do it for you
  • Be an Influencer who understands what’s happening at 30,000 feet and can execute at 500 feet
  • Build Relationships with the C-Suite through proximity positioning
  • How to leverage the eyes and ears of others throughout the organization
  • Follow the money by obtaining financial intelligence
  • How to understand and navigate the internal culture to get things done
  • Speaking is the New Marketing-learn how to use your mouth and mind to advance your career

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Be the SPARK: Five Platinum Service Principles for Creating Customers for Life

Customer Service is a department. Customer Love is a mindset. Do customers love your brand? Do your employees love your brand? If so, then you have the secret sauce to becoming unforgettable to those you serve. In a world of information and interaction ...

Customer Service is a department.

Customer Love is a mindset.

Do customers love your brand? Do your employees love your brand?

If so, then you have the secret sauce to becoming unforgettable to those you serve. In a world of information and interaction overload, SPARK ignites an emotional experience that causes customers to Velcro themselves to you and recommend your brand to their sphere of influence.

Where there is no SPARK, there is no joy. Where there is no joy, there is no hope; and where there is no hope, there is no passion. Without passion, a job is just a job. A business is simply something to do instead of something that makes a difference in the world. However, when a business finds its spark, it transfers psychological ownership to all employees to emotionally connect instead of being mechanical in creating a memorable moment.

This learning experience will equip you with simple ways to operationalize SPARK within your organization.

Key Takeaways from Be the Spark-Five Platinum Service Principles

  • See them as Guests
  • Personalize the Experience
  • Anticipate and Uncover Needs
  • Respond with Immediate and Appropriate Service
  • Keep them Loyal Through Acts of Kindness

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About Keynote Speaker Simon T. Bailey

As the world accelerates through AI and constant change, millions are being displaced—not only in their work, but also in their sense of identity, meaning, and connection. Forward-thinking brands are seeking new ways to foster hope, resilience, and well-being while remaining true to their core values.

Enter Simon T. Bailey—researcher, speaker, and architect of Amplifying Brilliance and the Spark – Five Platinum Service Principles™. Simon launched his career in Atlanta, Georgia, working for six different hospitality companies, including his role as Sales Director at the Disney Institute. His passion for elevating the guest experience has shaped industries far beyond hospitality, including luxury brands, healthcare, and financial services.

After leaving Disney, Simon consulted with a hospital that adopted the Simon T. Bailey International system for three years—a transformation that ultimately led to its acquisition by a $1 billion healthcare system. In hospitality, one client used his customer experience methodology and was later recognized by Expedia.com for dramatically improving customer satisfaction.

Today, Simon engages with boardrooms, brand summits, and corporate gatherings around the world, sharing practical wisdom, contagious optimism, and actionable strategies. Through his brilliance research, he equips leaders and teams to flourish in a world where pressure is rising and well-being is unraveling—offering an operating system that fastens people to purpose, productivity, and possibility.

Simon has impacted over 2,500 organizations across 55 countries, authored 11 books, and created 14 LinkedIn Learning courses, reaching 400,000 professionals globally. Named by Success magazine as one of the Top 25 thought leaders to inspire people alongside Brené Brown and Tony Robbins, his groundbreaking State of Working America Report continues to influence how companies reimagine resilience, brilliance, and brand connection.

With an executive MBA from the Royal Docks School of Business and Law at the University of East London and three honorary doctorates, he’s on a mission to foster brilliant wellness in leaders, teams, and organizations worldwide.

 

Testimonials

“Simon hit a homerun! He used his time onsite to develop and super customized program to meet the needs of our members. He incorporated conversations he had with attendees and… Read More

James Lenz

Professional Development Manager, CUES

Simon Bailey is one of a kind- down to earth, with vision, passion, and purpose in helping people look within themselves to be their best. I had the pleasure of meeting Simon during a recent event where he… Read More

Evette Creighton

Leadership Development Consultant, Rockwell Collins

“Simon has a tremendous gift for adding perspective and value for those that are looking to aim higher in their personal nd professional endeavors. His passion is unbridled and infectious. Needless o say, I highly recommend Simon for your professional development programming.”

Tina Eskridge

WW Director, IoT Device Experience Marketing, Microsoft

“Simon spent time getting to know our attendees and their challenges in advance so he could tailor his keynote directly to them as education leaders. He was the only thought leader that was also an… Read More

Beverly Hutton

Deputy Executive Director National Association of Secondary School Principals

“Simon Baliey is the BEST keynote speaker we’ve ever had! He was the highlight of the convention and our franchisees loved him. His presentation was incredibly customized to Goddard.  Read More

Brian DeLong

Director, Marking, Advertising & PR, Goddard Systems, Inc.

“Thank you so much for letting us have Simon tonight. He was fantastic and absolutely killed it. Simon’s personal stories were fantastic. His talk resonated heavily with the audience and they had lots of questions that they literally could not stop asking him. We are so looking forward to having him again.”

Cisco

 

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