Special Guest - Mr. Dominic Thurbon

Gen "Y" - Expectations

 

Dom Thurbon is a world top-ten speaker and a leading authority on Generation Y and workforce trends. As Head of Research for Peter Sheahan, he has researched and written a wide variety of articles and reports on the impact of Gen Y in our workplaces and broader society, and actively commentates on the subject. He is also co-founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Skills Development, a multimillion dollar company which connects organisations with important messages to hard-to-reach markets.

After graduating from the University of Sydney, Dominic opted to join Peter Sheahan as lead researcher on his new book, Flip: How counterintuitive thinking is changing everything, which has been published internationally, while simultaneously undertaking his honours thesis in Political Science. He actively and regularly commentates on issues including workforce trends, employer branding and attracting, retaining and marketing to Generation Y. He has spoken on these issues to a variety of organisations including Oxfam, the South Australian Government, and The Executive Connection.

His speaking skills have been recognised with consistent top-ten Australian, Australasian and World rankings in debating. In 2006, he was a semi-finalist at the World Intervarsity Debating Championships (the largest gathering of speakers in the world) held in Dublin, and was the 7th ranked speaker in the world. This year he was a grand finalist at the Championships held in Thailand. He has also appeared at public comedy events speaking alongside prominent personalities such as Adam Spencer, Rhys Muldoon and the Chaser team.

In his work with Peter Sheahan he has led the development of the most comprehensive Generation Y research project in the world and assists in the preparation of presentations to clients such as Google, News Corporation, AECOM and BMW. He has also worked directly with 1000s of Gen Y’s through workshops in schools and universities.

His intense passion for the subject, unrivalled communication skills and desire to bring the Gen Y research to the world makes Dominic a powerful and dynamic presenter, capable of shifting the mindsets of leaders out of the world as it used to exist and into the world as it exists today