Simon Kuestenmacher is the Co-Founder and Director at The Demographics Group. Simon provides specialist advice on demographic consumer and social trends for business, often writing as a columnist for The Australian and The New Daily newspapers.
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SHOW NOTES:
00:00 – Welcome to Uncommon
00:55 – Munich
03:10 – Earliest memory
04:20 – What data to trust?
09:10 – Trusted data sources
10:50 – Population Data
14:00 – Childhood career aspirations
16:00 – University exchange
19:00 – Germany and Australia
21:00 – Working at big four firms
24:00 – Important parts of Demographics business
26:00 – Reading randomly
28:15 – Pirates
32:20 – Skilled worker shortage
35:55 – Industries coping with worker shortage
42:00 Generational changes in working
54:20 – Australia’s poorly invested wealth
1:00:00 – How would Simon fix Australia
1:02:40 – Let’s make a massive solar farm
1:09:25 – Rapid fire questions
1:13:00 – Closing remarks
LINKS:
Simon shows you maps – Facebook Page
Simon’s ‘The Australian’ PageSimons ‘The News Daily’ Page
CREDITS:
Produced by Neuralle
Host – Jordan Michaelides
Executive Producer – Lauren Michaelides
Producer – Jacob Smith
Audio Engineering & Videography – Leif Street