Simon T. Bailey believes the question that governs leadership — and marriage, parenting, friendship, and the way you answer an email — is this: Today, what will my presence do to another human being?
For over two decades, he thought his job was handing people arrows — better ideas, better habits, more hope. He was wrong. Arrows run out. Archers don't. So now organizations across the world bring Simon in for a fresh perspective on leading in permanent uncertainty — and to develop archers who can aim at a future others can't yet see.
He led sales at the Disney Institute before working inside 2,600 organizations across 55 countries and authoring twelve books, including Amplify Hope: Lead From Where You Are Standing. But the credential he cares about is simpler: people leave his presence carrying hope they didn't know they had.
He still believes the Buffalo Bills will win a Super Bowl. Research is still pending.
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The world your leaders are inheriting will not stop moving. Simon T. Bailey calls it Permanent Uncertainty — and in that weather, performing breaks leaders; formation makes them. Drawing on his forthcoming book Amplify Hope, Simon introduces the Artemis Leader — whole rather than impressive — and the disciplines to lead from the ground beneath your actual feet, with hope as a load-bearing strategy. Because every interaction either amplifies or diminishes another person's brilliance, the question is no longer Am I a leader? It's What did my presence do to another human being?