John Fowlie

Presentation: Collective Intelligence – How some organisations benefit by systematically gathering insights from people to create new and innovative approaches to solving problems.

John Fowlie, Head of Performance, ThinkPlace

John’s passion is in driving and creating genuine high-performance teams and environments. Before joining ThinkPlace John was an Olympic level swimming coach at the Australian Institute of Sport where his athletes won 9 Olympic medals including 4 golds. He was awarded ASCTA Coach of the Year on two occasions, and has won the Don Talbot Medal three times.

John is the Head of High Performance at ThinkPlace and drives their internal knowledge sharing, learning culture, global leadership development, and high-performance services. These practices have contributed to ThinkPlace being shortlisted for The Australian Financial Review Most Innovative Company Awards on two occasions.  He has worked extensively in coaching, team performance, organisational culture and individual performance design.

John has co-facilitated a number of large-scale innovation labs and design forums including with the Royal Australian Airforce (90+ people from across industries and academia), and with Energy Queensland (simultaneously event in Mt Isa, Roma, Townsville, and Cairns).