Bernard Salt AM
Leading Business Advisor, Author, Speaker & Columnist
A leading social commentator, business advisor, and columnist, renowned for his insightful analysis of demographic trends. With over 25 years of experience, Bernard is a futurist who uses long-term datasets to interpret how society is changing. His insights are evidence-based and are engagingly delivered.
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Bernard Salt is a columnist, speaker, business advisor and social commentator who is best known to the wider community for defining and describing unique demographic trends such as the “Seachange Shift”, the “Man Drought” and the “Goats Cheese Curtain”.
He was also responsible for popularising the phrase ‘smashed avocados’… globally!
Bernard has talked about demographics via his books, columns and media appearances for more than 25 years.
His body of work is encapsulated in a series of best-selling books starting with “The Big Shift” published in 2001.
He built a career providing demographics advice to business as a Partner in a global advisory firm. In 2017 he founded The Demographics Group . He has held a number of board positions in the education, arts and cultural fields.
Over three years to 2019 Bernard presented a business program on SkyBusiness called “The Next Five Years.” This was followed by a top-rating podcast called “What Happens Next.”
He served as an adjunct professor at (Perth’s) Curtin University business school between 2011 and 2020. His widely-read newspaper column is published weekly in The Weekend Australian Magazine.
Finally, Bernard was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2017 Australia Day honours.
Topics
Why Australia matters
Geopolitics, trade, China… The world needs Australia and Australia needs the world… Australia is central to feeding & resourcing the rest of the world
Regions on the rise
Agribusiness, treechange, lifestyle, WFH… Why the regions are closing the gap on the capitals… it’s so much more than ‘lifestyle’
Millennial alignment of the planets
Peak income, young families, wealth transfer… Why we can expect a consumer spending frenzy in the coming decade… the biggest cohort pases through peak income late 2020s
Where did all the workers go?
Immigrants, students & the baby bust… More boomers retiring than Gen Z entering the workforce… drives automation, digitisation
Tell me about the 2030 customer
Younger, savvier, flexier… Young immigrants and the pandemic-inspired tech shift reimagine consumer behaviour
What is the great contentment?
Baby boomers, retirement, mental health… Anxiety & depression evaporate the minute we leave work… 65-79 best time in life
