Simon Mainwaring is the founder/CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. He’s a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Cannes Lion Jury member for the Sustainable Development Goals and Featured Expert in 2021. His company, We First, was a Real Leaders’ Top 100 Impact Companies in the US for 2021 and 2019, as well as a B Corp ‘Best For the World’ Honoree. Simon’s first book, We First was a New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. His new book Lead With We will be released in November, 2021.

Simon was a Real Leaders Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World in 2020 and he has been featured on the cover of the National

Speaker’s Magazine. Prior to We First, Simon was a writer, Creative Director and Worldwide Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, Wieden & Kennedy, and Ogilvy winning awards at all major advertising festivals on clients such as Nike, Toyota and Motorola. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.