Ross Honeywill

Ross Honeywill

is a an internationally published author and social scientist. Ross has written three business books – with a fourth soon to be published in North America. He has also had two narrative non-fiction books published and is working on his sixth book, a novel titled The Angel’s Trumpet. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania.

Widely known for his work as a social researcher who applied value theory to the everyday challenges of developed economies, Ross spent 16 years measuring and mapping the impact of a changing social fabric on the future of business & politics, of marketers and employers.

Social Scientist

Through his leadership role at KPMG (Asia/Pacific) between 1997 and 2001 and his subsequent work with the Social Intelligence Lab, Ross is best recognised for his work on the NEO population classification.

Drawing on his social research Ross provided guidance to global and national brands that have included Qantas, Telstra, David Jones, Lexus, Sony, Westpac Broking, Moët-Hennessy, National Australia Bank, Yahoo!, Fosters, Macquarie Bank, Energex, TXU Energy among others.

Ross is also researcher of social intelligence which describes the exclusively human capacity to use very large brains to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments.

In his doctoral thesis, Ross is examining the death of modernism and postmodernism, and the role of disruptive masculinity on the new cultural imaginary.

Author

A best-selling author, Ross’ business book NEO Power (Scribe, 2006) created an international following, and his sell-out first book, I-Cons was published in Australia, New Zealand (Random House, 2001) and Mainland China (Citic, 2004). In 2008 Ross’ first literary non-fiction book was launched to critical acclaim at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. The book Lamarck’s Evolution: two centuries of genius and jealousy (Pier 9) launched Ross to a general readership. His latest book WASTED, the roller-coaster story of the violent and creative life of Jim McNeil, was published by Penguin in September 2010 (Penguin’s Viking imprint). WASTED was selected in August 2011 as one of 3 finalists shortlisted in the Ned Kelly Awards for true crime writing.

Of Lamarck’s Evolution the Melbourne Age said, “Spellbinding reading…a story full of arch enemies, machiavellian conspiracies and passionate debate”.The Canberra Times said, “Honeywill writes beautifully in this fascinating story”.

Of WASTED Bob Ellis said, “A fine, nuanced narrative – this is a remarkable road trip movie of a book” and Corrie Perkin wrote “Honeywill is a great storyteller…this engaging narrative wil have you turning pages vigorously”

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