About

Duncan Smith helps global and local leaders work better with each other and their teams -- people working together, better, to create positive, sustaining solutions for our world.

As an executive educator, facilitator, and coach, Duncan helps leaders work more effectively and make better decisions, increasing their capacity to build trust, hold open and honest conversations, make more inclusive decisions, build high functioning teams, use the power of diversity to solve problems, and build stronger working relationships.

Duncan\'s work includes executive education and coaching, facilitation, team development, advising on the design, implementation, and evaluation of organisational culture change and D&I strategies linked to practical, achievable outcomes, generating culture-aware diversity solutions for multinational organizations, measurement and evaluation of diversity programs, and in-depth work in unconscious bias, gender and cultural diversity.

His clients include numerous and national, state, and local governments, as well as multi-national companies in the banking and finance, technology and engineering, legal, professional services, mining, oil and gas, university, and manufacturing sectors. He is particularly good at supporting clients in the areas of leadership capability, working internationally, authentic communication, and problem solving.

Duncan has significant experience in developing cultural awareness to improve global performance. He has worked in 24 countries across 4 continents (North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia), has managed international sales and marketing operations, been Regional Diversity Advisor for Asia-Pacific and Japan, and led an Asia-Pacific Community of Practice for Inclusive Leadership.

Particularly known for his ability to work with senior leaders, he has been part of the executive education and coaching faculty at the Melbourne Business School, a coach for the Forum on Workplace Inclusion, and a mentor for the Inclusion Allies Coalition.

Based in Melbourne, Australia and Boston, USA, Duncan holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Trinity College and a M.Ed. from Harvard, focusing on Organizational Behaviour and Adult Learning. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Melbourne Business School, has lectured in Management, Organisational Behaviour, and Diversity at a number of Australian universities, and has published articles in both Australian and U.S. periodicals.

Duncan is an accredited administrator of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and has trained in multiple Instructional Design and Action Learning methods.

A member of the Expert Panel for the Global Inclusion and Diversity Benchmarks since 2011, in 2018 he released the book Foundations of Diversity.