Ross Honeywill Explained

Ross Honeywill is an Australian social scientist.^[1] His books have been published in the US, China, Australia and New Zealand.^[2]

An Adjunct Associate Professor in business and economics,^[1] Honeywill is Chairman of the Social Intelligence Lab,^[3] based in Melbourne Australia. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania.^[1]

He developed the NEO typology - a population classification revealing a measure of high-value consumption - for North America, Australia and Asia.^[4]

He lives in Melbourne, Australia with conceptual artist and writer, Greer Honeywill.^[4]

Career

In 1997 professional services firm KPMG bought his Values Bank Research Centre and renamed it the Centre for Consumer Behaviour and appointed Honeywill director. Prior to KPMG Honeywill was a research director and management consultant.^[5] Before that, he worked as a retail manager and in arts administration.

Books

Honeywill is the author of and contributor to business and social science books, as well as author of a number of mainstream books, including NEO Power, Lamarck's Evolution and Wasted. Lamarck's Evolution was launched by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and John Long at the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival.^[6] In 2011, Wasted was shortlisted in Australia for the Ned Kelly Award for true crime writing and is under development as a motion picture. The business/management book, One Hundred Thirteen Million Markets of One, is published in North America.

• 2001: I-Cons: the essential guide to winning and keeping high-value customers (with Verity Byth) Random House
• 2004: (Chinese edition) I-Cons: the essential guide to winning and keeping high-value customers (with Verity Byth) Citic Publishing, Mainland China
• 2006: NEO Power: how the new economic order is changing the way we live, work and play (with Verity Byth) Scribe Publications
• 2008: Managing the Innovation Faultline - chapter in Inside the Innovation Matrix (with Verity Byth) Australian Business Foundation
• 2008: "Lamarck's Evolution: two centuries of genius and jealousy. Pier 9 (a Murdoch Books imprint),
• 2010: Wasted: the true story of Jim McNeil, violent criminal and brilliant playwright. Viking (a Penguin imprint)
• 2012: One Hundred Thirteen Million Markets of One: How the New Economic Order can remake the American economy (with Chris Norton) Fingerprint, USA
• 2014: It's Not a Glass Ceiling; It's a Masculine Fault Line - chapter in Gender Discrimination and Inequality, The Spinney Press - editor J Healey
• 2016: The Man Problem: Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture, Palgrave Macmillan (New York)
• 2018: Somewhere Else to Die A novel (recipient of Arts Tasmania grant for 2014) - under construction
• 2023: Being NEO: Embrace your inner NEO and change the world. Right Customer books (Melbourne)

Journals and papers

• 2011: 'Water in the Wires' - fiction - Island Magazine edition 126 (Spring 2011)
• 2011: 'A Radical Dimension of Normality: Beauvoir as diviner of masculine madness in ordinary men'. Sapere Aude - Journal of Philosophy, Vol 3, No 6. (Brazil)
• 2012: Rape: modern men making a choice - Centre for Gender Equity
• 2013: 'PM Takes a Stalinist Stance on Science' - Australasian Science, Vol 34, No 10 (December 2013)
• 2013: Gender and Biological Determinism - Centre for Gender Equity
• 2014: Tasmania - towards a new economy A paper on the contribution of low-carbon values to a new Tasmanian economy

Achievements

• 2016: Advisory Board member - University of Melbourne's Social Equity Institute
• 2015: Expert Panel "Women & Girls" - Department of Premier & Cabinet (Tasmania)
• 2013: Chairman of Judges - Tasmanian Literary Awards
• 2010–13: Chairman, Festival of Voices (Tasmania)
• 1993–97: Board-member, Melbourne International Film Festival

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ross Honeywill - Profiles - University of Tasmania, Australia . Utas.edu.au . 2016-06-28 . 2016-08-08.
2. Web site: ross honeywill: Books . Amazon.com . 2016-08-08.
3. Web site: http://socialintelligencelab.com . November 27, 2023 . 27 November 2023.
4. Web site: Data scientist and NEO creator Ross Honeywill now confronts The Man Problem . Afr.com . 2016-01-30 . 2016-08-08.
5. Web site: Archived copy . www.scribepublications.com.au . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061127165404/http://www.scribepublications.com.au/book/neopower . 27 November 2006 . dead.
6. Web site: Penguin Books Australia . Penguin.com.au . 2016-05-20 . 2016-08-08.