
22 Jan January 22, 2025 – Challenge of Growth Philippe Bouissou and Mental Health at Work Genevieve Hawkins
Philippe Bouissou – Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners

Philippe Bouissou
Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. is a name that resonates through the heart of Silicon Valley. For over three decades, he has danced on the cutting edge, donning the hats of an entrepreneur, a CEO, and venture capitalist. Philippe has served on the boards of no fewer than 23 companies. He is a growth expert and bestselling author of Aligning the Dots. He pioneered a revolutionary methodology called A4 Precision Alignment™ that’s lighting the fires of faster, sustainable revenue growth across the business world. It is brilliantly illuminated in his landmark TED talk, The Secret to Grow Any Business, that received over one million views. Philippe’s groundbreaking work and innovative concept of market alignment is encapsulated in Blue Dots Partners, LLC, the firm he founded in 2014 in Palo Alto, California. Philippe and his team of highly accomplished CEOs and business builders diligently apply the Blue Dots data-driven analytical methodology to advise CEOs on how to grow their business and soar above their competitors across many industries. Philippe’s storied career includes launching and scaling Apple’s eCommerce business from zero to $350 million, under Steve Jobs. He steered over 240 management consulting projects. As a venture capitalist, he invested $44 million generating double-digit cash-on-cash returns. With an illustrious background that boasts a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Physics, and a PhD in non-linear physics and chaos theory from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Philippe brings a scientific precision to the business world.
Genevieve Hawkins – Author of Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection

Genevieve Hawkins
Genevieve Harkins is a health professional turned transformation executive, Non-Executive Director and business advisor with over 25 years of experience of leadership experience from professional services, to start up, to large corporate organisations.She has developed and executed strategies that have solved highly complicated problems end-to-end, helping transform and deliver sustainable commercial results in two of Australia’s largest businesses, Wesfarmers and Coles and the global companies of WSP and Allianz. She is experienced in and has a deep understanding of how to influence a business across strategy, operations, finance, people and risk, landing material change in supply chain, capital investment programs (digital and property), demergers, strategic risk management, new business and captive insurance. She has a unique combination of commercial and cultural transformation experience, speaking the ‘language’ of multiple departments. With exposure to a range of industries, a clinical health background, and spending a significant amount of her time working in the personal injury arena, she has a deep understanding of mental health in the workplace and expertise in influencing behaviour across and between organisations. Her commitment to helping organisations create the right environment to unlock value at an individual, team and business level, has led her to write ‘Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection’ in 2020, and ‘Shrinking Elephants: Untangling workplace conflict to unlock value for all’ in 2024. In a complex world, where collaboration will be needed more than ever to solve strategic problems, Genevieve helps organisations have the conversations they need to have, shrinking the elephant in the room, to improve commercial collaboration and the mental health of teams. Genevieve believes in the value of simplicity, pragmatism, acceptance of clunkiness, finding the right way to talk about the elephants in the room and the importance of sticking to your ‘true north’ to get the right long-term outcome for a business and its people.