Dr Phil Jauncey

Dr Phil Jauncey's Biography

As a keynote speaker Phil is 'left-field'.  His presentation 'The Power of Positive Doing' is a realistic viewpoint to what stops us from being successful in life and business.  

Phil is often called upon as a keynote speaker and conducts in-house workshops and facilitation for companies in staff evaluation, understanding self, sales, marketing strategy and change management. He has on-going consultancies with companies to develop self-awareness and relationship skills for staff members and enhance problem-solving and people management skills for managers. Based on this a collaborative, interactive management training CD was developed and submitted for an international award.

In the corporate world, Phil’s expertise in language and social science resulted in his being appointed advertising and promotions manager at Dreamworld and then marketing and educational specialist for Mincom. He also developed methods of improving advertising for both television and radio.

Phil is currently sports psychologist with the Australian Baseball team and the Queensland Bulls Cricket team. He was mental skills coach with the Brisbane Lions AFL team and sports psychologist with the Brisbane Broncos NRL team for 15 years. He is also an on call advisor with the Queensland Academy of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport, and has worked with various international athletes across a variety of sports. He has been a psychological consultant to the Australian Cricket Team.

He was an attending sports psychologist at the Barcelona, Sydney and Athens Olympic Games. He conducts workshops for junior coaches, parents and umpires, based on the same principles he uses in his corporate work.

Phil has been applying his techniques with tertiary actors in training, a number of whom have since gained success in the Australian and United States television markets. He has had an ongoing consultancy with a tertiary institution helping lecturers to enhance their presentation skills in dealing with international corporations. 

His educational involvement has continued with talks to principals, teaching staff, support staff, parents and students in the areas of learning strategies, effective self-management of themselves and others, successful relationships, handling stress, coping with change and creating enhanced learning environments.

Phil has a strong academic background and has 4 degrees; B.A., B.D., Masters and Doctorate in Counselling and Educational Psychology. He has lectured at Mt Gravatt CAE (now Griffith University), QUT and the University of Queensland in areas such as educational psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, counselling, marketing and multicultural psychology. He was voted the "Outstanding Lecturer of the Year of 1990" at QUT. He is a registered psychologist.

Dr Phil Jauncey has written Understanding Ourselves and Others (a layman's guide to self-awareness and improvement) and Managing Yourself and Others (techniques for successful management). His third book (only in e-book form), The Power of Positive Doing, was released on Amazon Kindle Books and ITunes book store in 2015. It explores why people fail to execute successfully when they have the ability to succeed.