Darren Coppin

Institute of Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University 

 

 

Darren has worked at a senior level in employment services for 15 years, following an early career in media and an MBA at Cranfield School of Management. However, he regularly spent days as a frontline advisor to remain aware of the “real world” of delivering employment services.

 

Darren has devoted the last eight years to researching, unravelling and debunking both the confounding and inspiring aspects of helping the unemployed realise their potential.

 

Darren’s PhD thesis (addressing behavioural change in the unemployed) is uncovering world-first results from studying how resilience, control and self-efficacy impacts upon job outcomes. He founded Esher House to bring the benefit of these behavioural insights to many government programs to help “nudge” (sometimes resistant) citizens towards more fulfilling lives in an engaging and non-coercive manner.

 

He keynotes at conferences on employment, youth, offending, welfare and behavioural science and humbly contributes to think tanks, government taskforces, new welfare models and policy implementation in the UK, Australia, Oregon, California, Bhutan and Denmark.