Dr Phil Cummins is the Hooke Family Professor of Practice in Educational Leadership and Director of the Sydney Character Initiative in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. An internationally recognised educator and researcher in boys' education with more than three decades of experience, he is founder of CIRCLE Education, which leads the world's largest research program into character education, and host of the Game Changers podcast. The author of nearly 40 books, Phil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, The Teachers' Guild of NSW and the Institute of Managers and Leaders, and is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne. He is a father and grandfather of boys.