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 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 co-host of the Game Changers podcast. Phil is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne.