Professor Brendan McCormack is Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (inc. Sydney Nursing School) & Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. He is a leading academic with 32 years of research, scholarship, management, and leadership experience focusing on the development of person-centred services in higher education and healthcare organisations. Brendan's research into person-centred practice has been globally adopted. He has developed theories, frameworks, methodologies, processes, and tools that have been tested and refined in over 70 projects globally, resulting in sustained changes to healthcare practice, policy, and leadership. Brendan has over 700 published outputs, including 13 books, 221 peer-reviewed journal publications, and my h-index is 32. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing UK; Fellow of The European Academy of Nursing Science [EANS]; and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Since 2000 he has held 14 honorary professorial positions with universities internationally. In 2014, Brendan was awarded ‘Researcher Hall of Fame’ by Sigma Global (global nursing organization).