Daniel Gannon is one of South Australia’s leading and most influential industry executives - an expert and strategic leader in membership-based organisations. 
 
Over the past seven years, Daniel has spearheaded successful historical campaigns to abolish commercial stamp duty, reform land tax and defeat punitive taxes on CBD car parks and banks. Advocacy outcomes like these have increased South Australia’s investment attractiveness - particularly the state’s property and real estate sectors. 
 
In 2020, Daniel was named one of South Australia's 50 Most Influential People and Top 10 Real Estate Heavyweights, while in 2018, he was named one of South Australia’s Top 40 Leaders Under 40 and one of the state’s Top 50 Powerbrokers. 
 
“Often credited as one of the most strategic operators in South Australia,” the 2020 list says of Daniel, “[he is] a forceful yet smooth operator.” 
 
Daniel has worked across Local, State and Federal Government policy spheres throughout his career and has embedded himself in membership-based organisations. He has also driven significant change in the property and investment industry as the South Australian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia – now arguably the state’s most powerful association. 
 

In this episode, Daniel shares his journey from growing up living in a caravan with his family, to how he dreamed of being an architect, to working in the family business in retirement villages, to taking on his former bosses Steven Marshall and Rob Lucas in a  battle to squash land tax changes. Daniel is Fierce in promoting South Australia and trying to attract people and businesses from all over the world to our great state. He shares his thoughts on what the workplace will look like moving forward, and the impact people working from home will have on all industries. Daniel also speaks about the impacts of the pandemic in the market from a landlord to the shop front and provides us with some statistics about how we are faring post-pandemic.  

Where to find Daniel Gannon

• LinkedIn
• Property Council of Australia

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Books  and podcasts mentioned on this episode: 

• The Happiest Man on Earth - By Eddie Jaku
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - By John Boyne
• Coronacast