Ashleigh Alsadie is the Founder and Director of Melbourne-based sales and marketing firm The PromoDonna. Over the past seven years, the business has created high quality B2B sales leads and meetings through cold calling and prequalification for hundreds of clients around Australia. Ashleigh also has a passion and history for training both individuals and organisations, and her high energy, inspirational and passionate delivery brings a fresh approach to selling. Her qualifications as a Master NLP Coach and trained actress also give her an unyielding confidence and flair in her presentations, allowing her to demonstrate proven sales methods that can be implemented immediately, producing instant results.

Bill Doyle, over the past 24 years has helped hundreds of businesses owners achieve their true potential. He’ll help you package, position and promote your business to set you apart from everyone else and increase your lead flow and sales.

Kate Christie, Founder & CEO of Time Stylers is a Time Investment Expert; International Speaker; and best selling Author.

Kate consults to big and small business, government departments and C suite executives on maximising individual time spend and managing organisational drag through smart time investment strategies. She has appeared on television, radio and in print as a leading commentator on time management and maximising work/ life integration to ensure your success across work, family, community, and life.

Matt is a highly experienced and respect digital marketer.   Kicking off his professional career with News Corporation, Matt performed a range of media and marketing roles, specifically with the Herald Sun, The Weekly Times, and Fox Sports where he was responsible for developing digital content strategies.  After a 10 year stint at News Corp, Matt joined Open Universities Australia as head of Partnerships and Lead Generation, working with internal and external stakeholders to find future students via a range of digital marketing endeavours.  It was in this role that Matt developed his skills and passion for lead generation which led him to establish the boutique marketing agency,  Arthur St.  Arthur St is an open, transparent, results driven digital marketing agency that works with an impressive range of Australian businesses and brands. Arthur St specialises in developing strategy, implementing lead generation campaigns, finding insights from data and training marketing teams.

Jules has a wealth of experience having owned a PR agency specialising in small business clients, start-ups and entrepreneurs for well over a decade.

She regularly runs workshops which that get results, her students have been on TV & radio, featured in magazines and newspapers nationally. More recently she has launched her new platform that provides a one-stop shop to enable you to manage your own PR process.

Check it out https://www.handleyourownpr.com.au/

Kerry Boulton is an Exit strategist and Succession planning advisor. What keeps you awake at night?  If you could wave a magic wand and change anything in your business, what would it be?  Where are you now?  Where do you want to go?  How are you going to get there? 

500,000 business owners in Australia are over the age of 50 (Source: Family Business Association) …and we are now facing the biggest change of business ownership/succession that history has seen.  Exiting your business is inevitable.  It will happen whether you’re in control of it or not.  So, plan now and start getting your business ready for the next owner.  It’ll help you have a business that works for you, which means you’ll build value, so you can command a higher price and increase the chance that your business survives.

And remember, anything you do to benefit your future buyer, will also benefit you. You’ll have a more efficient, profitable and easier to manage business. It’s never too soon to build a business exit strategy and give yourself time to enjoy the benefits of being an entrepreneur!

Mags Bell is the Founder and Director of Creating Powerful Results, a coaching practice that serves Business Owners, C-Suite Executives and Directors of private and public companies. Mags has over 25yrs in business and 60,000+ hrs of coaching under her belt, is an International Speaker and Author of ‘What The Bleep Is Coaching?’

Jo Plummer is an experienced Chair and board executive working across a portfolio of positions including Barwon Water, Deakin MBA Advisory , Barwon Asset Solutions and Geelong Regional Football. Her experience will be invaluable in allowing you to explore board opportunities.

Jo is known for her optimistic, energetic style and has been affectionately coined the ‘positive provocateur’. She is relentless in her drive to focus on and positively shape the futures of the organisations with which she is engaged. Her trademark is aligning customer and community expectations with sound commercial, social and environmental outcomes.

Currently Jo’s portfolio includes numerous board Chair and committee roles, co-ownership of Business in Heels International as well as professional director mentoring. She was recently made a Fellow of the AICD and is a graduate of the Company Directors and Mastering the Boardroom courses. Jo also holds an MBA majoring in Strategy, Planning, Leadership & Communication.

Peter Dotsis CEO and co-founder of the Runway Geelong incubator program focused on creating a start-up ecosystem in Geelong that will help launch start-ups as well as develop Geelong into a start-up city.

Peter has a significant amount of commercial and operational experience having hopped in and out of both his own start-ups as well as a number of medium and large corporate businesses. 

Although his background is in ICT, his interests have always been in innovating a businesses products and services whilst using ICT as an enabler. He has worked in General Management and Executive roles across multiple industries including Retail, Manufacturing, Agriculture, ICT, Services and Education.

Peter has started up 3 of his own businesses and worked in over 30 organisations either directly or through his own businesses. 

As a Professional People Whisperer, Anneli Blundell is passionate about leadership impact. She helps senior leaders increase their influence, engagement and professional visibility, in order to improve leadership effectiveness. This is about decoding people and performance dynamics to get the best out of people.

Deborah Fairfull brings to people simple, practical and powerful ideas to enhance their business journey. As the founder of 3 successful businesses, Brave Design Group, Eatsmart Food and now Blisspot.com, Deborah is well aware of the challenges that business can bring. As a result, Deborah founded Blisspot, the online personal development community to provide support and education around emotional and mental resilience for women in business.

Along with being a skilful businesswoman and enthusiastic kinesiologist, speaker, and author, Deborah is also married with three children.  As a former winner of the ACT Business Woman of the Year Award, the ACT Chief Minister’s Award for Innovation, Deborah enjoys continued success as an industry spokesperson and author.

Let Deborah work with you, to give your strategies and ideas on how you can achieve work-life balance and develop the resilience you need to thrive in business.