To diarise.........
Tuesday 20 January
Gold Coast
Mentor: Libby Sander
Time: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue: Buddha Bar and Cafe, Sanctuary Cove
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Sydney
Mentor: Creel Price
Topic: Goal Setting
Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Venue: Bureaux, Level 3, 50 York Street, Sydney
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Tuesday 3 February
Melbourne
Mentor: Helen Macdonald
Time: 5.45 - 7.15pm
Venue: Cafe, Ibis Hotel, Therry Street, Melbourne
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Perth
Mentor: Gihan Perera
Topic: Positioning
Time: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: TBA
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DATES - TBA
Adelaide
Mentor: Shelley Dunstone
Time: 4pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Level 10, 60 Waymouth Street, Adelaide
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Auckland
Mentor: Michael Henderson and Andrew Melville
Time: 10.00am to 11.00am
Venue: Mezzanine Floor Cafe, Price Waterhouse Cooper Building, Downtown Auckland
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Meet Your Mentors
SYDNEY
CREEL PRICE
Creel Price is one our countries most esteemed entrepreneurs.
Having started and grown ten businesses in ten years, Creel has achieved a level of business success and knowledge beyond his 36 years.
Creel recently retired from Blueprint Management group, the $60 million marketing business he co-founded with $5,000. Employing over 700 staff, Blueprint has achieved a host of industry awards as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic businesses in Australia.
Creel now spends his time writing, teaching and mentoring aspiring and existing entrepreneurs to realise their business dreams. His incorporates into his session, a mission to create a new era of unprecedented social endeavour and expression by changing the way business is conducted.
LORNA PATTEN
Lorna Patten is an expert at bridging the mystical and the mundane, the practical and the profound, the commercial and the cosmic.
She rigorously questions the way things are and challenges you to think differently about what s really going on. Lorna’s thought provoking and insightful style – whether coaching, facilitating, mentoring or speaking - is based on a very simple philosophy: each of us is always creating the whole of our own reality and who we really are is powerful beyond measure.
In 1999, after 15 years running her own counselling, corporate coaching and training business, Lorna decided to take her exciting personal development work to a wider audience. She created Open Up Communication, a business that offers a powerful, effective, personal development process for the small business market helping leaders, management teams, teams and individuals be all they can be.
But be warned: when you attend Lorna’s sessions, she will confront you with breathtaking truths and take you to places in your mind, heart and soul that are truly life changing.
MATT CHURCH
Creator of Thought Leaders, Matt Church is mentor to some of Australia’s most dynamic and up and coming experts.
Having almost 20 years experience selling his thoughts, Matt has achieved the highest commercial success of almost any speaker, coach, mentor, trainer or author in Australia.
The meeting industry repeatedly votes Matt as being on of Australia’s top 10 professional speakers. His three lifestyle books achieved bestseller status the year they were published and continue to be sold today.
Matt has an academic background in science, and as one of the country’s most creative educators he is obsessed with the idea of how the best get better.
It is this focus that he brings to everything he does. Whether it’s helping high performance teams or coaching CEOs on strategic communications, this thread of excellence lies in all his work.
ADELAIDE
SHELLEY DUNSTONE
Shelley helps clients to rise above the competition by accessing their innovative thinking and making the most of their unique capabilities. She establishes an environment in which people feel comfortable to share their thoughts, & asks thought-provoking questions to generate high-quality discussion.
With her unique experience, Shelley brings a wide-ranging mix of rigorous thinking and creativity to every mentoring session. Clients who like to work with Shelley are those who want to constantly improve, get the best from their people and expand the range of possibilities available.
A former lawyer who specialised in commercial litigation, Shelley also has tertiary qualifications in Applied Finance and Business and Market Strategy. Shelley has run her own strategic consulting business for the past ten years.
PERTH
GIHAN PERERA
Gihan is passionate about helping you get more from the ideas in your head, the words that come out of your mouth, and the amazing potential at your fingertips.
He's worked with some of Australia's best infopreneurs over the last 12 years, helping them leverage their expertise, individually and in groups, on and off the Internet.
Gihan founded First Step Communications in 1997, when the Web was still young, spam was just a luncheon meat, and Google wasn't even a twinkle in its owners' eyes. Since that time, he has built it into an international business, with particularly strong links in Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Perth and Canada.
If you want to deliver your ideas to more people for more impact and more money, Gihan can show you how.
NEW ZEALAND
MICHAEL HENDERSON
Corporate anthropologist, Michael Henderson, has, as a profession, the mandate to unearth ideas and trends that affect the very fabric of our society. His groundbreaking work on values has helped countless people to explore what makes people tick and what we value most.
His mentoring work addresses themes of culture, engagement and dynamic growth, and will help you identify, understand and work with your clients in meaningful and measurable ways.
With his wife Shar, Michael co-founded Values AT Work, an organisation that specialises in providing clients with pioneering values methodology for developing their ability to align their business strategies with various cultures.
He is continually researching and developing insights into the influence and application of values alignment and has over 30 years collective experience and knowledge in values, the development of values alignment methodology and the design of values aligned learning programmes.
ANDREW MELVILLE
Andrew loves the spoken word and he coaches, facilitates and speaks on how to articulate your essence with Stories That Speak.
He works with individuals and organisations to use stories to powerfully communicate potent combinations of facts and experiences.
Well harnessed stories get to the crux of the matter and effectively build profile and underpin high performing teams in creating powerful synergies.
A former award winning broadcaster and documentary maker, Andrew is recognised as a leader in the field of verbal communication. “Stories are an effective and engaging communication in a time of information overload. A great story can be recalled, retold, remembered in an instant”.
Andrew is also an expert in the field of creatively communicating sustainability and turning this ‘buzz word’ of our times into something meaningful and engaging.
He runs workshops and programmes on sustainability and storytelling for corporate and government clients, and the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand. He has spoken at conferences in New Zealand, Australia and the United States on a variety of topics, including sustainability and corporate storytelling.
Feedback consistently describes Andrew’s style as charismatic, enthusiastic, inspiring and fun.
BRISBANE/GOLD COAST
RON (ROWDY) MCLEAN
Managing Director of Creating Synergy, Ron McLean holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a specialist stream in Human Resources.
Previously, he had run his own communications company for 10 years and spent 6 years as General Manager of a large registered club with over 200 staff.
He has implemented successful change management and cultural change strategies for his clients and is also an accredited values consultant.
Passionate about providing work and life balance strategies and development programs for all people, Rowdy is passionate about adding value by providing excellent strategies for the clear communication and implementation of efficient and effective business programs that allows for growth.
LIBBY SANDER
Libby has over 10 years experience as a human resources specialist. She has worked in a range of industries holding both senior human resources and operational roles.
Origanisations Libby has worked with have won national recognition for human resource initiatives.
She has worked closely at Chairman/CEO level, providing coaching and advice, dealing with a range of sensitive issues. She is passionate about assisting individuals and organisations optimise their potential.
Libby is known for the passion and enthusiasm she brings to her clients. She helps organisations move beyond a culture of compliance to one of creation, allowing people to access their passion and deliver extraordinary outcomes.
Libby holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business degrees as well as a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management from Griffith University.
She is also a Chartered Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute and a member of the International Coaching Federation.
MELBOURNE
HELEN MACDONALD
Helen believes that “Life is too short to be miserable at work!”
Helen Mac is passionate about showing her customers how to increase the energy and alignment of their businesses and their teams to maximise results.
She specialises in improving performance, creating a positive, productive, profitable workplace to increase employee & customer satisfaction and business success.
A Certified Speaking Professional and Past President of the National Speakers Association of Australia, Helen has worked with corporations around the Asia Pacific region including General Motors, NCR, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard and Tupperware.
Her “Juiced Up!” Principles can create an environment where customers smile, employees thrive, and productivity and effectiveness reach new heights.
PENNY BURKE
Penny is the Director of Essence Communications and has worked in marketing and advertising in Melbourne, Sydney & London for all her 22 years in the workforce.
Most recently, she spent 12 years at Clemenger BBDO as Strategy Planning Director, overseeing strategic developments for major communications projects.
Penny began the Essence consultancy after many years experience with a wide range of projects, large and small, in a range of sectors from traditional packaged goods & retail to services and social marketing. Her experience in Government in particular, has given her an appreciation of the importance of stakeholders - how to identify and manage them in a positive way that adds to a communications project, rather than disrupts it.
Penny is a change agent..... keen to explore new boundaries and horizons and find better ways to do things. She brings fresh eyes, intuition and grounded thought to a scenario. In identifying the key issues logically and debating them articulately, she helps to develop a way forward and form a plan of action encompassing all involved.
Penny holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) and has lectured and tutored at Melbourne Universities such as RMIT, Monash and Swinburne.
