Meet Your Mentors
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.
Learn about Matts Thought Leadership Proactive Program Here
ADRIAN GEERING
Dr Adrian Geering has worked for the past 21 years as a business coach helping businesses and CEOs to succeed locally in Australia and internationally.
He also leads his own consulting business and is a published author of several books.
As a well sought after speaker in America, Canada, Asia, UK, South America and Australia, he has over 21 years experience working one-to-one, coaching CEOs of many different businesses and mentoring CEOs in groups.
Adrian works with many international CEO coaching organisations, including:
- The Executive Connection (TEC)
- The E-Myth Academy in Santa Rosa, USA (Michael Gerber)
- The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara
- Thought Leaders of Australia
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.
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.
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.
PENNY BURKE
Penny Burke is the Director of Essence Communications and has worked in the field of marketing and advertising for over 20 years.
Her experience crosses a range of sectors from traditional packaged goods to services, retail and social marketing, and has led her to be a true thought leader on the topic of Commitment.
Penny has learnt that building greater commitment is the most critical success aspect for any marketer, whether it is commitment to buy a certain product or service, commitment to behave in a socially responsible way, or commitment from employees to a workplace.
Penny knows that true marketing success lies in the ability to deliver functional benefits, but more importantly, an inspiring emotional promise.
Penny is always keen to explore new boundaries and horizons and find better ways to do things. She bring fresh eyes, intuition and grounded thought to a scenario.
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.
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.
CRAIG RISPIN
Craig Rispin is a Business Futurist and Innovation Expert. His expertise is in emerging business, people and technology trends - and how companies can profit from them.
Craig has over 20 years experience working where the future has been created - with some of the most innovative companies in the world in the IT, consumer electronics, internet and broadcasting industries. In fact, Craig got his start much earlier than that - teaching adults about technology and trends from the age of 10!
Craig has addressed audiences from 15 to 3,000 on 5 continents and has consulted with CEOs of leading companies worldwide. Some of his clients include: Apple, Philips, IBM, GE, Canon, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Symantec, and Disney.
Now a keynote speaker, mentor and innovation consultant Craig shows his clients how to: Know First, Be First, and Profit First.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI
Domonique is the best selling author of Your Best Life and an expert on real success.
She works with people who want to achieve ambitious personal and professional goals without burning out or losing sight of who they are and why they wanted it all in the first place!
Domonique established Success Strategies in 2003 in response to an increasing demand for assistance in identifying and developing individual strategies for sustained success.
Before establishing Success Strategies, Domonique was based in the UK where she worked as a coach, consultant and project manager for a wide variety of clients including Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Natwest Markets, Threadneedle Asset Management, the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) and various smaller businesses.
Domonique qualified as a coach through an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited training programme and has completed her certification in career development and transition coaching.
NILS VESK
Brought up in a family of PhD scientists and master engineers, Nils was encouraged to blend the logic of science and engineering with his passion for design and creativity.
He began his career as an urban designer, creating amusement parks and towns in Asia, but in the process became concerned with the wellbeing of his colleagues as they struggled to cope with highly stressful situations that were robbing them of their happiness and ability to perform.
Nils became a personal trainer and yoga teacher, and gained such intense satisfaction from helping people, that he went on to write his internationally-published book, Life's Little Toolbox, co-host Channel Ten's Yoga TV and release his own men's fitness DVDs.
It wasn't long before the corporate world discovered Nils' ability to combine mind and body vitality with the innovative design principles needed to create valuable new products.
Today, he is a regular on the keynote circuit - speaking to organisations that want dynamic and effective workshops on banishing stress and nurturing health and lifestyle.
SCOTT STEIN
Scott Stein inspires individuals and teams to reconnect with their instinctive purpose in life and to unleash their full potential.
Drawing on his own Native American heritage, Scott applies ancient wisdom to help amplify and motivate people. As a speaker, trainer and coach, he has already inspired and challenged thousands of senior executives and business owners whose personal ambitions had been stifled by societal or work pressures, and helped them to reconnect with their true path.
Scott is renowned for his inspirational style. He uses his refreshingly 'authentic' approach to get participants to check whether or not they are 'on path' at work and at home.
Scott holds a masters degree in communication and is a certified trainer (TAA 04) and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).
He is a published author and has coached over 1,200 managers, helping them to learn how to inspire the people around them to improve performance and achieve greater fulfilment.
LIBBY SANDER
Libby is a Thought Leader on the future of people management and work design and is passionate about helping organisations create environments that engage, retain and inspire their talent. She firmly believes that most of the problems of modern corporate life can be overcome by changing the way we design and manage organisations and that work and life don't have to be ordinary.
Libby's passion for asking why and refusing to accept conventional thinking became entrenched early on when in Grade 3 she was given detention for asking too many questions. Continuing to take the attitude that the limitations of reality were negotiable, she trained her first horse to Olympic level at 19 and owner-built her own house when she was just 22.
She has an incredible ability to unearth the real issues in an organisation that limit growth, performance and optimisation of potential. Libby is the Managing Director of Alegria and has over 14 years experience having worked in a range of industries holding both senior human resources and operational roles. Organisations Libby has worked with have won national recognition for people management initiatives.
Smart, pragmatic and down to earth, Libby never advocates fads or ungrounded theories. Her expertise has seen clients achieve double digit productivity increases and have added seven figure sums to capital. She is able to synthesise trends, theories and ideas into solutions that actually work.
Her professional studies include a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese, a Bachelor of Business and a Masters degree in Human Resource Management. She has been trained and certified in NLP by John Grinder, co-originator of the field.
Obsessed with learning to the point where she is unable to walk past a bookshop without going inside, Libby is currently planning to undertake Doctoral work in the area of organizational environment and design and its effect on human thinking, behaviour and performance.
Libby has worked closely at Chairman and Board level and provides coaching and advice to CEO's and business leaders in more than a dozen different industries.
Clients describe Libby as exceptional, compelling and inspiring with a seldom seen depth of knowledge and ideas. With an intelligently different approach, her presentations empower individuals, teams and organisations to shift mindsets, unearth their unique potential and create extra-ordinary outcomes in business and life.
CRAIG BULMER
Craig has based his entire career on the certainty that if you really connect with people, then you can understand people. And if you understand people then you can train people. And if you train people properly, you can deliver massive organisational change.
His reputation as a first class trainer has taken him from Australia to the UK, China to Thailand, Singapore to Japan. Along the way he has made a major impact on the lives of literally thousands of people by imparting practical skills for people to improve everyday work and life.
A finalist in the National Training Awards in 2001, holder of a Graduate Diploma in Adult Education, and lauded Master Coach, Craig gets to combine his gregarious nature and 15 years of experience in training with some proven tools and techniques to help clients of all sizes find tailored solutions for their training needs.
MARK JONES
Mark is an expert facilitator and relishes the challenge of conducting Open Space Facilitation.
Mark has worked as a trusted advisor to leaders all of his professional life. As a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mark led the Transform practice based in Amsterdam. Transform's innovation was to provide leadership and people development services to clients undergoing significant change in their organisation. This was the first time that PwC had stepped away from its traditional premium business of being a 'content expert' into professional services centred around supporting people and change processes.
Mark has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He has completed various post-graduate business courses at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and is certified to use a variety of psychological testing tools.
MICHELLE BOWDEN
Michelle Bowden is a trainer, speaker, mentor and author in the areas of communication and personality. She is the Director of Michelle Bowden Enterprises and has been a corporate trainer for the past fourteen years and a speaker for the past nine years.
Michelle is an energetic, entertaining trainer with the highest standards in relation to behavioural change. Her training is based on the idea that interaction, high energy and fun combined with proven theory creates learning. Michelle’s passion is to see people performing at their best.
Michelle conducts both public and in-house presentation skills programs for employees from the shop floor through to executive management across industry and is renowned for achieving results through learning and laughter. Michelle’s executive mentoring program is well known by senior leaders across industry as a must before high profile, significant events.
Michelle's qualifications include: .NLP Practitioner / Masters of Education in Adult Education Diploma in Workplace Training and Assessment / Category 2 Workplace Trainer and Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment / Graduate Certificate in Adult Education in Training / Certificate in first-line management / Bachelor of Arts
DAVID MCCUBBIN
David McCubbin, Australia’s leading Corporate Dramatist, is renowned for his fresh perspectives on how to engage and move people using insights, skills and disciplines distilled from three thousand years of dramatic practice.
A NIDA trained actor with an impressive body of work in theatre and television as actor, writer, director and producer, David transitioned into the corporate world to become the Business Development Director in an international media and online production company, before starting his own services company, coup, in 2001.
David is a passionate master at translating skills learnt from his professional theatrical career into applications for communicators, leaders, teachers and speakers to help them have impact and influence – in effect, to change their world using practical, enlivening approaches to performance.
Westpac, Freehills, Vodafone, IAG, St George, Ernst + Young are a few of the leading Australian companies to have been touched by David’s insights, training, events and films. Their experience is always of high levels of engagement, enjoyment and practical takeaways.
ROHAN DREDGE
Rohan has a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma in Education, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training. He is a practitioner in NLP and is an Executive, Business and Life Coach.
Rohan also has extensive professional and personal development experiences that enable him to bring 100% to his clients to see transformation, change, empowerment and growth take place.
In addition to working with a number of companies ranging from franchises to medium sized business Rohan is consistently regarded by his clients as a an outstanding coach, trainer, speaker and facilitator. Rohan also has several years work and experience in the Not For Profit sector and has travelled extensively in the Asia Pacific Region overseeing training programs and development projects, his most memorable to date is his involvement in 4 Orphanages being built in Banda Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami.
Rohan’s passions are based on his belief that a “healthy people and organisations grow” and loves to focus on helping people BE who they need to be in order to DO what they need to do in order to HAVE what they want to have.
