Evolution of Business Show

Michelle Maynard

Michelle is Perth born and bred, always living north of the river. She loves live concerts, exploring the outdoors, and spending time with her husband, two children and collection of pets. Michelle often heads south to her sister’s ten acres in Busselton; she loves the outdoors so this is her happy place!

Michelle started her career as a cadet in the Australian Taxation Office then moved on as a graduate at Price waterhouse Coopers. She was a manager at PKF, and then Michelle joined Carbon Group in 2017 under their Carbon Partner Empowerment (CPE) model.

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2019 New Partner of the Year.

Channel 9 and 6PR Finance Expert – Media Commentator

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PETAR LACKOVIC

First and foremost, Petar is a loving husband and an amazing father

After that, he is a highly sought-after international entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and speaker who specialises in creating and implementing successful systemised sales processes that produce tried and proven replicable sales results for businesses enabling them to achieve consistent world-class results and over has generated $2 billion in sales and revenue for him and his clients.

Founder of The Sales Institute and the ‘Reverse Selling Method Petar has a unique ability to impact the growth and profitability of any business through his enhanced Sales Systems and Sales Training ability.

Petar is also Founder of Australia’s leading sales training programs ‘CONVERT Club’ and ‘The Sales Accelerator’, to help business owners to quickly inject cash flow into their business and replicate on a larger scale.

Petar has mastered the art and cracked the code in teaching people how to sell more than they ever have before without being pushy, without relying on scripts and has had success with thousands of businesses across the globe in over 140 different industries.

He is constantly being asked to share his business growth expertise to craft & implement strategies/models into their sales teams to make them less salesy & increase conversions, with companies that have included Channel 9, Mazda, ING, Westpac, Club Med, Sanity, HMV and Virgin Music, Cancer Council, Elders Real Estate and Macquarie University just to name a few!

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Life is rarely a straight line. When you listen to Prof. Gary Martin take you on his journey from being a teacher to becoming Australia’s most astute leadership and management professionals. Now as the Chief Executive Officer, of AIM WA, Gary is a Social Affairs and Workplace Expert, a Columnist, a Director, and a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 for his work as a Speaker and Content Creator.

We couldn’t think of a better person to kick off Season Three with. This episode is packed with leadership nuggets as Prof. Gary shares with us his journey and his latest work on what is beyond IQ and EQ.

ABOUT

Emeritus Professor Gary Martin is an expert in workplace matters, including leadership and management and human resources. He studies the art and science of ‘work’ providing commentary on ‘what is trending’ in workplaces across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors.

A former academic, Gary is a highly regarded CEO, a Board Director, keynote speaker and a columnist. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of The Australian Institute of Management in WA (AIM WA) an organisation dedicated to building better workplaces.

He is the only Western Australian to make LinkedIn Top Voices in 2018, having shared over 100 articles on workplace matters in that year, and with some 50,000 followers Australia-wide. His opinion pieces on workplace topics have been published around Australia including locally in The West Australian, The Sunday Times, Business News and WA Today and interstate in The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Mercury, The Adelaide Advertiser and The Age

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From wanting to be a Police Officer, to working in media monitoring and then seeing an opportunity to start a business. This is the journey of evolution of Nic Hayes and Media Stable in bringing the voices of the future to media’s table.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Nic Hayes is the Founder and Managing Director of expert and thought-leader directory Media Stable a national media guide servicing print, radio, television, and online media in Australia. With over 18 years of experience in the media intelligence, public relations, and media production industries across Australia and the United Kingdom the quest for greater knowledge and understanding is a daily process for this former media hack and flack.

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When Amy was 17, she really disappointed her parents. Actually, her dad was pissed. At that moment, she decided to prove them wrong and would show them that she could be successful without going to university straight out of school. After climbing the corporate ladder and earning a “university-qualified” equivalent income, Amy felt like she had absolutely smashed her parents’ doubts and fears and more importantly, proved them wrong.

One month after Amy achieved her final measure of success of an executive-level title and pay packet, she handed in her resignation and notice period.

Amy started to come back to her core fascination with the mind. Attending conferences and workshops, hearing speakers, gaining qualifications, being a speaker and trainer herself, and working with people each and every day as a leader, it started to become clear…it was time. 

She had found her ‘y’ and it was time for me to listen to herself and act on the advice she was sharing with so many others. 

This is Amy’s story of evolution…

ABOUT:

Amy Jacobson is an experienced Emotional Intelligence specialist, passionate speaker, inspirational leadership trainer and highly sought after Coach. She works with businesses and career-minded people to achieve outstanding results, ignite passion, and develop strengths. Furthermore, Amy guides her clients on how to use Emotional Intelligence to create a clear career path to high performance and success. Amy has a burning passion and drive to see people reach their full potential, embrace their strengths and find their ‘y’. Whether it’s running a business, creating inspiring leaders and mentors or working one on one, everyone needs a ‘y’.

People often describe Amy as:

• A dynamic and passionate speaker delivering practical tools to implement
• Insightful and inspirational
• Having a rare quality to balance IQ, AI and EI
• A leader that challenges others to think completely differently

Amy is an Internationally recognised Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis and a Certified Level 2 Advanced Coach. In addition to this, she also holds an Associate Diploma in Management and Financial Services (Financial Planning), to name a few. With over 20 years of experience in the Corporate world with 15 of those spent in Senior positions. Her roles included transforming teams and the performance of businesses across Service Delivery, New Business/Sales, Project Management, Product, and Technical.

Traveling with her husband and gorgeous children is Amy’s second love. She loves meeting people all around the world and thus experiencing their way of life and truly appreciating their ‘y’.

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Shil wasn’t always a sought after speaker coach, speaker and the Chatterchief at Chatterbox Public Speaking. After choosing to use public speaking as a way to deal with his stutter and fears, he turned this challenge into a business to help other people face their fears and obstacles to become amazing speakers and presenters. He is now a thought leader in the speaking industry. He is changing the speaker training game.

Shil is the first speaker coach in Perth to introduce Virtual Reality as a groundbreaking tool to face the fear of public speaking.

Public Speaking has always been Shil’s greatest fear – so he knows exactly what it feels like when your body goes numb, your heart starts racing and your mind goes into overdrive! Despite living with a stutter, Shil has trained himself to become a professional speaker and developed an intimate understanding of how to harness and control the fear of speaking. Combining two decades of creative speaking techniques, Shil works with his clients to become confident presenters, guiding them to discover innate hidden strengths to find their own speaking style.

He has developed models and techniques which show you how to control your emotions and use your experiences to craft stories, so you can deliver memorable presentations anytime, anywhere to any audience.

Shil works with entrepreneurs, start up ventures, SME and ASX listed companies in Australia and Internationally and has presented or coached across most industries.

Renowned for teaching intuitive public speaking skills, Shil’s workshops and coaching methods teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of presenting and speaking with impact to engage and influence audiences.

Shil is a Board Member for Guerrilla Establishment, an Industry Expert for WA Leaders, a presentation mentor for Impact100 WA and a speaker coach for TEDxPerth.

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A Violist, Entrepreneur, Educator, Presenter and Producer Who Decided to Break The Rules.

Bourby Webster, Founder & CEO of Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has broken the rules in her industry because her mission is “Music for everyone.”

The PSO was founded in 2011 with a massive ambition to reach a new audience; retain talent in West Australia; create jobs and; showcase talent. Since 2011, the PSO has performed to over 350,000 people from Karratha through to Kwinana in West Australia. Playing Vivaldi to Nirvana. They’ve paid over $2 million in fees to over 150 musicians and created pathways into careers.

Bourby supports community engagement programs. In 2019 she was West Australian of the Year in Arts & Culture. A winner of the 40 under 40 Entreprenuers and a Finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award.

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Dawn shares her journey of evolution from learning to play the violin in a band, to her time in track and field and basketball all the way through to becoming a leadership author, speaker and coach.

She has created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution.

Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people.

ABOUT

Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board.

Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method.

She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Goods companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial sectors.

For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions.

She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women, and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women.

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What Happens When You Cross a Psychologist, Technologist and a Publican Together?

You get Col Levander. Col takes us on a journey through all his careers and how he ended up starting a tech company in the recruitment industry space. Col is a legend in the recruiting world in Australia. A lovable and personable character that lives by the motto “If you don’t know, then ask.”

ABOUT

Col has worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 30 years with 8 years specifically in technology consulting. 

He has worked with boutique, national and global organisations gaining invaluable experience and life lessons to share and enable clients with these unique insights. He well known and well-loved in recruitment circles, fondly regarded for his approachability and down to earth attitude.

He has successfully set up 4 staffing agencies, lived in 5 cities, 3 states and travelled extensively across the Asia Pacific region, delivering recruitment and technology solutions.

Col is a subject matter expert on compliance, awards, pay rates and assisting clients to achieve speed to market & efficiencies to protect their businesses. Col now lives on the Sunshine Coast with his family and manages a global team of specialists.

In most recent years, with his team, Col has he developed an Australian made, world-class, multi-award-winning application -Ratescalc.com –Which is a unique software like no other. It’s an application which is a quoting engine, rates management tool and payroll compliance and governance platform which has the ability to guide businesses to gain maximum profitability from its services. Soon to be launching in New Zealand, Asia and the UK.

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Lisa launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential.

Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt.

ABOUT

Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing CEO of The Messenger Group, as well as founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub – a multi-platform entrepreneurial lifestyle destination with a mandate to disrupt, challenge and inspire.

Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.

With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.

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