Kerrie has worked with micro and small business owners helping them grow their businesses for over 10 years as a the owner of Foundational Business and senior business consultant for our service divisions.Prior to starting her own business, her career in large corporates included senior management roles for PwC Australia, MCI WorldCom, AAPT and Optus.
Kerrie is passionate about business and community connection, she is actively involved in local Business Chambers, BNI and other networking groups, and serves on the board of Sydney Hills Business Chamber, the Home Based Base Council of Australia, and several charity and advisory boards.
Her key business driver is to increase the effectiveness of small businesses, reducing the rate of failure by providing practical and achievable help to small business owners, to empower and equip them to succeed.
Tim has over 25 years’ experience in retail and wholesale business. Working at all levels from Area Manager to General Manager for big names such as Metcash, Woolworths and Coles.
He is an experienced General Merchandise and Buying Manager, with a demonstrated history of success in the retail industry. He brings his strong marketing skills together with his professional skills and experience in Negotiation, Business Planning, Sales, Product and Category Management, Staff Management and Training to our Retail and Wholesale clients.
Joy is our Client Services Administrator skilled in supporting our business administration needs, and the friendly face of our business centre at Rouse Hill. Joy is onsite at the Foundational Business Centre weekdays from 9.00am until 2.30pm to meet and great our guests as they arrive and help them navigate our business processes, such a general enquiries, space and meeting room bookings, accounts and admin services.
Justin is an experienced professional, having held senior financial and business management roles in Private, Not for Profit and Government organisations. He works with Small Business Owners to develop & implement budgets and provide assistance in managing business performance in the areas of Finance and Operations. Through his methodical budgeting, forecasting and modelling processes, he helps our clients build a solid foundation for business growth.
Bruce has a broad base of experience in Corporates, fast growth SMEs and NFPs.
He understands the challenges and obstacles that NFPs face in an increasingly complex and stringent regulatory environment.
Over the last 25 years, Bruce has brought his depth of experience to the board tables of several NFP organisations.
Under his leadership, those organisations have been able to transform their organisational direction and performance through strategic analysis and strong change management.
As Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Bruce has been recognised as a leader in governance, specialising in the NFP sector.
Bruce is passionate about helping NFPs to build organisational capability and financial stability so that they can prosper and expand the great work that they deliver to the community.
His collaborative leadership style and interpersonal skills gives him the ability to quickly build rapport and trust which allows him to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation.
Bruce looks forward to assisting your NFP enterprise so that you can continue to bring your ‘for purpose’ service to more people, more effectively!
Lindsay delivers Foundational Businesses Growing Company’s Evolution and Mastermind Programs. Lindsay’s passion for helping owners to get better results out of their businesses didn’t come as a long time plan, but as a mid-life “calling”. He was employed as a financial manager in the corporate world and also in some smaller businesses for almost 20 years. In 1997 he took the plunge into self-employment and started to teach to other people in business what he’d learnt himself. Since then he’s been part of some fantastic client success stories and worked for over 300 business owners. Lindsay works with growing company’s to help them achieve strategic and sustainable growth and profitability.
Denis delivers Foundational Businesses Growing Company’s Bridges to Growth and 90 Day Road Map Programs. Denis’s key drivers are unlocking the potential of the individuals and teams in a business, by clarifying their purpose, vision and strategy whilst working with our clients on creating a clear plan accelerating and achieving their goals.
Denis has over 7 years’ experience within the franchise sector with hands-on experience in field compliance and General Management in the National Franchise Network. The growing companies that Denis works with want to transition from working in the business (day to day) to breaking through and working ON their business and creating brands and franchises that are household names.
Stacie delivers Foundational Businesses Strategic Sale and Marketing Planning service. Stacie removes the confusion and frustration that is associated with not knowing how to best market your business, providing clarity with a strategic road map that is aligned with what your buyers are looking for, and your goals.
For the past 30 years Stacie gained her marketing and sales experience from working in a range of companies from large publicly traded corporations to mid-sized private companies and various small businesses. Her experience has come from a range of industries including; importing, exporting, manufacturing, professional services, consulting, construction and home improvements. Working for global brands to local business for both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) brands.
Stacie continues to educate herself and stay at the forefront of the latest marketing and sales tactics as these disciplines continue to evolve. In 2009 she was one of the first people in the world to be certified for Inbound Marketing and to be a HubSpot Certified partner. She is passionate about helping small business owners implement effective marketing and sales strategies that get results.
Jacob is a Chartered Accountant, and peoples person, driven by seeing small business owners achieve their goals and knowing he’s been able to assist in the development of our clients overall business strategy. After years of working in accounting practices, he founded Advisory Corp Accountants to cater especially for small business’ who need a proactive, holistic, outside of the box, client minded service who can impact the livelihood and ability of their business. Jacob works with Foundational Business as a business consultant supporting our clients as they start-up an mature their business models.
With over 20 years in B2B and B2C Sales, Mia specialises in sales strategy and training.
Mia wants to make sure that you and your salespeople are consistently reaching their targets and seen as industry resource and strategic partners instead of being seen as a “product flogger, price quoting, order taker”. Let’s make sure we develop salespeople to be able to:
Prospect and develop new business
Build strong relationships and accounts from the top down – not just on an operation level where they get a regular cup of coffee
Drive activity that builds a sales pipeline of future opportunities and results
Plan and structure their time effectively to increase their productivity and results
Maximise the ROI from each sales meeting
Understand the genuine needs of your customer, and then create a compelling link between those needs and your products and services
Close more sales through high impact presentations and negotiations
No sales team or strategy is the same, so don’t use a cookie cutter approach to your business growth. Mia delivers Sales and Management training courses that are customised to help your sales team increase sales effectiveness, and strategies are created around your business outcomes and needs.
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