Our Faculty
Get To Know Our Team of Experts
Our faculty are a team of experts hand picked by our CEO David Baumgarten. Our faculty members write key articles for our Enterprise Hub and also host webinars, teleconferences and seminars etc. Our experts also write ebooks, create elessons with us and help us help small businesses on their journey to success.
Faculty Membership is by invitation only, but if you think you are an expert in your field Click Here to fill out an application or Click Here to find out more about Faculty Membership.
Jack Fraenkel
Jack Fraenkel – Motivatories
Jack is an established business and franchise consultant, motivational speaker and corporate trainer with over 30 years of sales, management and commercial experience gained both overseas and in Australia. He has a wealth of knowledge, particularly in retailing and customer service organisations.
Robyn Henderson
Robyn Henderson – Networking To Win
Robyn has spoken in 12 countries and has never advertised. All of her work comes from networking, referrals and her website, www.networkingtowin.com.au
Her career includes over 20 years as a professional speaker, 10 years in sales and telemarketing management and 13 years in hospitality. Robyn also successfully ran women’s networks for 6 years and was listed in the Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame (1997) and listed in the Top 100 Spirited Women of Australia (New Woman Magazine).
Robyn was presented with the 1997 Speaker award from the National Speakers Association of Australia in November 1997 for her contribution to the speaking industry and is a CSP – Certified Speaking Professional with NSAA. This accreditation is shared by only 17 women in Australia and 110 women globally.
http://www.networkingtowin.com.au/
Craig West
Craig West – Succession Plus
Craig West is a strategic accountant who has built a specialised advisory practice focused on small business owners to help them face the four key strategic issues that SME’s face as they grow – raising capital, building equity, protecting that equity and extracting the value you have built when you exit.
Craig acts as a strategic business and financial mentor for business owners and has written three critically acclaimed books educating business owners on employee incentives, succession planning and asset protection and has recently been invited to complete a PhD in Business Succession Planning at Deakin University in Melbourne and is the President of the Australian Chapter of the Exit Planning Institute, and one of only five people in Australia accredited as a certified exit planning adviser.
http://www.successionplus.com.au/
Julia Bickerstsaff
Julia Bickerstsaff – Business Bakery
Julia helps small businesses at The Business Bakery www.thebusinessbakery.com.au. The Business Bakery is designed for Kitchen Table Tycoons – women running little businesses – but of course men are welcome too!
She also helps medium sized businesses at Butterfly Coaching www.butterflycoaching.com.au. Butterfly coaching helps transform businesses which size-wise have current revenues in the region of $2mill to $50million
Linda Hailey
Linda Hailey
Linda Hailey is a well known small business consultant, keynote speaker and author who passionately believes it’s time we took the pain and stress out of marketing and small business growth.
As a small business consultant she works with a wide range of businesses to develop marketing strategies that build reputations and business revenue. Her client list includes distributors, service businesses, retail outlets, health professionals, training and recruitment companies, tourism operators, graphic designers and even a funeral director!
Linda also works extensively in regional Australia developing marketing plans for small towns and acting as a trouble shooter for small communities who are facing challenges ranging from the closure of a major industry to disruptive road works in the main street.
http://www.lindahailey.com.au/
Dave Chaffey
Dave Chaffey – Netreach
Dave Chaffey is an internet marketing specialist, an author, TV presenter and one of the founders of NetReach.
Over the past 5 years, Dave has built on an already stellar business career, diversifying into public speaking, writing and television appearances.
Most recently, Dave has appeared on Kochie’s Business Builders on Channel 7 as a web marketing expert, providing advice on marketing for small business via the medium of the internet.
Carol Hanlon
Carol Hanlon – Belmont Business Enterprise Centre
Belmont BPW President Carol Hanlon has been acknowledged for her community based small business projects with many local, state and national awards since the late 1970’s, as a fashion designer in Victoria of her own wholesale, retail, export business for 20years. Since 1994, Carol established non-profit community based organizations in Western Australia; Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc. (BEC), Textile Clothing Footwear Resource Centre WA Inc. (TCFWA), Designedge Fashion Incubator, TCF Australia & TCF Global. Projects have assisted over 20,000 small businesses in WA and across Australia with small business training & mentoring. Twice awarded Best National BEC Manager; elected Local Government councillor City of Belmont; President Australasian Institute of Enterprise Facilitators; recognised by City of Perth as ‘100 Champions of WA’; Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors and an inaugural Inductee 2011 WA Womens Hall of Fame.
http://www.belmontbec.com/ and http://www.tcfwa.com/
Donna Hanson
Donna Hanson – Prime Solutions
Through her company, Prime Solutions Training & Consulting, Donna and her team have provided computer productivity training for local, state and federal government departments, and companies such as BMW, Holden and Village Roadshow that have immediately impacted on their staff productivity.
Donna is known as “The Technology Translator” because of her ability to take the TECHNO BABBLE generally associated with anything IT and translate it into easy to understand language we can all relate.
Kim Houghton
Kim Houghton – Strategic Economic Solutions
Kim set up Strategic Economic Solutions Pty Ltd in 1997 to provide services to a broad range of clients wanting to understand the economic issues affecting their communities and develop practical responses. The company specialises in local economic development and small business.
Before founding SES, Dr Houghton completed a major study for the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia (COSBOA) titled Jobs in Our Regions: Building on the Small Business Base. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of small business in regional Australia, examining the major constraints on regional small business growth and offering practical solutions.
Phil Lee
Phil Lee – Sandler
If you are looking for a “one size fits all” and a “quick fix” approach to training and coaching, Phil is probably not for you. He’s learned that one or two golf lessons won’t get most of us a serious, low digit handicap.
He also works with a select group of Executive Coaching clients and is a published author and professional speaker.
“Phil is experienced and knowedgable and practices what he preaches. I would highly recommend him to anyone who is looking for an experienced sales trainer”
Donna Machado, Training Manager, Oracle Corporation.
Barry Urquhart
Barry Urquhart is Managing Director of Marketing Focus, a Perth based market research and strategic planning practice.
Barry is author of six books, including the two largest selling publications on service excellence in Australasia. His latest is “Marketing Magic – Streetsmart Marketing”.
Each year Barry travels some 300,000 kilometres on five continents to deliver up to 120 keynote addresses, and to facilitate around 15 strategic planning workshops.
He is a regular commentator of consumer issues on ABC radio, is featured on a series of interview topics on “Today Tonight”, recorded a monthly segment for the airline in-flight audio program “Strictly Business” and contributes articles to 47 magazines throughout the world.
Barry Urquhart is a former lecturer in Marketing and Management at the Curtin University of Technology and has degrees in marketing, political science and sociology.
Barry Urquhart is renowned internationally for his strikingly accurate forecast of the finish of the economic boom in 2008.
http://www.marketingfocus.net.au/
Angela Raspass
Angela Raspass – Ideas Into Action
I started the business in 2005 as a solo consultant, assisting business owners with outsourced marketing services.
Today we have offices in the heart of Chatswood and our team of experienced marketing consultants, copywriters , graphic designers , social media gurus and web developers are all talented, practical and hands-on, whatever your marketing challenges. We run a jargon-free zone and know how to work both with you and for you to save you time, money and stress and to get the results you need.
At your first meeting with us, we’ll get to know you and the objectives you have for launching, growing or changing your business. It’s important to understand what success looks like to you so the marketing strategies we develop are focused on the outcomes you are seeking.
http://www.ideasintoaction.com.au/
Eric Tjoeng
Eric Tjoeng – CFO on Call
Eric is the Joint CEO of CAD Partners CFO On-Call, a team of more than 60 experienced Chief Financial Officers and Business Advisors servicing Small and Medium Business Owners in Australia and New Zealand for more than 20 years with an enviable track record and capability.
He is one of the most experienced and successful Senior Practicing Partner. As a business transformation/ improvement specialist Eric’s passion is to help SME business owners to realise their dreams. Eric is also a long term supporter of BEC, having been working with BEC for many years in various capacities, including as a recognised speaker, seminar/workshop presenter and mentor.
Eric has an enviable track record in helping business owners to achieve outstanding results through
a unique combination of skills, knowledge, experiences, insights and creativity in fine tuning the Business Strategy, improving the Target Marketing, Financial control, and Operation Management. His clients include companies in BRW Fast Starter List and Business Award Winners.
Kathryn MacMillan
Kathryn MacMillan – Nine2Three
Kathryn’s background has centred on entrepreneurship and management of teams.
Previous to Nine2Three Employment Solutions, Kathryn spent 18 years as Managing Director of a small business. Working with a constantly changing team of employees, she has developed strong management, human resources and leadership skills.
In 2003, Kathryn and her husband recognised a niche in the employment and human resources market, after her personal experience of attempting to commence her career again after an extended absence from the workforce. Illness had forced the sale of her previous business and Kathryn attempted to re-enter the job market. In addition, she was a mother of a young family and needed some flexibility around working hours.
Offered a traineeship with an accounting firm (as a mature age trainee), Kathryn re-trained for three years and then developed the concept for Nine2Three Employment Solutions.
http://www.nine2three.com.au//
Dr Ykk
Dr.YKK (Kam Keong Yew, Ph.D) – Chief Mind Unzipper – Mindbloom
Do you want to fast-track your innovation with minimum risk using the least time, energy, money and resources?
Kam K. Yew, popularly known as Dr.YKK, has developed breakthrough innovation system that will do just that. It is a 7-Step Business Innovation system that has been trademarked as his signature program. This program equips you with the strategy to begin your innovation journey on a proven winning formula. It enables you get to tap on the best brains in the world for free! Dr.YKK will guide you on how to innovate based on the best solutions available using specific creativity techniques.
An energetic presenter, Dr. YKK is an international speaker, trainer, consultant and best-selling author in the field of creativity and innovation. He is acknowledged as a Distinguished Talent on creativity and innovation, a former creativity adviser to Lego and a member of the international Creative Skills Training Council (CSTC).
Trevor Weeding
Trevor Weeding – Fairfax Media.
Trevor’s print media career began over 30 years ago, with community newspapers in suburban Melbourne. His experience encompasses advertising sales, newspaper management and sales network management roles, one of which brought him to Sydney in August 2000. Since then, he has moved from a senior network role with News Ltd, to a State Manager’s role representing the West Australian, before returning to community newspapers as Sales Manager at Torch Publishing in Bankstown.
Trevor joined our Fairfax Media’s flagship community publication, the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader in 2007 as Commercial Director. He was promoted to the role of Manager for the Leader early in 2009 and since October 2009 has been the Network & National Sales Manager for Fairfax Community Newspaper in NSW.
Since 2005, Trevor had been a Board member of the Eastern Suburbs BEC. With a strong commitment to the values of businesses involving themselves in their local community, through networking and community support, he has been a regular presenter at local community and business functions in metro Sydney.
Peter Irvine
Peter Irvine – Co Founder Gloria Jeans Coffee
Peter has had over 40 years experience in business at a high profile management level.
Peter started his professional career as a junior at DDB Needham Advertising, Sydney ending his career as Managing Director. During this time Peter was part of the team who launched McDonalds in Australia.
In 1996 Peter, with his business partner Nabi Saleh, established the Gloria Jean’s Coffees franchise in Australia. Today there are over 490 Gloria Jean’s stores across Australia and over 900 coffee houses in 35 countries worldwide.
In January 2005, Peter and Nabi purchased the International Master Franchise brand for Australia.
Peter Irvine is the author of ‘Win In Business’ -20 keys to catapult you towards your vision.
http://www.peterirvine.com.au//