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Hiring a business strategist is a common trait of successful businesses going back decades. Regardless of size, progressive business owners know that in order to scale and thrive, sometimes they need to engage the help of an expert outside of their company. Aside from offering a fresh perspective, business strategists are able to objectively view what is necessary to a business’ output and what isn’t. This allows them to work with businesses to form and implement guiding principles that will be used to help companies grow.
Our present situation has shown that companies need ways to continually innovate, and future-proof themselves. Business strategists are here to help organisations to identify new opportunities, and then develop goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics to successfully achieve these. Selecting the right business strategist for you can be a lengthy and stressful process, particularly if you don’t know what you’re looking for in one, so below we’ve compiled a list of 10 standout Australian business strategists and experts that can help grow and future-proof your business.
Eric Tjoeng
Business Growth and Exit Specialists (BGES) assists their clients to build a smart, profitable, and sustainable business that will stand the test of time. It was founded by the CEO, Eric Tjoeng in 2015 as a boutique business advisory firm with 7 Partners. As a leading MBA qualified Business Strategist, Business Growth and Exit Specialist, Eric’s leadership, independent views, creativity, multidisciplinary expertise, and experience have given him an edge in producing exceptional results for business owners and executives.
Eric’s strategic, holistic, and innovative approach to transform client’s business model with a clear roadmap for actions and implementation resulted in exceptional outcomes for his clients, including being BRW’s fastest-growing companies and business award winners. Eric is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, and a Business Speaker. He started his career with Deloitte Haskins and Sells Australia, going on to hold various senior leadership roles in blue-chip companies such as AVIS Australia, Jaguar/Rover Australia, and the General Manager of Astre Automotive Group with $1.4 billion revenue.
Eric moved into management consultancy and joined CAD Partners in 2005, a leading SME Business Advisory/Financial Control Firm with more than 50 Partners in Australia and New Zealand. He spent 10 years with them as a Partner, Senior Partner and then the Joint CEO, awarded with “Australia and New Zealand Partner of the Year”, ” Best Performer”, “Marketer of the Year”, “Team Player of the Year” and the “Community Contribution Award”. Subsequently, he founded Business Growth and Exit Specialists Pty Ltd (BGES), an effective one-stop-shop business growth, future proofing, and exit service provider for Small Medium Enterprises in 2015, as a Partner of Choice for Business Growth, Future Proofing and Exit.
Mrs. Kate Osborne
Focused on building the next generation of compassionate leaders, Mrs. Kate Osborne is an incredible coach with over 20 years of experience. She has developed a series of roadmaps to fast track results and encourage collaboration within businesses that have proven to be effective. She has share owned two Flight Centres in her career, which allowed her to master the art of building strong sales teams through the development of a strong culture.
Kate became the first woman to achieve Platinum Coach status and she was a global coaches coach with a team of 11 coaches. Kate realized immediately that success is about more than money. Through Leisure Seekers she taught her winning methodology to hundreds of leaders. Her workshops focused on building the courage necessary to be a leader.
Then, scaling businesses became her focus. That’s where KOKO Matrix comes in. Kate developed it as a collaborative framework where clients have access to the best coaches and consultants so they can win in business. KOKO Matrix focuses on having the team collaborate and communicate back to the leaders what they think is the highest priority to consider so they can get to work with direction. It’s a reliable framework that provides context and structure to businesses, especially during the COVID crisis.
Australia Business Coaching
Founded by Fabrice Beillard, Australia Business Coaching is a business that contributes to people’s lives, health, and wealth. Fabrice is not your standard growth pusher and he believes that you own a business, as opposed to most people who are owned by their business. A good business should enable the owners to have extra time and resources to invest in their health, their wealth and their life. It should also enable the founders to achieve their vision and make a difference, hence their tag line more life, more profits, more impact. They stand out thanks to their stack of verifiable and impressive results, which shows just how effective their coaching services are with a high proportion now playing in the multiple 8 figures and beyond.
Australia Business Coaching doesn’t provide a cookie-cutter approach. Instead, they favor personal attention and genuine care with the help of a high caliber team of people that provide high level advice. They have successfully coached and trained a large and varied range of businesses and helped owners achieve their own version of success.
This management consulting firm also provides large scale trainings and they have expanded in 5 countries and 3 continents in less than 18 months after they started. Australia Business Coaching has created platforms that cater to a large range of businesses all over the world and they work with small and medium businesses no matter what their life cycle is.
They meet their clients where they are and help them grow by catering to their particular needs and goals to help them pave their way. Australia Business Coaching specialises in systems and processes, team and leadership, profitability, and much more. They have earned an outstanding reputation and they deliver results, some programs promising to work for free if they take too long to deliver the outcomes.
The Uncomplicate
Lisa Laing is an e-commerce expert and strategist who has built two multi-million dollar brands, won a variety of business awards, and been featured in publications around the globe, all while being a mum. Her biggest success story is creating the world’s most eco-friendly baby diaper brand, Ecoriginals. Today, she is focused on helping mums grow their online brands.
That’s why she founded The Uncomplicate, an e-commerce business coaching and mentoring academy that specializes in helping mumpreneurs build their million dollar brands. Lisa is passionate about giving back and sharing her knowledge and expertise with mums who are struggling but have the desire to succeed.
Though the world is drowning in information, not all of it is good information. There are many untested theories available and dangerous advice is abundant, so it can be difficult to navigate the entrepreneurial landscape. There are so many mines to avoid, it can be overwhelming.
That’s where The Uncomplicate academy comes in. They provide tools that are effective and valuable so female entrepreneurs can access legitimate resources. Lisa doesn’t only teach the content, she also coaches her clients to implement that knowledge. With access to a manual, a video library, masterclasses, and live coaching sessions, mumpreneurs will find their wings to grow the brand of their dreams.
Three Peas Marketing
Kate, Elisha and Katrina are business besties with over 50 years of combined experience in marketing. They founded Three Peas Marketing because they have a passion in common: to help small businesses succeed. They each tackle a different area of expertise and together, their skills complement each other so they can cover all areas of marketing and business development.
Their services include Strategic Planning, Social Media Management, Web and Graphic Design, and Media/PR. At Three Peas Marketing, they all love what they do and that passion allowed them to achieve a 6-figure turnover in the first three months of business. Amazing results define their reputation and they treat their client’s business as if it was their own.
Three Peas Marketing is a team invested in the long-term success of the businesses they work with. They have a PEA (Plan, Execute and Analyse) philosophy and it’s the secret to their success. Most businesses jump straight to execution and they don’t think of the planning or post-campaign analysis. Without those elements, their efforts can only yield underwhelming results.
That’s where Three Peas Marketing comes in to create a plan that accounts for all areas of marketing so the execution can provide the best possible results. They create unforgettable experiences for their clients and guarantee 100% satisfaction. After all, three is better than one and they use their diverse backgrounds to provide creative, successful, and powerful marketing ideas and campaigns.
11eight
Founded by Ron Arnold, 11eight is a small but dedicated team of highly experienced executives who help companies think differently about the future. They leverage their extensive experience, market knowledge, and networks to inject outside-in thinking into their client’s strategy process. This way, leaders can think differently about the changing world and adapt a lot better to it.
Ron and his team recognize that there is a significant gap in the way companies innovate. More often than not, they struggle to adopt fresh thinking, which is easy to generate but difficult to apply in a corporate environment where you’re held back by complacency, change resistance, traditional governance, and other factors.
11eight is focused on helping leaders think through the 4 to 10-year time horizon, which is often outside the planning cycle, but it’s where long-term growth and sustainability can be unlocked not only for customers, but also for partners and shareholders.
In other words, 11eight helps organisations get ready for the future. One of their main areas of focus is bridging the gap between corporates and early-stage companies, which are not ready or equipped to work together. There are many opportunities for corporates to leverage the technology, innovation, and energy of startups to fuel future growth, while startups can enjoy access to larger customer bases or sources of capital to fuel their future growth as well.
Chantal Gerardy
Chantal Gerardy is an outstanding business strategist who offers solutions to all the non-tech-savvy people out there. She immigrated to Australia from South Africa with two 4-year-old children and a 1-year-old. One of her greatest desires was to build a successful business, but she didn’t have the money to spare, the tech experience, or the support of anyone on the Gold Coast.
However, that didn’t stop her. She learnt on her own how to use social media to connect with the right people and build a network so her business could thrive without paying for ads. Chantal thought of all the money she had spent on “promised solutions” and “quick fixes” that only disappointed her and made her lose money, and she decided she wanted to help others avoid those pitfalls.
Her coaching services are for all the non-tech-savvy people who have no marketing budget but want to get ahead faster. Chantal points people in the direction of all the free marketing opportunities available online so they can take advantage of them to have more clarity, confidence, and certainty in the way they manage their social media and email marketing.
Chantal’s formula is simple: Skills + Strategy + Systems = Simple Sales without having to spend all your time online or paying for ads. Her approach has gotten her national and international awards and recognition. She offers coaching services for individuals and groups, both online and in-person to pave the way to growth.
Elite Business Institute
Geoff Hetherington is a former 20+ year C suite executive across a dozen industries and he has been a successful Business Consultant and Coach for over 12 years in Australia and Asia. He is widely known as The Profitability Coach and founded the Elite Business Institute to show owners of established 6 or 7 figure businesses how to adjust to the new normal that will follow the COVID-19 pandemic so they can rapidly return to profitability.
Through the Elite Business Institute, Geoff enables business owners to get their business onto Cruise Control so they can work fewer Fridays and live a life that is not centered only around work. In essence, his approach allows business owners to have more time, more money, and more freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of with a much improved work/life balance.
With a BEd and 2 MBAs, one in Business and one in International Business, Geoff has the knowledge and the expertise to create strategies that deliver results. Using his Business Owner System business owners and executives are able to detangle their business; identify the primary operational areas that must be addressed first, design the life they want, and then dominate their market.
Nine Carat Business Consulting
Founded by Jamie Meyer, Nine Carat Business Consulting specialises in providing services that are sophistically crafted for each client from a prismatic and patternistic understanding of their organisation. They provide clients the tools they need to master success and their services focus on development, transformation, and design of organisations.
Jamie spent 13 years consulting with and running companies across a wide variety of markets. However, it was impossible for her not to notice that business had become a landscape of unfulfilled opportunities. People are limited by boardrooms and reports, but she decided to step out of the small game. That’s how Nine Carat Business Consulting was born.
They offer a tailored approach to their clients that allows them to align their organisation’s relations, interactions and environment synergistically. At Nine Carat Business Consulting, they are experts at highlighting opportunities, strengths, and challenges so they can provide illuminating resolutions and help organisations reach their goals.
Nine Carat Business Consulting is in the business of creating interdependent companies that are relevant and permanent so they can deliver value on all levels. They approach all their client relationships with integrity, honesty, and they promise to always act in their client’s best interests.
Aligned 4 Growth
Jamie Marra is the Managing Director at Aligned 4 Growth, he has over 20 years of experience as a senior executive. He has dedicated most of his career to transforming and growing SME businesses in many different industries, both nationally and internationally. He’s passionate about the concept that “people make any business” and he has led highly effective teams as well as managed growth and strategic change in highly competitive environments.
Aligned 4 Growth provides customised services that help business owners identify and manage change. This way, they are able to realise opportunities to achieve sustained growth, maximise value and achieve their income and freedom goals. They are experts at helping clients align strategy with systems and capabilities to help them reach the success they’re aiming for.
At Aligned 4 Growth, they specialise in empowering and aligning business owners who are exhausted and wish to master the principles that lead to improvement, growth, and scale. They are committed to supporting and providing SME business owners with the knowledge, confidence, systems, and processes they need to achieve their goals. Thanks to their Aligned Business Model, the Aligned 4 Growth team is able to identify the current state of the business, in consultation with the owner develop their ideal business model, then develop a strategy to bridge the gap, which is essential for growth.
