Running your own business forces you to focus on many different areas. However, trying to do everything on your own can make things harder than they need to be. That’s why business experts exist and you should consider working with one if you need the support.
Collaborating with business experts who have a lot more experience, knowledge, and expertise will only lead to better results and a more successful business. They will help you become more efficient, provide insight, create stability, grow a strong network, attract top talent, and so much more.
The tricky part is finding the right fit! To help with that, here’s a selection of some of the best and brightest business experts to learn from in 2022.
Keely White
CEO and Co-Founder of Liinchpin, Keely White, is a highly experienced business expert who specialises in advising CEOs, General Managers and Founders to systemise and scale their businesses while creating high-performing, harmonious teams. Before starting this current company, Keely was the Executive Director of Training and Development for Australia’s most successful entrepreneurial education company and wrote curriculum across various pillars of business excellence.
She also helped grow REA Group’s flagship company, realestate.com.au, throughout Queensland, and she was the host speaker of the ‘Entrepreneur’s Unconvention’, which was voted in the top 3 best events for business owners worldwide by Entrepreneur.com. Keely is a successful entrepreneur who has sold two of her own 7-figure businesses and she has received multiple business awards in sales and leadership.
Keely has had an incredibly impressive and diverse career and has gathered a wealth of valuable knowledge and experience. She leverages this to advise high-profile founders and professionals using The Liinchpin System, a 6-step framework that can be easily integrated into any business so clients can work on their business rather than in it.
Keely has also recently founded The Collective Campus, a resort-style homestead that facilitates business and personal empowerment retreats year-round to help leaders and teams thrive. She is a master at solving challenges and clearing roadblocks to help people reach ambitious career and life goals.
Amy Smith
Founder of Aligned Tribe Pty Ltd, Amy Smith is an incredible Business and LinkedIn strategist, coach, and speaker. She is passionate about guiding service-based business owners, coaches, and consultants in the process of launching and growing their online businesses. She leverages years’ worth of experience and knowledge to provide clients with the support they need to make their business work in the digital space.
Throughout her career, Amy has worked across Canada, the UK, and Australia in the fields of Human Resources, Business Development, and Coaching. She has worked with brands such as The CEO Institute, YMCA NSW, General Assembly, Open Colleges, The Executive Connection, and The Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL), to name a few.
Amy has supported large company CEOs behind the scenes and trained over 1,500 professionals on career, business, and LinkedIn strategies. She practices what she preaches, which is how she grew her LinkedIn profile to over 27,300+ 1st degree connections. She has been featured in the CEO Global Magazine, 6PR Newstalk, Nine Radio, Directors Institute publications, and The Future of Work Summit.
One of Amy’s biggest passions is to teach the strategies she has battle-tested on her own businesses to help clients flourish and leverage LinkedIn to access untapped opportunities. This is what her “In Demand Coach” program is all about and it is the secret to stop hustling as most others do! She provides practical, actionable steps for long-lasting results with none of the fluff.
Ruan Burger
Business Influencer and Owner of Success and Broker Ruan Burger landed in Australia from the UK in 2005 to forge a career as a mortgage broker. He rose to Australia’s Top 100 Brokers List and he made a name for himself in the industry by establishing his position as an expert with his adaptable and visionary thinking.
During his mortgage broking career, he built two successful businesses that attracted many important awards and accolades. It gave him a platform to practice what he preaches—clients always come first. Ruan eventually started focusing on becoming a business influencer; today, he works with industry bodies, mortgage brokers, loan writers, and mortgage broking businesses.
Through Success and Broker, he leads clients through the next stages of growth and success so they can achieve their goals. He offers a variety of valuable services, including The Broker Journal™, an online broker coaching program that’s truly game-changing; strategy-led State of Play sessions, and the Proventus Program, a group coaching program that offers outstanding tools.
Ruan coaches and influences mortgage broking businesses and brokers across the country. Success and Broker provides valuable programs that simplify the complex ins and outs of the industry and make them compelling so clients can take full advantage. Ruan doesn’t only provide guidance, he also leverages years of experience in the field to arm clients with powerful strategies and tailored solutions so they can enjoy the best outcomes.
Jem Graham
Expert business consultant Jem Graham leverages 13 years of experience in business management and consulting to help clients transform their businesses, and achieve their most ambitious goals.
Jem’s clients have been situated in varying industries and sectors including construction, manufacturing, logistics, medical and health services, IT, telecommunications, accounting, joinery and trades with turnovers starting at $1m all the way up to $140m.
Jem’s approach to business consulting is based on transferring her practical knowledge to clients and helping them increase useful skills and systems. This way, they can learn to stand on their own two feet to achieve long-lasting, sustainable success.
Jem says, “I work with businesses to ensure they are solvent and scalable. Most business owners know their product or service inside out but not always their business’s finances. Through simple education and practical application together we gain clarity and certainty on your business’s future.”
Jem implements a 4 point business management system that leads to viability, solvency, and a collaborative, focused team that works seamlessly with management to achieve business goals.
Additionally, she developed a 2-day Financial Power Workshop where business owners can learn the points of view, frameworks, and tools they need to take full control of their finances and achieve the stability and power they seek.
Sales Savvy Online
Led by Digital Strategist Mareike Niedermeier, Sales Savvy Online was founded in 2019 to offer business owners the expertise they need to take control of their revenue growth. This team of business experts, digital marketers, and sales consultants serve over 50 clients in 4 different countries from their headquarters in Barangaroo, Sydney.
Sales Savvy Online takes business growth seriously and they are entirely dedicated to it. This is not the typical marketing agency because staff members have the necessary business acumen to help clients create strategies and execute them to perfection.
Essentially, Sales Savvy Online becomes the partner clients need to achieve carefully set goals. Clients are not locked in by long-term contracts because the team is confident they will deliver what they promise. If they don’t clients can always opt-out.
One of the many things that Sales Savvy Online does differently is that they don’t see sales and marketing as intuitive art. They believe that sales and marketing can be planned and executed to achieve desired outcomes. That’s exactly what they accomplish with their proven SME Marketing & Sales Processes and Frameworks.
They leverage digital solutions and a wealth of sales expertise to put businesses in control of their revenue growth so they can sell beyond word of mouth or network referrals. The Sales Savvy Online approach is different because they first determine the outcomes clients want and then they apply their effective approach to achieve them. There’s no room for loose ends!
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