If you’ve been in business for more than five minutes, I can guarantee you’ve had a terrible strategy day experience – all talk, no action, and the highlight of the day was the mediocre muffins at morning tea. You deserve better. Your team and your customers deserve a business that knows where it’s going, and...

The Rhythm Method: Creating Time + Cash for Business Owners Do business challenges differ in different countries? What can we learn from how business is done elsewhere, to improve our business income / wealth / lifestyle outcomes?In my experience having coached privately-owned companies in 12 countries (and spoken at conferences to more), for those 12-96 employee businesses I specialise in the...

You Can’t Spell “SME” without “AI” Don’t tell anyone, but, as I write this from my holiday in the Southern Highlands, I want you to know my dirty little secret: I’m an AI + SME Business Advisor, who’s been talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in business since 2019 … and yet AI is less than...

Core Values Aren’t Good Enough First, I’m alive! Thank you to all the wishers-of-well for my recent Wisdom Teeth surgery – everything went to plan, and I have successfully managed to rest, watch the Godfather Trilogy, and make at least a dozen jokes about the Twitter rebrand.After Blackboard Fridays Episode 6, where I encouraged business owners to...

Full Service, No Cost, Because I Understand Business Risk The greatest challenge embracing AI is the upfront investment of time, especially into software solutions that may not work, may not last, or can’t be scaled because as an SME you don’t have hundreds of employees to leverage.So in my research I’ve been finding experts, not just tools, who understand small business and...

From November 2017 until June 2019, in partnership with businessDEPOT, I produced and recorded 134 episodes of the business leadership video series Blackboard Fridays. Every short episode was designed as a 5 minute burst of insight into a specific topic relevant to succeeding on your business journey. We revisited some important topics – hello “Better...