Very few entrepreneurs command the respect and admiration that John Lazarou receives without effort. An inspirational self made millionaire and business icon, John Lazarou is a director of Australia's largest and fastest growing locally owned coffee chain company, The Coffee Club. John is a well known and highly regarded member of Australia's social, entrepreneurial, business, and entertainment fa ...
Julie Masters has spent a career decoding influence. Founder of ODE Management, the world’s largest dedicated speaker management agency with offices across the USA and Australia.
Karen Matthews has over 22 years experience in national and international retailing, franchising and strategic brand management. Karen recently resigned after 10 years as CEO of skincare company Ella Bache. She is recognized in the business community as an innovative leader with strong operational and strategic skills and operates as she calls it by an intuitive style of values based leadership - ...
Healthy you, healthy business is Martin Hall's firm belief. Martin believes our society today is driven by 'edutainment', and is also craving a firm foundation of mind body balance life skills. He drives his audience as he drives his staff and students with passion, determination, humour and example. He has the special talent of understanding his audience, actively communicating with them and brin ...
Michael is a high-profile business leader who transformed an ailing set of bakery shops in the late 1990s to position Brumby's as the 2nd-largest bakery franchise system in Australasia with over 320 bakeries by 2007. Under Michael's leadership, Brumby's share price rose from 56c to $3.40 in just over 3 years. ...
Mike Conway has a can do, passionate and often off the wall fun approach to life and his work. He is the former Business leader and strategist for The Wiggles Group of Companies. He is also Director and business leader for Cricketcoach.com, the leading independent provider of cricket learning materials worldwide, a musician and an ageing soccer player. ...
Patria Jafferies co-founded Dôme Coffees and is now the company's Managing Director. Initially a small, specialist coffee roaster, Dôme's success grew from its reputation for providing an outstanding range of fine coffees presented in stylish, high-quality packaging. It became necessary to develop the means to showcase the product, which brought about the original Dôme Café concept. Dà ...
Peter is one of the two Australian leaders behind the success of Gloria Jeans Coffee. After oil, coffee is the most traded product in the world. And in Australia, the popularity of coffee shops is ever increasing, with the biggest slice of the market controlled by Gloria Jean's. Following numerous awards, Gloria Jeans Australia has now set its sight overseas, purchasing the global brand from its o ...
Peter was the first employee of McDonald's Australia and the first employee of the McDonald's system outside North America. In 1973, Peter was appointed Managing Director. McDonald's Australia grew to more than 500 stores and 50,000 employees during his time as Chief Executive. Peter has been honoured with an Order of Australia award for service to business and industry development in Australia b ...
Ray Scicluna works with businesses and their team to get the best outcome! It's not how far he fell, it's how Ray Bounces back that is inspiring and the true meaning of success. Today Ray's businesses include franchising, business consulting, retailing, manufacturing innovations, event management and training and he is passionate about sharing what he has learnt. Ray knows his stuff. Speaking f ...
