
Date/time: Wednesday 23 March 2022
5.15pm for 6pm start (until 7pm)
Networking prior to presentations, Q&A panel post-presentations
Venue: Toronto Diggers RSL
Entry: $20 (incl.gst)
Incl. drink on arrival, complimentary planner & light refreshments.
YOUR PRESENTERS:
EVENT SUMMARY:
Now’s the time to draw a line in the sand. The past two years has tested us like never before. The question is, how can you move forward in your businesses with confidence and renewed energy? This presentation will address that question and give you practical, sustainable tools to:

GARTH RUSSELL, Co-Founder, Facilitator & Coach Wellbeings & Co
Garth will demonstrate how a stable routine gives your life structure and makes you feel more in control. Once you have found stability you can grow professionally and personally. This is about your mindset and managing yourself to create your own NEW NORMAL. You will learn to: Be more self-aware, find stability and develop a growth mindset.
After a radio career spanning over 35 years, and having worked as an actor, facilitator, storyteller and interviewer, Garth now works as a communication coach. He has also collaborated with his educator wife Suze to create Wellbeings & Co, a company focused on helping to build healthier organisations by maximising the potential of their people. growth mindset.

LEIGH CUMMINGS, Director, MINT Dynamics
Only 60% of businesses survive through their fifth year in business. To build a sustainable successful business, you need a solid foundation. With this changing environment, 2022 is the time to focus on your core business. Ask yourself: Why should your ideal client choose you? What makes you different from your competitors? How do you deliver your services? Leigh will guide you through her techniques to build your values and a vision to improve culture and generate growth. This combined with a goal focused plan will reboot your business for 2022.
Leigh is a business consultant with over 20 years of real-life experience in running her own small business. Leigh’s key strengths include logical approaches to embrace and create change, identifying organisational requirements and implementing technical solutions to enhance business efficiencies.
CAMERON MCDONELL, Business Development, Recruit Personnel
Understanding the ‘opportunity cost’ of internal recruitment is one of the biggest barriers to taking back time in small business today. Develop a better understanding of assessing costs relative to benefits and TIME.
With 20 years’ experience managing and supporting SMEs in hospitality and tourism in Australia, NZ, and North America, as well as advising small start-ups in South America and the Africa. COVID-19 brought tourism to a halt and Cameron home. His empathy, effective negotiation skills and carer experience (interviewing 5,000+ candidates) assisted in quickly generated significant growth as Recruit Personnel’s Business Development Officer and assisting Hunter Valley SMEs as they navigate a candidate-short market.
Event hosted by Lake Macquarie Business. Support received from NSW Treasury (NSW Government) through the Small Business Month grant program.
Date/time: Wednesday 23 March 2022
5.15pm for 6pm start (until 7pm)
Networking prior to presentations, Q&A panel post-presentations
Venue: Toronto Diggers RSL
Entry: $20 (incl.gst)
Incl. drink on arrival, complimentary planner & light refreshments.