Brendan Forwood Brendan’s HR career encompassed working in the corporate world, specifically insurance, banking, and aviation. He has invested time as a consultant in a Fast 100 behaviour and motivation strategy start-up consulting to the mining sector and NFP broadening his expertise. His strength is the ability to read the pulse of people and business … Read more
In the past year or so, there’s been another significant jump in the number of potential franchises which have upped their game, not only in the way they are structured as digital businesses but also in the kind of business involved – slick, simpler niched businesses seem to be the way to go.
Research by the Franchise Relationships Institute shows franchisees who operate multiple units, now generate over 50% of Australian franchise sector revenue. Franchise Relationships predicts this percentage will grow because it gives franchisors a great way to expand the group using people they know and who know them and it gives experienced franchisees in the group a new, challenging way to expand their own business.
Greg Nathan is Founder of the Franchise Relationships Institute and is regarded internationally as the foremost expert on people issues in franchising. He is a registered psychologist, author of several best-selling franchising books, including Profitable Partnerships, and developer of many influential franchising models such as The Franchise-E-Factor and the Franchisee Wheel of Excellence.
David McDermott is the Principal of McDermott Coaching, a business coaching firm dedicated to empowering business leaders to run successful businesses, perform at an outstanding level as leaders, think strategically, lead high-performing teams, and engage meaningfully with both business and life.
Intention comes with design thinking. Who’s it for and what’s it for? Have you identified the smallest viable audience and built a product and created and designed a service infrastructure around it that works beautifully for this audience?When it comes to the global market, many people tend to think of it as a playground for … Read more
John O’Brien is an executive director and founder of Poolwerx, an inductee into the FCA Hall of Fame, past Chair of the World, Asia Pacific and Australian Franchise Councils, and a founding member of the Australian Federal Government (ACCC) franchise advisory group.
A lesson from a koan is really valuable here. Voices that purport to know the future–whether they are psychics, astrologers, family or the noise in our head–are pretty effective when it’s vague enough, but terrible when it comes to specifics. That’s because when it’s vague, we complete the story on our own, creating our own … Read more
Mike Coombes is one of the most trusted and reliable brokers in the finance industry. He has 41 years in the finance industry and in 2020 was inducted as the third only inductee into the FAST Hall of Fame for services to the industry. He is to be congratulated in nearing completion of his MBA.
Andy Prosser is the founder of The Executive Technologists, a Microsoft Technology Partner with a difference. The founding philosophy is “You should never pay for our time, only what we can do for you”.
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