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Wed, 10th Jun

8:45 am AEST

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09/06/2020

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Wed, 10th Jun

8:45 am AEST

concluding by 4:15 pm

09/06/2020

Free

Start thinking about what you need to do to be ready to bounce back on the other side of this COVID ‘stuff’

Rebound is a full day of practical insights, strategies, tips, and inspiration to help you and your business get ready to spring back into action and hit the ground running as we approach the other end of lockdowns, close doors, and hopefully tough times.

On 10th June 2020, you can access live online sessions with subject matter experts and generally wise business folk, covering off on all the things you need to think about in your business to be ready for whenever you can contemplate a bounce back.

what to expect at rebound

7 x 45-minute sessions
all sessions are online and free
Q+A with the speakers
register for the day or pick and choose
insights from experts in their field
practical takeaways, tips, and tools

Register for any of the online sessions below

the day ahead 8.45am-9am

Let’s get the day off to a flying start with a quick run through of what lies ahead for the day and how the day will work. The hosts of each section will be all together to quickly talk about what to expect in their session and what they are looking forward to most.

Session speakers

Rebecca Mihalic – businessDEPOT
Bradley Conn – businessDEPOT
John Knight – businessDEPOT
Anna Chipperfield – businessDEPOT

are you change ready 9am-9.45am

If ever there has been a time we needed to be ‘change ready’ it has been in the last couple of months. But, what lies ahead could require even more change – real change that truly transforms our businesses, makes the most of the opportunities available and truly ready ourselves for the performance Australia needs from small businesses [the workhorse of the economy].

How change is the new norm
How to be change ready
Dealing with uncertainty in business
A business owners’ tolerance for ambiguity

Session speakers

Kerryn Fewster – Change2020
Martin Betts – martinbetts.com.au
John Knight – businessDEPOT
Rebecca Mihalic – businessDEPOT

marketing + branding 10am-10.45am

Many businesses have strengthened their brand engagement throughout this crisis with some authentic and clever marketing. Now that we are focusing on the other side of the ‘COVID curve’ it is time to maximise your chances for lead generation through some strategic brand experiences and marketing initiatives.

How to protect + strengthen your brand in a crisis
Opportunities in the data available to you
What you SHOULD be focussing on in your marketing
Getting cut through online
Best marketing opportunities for right now

Session speakers

Dave Prince – Ply Creative
Tyson Cobb – businessDEPOT Marketing
John Knight – businessDEPOT

the modern tech stack 11am-11.45am

Challenging times can create some gigantic shifts in efficiency through reinvention. Technology is the enabler for so many of these efficiency shifts. In this session we will discuss the opportunities for process automation, discuss the tech stack of the future while exploring the opportunities for businesses to be digitally ready.

Tech stack structures
Process automation
Recommendations for efficiency
Creating your own tech roadmap
Digital readiness

Session speakers

Tony Harcourt – Rype Group
Bryan Williams – Xero
Rebecca Mihalic – businessDEPOT

finances + funding 12.30pm-1.15pm

We cannot talk about helping businesses ‘rebound’ without addressing the money side of things. Often cited as one of the biggest barriers to growth, we will discuss the opportunities available to fill that hole in cashflow or fund those investment opportunities that may now be available to you.

Bank insights + trends
Alternative funding options
Upcoming cash flow pressures
Accessing funds for investment and growth
Debt being pushed down the road
What to watch out for

Session speakers

Justin Dickinson – HoLo
Jenny Strong – Macquarie Business Banking
Bradley Conn – businessDEPOT

how we work 1.30pm-2.15pm

The way we work in all likelihood has changed forever – and it was already massively changing with huge growth in co-working spaces and hot-desking. A discussion about how we work is not just about the physical environment but also the human side of things like bringing wellness into the workplace and empowering our teams to be engaged and ready to perform.

Office layouts and desk rules
Flexi + remote working
Wellness in the workplace
Setting up a “COVID safe” workplace

Session speakers

Melissa Marsden – Comuniti
Anna Chipperfield – businessDEPOT
Cheryl Adams – ThinkTrek Consulting
Katrina Walton – Wellness Designs

how to actually get stuff done 2.30pm-3.15pm

Everything else we have talked about today will be meaningless unless we actually do something about it. With execution and implementation cited as the number one reason most strategic plans fail, we will share our tips for implementation and effective strategic planning [including goal setting] while helping you condense our learnings from the day down into a few key actions.

How to get stuff done in your business
The 90 day plan
How to get more rhythm in your reporting
Get more focus in your day
How to effectively prioritise
Tips for performance and goal setting

Session speakers

Greg Gunther – Your Business Momentum
Paul Tucker – businessDEPOT
Anna Chipperfield – businessDEPOT
John Knight – businessDEPOT

bringing it all together 3.30pm-4.15pm

By the time we get to this point in the day we will have had a big day, covering off on a huge range of considerations. You’ve earned a drink! So, grab a beer, a vino, a coffee, a tea, or whatever your drink of choice. Listen in as all the facilitators come together to summarise their big takeaways from the day and their tips for you to apply in your business.

What have we learnt from Rebound?
Final thoughts and recommendations from the panel

Session speakers

Rebecca Mihalic – businessDEPOT
Bradley Conn – businessDEPOT
John Knight – businessDEPOT
Anna Chipperfield – businessDEPOT

big thanks to our support partners for spreading the word and providing their time… much appreciated

Speakers

John Knight

Managing Director - businessDEPOT

John is the original ideas man behind businessDEPOT and now is responsible for strategy, growth and managing the overall group.

As an accountant, John excels at blending his skills, experience, and expertise in broader business strategy to bring a unique service offering to the clients he works with. Leading the business advisory service offering John often presents at conferences, facilitates workshops, consults on specific projects and delivers one-on-one coaching services.

With a background in business valuation, John still assumes responsibility for any valuations that leave the office but enjoys combining his valuation expertise with his business knowledge to help business owners focus on enhancing their value rather than just delivering a number in a report.

John still delivers tax advice, management reporting design, project management and cloud system migrations with the assistance of his team.

John is well known with the real estate industry as a leading adviser and accountant to real estate businesses on all things from profit to strategy, growth, accounting processes, tax, and succession.

Rebecca Mihalic

Director - businessDEPOT Sydney

Rebecca has over 15 years’ experience providing taxation, accounting, business and tech advisory services to small to large enterprises throughout Australia.

Rebecca’s career has seen a focus on working with clients in Building & Construction, Education, Hospitality, Recruitment and Health Services.

As someone who takes great pride in working closely with her clients, Rebecca gains a deep understanding of their businesses and is there for them through all stages of the business life cycle, from start up to retirement.

Bradley Conn

Accounting Director - businessDEPOT

Bradley’s expertise lies in assisting SMEs, family businesses and not for profits with their business service’s needs. His enthusiastic interest in the medical and dental professions has resulted in Bradley developing a significant client base with Doctors, Dentists and Practice Managers across the board. Bradley often speaks at medical industry events and exhibitions, sharing his knowledge with medical professionals.

Bradley provides accounting, tax, business improvement and due diligence advice to his broad range of clients. He delivers a range of innovative tools and solutions to help businesses boost their profits. A majority of Bradley’s work in this area involves putting key strategies in place to reduce waste, increase sales and improve cash flow. On top of this he provides his clients with a highly tailored business advisory service, which covers all of those essential accounting needs.

Bradley's strengths lie in his fresh approach to business problem solving and his ability to 'speak plain English' in relation to complex accounting, business and taxation matters.

Anna Chipperfield

Head of People + Culture - businessDEPOT

Anna's experience is in operations, people management and strategy. After years of managing, developing and building teams in both corporate and SME businesses, Anna now focuses her time on helping SME's do the same.

With a focus on people and culture, Anna brings guidance and direction around all things people for businessDEPOT and our clients, in a way that connects everything back to strategy and performance.

Tyson Cobb

Marketing Director - businessDEPOT

Tyson Cobb is a marketing strategist, inbound marketing specialist, content marketing enthusiast, speaker and podcaster. He has spent the last 12 years in marketing and advertising working across many facets of marketing and branding for a huge range of brands across different industries. As the Director of businessDEPOT Marketing, Tyson and his team help small to medium businesses by crafting and implementing a tailored strategic marketing approach that drives revenue and enhances their brand.

As Director of businessDEPOT Marketing, Tys and his team help small to medium businesses by taking on the stresses of marketing and help move their business from where it is now, to where it needs to be.

Melissa Marsden

Director + Founder - Comuniti

Melissa Marsden is a Workplace Dynamics Strategist who works with corporates & professional services firms to create physical environments that drive high performance teams.

Mel believes that our environments have the opportunity to positively influence our behaviour and performance at work.

Mel has enabled her clients to realise not only substantial financial business profits, but also shift employee and business mindsets from slow, stagnant operations to agile and flexible environments, enabling them to swiftly adopt new business opportunities and streams, whilst establishing a premium level employee experience.

Mel’s business acumen has been recognised by AIM and Telstra Business Women’s Awards for her leadership and transformational business strategy process.

Justin Dickinson

Co Founder + Managing Director - HoLo

You might know Justin as co-founder and managing director of Holo.com.au - Australia-wide online mortgage broking company; or from his 9 years experience in commercial banking for one of the big four. Either way, you will know why he is loving getting Australian’s a better deal. Understanding the lending process from direct experience in both the Credit and Sales, along with strong analytical skills and financial nous, Justin can structure the best deal for clients; and make the hard look simple.

And now as a business owner himself building a tech company, whilst it hasn't improved his near-scratch golf game, it has enhanced his passion for entrepreneurship and quest to help every-day Aussies navigate the complex & ever-changing banking system.

Katrina Walton

Director - Wellness Designs

Katrina has built a reputation as a pioneer of workplace wellness. She has over 25 years ‘on-the-ground’ experience in the development and implementation of multi award-winning wellness and human capital solutions for small to large organisations across the globe. Katrina is a sought-after speaker and trainer, having presented throughout Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom, including as an Adjunct Lecturer with the Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University.

Bryan Williams

Head of Ecosystem & Marketplace - Xero

As Head of Ecosystem & Marketplace for Xero Australia, Bryan Williams is responsible for growing and scaling a vast host of connected apps to Xero’s ever-growing ecosystem. He thrives on seeing accountants and bookkeepers embrace connected tech to unlock efficiencies and offer more value to their clients, as well as seeing small businesses discover how tech can enable them to grow and scale. Bryan lives in Melbourne with his young family where he spends most mornings and weekends training for marathons and diving headfirst into yet another crazy long-distance event.

Dave Prince

Founder - Ply Creative

Dave helps companies understand the purpose behind their brand and how they can create meaningful differences that matter to the customer. He works across brand & digital, from strategy to 'making the stuff' for both startups and the big end of town.

Greg Gunther

Founder + Director - Your Business Momentum

Greg Gunther is an accomplished author, coach and speaker who knows firsthand the elation of business success and the desperation of failure. He is highly sought after throughout Australia for his ability to understand the challenges business owner s face and develop achievable, practical solutions. Together with Joshna Daya, Greg co-founded Your Business Momentum, a business consulting firm helping clients break free from the daily grind.

His ability to connect with business owners, from all walks of life stems from his own personal and professional experiences both in success and in failure. After years of helping business owners succeed, Greg launched a co-authored book, Feet First, that inspires and empowers small business owners to not only dream but to achieve their dreams.

No overnight success, Greg has the experience behind him that can help business owner s to fast-track their own success. He knows how to connect with business owners to bring out the raw emotion of business ownership and is passionate about showing them how to turn business struggles into success. He shares how to not only dream big, but how to achieve real results personally and professionally.

Tony Harcourt

Chief Executive - Rype Group

Tony is a consultant, software engineer and speaker on business processes and cloud systems. He has worked with clients ranging from mining giants to family businesses on their systems, platforms and processes. Tony is passionate about helping small-businesses grow and prosper, and believes that it's impossible to do that without the best-of-breed cloud solutions to save time, and increase business visibility for a real-time review of your business operations.

Having led The Rype Group for 6 years, in 2018 Tony Co-founded WorkGuru.io with Michael Davis to fill a gap in the market. Tony is currently focusing on helping manufacturing businesses scale and improve the profitability of their enterprises particularly in mining related sectors, and rural and regional Australia.

Tony's Motto: People are smart! Don't make them do dumb jobs!

Martin Betts

Martin has spent more than 40 years working in Universities in 3 continents and has seen the transformational impact universities can have on individual lives, on their partners in industry and business, on the precincts of which they are part and on the communities they serve.

He has led one of the largest Faculties in an Australian university covering disciplines of Science, Engineering, IT, Built Environment and Design. He has also led central functions of marketing and communications, alumni and development, and various engagement platforms. In Faculty and central roles he has led major change management exercises at times of great change in our universities.

Martin has been involved in partnerships such as on the largest public event in Australia in a decade at the GC2018 Commonwealth Games and in the cultural, entertainment, leisure, health and education precinct of South Bank where he chaired the board of its trade association BSB.

In doing this, he has led equity agendas in some of our largest institutions as a Male Champion of Change and Multicultural Ambassador of the state.

He now looks to share some of these experiences in new ways, in new roles, and with new partners.

Kerryn Fewster

Founder + Director - Change 2020

Kerryn presents not just from her extensive experience but using data and insights from our research partnership with QUT to discuss our ability to adapt to ambiguity in the workplace and what this means for leaders and organisations. Kerryn will talk about exactly who is and isn’t adapting to change and the very real impacts that this brings about.

Kerryn has spent over 20 years working with leading Australian and global businesses in the area of transformation, leadership development, coaching and embedding culture change programs enabling businesses to flourish and perform.

She is a trusted confidant for leaders across diverse industries and is a firm believer in creating a workplace where people are committed, developed and advocates for their organisation. Equipped with qualifications, accreditation and an enviable amount of experience, Kerryn’s talent for balancing straight-talking and humour ensures she adds true value to organisations.

Jenny Strong

Associate Director - Macquarie Business Banking

Jenny Strong is a Director for Macquarie Business Banking. With over 20 years experience in the banking and financial services sector, she is driven by her passion to learn more about the property services and professional services industries that she serves, and to provide a holistic banking partnership for clients.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business in 1999, Jenny joined the Macquarie Bank team in QLD. Jenny has worked as a Relationship Manager, Business Development Director and Relationship Director to support the growth strategies of many large businesses. In 2015 Jenny relocated to NSW for a period of 4 years. Last year Jenny returned to Queensland and now heads up the Business Banking Relationship Management Team in Queensland.

Jenny’s areas of specialty include SME cashflow and property lending, providing innovative 'end to end' back office solutions and financial services.

Cheryl Adams

Director - ThinkTrek Consulting

Cheryl is an experienced organisational psychologist empowering and transforming people and business to reach their full potential and overall well-being. She has a strong background of close to 25 years in leadership and applying the practices and principles of organisational psychology to maximise workplace culture.

Cheryl enables people and business to take charge of their potential through focusing on the power of thinking; transformational and change applications; agility manageement; practical resilience and the power of social capital. Cheryl is motivated by seeing the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of people when they have attained their vision.

Cheryl is a Fellow of the College of Organisational Psychology; and the Treasurer and a Committee Member of the Qld Branch of College of Organisational Psychology.

Shaye Thyer

Director of Sales - MindBridge

Shaye Thyer is a CA with over 15 years experience in accounting practice, as an industry CFO and virtual CFO.

Shaye passionately nurtures adviser-client relationships by supporting practitioners to nimbly adapt their professional services delivery for the changing landscape of client need and expectation. Streamlining service delivery with technology, enhancing value with deep data-driven insight and building EQ for stronger human connection.

Prior to joining MindBridge, Shaye was responsible for building a future-fit accounting division for BDO in Australia, creating a premium client experience through and obsession with client-centricity enabled by the latest technology and data driven insights.

She is a CAANZ-qualified chartered accountant, a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and vocal industry advocate. Shaye is also an impact champion and Activator at SheEO, supporting female entrepreneurs working tirelessly on the world’s to-do list.

Above all else, Shaye is most passionate about her most important role as chief role-model and builder of independent, strong young women as mum to her two

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what to expect at rebound

the day ahead 8.45am-9am

are you change ready 9am-9.45am

marketing + branding 10am-10.45am

the modern tech stack 11am-11.45am

finances + funding 12.30pm-1.15pm

how we work 1.30pm-2.15pm

how to actually get stuff done 2.30pm-3.15pm

bringing it all together 3.30pm-4.15pm

big thanks to our support partners for spreading the word and providing their time… much appreciated

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