Julien is a skilled professional with 15 years of experience across Consulting, Marketing, Digital and Information Technology. After an early career as a Management Consultant working for some of the top consulting firms, Julien launched his first business in 2016, supporting health professionals with innovative services and retailing sports recovery products online. A successful exit in 2020 gave him the opportunity to launch a second business, a marketing agency with a strong focus on sustainability. Since 2020, he and his team have been helping businesses of all sizes define their marketing strategy, implement impactful messaging and generate leads and sales across multiple channels. Throughout his career, Julien has worked with many small businesses and has experienced first-hand the challenges business owners face. This helps him design solutions that take into consideration the limited resources available to small business owners. With the experience of the full company lifecycle, understanding of the levers of growth, and a passion for small businesses and innovation, Julien can help businesses with their challenges related to marketing, sales, digital channels and technology.

Christine has spent two decades in sales, marketing and general management roles. She has had extensive enterprise software, SaaS and IT services experience as well as not for profit aged care industry experience. Her expertise is helping small business people with their sales, marketing, business operations and personal holistic health. She has helped a wide variety of organisations ranging from SaaS and IT Services and strata managers just to name a few. Christine brings a sales perspective to marketing to ensure that businesses achieve their goals by increasing their leads and reducing their sales cycle. She believes that market research and data should dictate strategy and that decisions should be based on information.

Rob has worked as a consultant and advisor to a range of businesses from 3 employees to over 2,500 – both here and overseas for the last 6 years, capping off a stellar marketing and management career. Rob started in Market Research with Colgate and Rothmans, moving on the public relations, marketing, and management with global companies in Australia, New York, London and a decade in Indonesia managing export and domestic clients’ marketing. For ten years he was global head of marketing for Australia’s $3 Bn wool exports. Rob is an acknowledged expert in brands, marketing, market access and business development. He specialises in fuelling small business growth based on generating clear positioning, market impact, business growth and profitability and the long-term value of brands. He has been instrumental in the success of a number of start-ups, two of which are now global ‘unicorn’ brands in their own sectors. He supports businesses who want to achieve the difficult balance between short-term sales and revenue generation and long- term equity and profitability. He has an international reputation for building brands.

Khozaima has a strong commercial background. An astute number cruncher (presenting to CFOs, CEOs and BoDs). His business acumen has been honed both in E&Y and Commercial Multinational Companies. He has a passion to help small businesses break through the glass ceiling and achieve their full potential. This may be through brainstorming ideas, to better credit and inventory management or a simple disciplined approach of KPIs, goal setting and strategic business planning. Khozaima has been independently consulting since 2012 and specializes in small to medium sized businesses in the following areas; Developing Business Plans, Business transformation, Commercial and financial due diligence, Financial modelling and forecasting, Overall brainstorming of Business strategy, Process review and improvements, Strategic and IT reviews.

Anne spent 15 years of her career working in digital marketing and eCommerce roles for Coca- Cola, Danone, NRMA and lastminute.com.au. In 2018 she founded Neilan Digital to bring big business knowledge to small businesses, so they have a clear plan to apply the strategy, processes and analysis needed to drive sales using digital and online. With a strong background in market research, she doesn’t believe in action without analytics and uses a data driven approach to understand how best to utilise all the options from search and social to email and web to get people buying and keeping them loyal. Anne works with business owners to give them the confidence to use digital marketing and ecommerce to grow and scale their business. She takes a pragmatic approach, creating realistic, manageable strategies and plans for her clients. Anne’s mission is to make sure no small business owner get left behind in the digital age.

Cathy has worked across numerous business, including Bluescope, , Property, Government, Project Management and Education where she supported industries at both base, then management level. It was during the 2008 GFC, however where she found the most inspiration and saw the need to ensure small businesses not only survive but thrive during difficult times. She sees the need for process, planning and analytics to ensure businesses outlasts world crises with innovative, practical solutions. Using her background in Project Management and Human Resources, she has combined her expertise in research and technical writing to support SME’s to understand legislation and compliance and speaks on Project Based Business practices. Cathy is an expert in start-ups, RTO, NFP and NDIS compliance documentation and founded ProActive Confident Solutions in 2009. Her aim is to keep it simple using her expertise to create templates and give support to small business requirements in business planning, policy and process documentation using a practical approach.