Owning your own business can sometimes be a lonely experience. Have a chat with 4 experts who have been in your shoes and who can help you to move ahead.
Your Business Mentors
Barry Spanger
Over the past 15 years, I have shared my business knowledge and experience providing business mentoring to many different business owners and managers covering a range of different industries.
Grant Gifford
I have had a total of 7 very profitable businesses – 2 of which I started from scratch and 5 where I bought existing businesses and managed successfully to build them up. My business knowledge is vast and very general.
Louis Klein
I have been involved in numerous disciplines including a second-generation family business, furniture franchise and establishment of a highly successful Commercial Fit out business. I can share my years of experience.
Kylie-Ann Kobelt
I was told I was ‘just a girl’ and coming from a farm I would not amount to anything. 20 years on I have had multiple businesses - from start up to sale, turning over millions of dollars, and employing and training over 100 staff.
“I’m a business veteran, with a successful track record of achievement!” – Barry Spanger
Having built and operated my own successful businesses in the past, I “have been in your shoes”, and know just how you feel! Running your own business can be lonely at times, and that’s when you need the help of a mentor.
When you work with me, you will benefit from my many years of practical business and leadership experience, my Business Qualification , as well as my 15 years of experience as a Business Mentor and Coach.
Over my business career, I’ve transformed a number of my own small businesses, into large, successful ventures. I previously owned a small engineering business in South Africa, which grew into one of the country’s largest suppliers of air conditioning components.
Since relocating to Melbourne nearly 30 years ago, I completed an MBA at Monash University, then I turned a small, home-based snack vending machine operating business into one of the state’s leading independent food and beverage vending operators.
Over the past 15 years, I have shared my business knowledge and experience by providing business mentoring to many different business owners and managers covering a large range of industries.
I understand that owning your own business can often be a lonely experience. You will benefit from having me to share your business problems with, bounce off your dreams and ideas – I am someone whose expertise and knowledge you can trust.
As your business mentor and coach, I will provide you with honest and objective guidance across all business functions, including Business Strategy; Marketing & Sales; Human Resource Management; Financial Management.
I will implement some smart yet simple strategies to advance your business growth and financial success
Get in touch with Barry Spanger:
03 9526 0011 or send me an email
“I have been extremely fortunate to have never had to work for anyone but myself.”
Grant Gifford
Are you struggling to build, grow or manage your business?
It could be because a changing market or your competitors, or poor sales, problems with your staff, or even your own business skills and experience?
I have had a total of 7 very profitable businesses – 2 of which I started from scratch and 5 where I bought existing businesses and managed successfully to build them up.
My business knowledge is vast and very general, and I think I have been in most business predicaments. Why not let me help you get out of or steer you around the ups and downs of owning and running your own business.
These are some of the things you could be experiencing as a business owner which I can help you with.
Being lonely running your business with no one to talk to who understands.
Tired of being everything to everybody.
Unsure how to let go of control of your business.
Cashflow – and how to spend your funds wisely.
Deciphering the difference between what your business needs and your wants are.
Cost cutting to get more added to your bottom line.
Preparing your business for sale.
As your business mentor, I’ll be so much more than a sounding board. I will offer you smart and strategic guidance that’s clear, simple – and above all, practical.
I can help you to regain your focus and use your valuable time and money to achieve the best results for your efforts.
Our first discussion will be free, so why not take the first step now?
Get in touch with Grant Gifford:
03 9526 0011 or send me an email
“I personally experienced success when I embraced the concept that how and what you think has a direct correlation to your results and achievements.” – Kylie-Ann Kobelt
Over 20 years of owning multiple businesses I have learnt what I believe to be the key that opens the door to success - both personally and professionally. That is that ‘the inner person powers the professional’!
If you think you can or think you can't, you're right. That’s Henry Ford’s quotation and I think that he has a great point!
Does a successful business come before mindset or does a successful mindset come before having a successful business?
I believe Business + Mindset together are the most powerful combination. [I liken it to kick-boxing]
The most powerful indicator of your success as a person is determined almost completely by the thoughts you cultivate. When your thinking becomes clearer, so does your achievements.
I have extensive expertise and experience in the tangible, applicable and pragmatic elements of running a successful business, including:
Structures, processes, and systems
Cashflow, KPIs, incentives
Marketing, client nurture, communication
Team culture and Leadership development
However, I believe that unless the focus is equally given to mindset challenges as well as to business challenges, then success is limited.
As a business coach, I can help you focus on the building block of your business and as a life coach, I can help you with your clarity, doubt, frustration, anger, resentment – your thought patterns that are actively driving your business.
My role as your mentor, is to share my proven, practical strategies for removing the roadblocks to your success and unlock your potential.
Embracing a guided, structured, and tailored approach, featuring Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Timeline Therapy® and DiSC profiling to help people turn around their lives, their teams, and their businesses.
I am committed to providing the best of coaching programs to the people I work with, to help them achieve their goals and turn their obstacles into solutions and success.
Get in touch with Kylie-Ann Kobelt:
03 9526 0011 or send me an email
“As business leaders we all face setbacks that are hard to overcome, but can be made easier if you don’t have to go it alone. ” – Louis Klein
My goal is to share my years of knowledge and experience to support you in overcoming obstacles you face as you strive to achieve your own business objectives.
I have been involved in a variety of disciplines including;
Leading a second generation family business
Growing and exiting a successful furniture franchise
Establishment of a highly successful Commercial Fit-out business
This has allowed me to acquire key skills and experience needed to grow a business, including (but not limited to):
Business Growth Strategy
Marketing (sales)
Distribution Logistics
Customer Experience
Finance Management & Planning
Debtors and Creditors
Cash Flow Management
Staff Management and Conflict Resolution
My passion for connecting with leaders and understanding their business problems, with my ability to apply my experience, form the foundation that I can use to help mentor and motivate you. I will support the personal skills you are already acquiring, and will help to set you up to:
Grow your business to the next level
Be more profitable
Overcome challenges you will face as you manage your team
Work on succession planning with family or middle managers