When COVID started to impact business and the economy, we mobilised experts from the Dent community to help business leaders navigate variety of topics including...
Finance
Cash Management
HR Law
Marketing and Sales
Cool tools & tech
Leadership
Team Health
The following schedule will be updated regularly
Become a Key Person of Influence ( LIVE Weekly Zoom Call )
Hosted By: Glen Carlson
Bio: Co-Founder of Dent.Global & Key Person of Influence
Topics Covered: The ‘Recession Ready’ Series covering
We are now all working remote, but our systems aren't ready. Now what?
Hosted By: Andy Prosser
Bio: 30-year veteran of the technology industry
Founder of The Executive Technologists and Co-founder of 2 start-ups
Delivered 100’s of successful productivity boosting projects
Biggest challenge, building a solution to support a team of ~600 across 20
locations in 4 countries, most in remote camps in the PNG jungle…in 2011
Topics Covered:
Going digital fast, without breaking everything
Managing remote teams effectively
Planning for the new future; making digital the new normal
Navigating the Financial Crisis of 2020
Hosted By: PJ Patterson
Bio: Founder of Keystone Financial a Financial Planning and Wealth Management Firm, I have been managing money for over 20 years and have been successfully risk managing my clients since before this crisis. In fact, they not only did not lose money during this crash but have in fact profited from it. I am in the top 1% of financial advisers who use a full cycle investing risk management process that removes emotion from investment decisions.
Topics Covered:
Where we are in the global and local economy
Market volatility and why it matters to you
How to read an economy using 3 factors
Your risk profile and why it’s probably costing you money
Full Cycle investing - What it is and how to use it
The current investment playbook
Working with your People to Get Ahead during Recessions
Hosted By: Naomi Wilson
Bio: Naomi Wilson has spent a lifetime’s career exploring great people and powerful leadership practices. She is the Founding Director of Focus HR, a successful people, leadership and strategy company recognised at a national level as a leading business consultancy and has provided advice to over 300 companies. In every situation, her intent is always the same – to have a positive impact on people’s work lives. She does this through a unique approach of combining curiosity and passion for small business, tenacity for problem solving, and a commitment to identifying innovative solutions. She is accredited in DISC and Emotional Intelligence coaching and holds an MBA in Human Resources.
Naomi was one of 3 finalists in the AHRI Australian CEO of the Year Awards in 2018, a finalist in the IML Leadership Awards and Women in Business Awards, and Focus HR was named the Business Services business of the year at the Australian Small Business Awards in 2018 as well as winning their local Business Excellence Awards for 5 straight years.
Naomi is regularly asked to speak at forums and events including the Innovation and Leadership Summit and for industry bodies such as the Australian Independent Audiologists Society.
Topics Covered:
People options during recession – considering all the options, not just the drastic measures
Realisms of working from home – facing the practical challenges and using flexibility to gain productivity
Get excited – using this time to challenge the status quo, tackle the ‘one day, someday’ projects, finally going truly paperless, putting your business under the microscope etc
Tools and Strategies to manage stress, anxiety and isolation.
Hosted By: Linda Wilson
Bio: Dr Linda Wilson has been coaching individuals and groups in stress management, mindflow and habits intervention for over 20 years. Linda is a Managing Director of a multi-disciplinary clinic in Melbourne, Australia. Linda uses psychological and neuroplastic principles to facilitate change.
Topics Covered:
10 Strategies to stay mentally and emotionally healthy
7 Free Resources
3 Things you can do RIGHT NOW
How to avoid boardroom bedlam, stay out of jail, and build a better business
Hosted By: Julie Garland McLellan
Bio: Julie Garland-McLellan is a world-renowned expert on boards, governance and how directors can build better companies. She has published dozens of articles in top‐tier academic and business journals, has written and presented the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ highest rated courses, and featured in mainstream media such as ABC News, Sky News, The Financial Review, the Financial Times and many more.
Topics Covered:
What is the role of your board in a crisis?
What are the rules and what can you change?
How to stay out of jail by demonstrating your diligence
5 signs your organisation is in need of it's very own connectivity revolution
Hosted By: Stu Hawkins
Bio: Founder of Red Arc, a software company that develops automated fundraising systems for NonProfits, charities and NGOs. We help organisations like UNICEF Australia, Foodbank NSW and The Salvation Army make more impact by connecting, automating and extending their systems.
Topics Covered:
THIS is the time you need your systems to be working FOR you not against you
5 key indicators that your organisation is not fully taking advantage of the opportunities of removing routine manual processes
The 'why' of creating a connected ecosystems of apps that each add to something awesome.
Rundown of tools & help available to you automate your stuff
What to do next to reinvent your systems
Quaranteam -avoiding the downward wellbeing spiral
Hosted By: Pete Jensen
Bio: AUTHOR: Lessons in Happiness from the Third World
SPEAKER : Wellbeing conferences locally and internationally
EXPERIENCED FACILITATOR : Trained over 20 000 people in the past 15 years
Topics Covered:
How do I create a ‘work from home’ work environment that sets my people up for success?
How can they boost their personal happiness and energy?
What are the big mental health pitfalls of working in isolation?
How can we create our own safety nets ?
What are some proven strategies for thriving through change and uncertainty?
Now is not the time to stop protecting your organisation from hackers.
Hosted By: Roger Smith
Bio:
Topics Covered:
Business security is all about adapting to change.
Addressing the business security challenges of working from home.
How the hackers are using Covid19 to target you.
Extraordinary times calls for extraordinary communication
Hosted By: Sandy McDonald
Bio: TEDx speaker, author, mentor for the Venture Mentoring Service RMIT University, clarity coach, storytelling trainer, presentation & speaking coach
A communication matrix that shows how communication fails and a storytelling model that shows why contextualised, purpose-led stories is powerful communication and will help you to:
Refresh your business story to position for the future
Uncover and tell the supporting stories that people listen to, remember, and act on
Drive your purpose to keep your business flowingRefresh your business story to position for the future
Innovation as the bridge over the viral valley
Hosted By: Tom Williams
Bio: Tom Williams is a business coach with experience in founding several
businesses, with exits including the sale of an investment management company
to HSBC and the float of a biotech company on the ASX.
Tom has developed several innovations for global companies, such as video marketing for GSK,
business class air travel for Qantas domestic airlines and a mathematical model
of the stock market for HSBC.
Topics Covered:
How to think about your new mission
How to make decisions in the fog of war
Two kinds of mistakes (when you think there’s only one)
Finding new opportunities from new customer needs
Developing an ambidextrous organisation to both develop and deliver
How Can I Keep My Wealth (including super) Safe?
Hosted By: Susan Bryant
Bio: I’ve been a financial adviser 32 years working with family businesses including some of Australia wealthiest dynastic families. I spent a decade in Private Wealth where I worked through the GFC with clients who were all Type A Driver, captains of industry and from the Big End of town. What I found was traditional wealth strategies failed.
It disturbed me to see my clients so distressed and drove me to establish my own practice 10 years ago. I have been quietly establishing investment portfolios that are very different from every other adviser. My clients have been substantially protected from the recent market falls, substantially.
Topics Covered:
How to assess where you are now and if you are at risk
How to choose a strategy to better protect your wealth
What to do going forward to protect your family and build a Legacy
Onion Skin Marketing - how to work the marketing layers in tough times.
Hosted By: Hunter Leonard
Bio: 30 years in Marketing, 500 clients, $2b in revenue growth, author of 5 books on marketing.
Topics Covered:
How to plan it
How to execute it
How to measure it
Transforming your sales in a tough market
Hosted By: Mark Swain
Bio: Financial Services sales expert and creator of $10 Billion TRANSFORM sales process.
Topics Covered:
Prospecting - Where should I look for business right now?
Opportunity development - How can I close current stalled opportunities?
Management - Managing for retention & referrals
Concise Risk Management Techniques for business continuity and recovery
Hosted By: James Ritchie
Bio: A risk management professional with proven experience in delivering contemporary solutions in diverse business environments.
James is an experienced risk management professional with more than a decade of experience in delivering whs risk management and compliance functions at operational and executive levels in both government and corporate sector environments.
James now offers these skills to clients such as the port of Newcastle and the nsw mining and resources regulator through mindful risk, a business providing whs and enterprise risk consultancy services in addition to cultural programs designed to create “mindful” organisations.
Risk analysis tools to assist you in maintaining business now and plan for resumption and recovery:
Risk management fundamentals
Business Continuity basics
Bow Tie Analysis
Using these techniques to assist you to Meet Directors and Officers duties in relation to WHS
Planning for recovery and return with greater business resilience
How to Thrive - (and help your clients to) when your industry niche just disappeared!
Hosted By: Howard Tinker
Bio: Academic – Qualified in Social Work with MA in Social Studies and Education
Business – Founder, Owner and CEO of Restaurant Profits, a specialistmarketing & educational company serving the hospitality industry.
Topics Covered:
How to stay Positive and Focused
How to stay or become even more relevant to your audience.
What I’ve done in my business to bond my clients to me and to attract the attention of prospects too
How to Prepare your business for Post Covid-19
How to Become Stronger and More Successful as a result of Growing through this experience.
The Finance Focus - How to unscramble your numbers in a time of crisis
Hosted By: Amanda Fisher
Bio: Amanda Fisher aka The Cash Flow Queen,
- she’s a prolific writer with hundreds of articles and is the author of 3 books (2 #1 bestsellers on Amazon) with a 4th book due for launch May/June.
- she’s won numerous International Awards for her Financial Literacy Training.
- her podcast Seeing Through the Numbers with over 85 episodes has had thousands of listeners from around the world
- she’s spoken on stages for Amex, Xero, CAANZ to name a few
- she’s on a mission to educate business owners about cash flow and numbers
Topics Covered:
Break Even
Cash Flow management
Key Numbers to Focus on
Go Global - why NOW may be the perfect time to expand internationally
Hosted By: Cynthia Dearin
Bio: Cynthia Dearin helps business leaders create game-changing international strategies.
She founded Dearin & Associates in 2013, assisting blue chip organisations including ANZ, Qantas, Aurizon Rail, Abu Dhabi Government, Orica Mining, Qatar Airways, Australian Hotels Association, Victorian State Government, New South Wales State Government, Ego Pharmaceuticals, The Fred Hollows Foundation, The Export Council of Australia and Dubai Airport Freezone, to life their game on the global stage.
Cynthia has also helped dozens of smaller companies, to create and implement international strategies that increase momentum and revenue, and position them for global success.
She is on a mission to empower business leaders to scale internationally and amplify their impact in the world.