In 2008 Anneke Van Den Broek began the extraordinary journey of founding the pet care brand, “Rufus & Coco”. The journey has since instilled here into the Australian Businesswoman Hall of fame and earnt here the award of Australia’s Fastest Growing Pet Brand.
With her eyes set on growth and ambition, Rufus & Coco now exports to 6 different countries with the incredible market of North America being the company’s most recent target.
Anneke’s brand also support’s over 70 charities with money raised from their brand, bringing a whole new definition to the term “pet care”.
Welcome to GNF Episode 32 where we will be talking about the globalisation of people talent and the growth opportunities available for businesses of all sizes. I’ve partnered with Beepo to offer the Inspiring Greatness Podcast community a fantastic free consultation that will highlight which areas of your business will benefit best from offshoring. Plus you’ll also receive 250 leads to boost your business.
Aimee Engelmann has established herself in Australia, but has refused to restrict her business’ growth by expanding operations to the Philippines. She is the CEO and founder of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) which had a biblical 3849% revenue increase within its first year.
Engelmann is also the winner of the 2015 Young Entrepreneur Trail Blazer Award and her efforts and success has made it into many media streams such as the Business News Australia, Courier Mail and Microsoft.com just to name a few.
Also guest-writing for Blue Wire Media Blog and the Entrepreneurs Organisation, Engelmann does not show any signs of slowing down, with having just sold her marketing company to a private equity firm.
Scott Macdonald is the president of both Noise Solutions Inc., a world leader in innovative environmental and occupational noise and emission control, and BOSS Buildings & structure, a single source contracting solution for all of your structural needs. In 1997 Scott co-founded Noise Solutions, setting out to revolutionise the way that industrial noise analysis and noise suppression was done. In 2002 Scott took over the management of a manufacturing facility that was and facing financial difficulties. Now “BOSS Buildings & Structure”, Scott’s management helped the company to increase revenues by over 100%, with the company showing profits for the first time in 8 years. Scott has been recognised for his entrepreneurial achievements as: A Western finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2003); Alberta Winner for the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2005); Calgary Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2006); and Regional Finalist – Deloitte 50 Best Managed Companies (2008). Scott has also been the Canadian Regional Learning Director of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, as well as the Calgary Chapter President.
Today episode where we will talk about the importance of focus and getting everyone moving towards the same vivid vision or painted picture. We will share Cameron Herold’s tips and examples of some really cool vivid visions to help you create one for your company.
Creating a visual display of what you want actually does bring it to life. It is proven what we focus on develops. When you create a vision board and place it in a space where you see it often, you end up doing short visualization exercises several times a day.
As well as being part of the Global Entrepreneurs Organisation, Sue Hrib became the CEO and founder of Signum Group in 1994. Since then the company leads in the integration of Oracle applications, namely Oracle EAM. Her efforts have landed her in the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America three times since 2008.
20+ years experience has shaped an expertise surrounding effective enterprise resource planning, deployment and strategy. Sue also partakes in executive consulting in implementing, managing and integrating maintenance and asset managing applications.
She is on the board of the Carter Centre as well as an advisory board member of the Women’s Leadership Exchange. Sue serves on the committee board too with Usher’s New Look, and is also a mentor to some of the many students that are involved with the program.