Allison Jenvey
The Joys of Actually Using Financial Reports
Record keeping is an important part of running any business. Many small businesses fall into the trap of just using their MYOB/Quickbooks etc to meet their taxation requirements, e.g. completing the BAS, providing figures to their accountant. However, they are much more powerful and important than that. This workshop will cover bookkeeping basics, packages that are available, completion of BAS process, and then, the important part, actually running the reports that are available and being able to analyse them in a way that is useful to keep the profitability and cash flow of the business where they should be.
Allison is a partner in a three partner public practice accounting firm. Her firm looks after small to medium sized businesses in a wide range of sectors. As a partner in the firm she have a client base of business people from small home based businesses to large trading enterprises and service providers. She advises them on business related financial matters, and also provide taxation advice. Her firm prepares financial statements and income tax returns for clients, and advise them on the profitability of their business and strategies for improvement. Allison is also a member of the Wodonga Chamber of Commerce, and have participated actively in that organization to assist and develop small business in Wodonga, including a term as President.
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Carina Thomas
Walking Her Way - making business from your passion
The workshop is designed to help women find their niche in the business world. How do you stand out from the crowd? How can you be a role model for others? How can you realise the potential of your business? Participants will be provided with practical techniques and tools to assist with building a networking community, understanding your “USP” (unique selling proposition) and how you can display confidence even in the most challenging situations. Come and hear Carina’s own story and have a chance to learn new skills in a dynamic learning environment.
Carina is the Founder of Pathways to Performance, specialising in Public Speaking, Stress Reduction, Posture and Fitness and Workplace Injury Prevention. Carina focuses on the interplay between the mind and body and believes that “what you think is what you do”. Carina is a registered psychologist, an Alexander Technique teacher and has worked globally in the Human Resources arena.
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Cheryl Graham
Starting a new business – Dream or Disaster
Originally from the suburbs - Cheryl has had a passion for agriculture all her life. She will share her recent journey of starting a Free-Range Egg business, 'Red Hen Paddock Eggs'. Her presentation will cover - finding the passion; beginnings and feasibility – profitability, markets, competition, skills, resources.
Cheryl is a farm management consultant with over 25 years experience working with farming families to improve productivity, profitability and sustainability in their farming businesses. She is a director of farminganswers, an agricultural consultancy business.
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Di Pritchard
Searching for a job, resumes, selection criteria and the dreaded interview
This workshop will cover how to go about searching for a job, preparing a resume (in an interesting way), how to answer the Selection Criteria and that dreaded interview. You will get some practical outcomes including a proforma for your resume, a check list for interview and some strategies for handing interviews.
Di has worked in the community sector for over 20 years in Adult Education, Victim Support, Disability Services and Aged Care. She lives in Wodonga with her partner and has a hobby farm in the Mitta Valley. She is the grandmother of five boys and loves to garden and fish. For 8 years she was the Executive Officer of Woodstock Support in Albury and for the past 18 months she has implemented the Rural Women Leading Change project across the Hume Region especially working with women in Bushfire affected areas; with Sustainability Networks as well as women’s groups and activities in rural and regional towns.
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Dianna Jacobsen
Wealth for Women
This workshop will encompass aspects of both financial and personal wealth and wellbeing, helping you feel 'in control' of all the loose ends in your life.
Dianna is an accountant, financial planner and counsellor with over 20 years experience in working with businesses, families and individuals to create life, business and wealth strategies to support their growth, prosperity and overall well-being. Dianna specialises in all areas of small business management, tax planning, wealth creation, superannuation, insurances, life balance, goal-setting, time management and personal empowerment. She has a team of affiliates in all related areas such as IT, legal, marketing, real estate, mortgage and loan broking, websites etc. In addition to her work directly with clients, Dianna runs workshops and presents at conferences and business expos, and co-ordinates Mastermind groups for women.
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Gillian Gassar
Everyday Yoga Benefits
Participants will be introduced to simple practices which benefit their everyday well-being. Yoga Asanas are designed to stretch out the tensions accumulated in the body and mind through out the day. Class will be completed with a relaxing meditation.
Gill is a Walnut Farmer in the Ovens Valley combining roles of daughter, mother, community worker with yoga. She has recently attained a diploma of Yogic Studies from the Satyananda Yoga Academy. Gill teaches in Myrtleford and other Ovens Valley towns. She has been practicing for over thirty years.
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Jodie Goldsworthy
Marketing and Positioning - Case Study Beechworth Honey
Jodie is a fourth generation apiarist. Steven & Jodie Goldsworthy commenced as commercial apiarists in their own right in 1992.
Since 1992, Beechworth Honey has grown from a small primary production partnership producing bulk honey and selling it as a bulk commodity to a rapid growth value adding business. The brand is now one of the “majors” in the Australian honey category. Beechworth Honey is now the countries largest independently owned specialist honey company. Jodie has expanded the companies products into a range of growing overseas markets and developed the highly successful visitor education centre the Beechworth Honey Experience.
Jodie is an accomplished and highly sought after speaker and her latest projects involve broadening the publics awareness of the link between food production and worlds last remaining “Varrao free” healthy bees managed here in Australia by around 2000 commercial beekeepers.
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Judy Brewer
Standing Out - Becoming a price maker not a price taker
As food security becomes one of the biggest global policy issues, farmers in Australia are uniquely placed to grow in importance and increase market power. But what does that mean at the farmgate in North East Victoria? It means that new and expanded opportunities are opening up at a rapid rate, and that rewards will come to those who have the right product at the right time, as well as a clear marketing strategy and the capacity to deliver. Our natural inclination as farmers is to sit back and accept wholesale prices for everything that goes off the farm while paying retail prices for everything that comes in. To accept the status quo and existing marketing systems is something that has long been part of our farming culture and works to remove impetus for individual enterprises to specialise and to stand out from the crowd. This workshop aims to look at what each rural business can do to maximise their own market power in a changing world rural environment. We will look at the environment we now operate in and by sharing our experiences, better position ourselves for burgeoning new market opportunities.
Judy is an economist, community worker and fourth generation farmer. She owns and manages Grossotto Poll Hereford at Mudgegonga, combining a commercial beef weaner operation with a small stud, producing female lines for breeders using top genetics and performance recording.
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Karen Nankervis
Making time for the important stuff
Our lives have become busier and busier over the last few years, the months just seem to speed past and we are finding it hard to pause even for a second for what is really important to us. This workshop will look at our priorities and provide some simple ideas to help get more control over your time and what you do with it.
Karen established My Beechworth Secretary in 2004 and has extensive experience in the clerical and administrative area and can assist individuals and small businesses, giving them back time to get on with the things that are important. She lives in Beechworth with her two daughters and is active in the community through the local chamber and business & professional womens club.
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Kaye Hall
Practical Wordsmithing for effective business communication
This workshop will help you to know and plan where you need words in your business. It will then look at writing the words and how to adapt the copy for different purposes eg. business plan, website, media releases, brochures etc.
Kaye has been self employed for 25 years. She was originally in AV production and event management and is now a full time writer, single mother and community activist.
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Kim Scanlon
Leadership Programs... Why do one? What's in it for me, my family and my business?
Explore your potential and make a difference in your community and your business.
What is a community leadership program? How do the programs work? How participating in a community leadership program can benefit you, your community and your business.
Kim is the Executive Officer of AVCLP. She has a Diploma of Teaching and a Graduate Diploma of Outdoor Education. These skills were used to manage 15 Mile Creek School Camp, at Greta South for 18 years. After completing the AVCLP program in 2007/2008 Kim rose to the challenge of a career change. Since leaving 15 Mile Creek, she has worked for local government in a Community Development role, completed consultancy work in strategic planning, and worked for the Department of Planning and Community Development delivering community development projects.
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Kristy Howard
Value Adding to Ag Production- Paddock to Plate – turning raw produce into value added product
Passionate about value adding to your farm product but not sure where to
start? Have product in mind but not sure whether it will be profitable?
Wondering what food safety and handling laws you need to be aware of? This workshop is for women who would like to explore the opportunities to
value add to their farm produce to sell at farm gate, retail, farmers
markets, internet etc but not sure where to start. It will cover defining
your market, costing your product, manufacturing/ processing requirements,
state laws governing food safety, handling and sales, and marketing your
product to find out if it is worth the extra inputs. Each participant will
map the process from paddock to plate and identify what they need to do to
value add their produce and whether it will be profitable. Two real life
case studies will be presented detailing the challenges, pros and cons and
learning’s.
Kristy has been working with rural communities and industries in
Victoria since 1995. She is passionate about inspiring people, businesses
and communities to achieve excellence through professional and personal
learning and growth. Kristy runs her own coaching and business development company, Inspiring
Excellence, specialising in business and professional development programs
for rural and farming women. Kristy has a young family and lives and works in Beechworth. She has a B Ag Sci (hons), PhD, Diploma in Frontline Management,
Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching, Certificate in Applied
Science (Extension) and has recently completed her Practioner of Neuro
Linguistic Programming.
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Kym Goodman
Maximise Health benefits and minimise stress with Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga workshops are a fun, playful series of exercises that stimulate the body to rediscover its ability to laugh deeply for no reason. It's contagious, energetic and has amazing benefits for any one who practices. Laughter is a powerful tool for dissolving stress. It takes only minutes to reduce stress hormones and produce endorphins that rapidly lift your mood, the atmosphere and the morale of individuals and groups. Laughter Yoga is suitable for all levels of fitness.
Kym is a Laughter Yoga therapist who founded 'Laugh with Us Laughter Yoga'. An inspirational public speaker she leads laughter sessions and workshops in the corporate and health sectors, for the general public and special needs groups. Kym is President of Laughter Clubs Victoria, and is passionate about spreading the health benefits of laughter for health and wellbeing.
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Lucinda Corrigan
'Not as it Seems' leadership in rural Australia, constantly evolving and the challenges
An interactive discussion on Lucinda's experience working at the interface of science and farming over thirty years and leading that agenda. If time permits, Lucinda will facilitate a discussion on the challenges.
Lucinda is the coprincipal of a leading livestock business in the Murray Valley of NSW, Rennylea Angus, which produces performance Angus genetics for high quality markets in Australia and the Asia Pacific rim. She has been at the leading edge of linking science and production for over 30 years, in livestock production; in supply chain research and development; productivity and natural resource management, and is an experience non executive director in innovation and strategy. She is an experienced communicator and regularly speaks to a wide range of audiences about change, business management and innovation. Lucinda currently chairs the Advisory Committee of the EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation at Charles Sturt University, and the National Beef Genetics Advisory Committee. She is a director of Meat and Livestock Australia and the MLA Donor Company which invests in R&D post farm gate. She was the Deputy Chairman of the CRC for Future Farm Industries and retired in December 2011, having served the CRC and its predecessor for 10 years.
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Sandra Martin
The importance of Personal Branding in your business
Everyone has a personal brand – is yours working for you? Your brand is
the promise, the experience and the expectation people have for you. How
to develop an authoritative image, presence and reputation. Stand apart
from your competitors and manage how others perceive you. Position yourself
for opportunities with a powerful image and style and body language that
works.
Sandra is a highly regarded Image and Personal Branding Specialist. She
is a speaker, coach, author and mentor. Her clients are inspired to step
up to the next level – to transform physical presence to personal power.
Sandra comes from a background of senior management, and consults in New
Zealand, China & the USA.
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Sue Brunskill
Other options for growing food
This workshop is for people who want to look at different possibilities for farming, and learn how to connect land holders with aspiring food growers and producers. The workshop will include case studies and discussion.
Sue is a teacher at the National Environment Centre and is passionate about people having access to healthy locally grown food, and producers being able to make a living from selling food locally.
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Susan Benedyka
Workshop One - Mentoring
This discussion based workshop will look at what mentoring is and how does it work? How do I set it up - either as a mentor or a mentoree? What are the options and benefits and how do I get the most from the experience.
Workshop Two - Creating your future part 2.
This is a followup session from last year and previous participants will be able to revisit the vision and goals they set, discuss sticky points and highlights plus plan for the coming year. New participants will be able to explore the value and practice of setting a long term vision and goals, and achieving them.
Susan is the Managing Director of The Regional Development Company is a consulting company working for not for profit organisations, community sector, and local, state and federal government agencies. She has an extensive background in rural and regional development, as well as professional qualifications in adult education (training and development) and experience in regional community services, and economic planning and delivery. Susan has been working on her own annual goal setting and planning for over 10 years. On her 50th birthday she began her 50 year life plan, which is now well under way!!
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Tammy Atkins
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Social media is about hearing from the current and potential clients first-hand and is a way of engaging with them. This session will involve a look at some of the local businesses that are harnessing the value of social media and a number of firms that are using platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn regularly to connect and engage. It will look at some businesses successfully using social media and will include some examples of when good social media goes bad.
Tammy is an active user of social media and her work with Victorian businesses and manufacturers avails an opportunity to see how they're using social media to benefit their businesses. She has a career interest in regional policy and economic development and experience working with all three tiers of government. (Twitter @tammyleeatkins)
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Trish Curtis
Writing and Getting Grants
Trish will facilitate a practical workshop on the key elements of writing an application for ideas on where to go for a grant.
Trish set up her business Intalink Consulting in 2007. Since then she has written over 100 grant applications and won business in excess of $6million. She knows this business. She has a BA in adult learning and development and Ad Diploma in Group Facilitation. |
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