This page is reserved for my online network of clients, friends and colleagues.

As is commonly known ... you can tell a lot about me by the friends I keep and the clients I work with.

None of these people asked to be on this list; in fact they might be surprised to learn that this page even existed.

Greg Balanko-Dickson is a business coach based in Edmonton, Canada, with clients throughout the Canada, the US, South Africa and the UK. He’s the author of two books on business planning and has coached, consulted, or facilitated seminars with more than 3,000 entrepreneurs in more than 30+ industries. Greg has his core online presence at Small Business Transitions

Alice Wojcio , is a trainer and consultant in conflict resolution and has also been dubbed “the Queen of DiSC” and a great trainer and consultant in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, her business is called Advantage Training and Development. Alice is very well read, has a great memory, takes great notes, and is a deliberate, caring coach. Alice is based in Endicott, New York.

Annie Born , with her husband Wayne run Fingerprint Furniture. Annie is an insightful, caring, and loyal friend and colleague and together with their staff they make the most amazing solid timber fine furniture, they really build heirlooms and dreams.

Jean Haas , is an incredibly creative and talented sewer and entrepreneur, her business Class Act Designs educates sewers with her unique Dress Form concept. She lives in Chicago, USA.

Ian Crafter is an entrepreneur based in Dubbo, NSW. I’ve known Ian since we were both seven and in primary school. Ian’s company Atlex Stockyards is at the forefront of design, construction and operation of livestock management facilities. Ian's energy and enthusiasm are contagious and this energy sees him constantly reviewing and changing his business focus and structure to meet changed circumstances.

David Murphy is an inventor who has developed a municipal waste composting system which has the ability to change the way in which we view and process household garbage and more. Aerobic Bio-Tech is based in Singapore and is quietly challenging the concept that we need to bury our garbage in one of the the worlds most densely populated countries.

Lolita and Nick Keyte are the driving force behind Smallaire who can claim that they are the air movement specialists. Industrial, agricultural, domestic and commercial areas are able to benefit from some internationally leading innovations that are deceptively simple.

Terry Allen is known as Mr Waste Not. Waste-Not Stockfeeders are the simplest of tools to eliminate hay wastage when feeding cows, sheep horses and deer. Terry has been challenging stock owners for more than 20 years to stop wasting hay.

Lou Winter, Annie Dwyer and John Harvie are three of the people behind the Deni Ute Muster. This is a great example of what can be achieved by a community based approach to promoting and running an event in regional Australia.

Mark Shalless is a chef with huge energy and enthusiasm and operates Tumblers Green a business at Creswick. With international recognition and experience in many of facets of the catering and food game Mark creates food and wine experiences that have to be experienced.

Jodee Bock is a Life and Career Coach who supports individuals and teams in succeeding in whatever they are committed to accomplishing. She has spent more than 15 years in many facets of Corporate America, including newspaper editor, sports information director, corporate communicator, PR manager, corporate trainer, and management consultant. With endless energy and clear focus her clients regard her business Bocks Office as an integral part of their strategy to move forward.

Trevor Gay’s passion in business, management and leadership focuses on Simplicity as the Key. He loves communicating and networking and is totally miffed as to why organisations fail to understand that the people in a business are where the competitive edge is and indeed where the greatest talent is.

Jason Holden is not only a qualified accountant both in the UK and Australia, but he is also a qualified Business Adviser, something that helps his business Holden Associates stand out from the crowd. He works in a small family run accountancy and business support practice with a very personal and hands-on level of service.

Simon Kneebone has been a illustrator and cartoonist for almost 26 years and I’ve worked with him for nearly all that time in a number of organisations. He is well known in Australian regional, community and business circles through his drawings in publications and more recently as graphical provocateur at conferences and other public gatherings.

Ankesh Kothari is a serial entrepreneur and a part-time writer based in Mumbai, India. He publishes a marketing newsletter and has other online presences that have received rave reviews from business owners all over the world. Ankesh has a never ending supply of stories and unique observations with needle sharp focus when it comes to marketing and communicating value in your business.

Malcolm McClean is passionate about passion, and focuses on how to bring love and passion into the workplace by rediscovering your true talents and adopting a series of unorthodox yet simple approaches. He spent the first twenty three years of his life living in one of Britain’s toughest neighbourhoods, before he noticed something which was to become a central theme of his work and the key to his success. The fact that small things can make a big difference.  Malcolm is more recently known from his book The Bear Hunt

Bob Janes coaches professional people through life transitions: new, job, new career, and new business. Bob lives at the north-western tip of France and in London. He is an inveterate learner who says he spends far too much time reading, surfing the internet or playing with technology and far too little sailing.

Susan Dean is a naturopath and herbalist with a difference. What’s the difference? Clarity, accountability, simplicity and focus on the causes, not the effects of the symptoms are what sets her apart. Her no fuss cut to the issue approach has also seen her as a national leader in the complimentary medical sector in Australia.

Adam Gordon is a Profit’s Leak Detective, sniffing out the constant drips that erode the profits of small business. For a guy who cut his business teeth in aerospace, marine, farm machinery and retail industries he also decided that his Ag Eco qualifications weren’t enough so an MBA and International Marketing qualifications followed.

James Mason is the Managing Director of the Mindshop Group which has a unique business model which empowers businesses with business tools, using strategic methodologies, global peer-networking opportunities to fast-track their growth, profit and personal development objectives.