Transformational People & Leadership Strategies

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Transformational People & Leadership Practices

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Why Change?

No matter what industry you operate in, you’re in the ‘people’ business. The science is in: top employers achieve four times the profit growth of others. So I was staggered to discover that many companies spend more time researching a new photocopier, than hiring or inspiring their people. With many conventional HR practices now obsolete, my goal is to spread the word on innovative people and leadership strategies that build remarkable businesses and transform organizational results. I don’t do ‘fluffy’ so if you want real practical advice and not generic cliches like ‘keep your people happy’ then read on, or watch this 1 minute video.

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Best-selling author, speaker & business adviser

Writing

A best-selling author, Mandy’s articles and extracts on innovative strategies have featured in the Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Boss Magazine and many others. Her book Family Village Tribe is used as a set text in The University of Queensland Business School’s MBA Strategy course; Winning the War For Talent was profiled on SkyBusiness News and US radio; and her in-depth Future Of Work essay is now included as an introduction in Wiley’s Australia and NZ university textbooks.

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SPEAKING

Mandy is known for her humorous and thought-provoking keynotes, having spoken at 150+ events in Australia/UK/China/Asia and South Africa. One of only a handful of Australians to speak at the Asia/Pacific Talent Conference in Taipei, she also runs signature masterclasses, guest lectures MBA and Incubate students and delivers executive education courses at institutes such as Bond University and the University of Queensland Business School.

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Business Advice

As a co-founder and ex-Director of Flight Centre’s UK operation and a life-long researcher, Mandy uses her expertise to help organisations such as Michael Hill Jewellery, who halved their staff turnover and increased their profitability in just months, using their new-found knowledge. Mandy also facilitates the Australian Owner/Manager Program passing on her practical strategies to hundreds of businesses and offers advice to global students from 193 countries as part of UQ Business School’s edX MicroMasters program.

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Writing

A best-selling business author, Mandy’s articles and extracts have featured in the Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Boss Magazine and many others. Her book Family Village Tribe is used as a set text in The University of Queensland Business School’s MBA Strategy course; Winning the War For Talent was profiled on SkyBusiness News and US radio; and her in-depth Future Of Work essay is now included as an introduction in Wiley’s Australia and NZ high school textbooks.

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Speaking

Mandy is known for her humorous and thought-provoking keynotes, having spoken at 150+ events in Australia/UK/China/Asia and South Africa. One of only a handful of Australians to speak at the Asia/Pacific Talent Conference in Taipei, she also runs signature masterclasses, guest lectures MBA and Incubate students and delivers executive education courses at institutes such as Bond University and the University of Queensland Business School.

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Business Advice

As a co-founder and ex-Director of Flight Centre’s UK operation and a life-long researcher, Mandy uses her expertise to help organisations such as Michael Hill Jewellery, who halved their staff turnover and increased their profitability in just months, using their new-found knowledge. Mandy also facilitates the Australian Owner/Manager Program passing on her practical strategies to hundreds of businesses and offers advice to global students from 193 countries as part of UQ Business School’s edX MicroMasters program.

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Keynote Speeches

KEYNOTE 1:

The Seven Steps to a Remarkable Workplace

Our workplaces are morphing faster than our business practices can keep up. In this keynote, Mandy explores unconventional strategies to succeed in this rapid-changing world. Using compelling evidence from real business case studies, she debunks the myths and outlines the 7 practical steps to build high-performing, remarkable workplaces.

This keynote has been profiled in national media, presented at the Asia Pacific Talent Conference at Taipei, and was part of Queensland University of Technology’s FutureWork series.

KEYNOTE 2:

Winning The War for Talent

How To Attract And Keep the People Who Make Your Business Profitable

Attracting and keeping great people is the number one issue on global executive surveys. In this keynote Mandy outlines her unconventional strategies, including the 3 secret weapons to great hiring, that produce spectacular business results and are still rarely used in most organisations today. Based on Mandy’s second book, her ideas have halved staff turnover in organisations and been acclaimed in the Financial Review.

This is one of her most popular speeches and has been delivered to stockbrokers, dairy farmers, real estate agents, IT professionals, business owners, electricians, travel agents, and senior executives at over 50 conferences around Australia.

KEYNOTE 3:

Leadership Unplugged

In this keynote, Mandy explores the most crucial elements of leadership and teaches participants how to apply these to transform their own business. Using her ‘in-the-trenches’ experience as a leader plus years of observations gleaned from researching and consulting, she explains how leadership is evolving, why it is getting harder, and outlines innovative leadership strategies that participants can immediately apply to manage both themselves and their teams more effectively.

A hit with corporate clients from a diverse range of industries such as Teys Beef and Virgin Australia, Mandy has also presented variations of this keynote as lectures to Bond University, University of Queensland Business School, Griffith University and the Australian Owner/Manager Program.  

Some Past Clients

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What people ARE SAYING

We have been working well with your systems and have seen our employee turnover almost half and are seeing positive growth in the profit in the business.
Stewart Silk
HR Leader, Michael Hill Jewellery Limited
Mandy, your presentation at the UQ Exec.Ed Virgin Leadership Program was inspirational and stimulating. They were talking about it long after you left.
Peter Ferreira
Director - Virgin Leadership Program
Mandy's Winning The War for Talent seminar that she ran for us at Bond University's Centre for Executive Education was the highest-rated program of the year. The content and workshop process was world class.
James Carlopio
Director, Bond University Executive Education
Mandy combines proven business experience with inspiring people skills. Her ideas and practices bring about real change and her seminars have invigorated our people and processes
Graham Turner
CEO, Flight Centre

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