THANK YOU TO OUR 2021 GUEST SPEAKERS

​Steve Kulmar, the founder of RetailOasis, is one of Australia and New Zealand's most highly regarded retail marketing and communications experts. RetailOasis, formed almost 12 years ago, specialises in working directly with retailers to affect business improvement through consumer insight leading to business and marketing initiatives.

Steve's second-to-none experience ranges from Woolworths to Westfield, on and offline. Over 35 years he helped Big W grow into Australia's most successful discount department store. He worked with Supercheap Auto in Australia and New Zealand to re-engineer their core business and recently helped The Warehouse identify their future growth strategy. He has worked in similar partnerships with countless retailers throughout Australia and New Zealand. Steve is also a non-executive director of Accent Group, which owns The Athletes Foot, a non-executive director of Children's Tumor Foundation Australia, and chairs the marketing and sponsorship committee. He is a passionate contributor on the domestic and international speaking circuit. His specialties include:  Category size, shape, drivers and trends analysis, consumer segmentation identification and analysis  -  Competitive landscape analysis  -  Brand and business opportunity identification  -  Brand visioning and positioning  -  Brand architecture development - 7P brand strategies articulation  -  Brand concept development  -  Brand identity development  -  Store of the future development  -  Advertising and promotional planning.

Stephen Logan, SJL Business Consulting Pty. Ltd.

Daniel Wright, Thryve Business Mentoring, is known for his ability to listen, connect, and provoke and expand perspectives on self, others and the world around to create and support effective personal change. He is a key contributor and leader for the coaching industry in Australasia, being a Founding Executive Council leader of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) in the Asia Pacific. Dan has experience working with a diverse range of clients including local and state government, corporate, small to medium sized businesses and not-for-profits.  Highlights include:

Executive Coaching assignments up to senior staff with corporate and state and local government (Queensland Government Chief Information Office, Queensland Health, Department of Natural Resources and Mines), Uniting Church, Queensland Synod, TAFE Gold Coast, JE Tipper, GCI Group, Inertia Engineering, New Touch Industries, and Horizon Housing --- Design and facilitation of strategy workshops including senior leadership alignment, purpose discovery, organisational vision creation, and planning for engagement and action with Gold Coast Secondary Principals’ Alliance, Queensland Airports, TAFE Gold Coast, Queensland Academies Health Science, Outfit, and JE Tipper (from 2015) --- Business mentoring and leadership coaching with Gold Coast small business owners, Queensland (from 2015) --- Provider to the City of Gold Coast Lead for Growth business workshops (2016-2018). Mentor and accredited Chair Queensland Government Mentoring for Growth program (from 2015), Mentor, Griffith University Sisters in Business project (from 2019) --- Consulting services including governance, succession, strategy and innovation for family businesses --- Co-Convenor, AHRI Gold Coast Network, a volunteer role contributing to the sharing of people leadership and management best practices and professional development across the city’s business community (from 2015).

He continues strengthening Australia’s partnership with the EMCC and the wider coaching community in Asia Pacific as Vice President Operations EMCC Asia Pacific Region from 2018. He has two decades of international business experience living and working in Germany, Singapore, Thailand and the UK, and held regional and global senior leadership roles.

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Awarded European Individual Accreditation (EIA) at Practitioner level (2019) with the EMCC.
Completed Alchemy of Team Coaching (Foundation Masterclass) with David Clutterbuck & Tammy Turner (2019)
Member Australian Institute of Company Directors, MAICD (from 2018)
Completed AltusQ’s EMCC European Quality Awarded (EQA) Foundation Coaching Skills Program (2015).
Undergraduate and Post-graduate qualifications in General Management (Cranfield, UK), Law and Commerce (UQ).

Hunter Leonard, the founder of Silver & Wise Pty. Ltd.