Step into change

You have a business idea that lights you up and you need support in getting it off the ground. Building the right foundations to set your business up for long term success. This is my jam! 

You are running your own business solo or with a small team and are feeling lost or alone. You have a million ideas but no idea how to move forward with them, and need support, direction and accountability. 

You are a small business dreaming of scaling up, building your team or expanding your business. Whether its a financial goal, moving into a bigger space or achieving the holy grail of working "on" your business and not "in" it, your dreams are possible with guidance & commitment. 

Your feeling like you need to re-invent your business, move it up with the times, build online presence or learn how to work with millennials. Your business needs a rebirth but you don't know where to start, so you can realise your true potential. 

Your contracting or renting in someone else's business and you want to step into you very own space. You want to leave the safety of the known and step out into unknown, but want to do it right from the get go. Your not sure of everything you need to do to make it happen.   

You have business with a team but things are not quite right with the flock. Your team culture could be improved or your struggling to manage or lead your team. Or maybe you have a great team and you want to be even better leader and do more to build a team that is engaged and invested in your business. 

 I am a learning junkie, awesome motivator, positive energy and absolutely love seeing people succeed. This brings an authentic, heartfelt flavour to my coaching.

• NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner. This coaching qualification is about understanding your beliefs, values and drivers, so I can help raise awareness around them and give you tools to changes limiting beliefs and remove emotional blocks that are holding you back. Understand your mind and you will better understand your life and business. All the tools to help you do business with authenticity, purpose & from a heartspace. 
• Internationally Accredited Results Coach with ICF.  Competent in world class coaching tools to facilitate transformational change in your life and business rapidly.  
• Before owning the salon I was a Teacher. I hold a double degree Bachelor Arts/ Bachelor of Teaching. Teaching gave me great leadership, and communication skills, especially as my team grew to have a wide variety of learners, and learning styles within the team. These skills also served me well in working with the apprentices as they learnt and were challenged. 
• I hold my Certificate 4 in Training & Assessment. Rounding out my education skills, completing this certificate gave me a better understanding of the adult learner. 
• Business Blueprint Business Coaching graduate. This 12 month process focused purely on business success. Technology, processes, people and scaling your business some of the areas covered . With results and figure focused approached it developed my skills in taking the "emotion" out of the business practices and building the bottom line in your business. 
• Founder and owner of a successful ecommerce brand and online store. Diversifying income streams is important in todays business environment. I developed a lifestyle brand which is currently stocked in over 50 stores Australia wide, and offers me a great passive income. I ran this along with my salon for the last year or so before selling the salon. Having your business online in some shape or form gives you the opportunity to sell worldwide, 24-7! Literally wake up to money in the bank.  
• Australian Touch Football representative. I played touch football for Australia for a period of 10 years. This included Trans Tasmans and a World Cup in Scotland. I also have represented NSW in the State of Origin for 12 years. During this period I learnt a lot about mindset. I carry this as a tool I use everyday, and I love helping people overcome mindset challenges both in their life and business. 

I built my salon from an owner operated Beauty Salon, into a Hair, Beauty and Skin Clinic, employing 18 team members. We were turning over well over a million dollars a year. I think I have just about experienced everything that goes with owning a business!

• I understand the challenges for a solo operators, I was one.
• I have learnt when is the right time to recruit, how to recruit the right people, I know this from recruiting some wrong ones along the way.
• I know what losing key team members feels like and how to adapt to minimise impact on the business.
• Over the 14 years 8 team members set up in competition to me. I applied strategies to protect my business without holding them back. Remember employment is not marriage. 
• I supported and facilitated 13 young professionals to complete their apprenticeships in either hair of beauty. 3 were school based apprentices. This experience gave me a solid understanding of the apprenticeship process.
• Growing from solo professional to a team of 18 gave me the experience of managing a small, medium, then large team, showing I have experience across a wide range of business sizes.
• I lived and succeeded through many changes in the business landscape. Adapting to the technology age, I used an online presence to build my business, with healthy representation across social media and big numbers hitting our website.
• Winner of Small Business of The Year 3 times and Finalists 10 times throughout my 14 years ownership.
• Team culture is a passion of mine and I am proud to say I had a great track record of team retention, averaging 6-9 years. I have worked with and led ‘millennials’ for years, and have a good understanding of what makes them tick, and how to embrace them in your business.
• In 2019 I sold the salon, achieving the price I wanted by executing a well planned exit strategy which saw me achieve top dollar! If you are thinking of selling I can show you how I did it. 
• I am a Beauty Therapist and published Makeup Artist. 
• 2020 in the middle of Covid I opened a Beauty Salon, using a completely different business model then my previous business, with 5 Beauty Therapists. Heartspace Beauty Collective started our first day with over 200 pre-booked appointments. Not bad for a brand new business.