Kevin Bailey … leading financial planner....
Kevin Bailey CFP is Chairman and founder of The Money Managers Ltd which manages in excess of $1 Billion. He is a former Director of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), and i...
Kevin really captivated our audience and was an enthusiastic speaker. He inspired a lot of people to want to get out and really achieve their client service goals
Advent Software
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Chris Caton …leading strategic forecaster....
As Chief Economist of BT Financial Group, Dr Chris Caton advises clients on the financial implications of economic trends, policy pronouncements and major political developments. A...
Entertaining and of great interest- fantastic speaker.
Australian Society of CPAs
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Scott Pape …the barefoot investor....
Scott Pape is a former investment advisor with one of Melbourne’s leading finance firms EL & C Baillieu. He is also a media commentator, author and hosted his own radio show titled...
On behalf of AIST I would like to thank you for the valuable contribution you made to the success of our 2007 Conference.
The feedback we have received on the conference program...
AIST
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Marilyn Waring … an alternative socio-economic view....
Meeting Dr Marilyn Waring will change your perceptions of justice, economics and the worth of your own work forever. David Suzuki has said of this world-renowned political economis...
Marilyn Waring was amazing, not just as a speaker but as a person.
Illahee
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Paul Keating …outstanding political leader....
Paul Keating is one of the great Australian political leaders. His continued high international standing reflects his political and social achievements, his knowledge of world aff...
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Chris Aston James …issues facilitator and top event Chairman....
CEO of Aston James International Pty Ltd for over 25 years, Chris Aston James was previously Chief Executive, UK & Europe, Drake International Pty Ltd - a group of eight Business U...
To whom it may concern
I have known and worked with Chris Aston-James over many years. Most recently, he facilitated a number of 'think tank' workshops for PricewaterhouseCoo...
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Ben Baldwin … life insurance expert....
A nationally known speaker and writer in the area of variable universal life, Ben Baldwin is president and owner of a RIA firm. He is involved in financial education, consulting, a...
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James Bellini …outstanding futures analyst....
Dr James Bellini is a futures analyst, business consultant, facilitator and broadcaster specialising in: Long-term trends for the world economy; national economic growth and globa...
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Geoffrey Blainey … Australia's heritage and future....
Professor Geoffrey Blainey has a long and distinguished career in academic circles. For twenty years he was a professor of economic history and then Ernest Scott Professor of Histo...
Marvellous performance!
A.I.C.U.M., Sydney
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Roger Bootle … prominent economic forecaste and commentator....
Roger Bootle is one of the City of London's most respected economists, Roger Bootle now runs his own consultancy, Capital Economics and is also Economic Adviser to Deloitte & Touch...
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Edna Carew …versatile economic expertise....
Financial authority Edna Carew cuts through the sometimes obscure language of business, economics and finance. Former financial markets editor of The Australian Financial Review, s...
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Paul Clitheroe …media money man....
Paul Clitheroe and his four partners founded ipac in a one room serviced office in 1983. It was a less than auspicious start as they had each invested just $20,000 to start the bus...
Paul was fantastic….I really mean that…..he was fantastic. Would recommend him to anyone. I have received emails from clients raving about how great he was and thanking us for invi...
Heidi Monsour, Corporate Traveller
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Emmanuel Daniel … Asia's most incisive financial services industry commentator....
Emmanuel Daniel is the founder of The Asian Banker. He is Managing Director and Editor–In–Chief of the Company he founded in September 1996, and has led it to become the leading re...
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Roger Douglas …international economic reformer....
Sir Roger Douglas is internationally known as the strategist and driving force behind New Zealand's economic reforms including the deregulation of its financial markets and the flo...
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James Dunn …prominent financial journalist....
James Dunn is a freelance finance journalist and media consultant. He writes for The Australian, the Sunday Mail and IFA magazine, as well as the global credit magazine Creditflux,...
You accomplished a well-judged balance between nostalgia and the harsher realities ... all with a good sprinkling of humour.
University College (University of Melbourne)
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Robyn FitzRoy ...achieve your business goals. ...
Robyn is a consultant, a non-executive company director and an executive coach specialising in the financial and professional services industries. She is passionate about business...
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David Foot … a lively presenter with a must hear message....
"Boom, Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift" reflects Professor Foot's research interests which lie in the many relationships between economics and demograp...
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Bernie Fraser …former Governor of the Reserve Bank....
Bernie Fraser was Governor of the Reserve Bank from 1989 until 1996. Prior to this appointment he was Secretary to the Treasury and has spent many years during his career with the ...
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Bruno Giussani … technology and society....
Bruno Giussani is a Swiss writer and author, the Co-Producer of the TEDGLOBAL conference (Oxford, UK, 12-15 July 2005), a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and an Affiliate...
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Mark Goldstein … internationally recognized authority on ageing....
Mark Goldstein is an internationally recognized authority in the field of aging and its implications on the workforce and the marketplace. Those implications are far-reaching and a...
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Robert Goodman … economic consultant for Putnam Investments....
Dr. Robert Goodman is an Economic Consultant for Putnam Investments. He is a member of Putnam’s Business Advisory Group, a panel of experts on economic, business and personal finan...
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Robert Gottliebsen …journalism and finance...
Robert Gottliebsen has spent more than 30 years writing and commentating about business and investment in Australia. He has won the Walkley award and Australian Journalist of the Y...
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Ross Greenwood …respected financial journalist...
Ross Greenwood is the Nine Network's Finance Editor. Ross was editor of Business Review Weekly (BRW), Personal Investor and The Age's money section.
Ross Greenwood, for the past...
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Tim Harcourt ...Chief Economist, Austrade....
Tim Harcourt is the chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade). As chief economist Tim analyses the global economy to help Australian exporters and helps Austrad...
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Ian Harper …invaluable economic insight....
Ian Harper is one of Australia’s most highly regarded economists, operating at the forefront of economic analysis, commentary and reform.
He is inaugural Chairman of the Austr...
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Peter Ivany … former CEO, Hoyts Cinemas....
As Chief Executive of Hoyts Cinemas (1988-1999), Peter grew the company from a small cinema chain with 40 theatres in Australia to a global business with over 2,000 theatres operat...
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Edward A. Jacobson ...psychologist, business coach and consultant....
Edward Jacobson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, business coach, consultant and public speaker based in Madison, Wisconsin. Ed works with individuals and organizations to help them to id...
I’ve been extraordinarily touched by Ed in three separate day-long workshops on Appreciative Inquiry and financial planning. Each time I have received new and deeper insights, bett...
Center for Financial Planning, Inc.
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Craig James …CommSec Chief Economist....
On leaving school Craig James joined the (then) Rural Bank, whilst undertaking university studies. He received his Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) at University of NSW in 1984 and...
Couldn't recommend highly enough. Craig was incredibly abliging, extremely informative and tailored the presentation specifically to our group. We received extemely positive feed...
ING Australia
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Maureen Jordan …supporting the crowded but often isolated small business sector....
Maureen Jordan is a lawyer who found her niche in publishing to survive the hectic world of career and family. Maureen has done time in the media as business and finance commentato...
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David Koch …your money and your life....
Before Sunrise, Kochie was a pure finance nerd. He's still one of Australia's foremost business and finance commentators but his first love now is teaming up with Mel to hos...
An excellent speech and one of the most well received by delegates
Self Storage Association of Australasia
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Alan Kohler … respected financial journalist....
Alan is one of Australia's most experienced financial journalists and commentators. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist ...
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Hind Kourouche …business success. ...
Hind Kourouche is the founder of Combined Accounting Services Australia (CASA) which offers consulting services to business, banking and other clients that are managing projects fo...
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Steve LeFever …practical financial anaysis....
Steve LeFever is a national leader in the development of practical financial programmes and training. His dual role as a successful entrepreneur and as a commercial banker gives hi...
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Margaret Lomas …property, business and the work and family balance....
Margaret Lomas is the author of the best-selling books "How To Make Your Money Last As Long As You Do", "How To Create An Income For Life", "How to Maximise Your Property Portfolio...
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Terry McCrann …hard-hitting commentaries on business and politics....
The Herald Sun Financial Columnist and Business Associate Editor
Joining Business Sunday as a regular commentator in 1987, Terry McCrann is well known for his hard-hitting comm...
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Hamish McRae …the world in 2020....
Hamish McRae is one of Europe's leading futurists. He is the author of the acclaimed work on the future "The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity".
Hamish McRae was nam...
An engaging and entertaining speaker, credible and authoritative.
BBC
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Neville Norman …international economist and business consultant....
Your view of economics will never be the same after listening to Professor Neville Norman. One of Australia's leading economists, Professor Norman discusses the economy and its fut...
Our conference was a great success and much of the credit for making the day so worthwhile was your contribution. There is no doubt that your speech and presentation were the talk...
Farming Conference, Birchup (Victoria)
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Jonathan Pain ...specialising in Global Markets, Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction....
Jonathan Pain is currently Executive Director and Chief Investment Strategist of HFA Asset Management and Director of JP Consulting (NSW) Pty Ltd. He has over 20 years of internati...
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Michael Pascoe …keeping financial and business perspective....
Michael Pascoe is one of Australia's most respected and experienced finance and economics commentators with more than three decades in newspaper, radio, television and on-line jour...
The head of the SA Zone was a little apprehensive with having Michael because of what has been said about AMP in the news. So he was pleasantly surprised to find Michael was very ...
AMP Services Ltd
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Darryl Pike … the strategy coach....
Darryl Pike is a successful businessman, property consultant and corporate educator. Combining sound business advice with his own success story, Darryl's presentations are entertai...
The best presentation I have heard in 26 years in the industry - brilliant.
J B Were Investment Management
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Michael Porter …businessman and leading economist....
Dr Michael Porter is the Executive Chairman and founder of Tasman Asia Pacific and Tasman Institute. As an internationally acknowledged expert on private sector participation in i...
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Lou Pritchett … one of corporate America’s living legends....
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America’s living legends—an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher, and highly rated speaker. He is recognized worldwide as the foremost leader in chan...
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Chris Richardson ...one of Australia's best known economists....
Chris Richardson is a Director of Access Economics and is one of
Australia’s best known economists.
Chris heads Access Economics’ forecasting and modelling unit and is the auth...
Very stimulating and interesting presentation - the partnership enjoyed Chris's style and content.
Allens Arthur Robinson
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Jim Rogers ...investment expert and author....
Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post,...
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Phil Ruthven … through the looking glass....
Phil Ruthven is the founder and Chairman of IBISWorld, Australia's best-known business information, forecasting and strategic services corporation. He is also a director of other c...
Phil's presentation was first class. He made his story based on usually uninteresting statistics not only interesting, but entertaining.
AMP Society
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Richard Sauerman …provides the opportunity to discover your own unique skills and competencies....
Richard Sauerman is a writer, a private coach, and a public speaker, who believes that both our personal and working lives have structures that are holding us back – which he cal...
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Andrew Savitz … creative business leader, advisor, author, speaker....
Andrew Savitz is a creative business leader, advisor, author and speaker, with over 20 years of hands-on experience assisting corporation to become leaders in sustainability and en...
Andy Savitz was the lunchtime keynote at our CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Conference in NYC on November 1, which was attended by 240 corporate responsibility practitioner...
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Savanth Sebastian ...Equities Economist, Commonwealth Bank....
Savanth Sebastian is the Equities Economist for the Commonwealth Bank. He is responsible for analysis of economic trends in the Australian and global economy, as well as the likely...
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John Sgambelluri ... focus on driving improved bottom line performance....
John has the benefit of over 20 years experience in Banking and Finance and personal experience as a business owner in the hospitality industry. Running his own business has helped...
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Ed Shann … economic and business trends....
Dr Ed Shann, Ph. D.(Cambridge), has had a career spanning the private, public and academic sectors.
Dr Shann is an independent economic consultant, with a particular interest in...
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Malcolm Simister … author of The New CFO of the Future....
General introduction
Malcolm Simister has a rare gift – he can explain finance and accounting to non-finance people simply and clearly and also uses this gift to explain ...
The presentation was extremely well received and Malcolm not only showed clear mastery of the subject matter but his delivery was clear and concise, entertaining and, most importan...
ANZ Group Ltd.
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Peter Switzer …expert on money and business....
Peter Switzer is an expert on money and business in Australia. Why should you believe this? Well, for over 20 years Peter has truly established himself.
Apart from running his s...
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Karen Tan … woman of our times....
Karen Tan has over 20 years of banking and finance experience. Her career spanned from sales and trading in treasury products to training and development. Since 1996, she has been ...
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Peter Thornhill …investment authority....
Peter's career spans over 35 years in the Financial Services Industry. Educated in Melbourne, his early years were spent with National Mutual, one of Australia's leading Insurance ...
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Max Walsh … domestic and international trends....
Max Walsh is a journalist author and broadcaster. Currently he is Editor-at-Large for The Bulletin magazine. He writes as he has done for more than 40 years now on the interaction ...
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Noel Whittaker …making money made simple....
Noel Whittaker's career includes international banking, conveyancing, staff training, real estate development, building and financial planning. He reaches over five million people ...
Spoke well to his topic. Understood the brief he was given. Well received by the audience.
Australian Friendly Societies Association
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