Strive Alive Brisbane

Our Strive Special Evening on Wednesday October 26 sees 6 amazing entrepreneurs and business owners - share what's had them keep striving and how they've produced amazing results over time!  

They will share their personal stories, strategies for success, how to's in business, how they overcame challenges and created opportunities and more for your benefit at this inspiring event. This event is critical and highly relevant for yourself or someone you know whether you're a:  

• business owner and entrepreneur yourself


• motivated individual or employee


• manager or leader


• or even a budding entrepreneur in waiting!

A veritable who’s who - A Telstra Business Women's Awards NATIONAL ENTREPRENEUR of the YEAR & 5 Powerhouse Leaders will be speaking. 

At this very special evening you will meet these incredible entrepreneurs:

• A tech business pioneer, Lola Weller of Digicon, who successfully grew and sold her business to Deloitte


• And, another Antoinette Thorpe who grew 'Bossy Hair' to 16 stores and also achieved a profitable exit 


• Plus Mark Star of Star Outdoor who knows how to pivot a business and then thrive. Mark's client list is the Top 500 companies in Australia and around the world...


• Next, Kylie Bartlett who grew her RTO to one of the largest in the country and sold then changed careers to now being a guru on that mysterious subject - social media strategy and personal branding ...


• And Ryll Burgin-Doyle, Founder of Strive, your MC for the evening - who has grown her own or other people's businesses for the last 26 years from start ups, to micro businesses to $1Bn and $400m companies here in the US, UK and more, including her own non-profit stepUP Foundation


• Plus these 2 leaders below ... our Key Notes for the night - Marie Piccone and Fiona O'Donnell
  


• What a line up!

Just one of the amazing entrepreneurs who will be sharing their results and ‘how to’s’ in business is Marie Piccone, Managing Director of Manbulloo Ltd – one of Australia’s most successful agricultural supply and exporting enterprises.

Marie won the Telstra Business Women’s Awards, National Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015 and is simply an extraordinary leader not to be missed.

In 2005 Marie was offered the opportunity to purchase three run down, large mango plantations located in the Northern Territory and North Queensland.  Never one to back down Marie took the project on and formed Manbulloo Ltd – she’ll share how on the 26^th.  

That was 10 years ago.  Today, at this time of year, the Manbulloo team are harvesting some 5,000+ tonnes of mangoes – yes, 5,000 tonnes! - and just achieved a milestone – with the first shipment ever of Australian mangoes leaving from the Northern Territory headed to the USA.

2015 marked a milestone with for Marie and her team winning Coles Supplier of the Year for In-Store Execution and winning the Telstra Business Woman Award’s - National Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, something Marie felt so honoured to receive. 

 Marie will share much about her personal story as well as:

• how to grow a business from the ground up no matter where you are starting from – ramshackle farm or start up!


• how to keep it flourishing over a sustained period of time despite all of the challenges that come internally and externally


• how to win in retail... and have your brand become THE brand in your sector


• and, how to grow an export business in this now global world!

Marie is simply not to be missed.  Book your tickets now.

Alongside Marie, another fellow Key Note and inspirational leader Fiona O’Donnell will be speaking...

Meet Fiona O’Donnell, major shareholder and CEO of Foundations Early Learning.

Starting out with next to nothing but an idea of what could work, Fiona O’Donnell began her journey making a difference as a Childcare Centre owner, operator and family and children’s advocate. 

Today, 25 years on she has a proven track record of doing exactly that many times and now via her company ‘Foundation Early Learning’, Fiona and her team run 30 high quality and profitable Centres all over Australia. 

As the Founder, a major shareholder and CEO, Fiona has done the hard yards to ensure the business is in a strong position financially and on the night, will share what she sees is critical to sustainable financial growth. She has also successfully secured a further $20M in funds for continued acquisitions through her partnership with Bluesky, here in Brisbane.  

At this special evening, Fiona will share her incredible journey to date and her approach to:

• transformative leadership,


• developing an inspiring 'people first' culture,


• driving business growth,


• what it means to make a difference with and engage your customers,


• the ins and outs of completing successful transactions at the 'top end of town'


• and much more.  

She’s also an inspiring humanitarian and will share about her not-for-profit work – changing entire communities for the better in Uganda, Africa.

Fiona is truly an inspiration, her story is critical to anyone wanting to operate at that ‘top end of town’, all while making a massive difference.

Our further 4 entrepreneurs and experts introduced above will be appearing on the night as our ‘Panelists’ – sharing their insights into how they’ve succeeded in their fields.  Strategies you can benefit from to grow your endeavours.

Please do join us for this special event on Wednesday evening, October 26, 2016 - just choose the ticket type that's best for you and we'll see you there! Be sure to check out the difference you can personally make with a 'Ticket for Good'!

When you look at our Ticket Types you'll notice something different.  We have 3 types of tickets on offer:

$27 General Admission - drinks, canapes, networking and inspiration!

$49 VIP and $59 ‘Ticket for Good’ options – this ‘Ticket for Good’ gives all the privileges of a VIP ticket including upfront seating, meet the speakers, private networking, drinks and canapes after the event and more - but makes a massive difference to an impoverished woman in Malawi, Africa, by providing her 1 FULL YEAR of business education and gets her started in her own business.  Just by attending you are changing the world through business!

We look forward to seeing you there.

Strive & Co-Hosts

www.strivealive.com.au