The collective wisdom of leaders coming together
Across a range of industries, our members share how TEC has enabled them to hone their decision making when facing critical business challenges and drive real growth.
Chris Nelson– Juicebox
Juicebox started as a garage startup with minimal industry experience. Over the years, the company has achieved organic growth and garnered recognition locally and nationally. Educating clients about the ever-changing digital landscape, ensuring they stay ahead of the curve.
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Johannes Tietze – Libelle Group
Johannes Tietze, harnessed his passion, experience and peer network to successfully navigate the challenges of COVID-19. One of the most valuable things his got out of TEC is being able to work on himself and apply those learnings as a guide into his senior leadership team, specifically from a resilience perspective.
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Julian Perry – Wine-Searcher
Our members experience TEC in unique ways. Julian Perry, TEC member and CEO at Wine-Searcher, shares his personal experience of being part of our trusted circle of success advocates. Learn how they've supported Julian in several crucial business decisions over the years.
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Tom Boyd– SAS Water Solutions
Tom likes to think of TEC as a knowledge transfer group, and it’s his duty to disseminate the knowledge to help others grow and develop. When you join a TEC group, you not only gain the collective knowledge of your current peers, but you also gain the knowledge of all who’ve come before.
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Marc Russell– Rocket Medical
Since joining TEC, Marc Russell's has learnt to challenge the notion that leaders should have all the answers. Instead of having all the answers as a leader, you need the right person or community to turn to for advice and to challenge your thinking.
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Timna Kerr– GAMA Healthcare
Timna Kerr's experience in the healthcare industry has shown how easy it can be to stay on the same path when you don’t have trusted, external peers. Joining TEC has given access to collective intelligence, through the lens of the broader range of Australian businesses.
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Scott Parks – Scott Park Group Pty Ltd
The Key Executive Program has become an integral part of how Scott Parks evolves new talent within his business.
As a passionate advocate for the development of his team, Scott credits TEC with instilling tools and techniques that help develop his senior managers’ skills over and above what they achieve working in the organisation.
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Jarrod Graetz – PositiveMedia
Jarrod Graetz, CEO at PositiveMedia has experienced firsthand the power of peer mentoring. Believing his executive team would benefit from it too, he introduced a number of senior leaders to the KEY Executive Program. Enhancing the quality of their leadership, decision making skills and how they communicate in the workplace.
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Sara Blunt – Kalyra Communities
Having a board of peers to advise on business direction and growth, has been truly invaluable to Sara as a change-maker in the aged care industry. A core learning she has taken from sharing stories with her group of local executives is to seize big opportunities whenever they arise.
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Ross Sardi – First Focus IT
For business leaders, building solid teams of executives around them can make or break their tenure. Investing in their team’s skills and experience can be crucial to ensuring business success in the long run. Ross Sardi is leading by example by sharing his peer mentoring experiences so his executives can flourish and develop.
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Andy Dowdeswell – SAS Water Solutions
Having struggled with feeling like a 'fish out of water' prior to joining TEC, Andy Dowdeswell, quickly realised the value a trusted network of like-minded peers could have on his business and his personal development and has been instrumental in enhancing the problem-solving skills of his executive team.
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Frank Caruso – Caruso’s Natural Health
'My mantra has always been, if you don’t know, ask – I’m a big believer in that. There’s always someone at TEC who can offer a new perspective on a business challenge.’ says Frank Caruso, Founder at Caruso’s Natural Health. His inspiring journey at TEC started in 2005.
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John Newton – Scotch College
TEC members are there because they want to learn, grow and be successful, which is the utmost peer inspiration to not stand still. Hear all about lessons in leadership from John Newton, Principal of Scotch College Adelaide.
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Tom Lunn – Detmold Group
Having the peer support is great to take a step back and share intel and knowledge on what businesses are experiencing. Tom Lunn, shares how the company shifted quickly and effectively to solve a real need in the current environment.
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Christina Matthews – Western Australian Cricket Association
From the pitch to the boardroom; how Christina put women’s cricket on the agenda Christina joined TEC to get out of her own environment and gain a fresh perspective. TEC group meetings have helped Christina the most when it comes…
Rodney Frost – The Lamson Group
Rodney found invaluable having a non-executive board that would hold him accountable and give him a place to present ideas and work through challenges together. He shares his family business story in printing industry that is an example of agility and adaptability.
Read StoryRodney Frost – The Lamson Group