Chris Whelan
Chris works with business owners to give them the success they deserve and the lifestyle they desire. He takes them past where they can get to on their own and helps them to build better businesses - better teams and systems, better time to do the things that matter and better profits to maximise their return on investment.
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Business owners find that Chris’ experience, having owned businesses ranging from IT publishing to fast-food takeaways, education and training and retail, gives a diverse and ‘real’ insight into their operations. He’s consulted globally across industries (Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Professional & Financial Services and FMCG, amongst others), managing teams, developing strategies and delivering results and held two Chief Executive roles (with budgets of $25 million and a staff complement of 130 full-time and 130 part-time) which give him a ‘big picture’ understanding of direction-setting, team alignment and making effective execution happen
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Over the past 20 years, Chris has worked with businesses ranging from an online publishing team of three to leading the Asia Pacific division of a knowledge management team and the regional teams for global multinationals. He has enjoyed working for and with some of the world’s largest companies (Accenture, EY, BHP, Deloitte, Royal Dutch Shell) as well as local, owner-operated businesses in places as diverse as Cape Town, Sydney, Hong Kong and Wellington – and many places in-between! Along the way, he has worked with literally hundreds of business owners and managers and engaged with even more through seminars and speaking engagements (such as the Brisbane Global Café and World Economic Forum: Africa).