Peter Rowe Email & Phone Number

Gold Coast, Queensland

As ProfiTune's Head Coach (though I've been called 'My Hard Skills Coach' by one client who is well-placed to make that judgement), I take a very systems-driven approach to coaching my business and executive clients to success faster, safer and more certainly than they would get there alone. While in our subsidiary business, 'A Better Way of Selling', I specialise in developing Sales Performance across teams and their leaders, in ProfiTune I cover 'everything else - from Marketing to Productivity. Logistics, Workplace Culture, Leadership through to Communications & Presentation Skills; from financials, dashboards, compliance, through to change management, corporate transformation, succession planning, exit strategies and IPOs. The only areas in which I don't go deep are taxation and law - and I've both studied and taught those, too!I'm performance-based so every Client with whom I engage is guaranteed that, from their engagement with me, they will make more than twice my fee in new, additional profits - or it's free. In 20 years I've never been called on to pay out a cent!

Gold Coast, Queensland

We're Business Improvement Catalysts We assist good business leaders to get better, quicker than they would without us We (both) know if it's working because we use (their) increase in cash profits as our primary measure of efficacy. If profits are increasing and our client is enjoying the process, we do more of it and faster. If profits are increasing and our client is not enjoying the process, we change strategies but hold to the measure. If our client's challenge has nothing to do with profit, we still measure it because improvements anywhere in the business show up there. At least they do, the way we do things. And if profits are not increasing? . . . . well, funny, it hasn't happened yet. But if it did we'd probably fire our client! (We're not called ProfiTune for nothing!) We coach, mentor and guide Clients to improved their personal and professional performance by 1.) clarifying with them what it is that they TRULY want out of their enterprise and endeavours and then setting those goals in a way that engages neurology, passion and intelligence so powerfully that they become faits accomplis; by 2.) leading them to transform the way they think about their business, their products, their market, their customers, and their challenges so that new pathways open to them; by 3.) installing whatever new knowledge and new skills are required to enable them; and 4.) by coaching them to perform at ever higher levels. Our clients are typically Boards of Directors, senior and emerging executives, enterprise owners and founders, and their teams, groups and tribes. We've founded and sold profitable enterprises in engineering, design and software; we've founded one public company in plant sciences; and we run this one with great joy and satisfaction. Our experience includes directorships of public and private companies across a wide range of industries and working with Boards to improve corporate performance from the top down is a passion.

Gold Coast, Australia

Coaching sales teams to exceed every performance goal they've ever dreamed of has always been one of my greatest satisfactions. I've now pulled together decades of direct sales experience to formulate A Better Way of Selling. The early results of that refinement have been nothing short of amazing and I'm now taking it to the world!

Queensland, Australia

A 'learning experience' or 'a tilt at the windmill of climate change'? Now deregistered, PolyGenomX (PGX) was an Australian unlisted public company created to commercialise unique epigenetic plant biotechnology. Its Mission was 'enhancing the performance of plants, naturally'. We failed to raise the capital needed but had we made the leap to commercialisation and the large-scale uptake of our technology, we would be improving our planet and our chances of survival as a species. My one 'failure' in business and a bitter-sweet 'learing experience'.The video lays it out the lost opportunity pretty clearly.

Bundall, Queensland

We recognised early on that most business founders were (as Michael Gerber observed), "technicians who've suffered an entrepreneurial seizure",which means that they are generally pretty good at whatever their business produces, but probably not so good at running a business that does that! We had a vast trove of basic knowledge that many business founders needed through self-help manuals and newsletters. seminars and workshops.We helped thousands of business operators, executives and founders to 'go the next level' and I look back with deep satisfaction on the good we were able to do before moving from 'selling them the book' to 'coaching them for performance' - as ProfiTune.

Dubbo, Nsw

Our Intellectual Property holding entity for the Automate software.

Nsw Australia

Developed "AutoMate", a total business management solution for job-based & trade-based businesses in the automotive, marine, power equipment and light aircraft industries.A whole-of-business management software originally developed to help manage my three Bullitt Automotive sites in Dubbo, Wagga Wagga & Orange, 'AutoMate' soon had 3,500 businesses users and was so well-accepted that we sold off the automotive businesses and moved into the software industry. It was the first 'whole of business' solution providing accounting, job-costing, inventory management, customer relationship development, systems-based marketing and a unique 'eternal history' that made retrieval of past jobs (from years back) and long-term performance analysis simple and effective. AutoMate went on to establish customers throughout Australia, the Pacific and SE Asia, and won Australian DesignMark for excellence in 1995. Last updated in 2000, it still runs hundreds of businesses today. The program was over 1 million lines of DOS code (written in Clarion 5GL, it is twice the size of the NASA Space Shuttle code), and has proven itself 'mechanic-proof' - which is probably 3 grades higher than bullet-proof. ;-)For almost the entire 10 years of operation, I was involved in 'teaching & training' our licensees in various aspects of business, from basic bookkeeping and tax accounting, through to performance analysis, service protocols, productivity, leadership and more. It was deja vu as I'd been a TAFE Head Teacher of Commercial Studies back in the 70's, and here I was 'teaching again', which I'd always found fulfiling. So in 2001, with Y2K and GST having put a lot of cash in my bank account, I sold the source code and founded ProfiTune to go coaching. I'm still there.

Nsw

I had started using weights as a 15 year old and by 31 was the NSW Heavyweight Power Lifting Champion and record-holder. I last competed at age 65 (when, I've been reliably informed, I would have been internationally competitive 'in the women's 48kg class!' :-P In 1985, while still heavily involved in my Bullitt Automotive businesses (Dubbo, Wagga Wagga & Orange) I was asked by a mate where he could buy 'best of breed' equipment with which to outfit a new fitness centre. I foolishly said, "There is none - it's all designed with a set-square and the human body is rotary", whereupon he said, "Could you do better" to which I said, "Sure!" He called my bluff by laying down an order for $43,000 (a sizeable sum in the day) and so I bought a drafting board and sat down at my kitchen table every night for 6 weeks and designed a full suit of weight training equipment.I rented a factory, hired some people and went into production. I drew pretty heavily on the fitters-and-machinists I had working with me in Bullitt and we turned out ground-breaking equipment that set a new standard. BUT, it was an 'indulgence' and my lack of focus on Bullitt began to cost me money. So, after completing the third order, I closed down the operation and went back to my 'day job' running three very profitable automotive businesses. It was great fun. I wrote a loss of around $40,000 on the exercise, but it was worth every cent of that!

Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, Orange

Launched in 1975 with partner and friend Noel (Garry) Buckland, Bullitt was originally focused on transmission work - automatic and manual gearboxes, and a bit of differential work. Garry and I parted ways in 1977 and I established Bullitt in Orange then Wagga Wagga in the next 2 years. We diversified into power steering and became component 'remanufacturers', moved the bulk of the business away from 'repairs' and towards installing exchange units, which cut down on the time a vehicle was in the shop, maximised our control over the quality of work and enabled us to give the first 2-year then 3-year Guarantees in that industry. We were instrumental in having the NSW Gov introduce a "Transmission Specliast' license and pushed hard to raise the mandatory standards of qualification, equipment and operations for the automotive repair industry nationally. I was a founder of the Australian Automatic Transmission Rebuilders Association (AATRA).One hightlight: We manufactured the first 12-speed automatic transmission for Toyota Landcruisers and were doing well with product until Toyota introduced their first automatic transmissions for the model and wiped out our market overnight. It had become a lucrative but small part of our business and we reallocated our resources to developing high performance vehicles - the Bullitt Falcon predated the Ford FPVs and Holden HSVs. Fun times.

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Sciences

I enrolled at UNE to add qualifications for my journey as a TAFE teacher. I chose a B.Soc.Sci (probably because it had more letters in it.

Member, Company Directors Course

Certificate, Business In Asia

Education record

Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Coach NLP and Master of Neurological Repatterning Master of Ericksonian.

Taa (Training And Assessment), Cert Iv

Sme Coach (Superior Level)

Diploma, Technical Teacher Education

Certificate, Commercial Education (Cesa)