Jonathan Mcilroy Email & Phone Number

Queanbeyan, Nsw, Au

Enterprise Plus, formerly Southern Region Business Enterprise Centre (SRBEC), is a dynamic regional organisation with a long history of delivering a comprehensive range of business and educational services to regional NSW and the ACT.Incorporating the former Northern Region Business Enterprise Centre (NRBEC) and Canberra Business Enterprise Centre (CBEC), Enterprise Plus has a head office in Queanbeyan NSW with satellite offices across northern and southern NSW.As a Not-for-Profit organisation delivering programs funded by specific federal, state and territory governments, most of our services are delivered either free of charge to clients or are heavily subsidised.Our purpose is to assist businesses become more sustainable, to generate employment opportunities and to assist young people with their career and educational journey.Our team of almost thirty specialist business advisors are highly skilled experts and consultants and most have first-hand business ownership experience. They are equipped to provide general or specialist business advice and support for owners of small enterprises at all stages of the business life cycle.Some of our education specialists work with local businesses and support kids to arrange their VET in Schools work placements whilst others work with kids that may need non-traditional support and guidance for a variety of reasons, but who generally aren’t thriving in the traditional school pathways environment.Whilst Enterprise Plus has existed in various guises for some 30 years, the past decade has witnessed and enormous expansion in the breadth of services offered, the number of regions covered, and the amount of specialist advice areas we can now address.If you are a small business owner or operator in any of the regions we cover and would like to discuss how we can assist you and your business, then please get in touch with me personally or contact our head office in Queanbeyan.

See under EA Network

Newport, Nsw, Au

MD | Executive Assistant Network & Executive Assistant Academy | Sydney | May 2005 to Jan 2020Executive Assistant Network is the peak industry member organisation providing support services, education and training to executive assistants and personal assistants across Australia.• Responsible for strategy and implementation across all areas of the organisation and at all stages of growth, from start-up phase to established businesses • Recruited, coached and led a team of passionate and skilled managers and professionals across research, marketing, sales, product conception and product delivery, plus finance and administration, establishing the reputation of the organisation as the thought leaders in the industry• Built and maintained strong relationships with existing and prospective clients, conceptualised all major marketing initiatives, assisted in identifying sales opportunities and helped sales and marketing teams and their managers deliver on more complex negotiations as needed• Oversaw managers and teams in the design, marketing, sales and delivery of all education and training programs, including five annual conferences and accompanying exhibitions, and over 150 days of public and in-house training per year• Oversaw marketing team in the design, content creation and management of a bespoke business website and an integrated membership-driven database to ensure all member details and activities were held in one place• Led the sales and delivery of customised consulting services and training to a range of clients, including The Reserve Bank, The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Monash University and the University of Western Australia• Designed company-wide systems for customer engagement tracking plus sales and performance measurement along with sophisticated tracking and analysis reports and matrices for assessing all areas of business performance

Elite Assistants provided boutique recruitment services focussed on Executive Assistant and Personal Assistant roles across Australia. Working almost entirely on exclusive retained engagements, roles were successfully filled in almost every Australian state and territory.As founder and Managing Director I was responsible for overseeing business design, structure and operations including the design and development of a boutique website integrated with industry leading SaaS solutions for job positing and candidate management.Achievements & Strategy Initiatives• Engaged almost entirely on exclusive contingent arrangements• Successfully filled roles in every state and territory in Australia bar Tasmania• Successful developed and implemented a long-term SEO strategy, months prior to official launch, in addition to acquiring significant numbers of related industry domain names, both of which saw the website climb to second spot in all relevant Google searches within one month of launch and maintain that position

Industry Reference Committees (IRCs) are made up of people with experience, skills and knowledge of their particular industry sector. The IRCs ensure that training packages meet the needs of employers and have a direct relationship with the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) to help ensure this happens. PWCs Skills for Australia is one of 5 Skills Service Organisations announced in January 2016 as the successors to the old Industry Skills Councils. Their role is to support Industry Reference Committees (IRCs) in their work to develop and review training packages. The Business Services IRC works alongside this SSO.

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

One of eleven Industry Skills Councils authorised by the Australian Government to be an official voice on vocational education and training, Innovation & Business Skills Australia (IBSA) is focussed across six industries which include Business Services, Cultural & Related Industries, Financial Services, ICT & Telecommunications, Training & Education and Printing & Graphic Arts.

General Manager | Tribeca Communications | Sydney | Sept 2001-March 2005Tribeca focussed on delivering high-end research driven conferences and education to the financial planning and funds management industry.• Overall management oversight and responsibility for business strategy, product creation & delivery, marketing & sales, administration, and all financial and legal aspects of the company• Managed teams and team leaders covering research, product development, sales, partnerships, marketing and administration • Oversaw the project management for the design and creation of a new company-wide database, as well as multiple international product launches• Active involvement in all high-value sales negotiations in support of sales manager and sales team• Instilled a very strong focus on results by creating a culture of engagement, empowerment and ownership in the organisation• Established strong industry relationships with leading industry players and associations to support business growth• Designed all reporting systems and team reporting templates and wrote a monthly board report for the board of the ASK listed parent company, plus delivered reports in person to the board each monthAchievements & Strategy Initiatives• Grew the profit of the business from making an on-paper loss to EBITDA of just under $900k in under 4 years, whilst growing my team significantly• Successfully navigated the business through a change programme as part of an acquisition and two-year structured buy-out, including a 100% replacement of staff, introduction of a new team management layer, expanding the size of all teams, two office moves, new system development and integration, and a full rebrand • Led my business to be five times more profitable than the rest of the parent organisation (headcount to profit)

• Co-founded this organisation to provide publishing and educational events for the investment, venture capital, and finance communities• Business strategy focussed on leveraging exceptionally strong relationships with major international investment organisations and associations, investor communities and regulatory bodies • Within 3 months of launch had major projects with two international bodies in full development

London, Gb

• Headed up the educational events side of a specialist education and publishing business managing all aspects of research, development, sales and delivery• Major strategic initiative and success was the development of educational programmes in conjunction with the main financial regulator in the UK at the time, the Financial Services Authority

• Managed teams of financial researchers, programme developers, marketers, sales and project delivery professionals• Major strategic initiative was the development of global product specialist teams which I conceptualised and presented to the Annual Managers Conference and which was subsequently rolled out to over 20 offices worldwide, with me taking on an additional role as global brand manager for finance and investment products

Provided asset finance solutions to businesses across multiple sectors. Included a secondment to work in assessment and underwriting team.

Arlington, Va, Us

Master Of Arts (Honours), Political Science And Government

Education record

Master Of Arts - Ma, Politics & Government