My passion is to facilitate business development, sustainability and growth for businesses while adding value for regional Queensland (and Australian) industries and communities. I help connect businesses with talented people and strategic partners to support productivity and growth.I aim to help businesses develop ways to increase their opportunities to grow productivity and profitability while encouraging innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit to stimulate business development and the communities they are located in.With over twenty years of sales, business and customer engagement experience with a focus on people and workforce development, revenue generation and business development (Including a period of self-employment as the owner of an advertising, marketing and sales training company) my life experiences enable me to help my business partners build clear business objectives and outcomes.With direct ownership and experience's that cover SME and family-owned businesses across a number of retail and manufacturing sectors I can provide real world connection, experience and links to developing business improvement, connectivity and profit.A former advertising executive, real estate agent and business owner with skills in people development, communication, stakeholder engagement, sales planning, business development, marketing, sales training and negotiation.