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Duration
1 Hour Training plus
1/2 hour of Questions & Discussion
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Business Speaker:
From Start-Up to Success: Strategies That Work in the Real World.
As a business keynote speaker, Kathryn MacMillan shares proven strategies from real-world experience in building and scaling businesses, covering growth lessons, innovation, and customer insights. Perfect for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and business leaders, audiences gain practical tools to avoid common pitfalls, stay competitive, and apply success strategies across industries from trades to tech, retail to services.
Growth Lessons. Strategies learned from building and scaling businesses.
Avoiding Pitfalls. Insights into common mistakes and how to sidestep them.
Innovation in Practice. How to embrace change without losing control.
Customer and Market Insights. Building relevance and competitive edge.
Real-Life Application. Stories and strategies that can be applied immediately.
From Trades to Tech, Retail to Services. Content that connects with the unique challenges of every business type.
What You’ll Learn from this Business Speaker
Learn practical tools and frameworks that successful start-ups and established companies use to scale. These sessions are designed for entrepreneurs and business leaders across Sydney, NSW, and Australia who want growth that lasts.
Gain insights into the most common business pitfalls — from financial missteps to leadership blind spots — and discover step-by-step ways to sidestep them. This is essential learning for start-ups and small businesses that want to stay competitive.
Understand how to embrace change, adopt new technologies, and stay relevant in your market without losing control of your core operations. Perfect for businesses in fast-moving industries such as tech, retail, and services.
Get clear on how to understand your customers, build market relevance, and gain a competitive edge. These lessons apply to all industries, from trades and construction to professional services and retail in Sydney and beyond.
Walk away with strategies you can put into practice immediately. Kathryn MacMillan’s keynote presentations combine storytelling with actionable takeaways so you can implement change the very next day in your business.
Whether you’re running a start-up in Sydney, managing a growing service business in Melbourne, or scaling a retail chain across NSW, the strategies shared are tailored to connect with the unique challenges of every industry sector.
Choose from topics related to your specific groups – are you Start Ups? Mature Businesses? A Specific Industry? Organisations with staff and wanting the ‘People Whisperer’ to give you some help? Let us know the demographic and your presentation will be tailored!
Your Presenter
Kathryn MacMillan MHRM&IR, MRSCA CAHRI – CEO, CIRCLE Recruitment & HR
Kathryn MacMillan is the founder and Managing Director of CIRCLE Recruitment & HR. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations from Sydney University, is an Accredited Recruitment Professional with the Recruitment Consulting Services Association (MRCSA), and a certified professional member of Australian Human Resource Institute (CAHRI).
Ranked first at Sydney University 2017, in Management Consulting, first in 2018 in HRM and IR in Action, in 2019 Kathryn was the winner of the prestigious Kingsley Laffer Memorial Award for Industrial Relations from the University.
Her academic knowledge coupled with years of experience and ability to engage an audience, makes Kathryn a highly skilled and sought after speaker and trainer.
As seen on ABC TV, heard on Radio National and chosen guest Speaker for many associations including University of Wollongong, Government Business events, Bizness Babes program, NSW TAFE, Councils, RCSA, Business Business Business, Australian Association of Accounting Technicians, Business and Industry Conferences and The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Kathryn inspires and informs the audience with her engaging appeal and professional knowledge.
“Ask any business group what is the area they most struggle with and their response is invariably – people! People are really tricky to deal with – they change, they hide their true feelings and they hold their own perceptions of the truth…
… Human Resources & Industrial Relations is an area that can lead to dry presentations with bored attendees, therefore it’s really important that when presenting HR, IR or people skills, that I use all of mine to ensure that the presentation is engaging! I guess that’s why I have been called the ‘People Whisperer’. I can ‘whisper’ and get results from individuals or your team.”
Kathryn MacMillan
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