Personal Background
Maurie has been in the workforce for over 40 years, commencing his career as a teacher. He then worked in the corporate environment for 20 years, before starting and building up four companies of his own, selling two successfully and maintaining a current interest in the other two. He lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Company Background
Business GP is Maurie’s private consulting company. He views himself as a ‘general practitioner’ of business who employs or introduces specialist advisers from other fields as and when required.
BGP employs a personalised approach and methodology to every assignment, which has been developed and ‘honed’ over many projects during the past 25 years. In addition to standard business health checks, SWOT analyses, business planning workshops and documented reports, Maurie introduces his clients to BGP’s 5 Pillars of Business, their own customised business vocabulary, proactive business processes and a proven projects approach to new opportunities, issue resolution and continuous improvement.
Invariably clients learn from this holistic approach and Maurie, in addition to completing each project, often becomes a long term mentor to company owners and managers.
Experience
Maurie is an experienced executive manager and business consultant, with four decades of commercial, cross-industry experience. He has an extensive leadership career in business development, sales and marketing, general management and executive management including S&M, COO, CEO, company director and chairman positions.
He has managed major projects for medium and large enterprises and is a recognised consultant and facilitator to boards, CEOs and other executive managers on strategic planning, organizational change, business development and issue resolution.
He is experienced in facilitation, negotiation, strategic planning, business coaching and mentoring, and has also directed and participated in company mergers, acquisitions and sales.
Over the last 20 years, in addition to his own companies and professional affiliations, Maurie has acted as a business consultant, a contract executive manager, a large projects manager and a business mentor to start up, challenged and rapid growth companies. These days, he particularly enjoys working with entrepreneurs and family companies from start ups to multi-million turnover businesses, where he ‘fills in a lot of gaps’.
In addition to his general commercial experience he summarises his personal qualities and skills as being:
- a proven facilitator of outcomes in a business environment
- a highly motivated, energetic and driven person
- a strong communicator and technology literate
- a public speaker on business
- highly committed to his clients
- in excellent health with a professional presence
- trusted and ethical
Areas of Specialisation
- Business Overview
- Business Management
- Business Planning
- Business Development
- Business Processes
- Financial Management
- Information Technology
- Digital Solutions
- Integrated Management Systems
- Marketing Strategies
- Mentor Support
Industry Specialisation
- Manufacturing
- Education & Training
- Professional Services
- Airlines
- Financial Services
- Agriculture & Rural Services
- Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
- Trades
Accreditations/Affiliations
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Education
- Diploma of Teaching
- Graduate of IBM International Management School
- FAIM – Fellow of Australian Institute of Management
- Past Member Australian Institute of Company Directors
- Past Chairman Sunshine Coast Business Council
- Registered Consultant NT Government Department of Business & Employment