Please Note: At IWIB you will no longer have to queue at the bar to purchase your drink during the valuable open networking time between 12noon and 12.25pm. We have included the price of your open networking drink (and also have included soft drink and OJ on the tables during the lunch) in the price of the event.
Topic: Survival of the Fittest - keeping your business fit by looking at your business from outside in!
The meeting sponsored by Fix Business
Guest speaker Cathy Wagner - director of Fix Business will be speaking on market awareness and keeping your competitors close - knowing what your opposition are doing and looking at your business from a customer's point of view. What do I need to learn about? What am i doing wrong? Is my buisness where it would be twelve months ago?
Learning and allowing your business to show you what the market is demaning and are you being stubborn letting the market show you what you want and costing you profit...
Speaker Cathy Wagner has enjoyed a varied career within a variety of industries in both management and contract roles.
Having begun her career path in Nuclear Medicine, Cathy tried accounting and marketing before becoming a primary, then high school teacher and eventually the Campus Director for a small Christian school.
Her business career began in 1995 when she was offered some work within a large financial organisation supporting senior managers to understand performance management and communication. Since then her career moved into senior and operational roles within The Australian Institute of Project Management, (having also been the acting CEO for a period of time) and The Australian Property Council.
Cathy also instigated the National Women in Project Management forums and is still a volunteer for the Illawarra chapter, co organising the Illawarra Project Management events which are held regularly at the Sydney Business School in Wollongong.
More locally Cathy has consulted to BlueScope in Change Management and writes a number of courses for ITCC. She also consults to Wollondilly council on Economic Development projects.
BizOps Solutions and then Fix Business came about only three years ago after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and whilst consulting to the Macarthur Business Enterprise Centre where she saw a number of businesses struggle or fail because of lack of basic business principals and due diligence.
Cathy has also held a number voluntary positions on Chambers of Commerce, AIPM, Local community youth programs and the Change Management Institute of Australia.
Some of her personal achievements include winning the Department of Fair Trading State Award for Consumer Education and her nomination for an international poetry award.
