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• Women in Business: Co-Working and Connections at The Brisbane Business Hub

  • Start
    15 August 2023
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  • End
    20 February 2024
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Brisbane Business Hub Level 2 155 Queen Street Brisbane City, QLD 4000

  Join us for a day with fellow Women In Business to connect and collaborate during your work day here at Brisbane Business Hub.

  Whether you want to reconnect with other women business leaders, or just knuckle down and get in the zone to nail that project you’ve been working on, our casual hot desking spaces, coffee machine and high-speed WiFi will help you get up to business.

  B e sure to register to reserve your space.

  T o make the most of your day, consider booking in a mentor session on this date, or registering for the free workshops on the day (please note you must register for these workshops separately):

  Tuesday 6 June

  • 9:30am - 11am: The Habits of Highly Effective Sales People
  • 1pm -3pm: Comfortable, Confident and Credible on-Camera

  T uesday 15 August

  • 9 :30am - 11:30am: Business Growth Planning: Take Your Business to the Next Level

  T uesday 10 October

  • T o Be Confirmed

  T uesday 5 December

  • T o Be Confirmed

  T uesday 20 February

  • T o Be Confirmed

  
  

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• (REGIONAL & ONLINE LOCATIONS) Wire Female Founders Innovation And Ai Play Workshop

  • Start
    13 September 2023
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  • End
    31 October 2023
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  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Regional & Online

  JOIN US FOR A FREE WIRE FEMALE FOUNDERS FAST-TRACK REGIONAL INNOVATION AND AI PLAY WORKSHOP - LEARN AND EXPLORE HOW TO FAST-TRACK YOUR IDEA, BUSINESS OR COMMUNITY VENTURE AND STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE!

  Levelling up your dream idea, business, or community venture starts with you!

  We all know it’s the gold rush era of working smarter and AI tools. Using AI tools effectively has become an irreplaceable asset, especially to level up your planning; your marketing to reach your ideal customers; innovate your products and services, streamline your sales process and escalate your sales to make more money but also have more impact. Learn and explore how to stay ahead of the curve by leveraging proven business-building and growth strategies, and AI tools!

  Become part of this trail-blazing regional, rural, remote initiative and community of women who are passionate about building, growing or scaling their ventures!

  
  

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• Conversations with Impact

  • When
    29 September 2023
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    5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Smart Precinct NQ 143 Walker St, Townsville City

  Join us for an evening of knowledge sharing, an evening of new connections, an evening to create IMPACT.
  
  On Friday 29nd September, we invite all those interested in environmental or social impact to come along to the next Planet Conscious event, in collaboration with the Social Enterprise Network.

  This won't be like your regular networking evening. 6 local changemakers - who you may or may not have heard of - will be up behind the mic, giving you snippets of who they are, what they do and what you could do to help them with their cause.

  See you at 5.30pm for a 6pm kick-off, a glass of something yum and an IMPACTful conversation!

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• Capricornia Impact Group Coffee - Rockhampton

  • When
    09 October 2023
  •  
    7:30 AM
  • Location
    Advanced Technology and Innovation Centre, Building 37, CQUniversity

  An opportunity to network with businesses, services and individuals looking to have a positive impact in the community of Capricornia. 

  We are partnering with Waka Gulbugan Events Industry Coffee Network for Indigenous Business Month. Coffee van will be available to order coffee, tours of the Advanced Technology & Innovation Centre too!

  Connections, opportunities, business and conversations around creating positive impact through social, environmental and business activities.

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• Cairns - Revenue Opportunities for Social Enterprises workshop

  • When
    09 October 2023
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    12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Cairns

  Revenue Opportunities for Social Enterprises

  In this intensive one day in-person workshop, you will learn how to review and validate your pricing strategy and business model for scale. You will explore the treatment of foreign income and revenue sources and their attributes. With a focus on pricing strategies and potential new revenue streams for social enterprises, you will gain insights and control of the four main types of revenue models that your startup can generate and discover how these revenue types influence your cash flow, investment options and company valuation.

  This program is ideal for social enterprise founders who:

  • Are looking to understand their pricing strategy and revenue streams further
  • Want to analyse their pricing-market fit
  • Want to improve their understanding of their cash flow and investment options
  • Want to explore key industry benchmarks for revenue streams
  • Review their pricing strategy.

  
  

  What will you learn in the Revenue Opportunities for Social Enterprises Program?

  BDOs financial education programs are interactive, engaging and provide practical resources and tools. They are designed to teach social enterprise founders’ critical financial concepts.

  Learning objectives

  You will learn how to:

  • Identify additional revenue opportunities for your social enterprise
  • Determine the cost of goods sold for each of your revenue streams
  • Calculate gross profitability in your social enterprise
  • Explain the relationship between price and volume
  • Model different pricing strategies for your products and services
  • Build a 12-month revenue model for your social enterprise.

  
  

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• Cairns - Cash Flow Management for Social Enterprises Workshop

  • When
    10 October 2023
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    8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Cairns

  Cash Flow Management for Social Enterprises Workshop

  In this one-day workshop, you will be empowered by the knowledge of how to maximise your current cash position and identify strategies to stretch and improve your cash flow moving forward.

  This program is ideal for:

  • All social enterprise founders who are concerned about their cash flow
  • Founders who need to calculate their runway
  • Financial controllers who manage finances in a social enterprise
  • Social enterprise founders who need clarity around financial commitments.

  What you will learn in the Cash Flow Management for Social Enterprises Workshop

  BDO’s one day workshops are interactive, engaging and provide you with practical resources and tools. They are designed to teach social enterprises critical financial concepts.

  Learning objectives

  You will learn how to:

  • Explore the difference between profit and cash flow
  • Analyse how cash flows through a business
  • Apply seven levers for optimising cash position
  • Plan for your annual tax and financial obligations
  • Determine the impact of business decisions on your financial position
  • Build a 90-day cash flow forecast for your social enterprise.

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• Cash Flow Management

  • When
    10 October 2023
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    8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Rockhampton

  Want to improve the financial fitness of your business?
  

  
  

  Empower your social enterprise to achieve sustainable growth and impact. Every business decision you make is reflected in the financial health of the organisation. Whether you are at the beginning of your journey or been operating for a decade, BDO is proud to invite you to a limited-series of two half-day business financials workshops delivered in-person in Mackay, Cairns and Rockhampton.

  Delivered by the financial education team at BDO Australia, your facilitators lean upon their experience empowering business leaders from for-profit, not-for-profit, family business and technology startups – now delivering a specialist workshop series for social enterprises across Queensland.

  While tailored specifically for the nuances of social enterprises, these workshops welcome founders, leadership, management, and operators from not-for-profits who seek to operate a trading business unit, small businesses who have social cause, or organisations making impact in their communities through trading with purpose.

  Underpinned by a rich educational philosophy, these workshops are interactive, engaging and provide practical resources and tools. They are designed to bring social enterprise leaders through a transformative journey covering critical financial concepts that are fundamental for success.

  This workshop series is supported by the Queensland Government Department of Small Business and Training through the Social Enterprise Jobs Fund.

  About the Cash Flow Management for Social Enterprises Workshop

  In this half-day workshop, you will be empowered by the knowledge of how to maximise your current cash position and identify strategies to stretch and improve your cash flow moving forward.

  This program is ideal for:

  • All social enterprise founders who are concerned about their cash flow
  • Founders who need to calculate their runway
  • Financial controllers who manage finances in a social enterprise
  • Social enterprise founders who need clarity around financial commitments.

  What you will learn in the Cash Flow Management for Social Enterprises Workshop

  BDO’s one day workshops are interactive, engaging and provide you with practical resources and tools. They are designed to teach social enterprises critical financial concepts.

  Learning objectives

  You will learn how to:

  • Explore the difference between profit and cash flow
  • Analyse how cash flows through a business
  • Apply seven levers for optimising cash position
  • Plan for your annual tax and financial obligations
  • Determine the impact of business decisions on your financial position
  • Build a 90-day cash flow forecast for your social enterprise.

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• TEDxBrisbane 2023: The Power of Intention

  • When
    14 October 2023
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    8:00 AM
  • Location
    Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre

  Intention is a powerful thing. It takes a great idea and transforms it into determination. Determination to act, make a difference, grow, create, discover. To change minds, lives or perhaps the entire world.
  

  The power of intention reflects the heart of the TEDxBrisbane community.

  At TEDxBrisbane, we bring together thinkers, doers and changemakers on our stage and in our audience. We inspire, inform and challenge. We grow networks, spark and nurture collaborations, forge lasting communal memories, and generate intention and impact.

  And we want you to be a part of it.

  Our 12-hour flagship event features an incredible lineup of speakers who will leave audience members inspired, challenged, and informed. It includes exclusive live performances from standout local performers, opportunities to meet and talk with the speakers, a great selection of food, plus new taste sensations from local artisan producers, all-day barista-made coffee, a swag bag, purposeful networking, a rooftop after-party and more.

  Register here.

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• Brisbane 'Business For Good' Drinks & Networking

  • When
    25 October 2023
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    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Brisbane Business Hub

  Come and join Brisbane's 'business for good' community for a night of casual drinks, good company and great networking. Meet purpose-led founders, social business leaders and all-round good people doing great things. This event is proudly brought to you by Impact Boom, QSEC and Social Traders. We will sell out, so reserve your ticket now.

  
  

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• Business for Good Summit: Shaping the Purpose Economy

  • When
    31 October 2023
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  The Social Traders Social Enterprise Summit - Bringing together the social enterprise sector, with business and government members leading the charge in business for good.   

  Join us as we advocate for a more inclusive and equitable Australia - centred around both social enterprise and social procurement, the summit will showcase how doing business for good is now expected and how you can achieve it! 

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• Women in Business: Business Scaling 101

  • When
    09 November 2023
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Brisbane Business Hub Level 2 155 Queen Street Brisbane City, QLD 4000

  Learn about Business Scaling 101 with Brisbane's Women In Business Program.

  Join the Brisbane Business Hub and Fleur Madden to discuss business scaling.

  Book tickets and learn more here!

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• Women In Business: Taking Your Brand and Marketing to the Next Level

  • When
    30 January 2024
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    9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Brisbane Business Hub Level 2 155 Queen Street Brisbane City, QLD 4000

  It’s a fresh new year and it’s time to stop and take stock of where you are and where you wish to go this 2024. The market has changed dramatically,

  the marketing tactics, channels and trends have altered over the last 6 months due to rises in interest rates, wage rises, migration and other economic factors.

  In this fresh, new workshop, Michelle will talk us through:

  • 2024 Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore
  • The 9Ps to an Effective Marketing Strategy
  • Your People, Your Message, Your Difference – The Key to a Successful Flow of Clients

  
  

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