Mike O'Hagan Travels from QLD
Fee Range: .Up to $5000
Mike O'Hagan's Biography
MiniMovers, has been the recipient of a number of
high profile awards including the 2000 Queensland Medium Employer of the year,
2000 Australian National Training Authority’s Australian Excellence in
Training, 2003 Telstra and Queensland Government’s Small Business of the year
and 2005 Queensland Government Office of Fair Trading – Inaugural TradeSmart
Consumer Award.
After being raised on a Dairy Farm in New Zealand,
at the age of 18 Mike arrived in Australia with a few hundred dollars in his
pocket and a pack on his back. Over the next 8 years he worked for 35 different
employers. In his words "I'm a product of the many really bad, and the few
good, employers I worked for".
This background helped to influence Mike to
"do it differently" in business.
His business career started with buying and selling
goods as a second-hand dealer. Four years later the entrepreneur in Mike
surfaced when he launched a short distance furniture removal business. This
evolved into MiniMovers.
MiniMovers has evolved into an innovative market
leader, growing from an initial investment of $200 and a Ute, to an annual
turnover exceeding $23 million with over 320 employees. Now 22 years old,
MiniMovers currently moves over 1200 homes and offices a week in Southeast
Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney.
Through various government sponsored
assistance/mentoring programs Mike has helped many hundreds of businesses. As a
result Mike has developed some very alternative views of the success factors
that drive people and businesses. Mike sees his strengths in his basic
commonsense approach - "out of the box" thinking, leadership,
systems, marketing, people management skills, workplace culture, innovative
products, and creative customer service strategies.
Mike talks from practical experience by either
telling the MiniMovers story or sharing from recent experiences involving the
latest trends and business opportunities.
In short, Mike will adjust his presentation to suit
the audience.
Being successful means Mike rarely charges for
speaking. He has an immense passion for creating entrepreneurs, believing the
future of all Australian lifestyles comes from entrepreneurship.
Mike can be controversial. He has a lot to say
around the inadequacies of our education system, how entrepreneurship is not
actively encouraged in Australia and how we are rapidly falling behind due to
our critical culture and lack of advanced learning. He notes the vast majority
of Australian business owners have a "manager" mindset that leads to
them owning a job. This he believes comes from the wrong way
"business" is taught and encouraged.
Takeaways include:
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Practical tips and ideas to build a growth culture
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A change in mindset/view of business and what
everyone can get from their business
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An insight into the opportunities technology and
globalisation are creating.
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Less emphasis on "money" and more on
product and delivery, including outstanding customer experiences as the key
drivers to wealth.
Speaking Topics Include
Why Outsourcing
SUCKS!
Mike O'Hagan presents to Business Owners the
shortcomings and BIG advantages for staffing options available to SME's in
today's Marketplace without losing your present Australian staffing.
During the GFC - Minimovers was in trouble with changing customer habits and
falling profit margins. Listen to How in this situation, he saved over 200
Australian jobs and grew business to a new level of operation.
Changing when
change is needed.
Mike O'Hagan, Founder owner or MiniMovers - Telstra
Business of the Year took a massive hit when the GFC hit. Mike's sharing how he
had to change himself and his business to meet the new Challenges GFC.
Mike's story is full of practical solutions to restart business growth when
your market changes, your staff bailout and the bank becomes unfriendly.
No matter what size or type of business you have - Mike's story has value for
you. This is new, its different and it has immense take home value.
Outsourcing VS
Offshoring
Understanding the differences in the services
available to Small and Medium Business in the Age of Globalisation. How can
Today's SME can play with the big boys on a micro budget effectively increase
profit margins.
Mike O'Hagan presents the pitfalls and the best practices of this industry to
assist Business Owners through this minefield and come out a WINNER.
You Don't Know
What you ARE Capable until You are TESTED.
With serious RED INK and staff walking out the door
of your business What do YOU do? You have to options lay down or adapt. Mike
O'Hagan chose to ADAPT. As the owner of Minimovers, some BIG changes had to
happen and quickly to prevent foreclosure.
With the responsibility of over 400 Australian families income in his hands,
Mike O'Hagan shares in his presentation the TOUGH decisions that saved his
organisation and these families future income post GFC.