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About Us

The firm was set up as an Independent Strategic Management Consulting firm, based in Melbourne, Australia.

The firm has a wide range of uses skills and experience gained over a combined 150 years in business delivering assignments over a wide range of industrial, B2B and consumer sectors.

We love working at the Strategy Level to help our clients to improve their business.

 

About Our Consultants and Associates

Steve Wood
BSc CDipAF MBA CEng MIMeche MIMC MAICD
Director

Steve is skilled in Strategy and Business Planning with 20 years experience in business in Europe, USA and Australia.

Steve has worked at senior levels in blue-chip organisations such as Ford Motor Company's components business and RAC plc.

Steve now runs Success Enterprises Consulting Pty Ltd.

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Chris Thomson
M Marketing (Monash), CPM, AMI, FIMC
Associate

Chris is skilled in marketing and business management.

He has a seat on the Federal Board of the Institute of Management Consultants in Australia and is immediate past president of the Victorian Chapter.

With experience in Australia and overseas, Chris helps companies to plan and grow their business using innovation, marketing and strategy.

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Helene Strawbridge
MOrgPsych, Grad Dip Information Systems, B. Bus (Banking and Finance), MAPS, ICF ACC
Associate

Helene has over 20 years experience in information technology, managing and implementing engagement and projects in the telecommunications, health, banking and financial sectors.

Helene works with clients to provide solutions to business problems involving organisation structuring, senior management staff professional development and developing high performers for business growth.

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Gene Stark 
MIMC
Associate 

Gene is exceedingly good at strategic marketing and marketing communications.

Gene owns and runs Stark Reality Marketing and works with Business-to-Business (B2B) and Professional Services companies facing the difficult task of finding, attracting, and retaining customers on a limited marketing budget in increasingly competitive environments.

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Robin Power
BEng (Birmingham), MEng (Cambridge), CEng
Associate & Trusted Business Partner

Robin is a highly skilled consultant who has over 10 years of experience in  providing consulting services in business improvement, change facilitation and project management.

Robin's focus is now on helping businesses to create new partnerships and alliances or make existing ones work better.

Robin is MD Asia Pacific of Affinity MakerTM and is a Trusted Business Partner of Success Enterprises Consulting Pty Ltd.

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Mike Williams
BAppSc, MBA
Associate

Mike is skilled at operations management and business valuation.

Mike focuses on helping private business owners extract and be rewarded for the value they have created in their business over the years.

Mike's clients have ranged from small micro businesses to larger privately owned manufacturing businesses with revenue exceeding A$20 m pa.

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Francoise Garnier
MEcon
Associate

Francoise is skilled in Market Research with 30 years experience in business.

Francoise has worked in Australia and overseas, at senior levels for blue-chip companies like Hoescht, Phillip Morris and Bunge Foods.

She now acts as an independent market research consultant.

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Manny Vassal
MEng (Aero) MBA (Edinburgh)
Associate & Trusted Business Partner

Manny is skilled in Strategy, Planning, Governance, Finance and Sales & Marketing having nearly 20 years of experience.

He has worked for Accenture, Royal Bank of Scotland and NAB in Australia and overseas.

Manny is a Director at BSB Australia, which is a Trusted Business Partner of Success Enterprises Consulting Pty Ltd.

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