Build your Ideal Business, connect with a professional Perth Business Coach.

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PAUL MANNING

MBA (Finance);  B.Sc.Agric. (Econ) UWA;  Dip. Project Management

Phone: (+61) 424 568 874

Profit Mentor! Business Coach, Business Advisor and Strategic Planning Professional and Leadership Mentor.

Partner with Perth Business Coach Paul Manning to build your Ideal Business.

My clients grow their businesses, fix their cashflow, get their life back and realize the full value of their business asset to keep or sell.

HOW I HELP
✔ I Promote local businesses and Connect and Educate SME owners to give them more BUSINESS, more TIME and more INCOME.

WHAT I BRING
✔ Diverse and broad experience as MD/CEO/COO/GM/Director/Coach
✔ Three continents and Multiple Countries/Sectors/Cultures/Organizations/Environments
✔ Builder of Multiple Businesses/Growth stories/Mergers/Turn-arounds
✔ Deep understanding of the challenges unique to moving between countries and continents (as ex-pat and migrant) and the nuances of running businesses in new environments.
If you own an SME business, the lines between personal development and business performance are often blurred. Your business success can influence you, and can be influenced by you.

As your Professional Perth-based Business Coach, I focus on building your business and fixing CASHFLOW and TIME STRESS in your business. This will free you to turnaround and live a life full of more of the things you really want by having the Ideal Business.

You may not understand it yet, but this applies even more if you plan to sell a business. By having a business coach to structure and facilitate your succession plan or exit plan actually means you’ll have a better business and the tools to transition to a full life now. Getting a business to the point it is ready for sale may improve it so much that you make the decision NOT to sell!

Book a personal one-on-one strategy session and learn the 4 Futures of business, and the three areas you must focus on, together with nine projects that will fix your business and free you to a fuller life.

All of the greatest athletes and stellar performers in any field have achieved their best results by surrounding themselves with a specialist team of Advisors, Coaches, Mentors and Support staff. It makes sense to draw on people with skills, knowledge and experience, and their network of connections to fill gaps that would take too long to learn if you had to experience the same mistakes for yourself.

WHO I HELP
As a Business Coach, when I chat to business owners, this is what I hear:
• “It’s harder than I thought it would be”
• “It’s taking longer than I thought”
• “Cashflow is an issue”
• “My P&L says I’m making a profit, but I don’t see it in my bank account”
• “I’m stressed and working long hours”
• “Pricing is a problem in my industry”

And yet, these owners feel like they have a good business but they just don’t know how to take it to the next level.

✔ SO, THAT’S WHAT I DO.
✔ I COME IN AND HELP FIX THAT.

Connect with me to learn how you can take back control of your future.

Call: ✆ +61 424 568 874 Mobile
Email: ✉ paul@paul-manning.com.au

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I’m a Business Coach and Mentor, with accreditation as an Approved Advisor with Australia’s Advisory Board Centre. I am an experienced senior executive, successfully operating in family businesses, local business units, public listed corporations and regional multinationals. With comprehensive C-suite leadership abilities, managing personnel in complex and dynamic environments including in highly regulated Australian organisations and in overseas emerging markets.

As a strategic thinker and experienced practitioner of Strategic Planning and business modelling, I have proven abilities to critically analyse macro problems and develop and lead a vision to deliver solutions for stakeholders. (See Case Studies Here).

With profit-centre and change-management responsibilities, I have proven success in start-ups, mergers, project management, strategic business turnarounds and restructuring. I’ve launched new brands, created and delivered innovative financial marketing schemes, and built highly-driven leadership teams in multiple countries and across varied sectors.  Highly versatile, with a positive get-it-done attitude and exceptional communication and people management skills, I coach you to ask yourself the right questions to reach your Ideal Business goals.

BIO

Growing up in Zimbabwe, attended university in South Africa and then completed B.Sc. university studies in Perth at University of Western Australia, I also completed an MBA with a Finance major and hold a Diploma in Project Management.

Having lived and worked in some of the most interesting and challenging economic environments imaginable, including living through Zimbabwe’s war of Independence, economic sanctions, price controls, economic readjustment and subsequent legendary hyperinflation and financial collapse, I am qualified “by experience” as well – and can bring a depth of problem-solving and solution-finding that few other business coaches can offer.

With expatriate contracts in Zambia to open a new registered financial institution, and assisting in managing its subsequent merger, and leading business turnarounds in another business in Zambia and then Tanzania, I have unique emerging-market experience, including managing businesses in challenging environments of currency fluctuation and capital controls, and within extended periods of rapidly shifting social norms and regulatory upheaval.

In between, I also worked for lengthy periods in Perth in the finance sector and in the construction sector, managing businesses to deliver rapid growth in mature and highly competitive first-world markets.

Most recently, establishing private web-based and consulting businesses as an Advisor and Coach to assist others to navigate their success in their own businesses and get your business ready for sale. Like I said before: Your business should always be ready for sale – that is when it’s most valuable for you to keep.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Broad industry experience, with corporate experience across multiple sectors and exposure to financial analysis and business models in multiple countries. Particularly:

  • Logistics and Distribution
  • Agribusiness
  • Banking and Finance
  • Equipment Leasing
  • FMCG (particularly Food Manufacturing)
  • Construction (particularly Glass and Aluminium)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Business Advisory and Consulting
  • Strategic Planning
  • Project Management
  • Risk Analysis (Credit Risk / Contractual Risk / Strategic Risk Mitigation)
  • Systems and Operations (Policy, Regulation, ISO Audit)
  • Business Growth Opportunities
  • Turnarounds
  • Restructuring
  • Change Management
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Sales Management
  • Brand Launch

MEMBERSHIPS AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • MBA (Finance)
  • B. Sc. (Agric) (Econ)
  • Diploma of Project Management
  • Australian Institute of Banking and Finance (lapsed)
  • (Past) Vice President Ndola and Districts Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • (Past) Vice Chair Simba School Board
  • Committee member Stirling Business Association

Contact Paul here for a free Strategy Session or simply book COFFEE WITH A COACH.

phone: (+61) 424 568 874

email: paul@paul-manning.com