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Matt is a passionate and dedicated student of exceptional performance. He founded Driven From Within with a desire to help schools and their teams engage in continuous and sustainable improvement. With a master’s degree in leadership and Organisational Culture, and application in real world settings, Matt has discovered the power of the intentional, purposeful, and skilful development of personal...

For almost 30 years Brad has worked in Accounting, Finance, ICT and Business Management roles in a variety of corporate and not-for-profit businesses, most recently Education. Brad’s ability to mitigate financial, environmental, and reputational risk as Business Director for Lutheran Education in SA, NT & WA has kept him engaged with the education sector for the last 7 years. Brad diligently p...

Kym has an excess of 25 years experience in the financial services industry, holds a Bachelor of Business, is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Planner. Over the years Kym has specialised in assisting schools to secure and enhance their financial position. Her diverse experience and broad knowledge enable her to create financial strategies to achieve her client's needs and long term financial g...

With a robust background in both educational leadership and technology, Hayden Gyles from Veracross combines a passion for improving school operations with a deep understanding of client needs. Join us as we discuss the changing SIS landscape in Australia, share observational trends, and see how vendors are being evaluated and how schools are resourcing implementations.

Award-winning Speaker Trudy MacDonald from TalentCode HR, shares pearls of wisdom pertaining to Effective School Leadership. From School Councils, Strategies and Building a Culture of Performance, we discuss future trends that may impact the roles of school councils and leadership teams. Highlighting accountability practices, characteristics of high perfomance teams, and balancing strategy and ope...

Join us along with marketing guru Timo Nieuwoudt from Digistorm as we deep dive into the School admissions and marketing arena. Digistorm has developed cutting-edge technologies to streamline school administrative processes. Let's find out how schools are navigating change management, structuring their Teams and how the Business Office can ensure their teams are using tools to the benefit of t...

Discussing recent data and findings on school fee trends from their annual fee insights report, we speak to Anthony McCausland from Feesable. Some of the main challenges, tactics and strategies used by schools to communicate fee changes are discussed along with some valuable feedback from both schools and parents. Anthony founded Feesable out of a desire to create a simple solution to help parents...

School boards, principals and business managers need to make well-informed decisions about financial risk and ensure the financial viability and sustainability of their school. Being able to convert large amounts of school data into easy-to-understand reports to help inform decisions about current and future financial health can be both difficult and time consuming. With us in this episode is our...

Join us as we explore the importance of the school enrolment process for school fee management and the impact of not getting it right. Including loads of practical information, we chat with Alice Carter from Platinum Collection Agency about the vital connection between the enrolment process and fee debt collection. Alice works closely with many schools to achieve cost-effective solutions to collec...

Wicus Wessels has over 15 years of financial experience across many industries and sectors. As Audit Partner at Crowe Audit, he maintains specialist skills in the areas of external audit in the Education sector. Addressing the increasing strain of school finances is a critical issue that many educational institutions face. Wicus interacts frequently with many school leaders about their financial r...

Keeping up to date on law changes is important for any organisation, and it's very important that schools understand the impact on their commercial, employment, finance, building development and enrolment activities. To help us both understand recent updates to legislation and apply these practically to the business of school, we have with us in this episode our guest James Neate. James is a p...

At Cole School Experts, we often see school payrolls with incorrect information, payroll staff spending valuable time searching for correct details, or payroll teams struggling to work effectively with other staff. We get it – oversights happen and navigating payroll can be difficult, but we find that risks and annoyances can be avoided, or at least mitigated, with just a little pre-planning and s...