With over 30 years experience in banking, finance and journalism Craig James is Chief Economist, Commonwealth Securities, interpreting 'big picture' economic and financial trends for customers, clients and staff. Previously Craig was Chief Economist at Colonial and Craig has worked at the Australian Financial Review as a senior writer.

As well as providing presentations to staff and clients and commentaries on financial and economic trends, Craig appears regularly in the electronic and print media.

Craig holds both Bachelor and Master degrees in Commerce (Economics). Both degrees were undertaken at University of NSW.

On a lighter note Craig was named as one of the top 10 Australians in the 2011 edition of Who's Who and was named amongst the 6 finalists for Men's Health Man 2011.

Jack is the Director and owner of DAIS. His role incorporates his expertise as a strategic Brand Specialist and Creative Director over the four disciplines of new brand development, design, marketing and technology.

He is passionate about brand and the value of building brand as an asset you can own and protect. His folio of brand success stories is evolving to evidence his talents as a skilled branding entrepreneur. A visionary with a unique perspective on the world, Jack manages to deliver against complex briefs to ensure his clients can distinguish themselves and elevate their business in the market place.

David is Australia's most experienced specialist independent IT and process consultant having over 30 years involvement with accounting businesses. He was managing partner of PKF, Sydney; he created PKF CRS and Superfund software, and coaches many small firms. He was the 2003 National President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He has also conducted due dilligence on many firms pre purchase.

David is the advisor to a number of suppliers to the accounting industry including MYOB, BankLink and Count Financial. He also hosts two monthly shows on www.cpe.tv, a internet based TV station for the accounting industry.

Andrew has a reputation of being Australia's most experienced and pragmatic practice development coach specialising in accounting and design professional firms, having spent over thirty years of experience helping improve practice profitability and morale in hundreds of firms across Australia, UK, and the USA. He specialises in expanding a firm's range of services to clients, sits on several listed company boards, is the external chairman of large firms, and coaches SMES, solo practitioners, and individuals who excel in their specialisations.

"Professional service firms are different in that the directors are shareholders, business managers and specialist income generators. This means that they have to do three things well. Often client work takes precedent.

We help practitioners focus on strategic leadership thinking so they develop great businesses that attract great clients, great team members and are profitable."

Ian Stephens is a speaker with a passion for the practical. Voted in the Top 10 Australian Business and Motivational speakers, his messages inspire people to change, and equip them to follow-though.

His messages incorporate his amazing success story and can feature his unbelievable 'National Speedball' routine live on the stage.

He has been booked to speak (or train) consistently for 200 days per year. He presents powerful messages on peak performance, sales effectiveness, customer service, team-building, and dynamic leadership.

Ian is the co-author of 'The 7 Step Pathway to Mastery', a best-selling read around personal and organisational change. His latest book, 'The Seven Universal Laws of Sales Success' is a must read for any sales professional.

Keith Ayers is the CEO of Intégro Leadership Institute, author of Engagement is Not Enough: You Need Passionate Employees to Achieve Your Dream (Elevate, July 2008), and one of the world's most respected experts on the topics of employee engagement, leadership development and workplace trust.

Having joined Intégro as a consultant in 1977, Keith took over the ownership of the organisation in 1982, and developed it to become one of Australia's top specialist leadership development consulting firm. With an increasing proportion of his time allocated away from Australia, Keith moved to Pennsylvania in August 2001, where he grew the U.S. division of Intégro to over 60 certified associates. Keith returned to Australia in 2009.

Known as "Mr Wow!" and by his trademark "f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c," Winston Marsh is a successful businessman, a Past National President of the National Speakers Association of Australia, the inaugural recipient of the Golden Mike Award and has been honoured with the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation in recognition of his professionalism as one of the nation's top business speakers.

Winston Marsh is known as "The Marketing Guru" and has delivered down-to-earth, practical presentations for almost every type of business large and small, local and multinational. In addition he has also worked "hands on" with hundreds of businesses to help them achieve incredible results.

His articles in business journals around the world have enjoyed huge readership and his audio and video programs have helped many businesses to achieve quite stunning results. As a result, he is a regular guest speaker at conferences around the world where he shares his street smart and inspirational ideas to improve business performance.

Mike Conway has a can do, passionate and often off the wall fun approach to life and his work. He is the Business leader and strategist for The Wiggles Group of Companies with the mission of taking the group and its strong brand name and marketing to the world. He is also Director and business leader for Cricketcoach.com, the leading independent provider of cricket learning materials worldwide, a musician and an ageing soccer player.