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Key Points for Leanne Faulkner

  • Leanne Faulkner is the founder of  multi million dollar skincare brand Billie Goat Soap. which she sold in 2012.
  • Leanne works as a small business mental health advocate and won the COSBOA Small Business Champion award in 2015 for her work in the mental health sector.
  • She recently partnered with the Federal Government, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman plus Beyond Blue to develop and launch the new small business wellbeing site – My Business Health.
  • She has two published research reports on the NSW Government, State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) website researching the mental health of micro-business owners and soletraders.
  • Leanne Faulkner is a lecturer for the University of Newcastle, teaching small business growth and innovation. 

 

Topics for Leanne Faulkner

  • Mental health for micro business owners and sole traders
    Workplace mental health has been a very hot topic throughout the pandemic, Leanne Faulkner can facilitate both online webinars and face-to-face keynotes for businesses wanting to learn more about how they might help and support their small business clients. In addition, Leanne can also assist industry associations wanting to help their members who most often are micro-businesses themselves. 
  • Working well – The elixir to small business success
    This keynote emphasises how workplace wellness is the key to workplace success in small business – especially for solopreneurs. Drawing on my own experience as a small business owner this presentation explores how to recognise the signs when we’re not working well and provides practical steps to address the imbalance. Attendees leave with ideas and strategies they can easily apply in their own business environment demonstrating that an investment in themselves is the best investment they can make to their business success.
  • Working wellness in
    This keynote addresses how small business owners can build resilience and wellness without sacrificing valuable work time. Too often approaches to mentally healthy workplaces include strategies that simply don’t work in small business. This keynote provides practical and realistic ideas to support small business owners to work well in their business using strategies that fit with the realities of small business ownership. Attendees leave with a list of practical, often fun, self-care ideas they can apply immediately in their own workplace.
  • Creating a mentally healthy small business
    Do you want to address employee wellbeing but just don’t know where to begin? It’s often challenging talking about mental health in small business environments because our workplace is quite small and intimate. It takes confidence to address wellbeing topics head on! This keynote provides business owners with a roadmap to know how to have mental health discussions in the workplace and manage the wellbeing of their small business employees. The audience will learn how building a mentally healthy workplace is so much more than fruit baskets and lunchtime yoga!
  • Workplace wellness – Not just for your employees
    Do you know how to improve the working relationship you have with your small business customers? This keynote explores how corporate workplaces can provide mental health support to their small business clients. It explains the value of business connections and how reaching out beyond a business transaction adds value to a business relationship. It provides easily applied ideas to connect with small business customers including how to identify a customer in distress and direct them to professional support. It also presents easy and interesting ways to connect with the small business community to ensure all interactions add value to the business process.

Testimonials for Leanne Faulkner

Leanne Faulkner was an outstanding presenter, inspired us with her story and gave us sound practical tips.
Sharrock Pitman Legal Pty. Ltd.

Relevant content, genuine delivery, communicated well.
Action Coach Australia New Zealand

In all instances of observing Leanne Faulkner present, either in person or online, I have found her to be an extremely engaging presenter.  Leanne speaks with great passion, as well as great knowledge.  Leanne courageously shares her own experience of situational depression during a tough trading time when she was running her own small business.  Leanne is able to adeptly weave the story of her own experience into key messaging relevant to the event.  Leanne presents with great confidence and authenticity, which enables her to effectively engage her audience.  Leanne is a compelling presenter and I have no hesitation in commending her as a speaker and communicator.
beyondblue

Leanne Faulkner is the current Small Business champion for COSBOA and is a passionate, skilled and experienced business person. Leanne is the only person I know of who is solely focussed on the mental health of the self employed, an issue that has been ignored for too long. I absolutely recommend Leanne as a contact as for anyone interested in the health of small business people and indeed for any business issues.
COSBOA

Leanne Faulkner is a skilled and engaging public speaker and advocate for small business.
Safe Work Australia