Testimonials

HOLMANS

Greg Holman, founder of the Holmans Group and Managing Director of Accountants Insurance Services.

                       

"A number of Holmans staff have attended the 3 day Stratacore Business Advisor Training program to provide them with the required business development and consulting skills to assist clients grow and improve their businesses. The directors of Holmans are now running their second seminar in conjunction with the Stratacore team titled “25 Traits of a Successful Business”. Over 40 business owners attended the first seminar. These seminars are a great way of not only adding value to your existing business clients but also a means of attracting new business clients to your accounting firm. Whilst I am no longer involved in the day to day operations of the Holmans Group the directors see their association with Stratacore as a means of assisting current business clients to improve their businesses as well as attracting new business clients who require and expect this high level advice."

WMS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

Leschen Smaller - Partner, WMS are the largest Gold Coast based 2nd tier firm, offering specialist tax and corporate advice to network of accountants and clients.

 

"The Stratacore Business Growth Program has provided us with a well structured tool to assist our clients in ensuring their business continues to operate smoothly. In particular the Business Health Check has provided us with a framework to formulate a proactive and comprehensive plan to ensure that all critical areas of our clients business are attended to and are well considered. The outcome is a win- win situation, our clients are able to put aside some time (which we know is a scarce resource) to think about all aspects of their business, to ensure it runs efficiently and effectively, and we get an opportunity to take our understanding of our clients personal and business goals to another level. As you can imagine this process has proven to be invaluable during the GFC."

ULTON GROUP

Daryl Corpe, Senior Partner – Ulton Group one of Queensland’s largest and most dynamic Accounting and Business Advisory firms.

"A number of Ulton’s partners have recently completed the STRATACORE Maximise Your Business Growth course. We see the Business Growth Programme as a useful tool in helping us to help our clients. Our aim at Ulton is to ensure our clients achieve what they want in life and business, by ensuring that everything is planned appropriately.

The STRATACORE Business Growth Program has had a twofold effect on Ultons’ business and clients. The Business Health Check Report has stimulated good conversation with clients, which has provided us with avenues to allow us to identify a number of potential risks and opportunities within our clients business. Thus, allowing Ulton to develop a systematic, comprehensive and detailed business action plan that we can work through with our clients to ensure their businesses long term growth and prosperity.

STRATACORE has provided Ulton with the framework to ensure that we explore all facets of our clients business and has helped Ulton offer helpful solutions, strategies and ideas to our clients to develop their business. STRATACORE has improved our service offerings to clients and we are happy to recommend STRATACORE."

 

BCP GROUP SERVICES - SYDNEY

Peter Campbell - Partner - When the experience of a Sydney CBD firm is required in the unique setting of Macarthur people turn to BCP.

"We have been offering the Stratacore Program to our clients for over 6 months now. What is most pleasing to us is the positive feedback from clients and business owners who in the past did not believe in planning for their business or the critical areas the Program covers. Clients now see huge value in how they manage their business, what strategies they need in place and the importance to have compliance requirements attended to and completed on time. It’s now not just about the day to day grind of working “in the business” but the importance of planning for the future and working “on the business”. A definite requirement for the serious business owner, irrespective of the size of their business.”

PLAY HARD SPORTS EQUIPMENT

"Since our business growth program with Stratacore, we have completed a manufacturing microscope with QMI and the Dept. of State Development and Trade. This led to a government subsidy for a Lean Manufacturing program by QMI which we are just about to complete.

Our turnover is up, staff levels have increased, "delivery in full on time" has improved, productivity has improved, and we have a better production model in place.

And all this came from the "Maximise Your Business Growth" program."

Trevor Bowman, Director - Play Hard Sports Equipment

SEA PEN

Mark Barber, Managing Director of the high growth manufacturing business Sea Pen, who has 15 employees and also received a COMET grant states:

"I have recently completed the Maximise Your Business Growth course facilitated by STRATACORE. It has been a very valuable experience for our company.

At Sea Pen we are leaders in our field of expertise, we have exceptional products for our customers, however running a business is not just being good technically about what we do. There are so many issues facing business owners and managers and there is no way to know about every issue that may come up.

We found that by doing this course it has uncovered some potential risks and weaknesses we have in our business. By being aware that there are potential issues we can then plan and take action to minimise the effects of these risks.

The course created awareness covering Marketing, Succession planning, necessity of a Corporate Will, Intellectual property, Financial Management, compliance issues and many other risk management strategies. What was exceptional about the course was we then went beyond this simple awareness by developing and implementing a detailed action plan for our business (with assistance from STRATACORE).

We are now armed with not just the knowledge, we have a powerful action plan to implement the learning and turn our business into a much more valuable enterprise and one that is more profitable because we are avoiding costly business mistakes.

I would highly recommend this course for any business owner or manager that wants to improve their business."

 

Mark Barber

Managing Director

Sea Pen

ANZCRO

Debra is a meticulous accountant and possesses that rare quality of being able to combine complex compliance knowledge and accountancy ability with commercial wisdom. Her advice and wise counsel was invaluable as we grew, and I am very grateful for her support over the years.

Owen Eagles – Managing Director
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BURKES PERRAGE & BARONETAGE – UK

I would without hesitation commend Debra as a workplace colleague and as an ambassador for any organisation. Her judgement and advice are shrewd and her mastery not just of the financial facts of a situation but of their potential, and wider still for the organisation at large – are remarkable.

Dr Gordon Pestoungrange - Baron of Prestoungrange
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LINKCOM GROUP

As a small business owner I went to eight potential advisers to assist me on my personal business before I was introduced to Stratacore International Pty Ltd and specifically Debbie Crowther.  Debbie clearly had extensive experience in numerous facets of business having built and operated her own business and assisted hundreds of clients.  In addition I was aware of and have now accessed a network of other business associates of Stratacore. Stratacore prepared a business diagnostic on a segment of our businesses and assisted in the development of the strategy for growth. We were delighted with the results of that diagnostic as it identified not only the massive opportunities we had and the optimum means of capitalising on them, but also the weaknesses in certain areas and advice on how to address each area.

Debbie Bruce – Director of Business Development