Who We Are

Making Business Smarter...

Stratacore are experts in business growth and have provided education to over 4000 professionals, business owners and members of industry bodies.


Unfortunately good intentions, passion and great products don’t always secure long term business success. Stratacore’s founder, Debbie Crowther FCA, B. Bus saw the sufferings of many of her prominent clients in the Japanese crash of the 1990s, and since then, the preventable collapses of far too many good companies.


She left accounting a decade ago to focus on assisting successful businesses to finesse their operations in vital, but not always fully understood areas, from IP to identifying and protecting real strategic assets. Stratacore is resolved on preventing great businesses from becoming statistics.


For our programs we bring elite, practising experts from across the country to the table, to share their up-to-the-minute knowledge and extensive experience.


Stratacore champions a collaborative approach, liaising with business operators, accountants, industry establishments and other members of the business community to improve business’s performance Australia wide.


Along with educating business owners and professionals directly, Stratacore have provided, and continues to provide, education for numerous high profile organisations, including:

  • Institute of Chartered Accountants
  • CPA Australia
  • Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
  • AusIndustry

 

STRATACORE FOUNDER AND CEO
Debbie Crowther

“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 and CEO of Burke’s Peerage

 

Debbie Crowther FCA, B.Bus, founder of the Stratacore Group, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a business growth expert, having commenced in the industry 29 years ago. Assignments and clients include both domestic and international businesses ranging from small businesses to multi-nationals.

 

Career highlights:

- At age 25 Debbie became the first female partner of a national accounting firm (Nelson Wheeler, now BDO) and by age 26 had completed her Bachelor of Business degree, as well as obtained the additional qualifications of Chartered Accountant, Registered Auditor, Registered Tax Agent and Qualified Trainer. Subsequently she was short-listed as Australian Young Accountant of the Year.

-  In January 1986, was sent to the Gold Coast at just 21 years of age to start an accounting firm for a second tier Sydney firm to complete work for Japanese companies and, within a few years, securing clients with Australian assets in excess of $1billion with fee base in excess of $1million fee base.

- In 2000, engaged by a multi-national and flown to the UK frequently to develop their international strategic plans.

- Achieving significant Government recognition, including a $325,400 Federal Government grant to conduct training programs for small businesses and appointment as the Convenor of the Gold Coast Mentoring for Growth program for the Queensland Government