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A Group of Internationally Experienced Consultants
Every Healthy Business Builder consultant brings a wealth of national and international expertise to his/her role. We have all run our own businesses (many still do) and consult to large corporations, including multi-billion dollar multi-nationals.
Garret Norris
Founder and Principal
Garret Norris is a highly effective business engineer who has a proven track record in working on businesses to improve:
- gross margin and revenue
- horizontal and vertical marketplace penetration
- pipeline development and management
- disciplined and strategic staff appointment, deployment, performance management and training
Afra Abdeen
Business Growth Specialist
With near on a decade of experience working in business development, marketing and sustainability across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, Afra has first-hand experience navigating the world of multinationals and start-ups.
Afra joins the HBB Group after four years of working in Unilever across South East Asia and Australasia. She is well-versed in the navigation of fast paced business environments and has extensive experience in operationalising business strategies by unlocking the capability of people.
John Wright
Senior Partner – Business Growth Specialist
John Wright is a highly driven executive and client focused business leader with vast experience across a variety of corporate disciplines. John has extensive experience working in senior sales and board level roles for large companies such as Bowater Scott, Pura Milk, National Foods, Fairfax Media, Sales Solutions, CROSSMARK and more.
Sarah El-Moselhi
Executive Assistant to the CEO | Facilitator
Sarah El-Moselhi is the HBB Group’s Executive Assistant. She thrives on working within challenging environments, delivering quality input to support the HBB team and an integral part of the company’s rapid and continual growth.
Her extensive background in communications and journalism has provided her with a strong track record in leading newsrooms, as well as the results proven management and training of individuals and teams.
Glenn Dobson
Senior Mentor
Glenn Dobson is the HBB Group’s Senior Mentor. He has built an outstanding reputation as a Personal Mentor, helping individuals of all ages to achieve goals they never thought possible. He is a specialist Business, Health and Sport Mentor.
As an experienced Executive Mentor and Trusted Adviser, Glenn consistently improves the performance of Business Leaders, Managers, Owners and Salespeople and – gets results! Glenn’s Personal Mentoring Program is tailored to the individual in his care.
Carol Cooper
Customer Service Specialist
Carol is a dynamic speaker and facilitator who takes a holistic approach to professional development by working from the inside out.
Her training goals are to inspire her audience to focus on achieving success with personal and professional goals, to be personally accountable for their actions and results and to focus on taking care of customers, using their Sparkle Skills to create positive Customer experiences with every service interaction. She does this by drawing on her vast life experience, NLP techniques, psychology of success strategies and hands-on activities.
Brendon Walker
Sales, Marketing & Business Strategist
Acknowledged by his clients and peers as a thought leader, Brendon Walker is recognised for having a broad and exceptionally unique skill set that draws from his 15+ years’ experience in both sales and marketing. He excels at client service, relationship management, and creating customer experience strategies.
Maud Vanhoutte
Effective Communication Specialist
Maud Vanhoutte is a soft skills specialist in communication, body language, and presentation skills, with a strong focus on leadership and management. She has 10+ years of experience in facilitating interactive and dynamic corporate training workshops across varying industries.
Her supreme approach comes with a unique pedagogy: interactive and dynamic! With the highest integrity, Maud provides authentic coaching and training from the heart, with passion and purpose. Empathetic, intuitive and creative are some of her qualities. She works with an array of clients: corporate, non-profit organisations, individuals, job seekers, and community groups.
Mia Van Tubbergh
Business Growth Specialist
With over 20 years of B2B and B2C Sales, Mia Van Tubbergh is passionate about training productive and profitable sales teams. Mia is highly effective in building sales strategy and is determined to put the flair back in the sales industry. Mia is a strong proponent of HBB Group’s acceleration.
Caroline Arnold
London
Business Growth Specialist
Caroline works collaboratively with clients in supporting them to overcome their diversity challenges in their business. She has a proven experience in designing and delivering engaging diversity and unconscious bias training programmes helping organisations identify their core strengths. Caroline provides measurable recommendations on how management and their teams can make the most of their diverse abilities.
Caroline’s reputable clients include: Johnson Matthey, Magnox, British Land, Dounreay Site Restoration, Civil Aviation Authority, Dyson, Gazprom, Local Government Association, NHS East of England, PRS 4 Music, Saint Gobain and Smurfit Kappa.
Peter Carblis
BSc (Hons), Cert IV TAE, Grad Dip Ed, M Ed, Ph D
Peter Carblis has extensive experience and qualifications in many areas relating to organisational culture, organisational learning and organisational development, this includes:
- Operational Processes
- Governance
- Learning and Development
- Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Tim Kitching
Senior Consultant
Tim Kitching holds more than 20 years’ experience leading teams and businesses across corporate Australia, the private sector, government and law enforcement, and brings a unique perspective through his areas of expertise; ranging from strategic planning, sales strategy and performance, high performance coaching to cultural change and staff engagement.