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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jan Marsden
HR Specialist
Jan Marsden is an experienced and proven HR specialist with a broad business background in Senior and Executive Management.
Clients in a variety of industries have benefited from Jan’s HR experience and knowledge as she imparts practical leadership strategies, effective change management instruction and operational knowledge that positively impacts people and culture.
Michael Morgan
Senior Sales Specialist
Michael is an experienced, result-oriented Sales Director, trainer, coach, and mentor. He posses strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, having spent more than 20 years training and coaching throughout South East Asia, Europe, and the United States.
He can establish and maintain strong partnerships and alliances, lead and motivate Sales teams, and run experiential training/facilitation programs. Michael also has earned the admirable reputation of continually exceeding customer expectations and at the same time delivering bottom-line results.
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.
Chris Muir
Sales Trainer for the Real World
Chris comes to the HBB Group with 30 years’ experience in Sales, Marketing, Communications and Training, specialising in understanding modern B2B and B2C sales processes.
Aimee Kostrubic
Office Support
Aimee is the groups office support, with her strengths and capabilities covering all departments. With her extensive experience in people management and guidance, her capabilities to genuinely engage with clients and customers comes naturally.
Sam MacQueen
Executive Coach and Facilitator
Sam is an executive coach and facilitator with a focus on high performance, teams and well-being. He utilises evidence-based approaches to shape effective bespoke interventions and support his clients to reach their desired outcomes in all facets of their life. A key component of this is the holistic and systemic overlays he applies to his processes.
Julian Khursigara
Business Growth Specialist
Julian Khursigara is a Business Growth Specialist with above standard expertise in Saas Sales.
For more than 15 years Julian has been embedded in leading enterprise and marketing businesses. His mastery lies within the hospitality, airline, customer engagement, CX and fintech industries. Julian’s stand-out achievements involve the exceptional use of data insights to develop sales strategies, P&L Management and building profitable partnerships across Australia and Asia Pacific. Julian is an asset to the team.
Peter Ollerton
Sales Strategy Specialist
Peter is a sales and business growth specialist with international experitise.
With over 40 years’ experience globally across a multitude of technology industries, Peter sets an industry benchmark in IT Growth and Sales training.
As a highly respected business operator, Peter excels across all platforms and has helped teams as well as individuals in global corporate companies through to SME and small business.
Mark Hamon
Integrated Management Specialist
Mark Hamon is a highly experienced business leader with 17+ years’ experience across a wide variety of business management, risk and resilience disciplines. Mark is highly passionate about integrated management, business risk, continuous improvement, culture, strategy and planning. Drawing upon real-world experience across private sectors, government and defence force services, Mark has provided his skills and leadership to organisations across Australia, Europe and North America. Mark is a power player for KONA with a defence and offence approach to business growth in a dynamic environment or times of uncertainty.
Russell Wilce
Business Growth Specialist
Russell graduated from Westminster Hotel School, in the heart of London, catapulting him into working with some of the city’s top five-star hotels, focusing on his core ability of strengthening the skillset of the customers service teams, as well as establishing a strong symbiotic relationship between customer service operations and the sales teams.
Will Hyde
Junior Consultant
Will Hyde is an aspiring marketing graduate who is developing an all-around, versatile, and adaptable skillset in both Sales and Marketing. With a resolute commitment to learning, Will already exhibits strengths in Personal Selling, CRM, Digital Marketing and Developing marketing strategy.