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Alternative models for business growth [webinar]

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Tuesday 18 June 2024 from 12pm to 1pm

Discover how alternative business models can enrich your business amidst economic challenges with Tom Dawkins, StartSomeGood.

Discover how alternative business models can enrich your business amidst economic challenges with Tom Dawkins, StartSomeGood.

In an era where economic pressures are compounded by the need for sustainable and ethical business practices, business owners must learn to balance competing priorities and business models. Tom Dawkins has been at the forefront of innovative business models and practices for over 20 years, founding, mentoring and training hundreds of business owners in search of sustainable and profitable business models.

Discover how social entrepreneurship and alternative models can not only sustain, but enrich your business amidst economic challenges. Learn how to overcome rising operational costs, blend profit with purpose, contribute to community wealth and achieve sustainable growth.

Key takeaways

  • How alternative business and funding models can help businesses facing rising operational costs

  • Strategies that incorporate profit with purpose

  • How transparency in business practice builds trust and loyalty in competitive marketplaces.

  • Customised learn along resources to support your business growth 

About the speaker

Tom is a social entrepreneur with a passion for using technology and business to build a better world and help others do the same. He is the co-founder of StartSomeGood, an innovation agency and global social enterprise ecosystem builder, and co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of LendForGood, a new impact investment platform.

For over a decade, Tom has been supporting emerging social entrepreneurs around the world to design, test, open and grow social impact projects that increase the pace of innovation for social change. He co-founded the Centre for Social Impact and the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and the ACT (SECNA), the Changemakers Festival with the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), and youth non-profit, Vibewire. He is also a board member at the Centre for Social Impact, Australia's leading social impact research and teaching organisation and has worked with enterprises including TwoGood, Humanitix, FBi Radio, SBS, Good Beer Co, Radio SkidRow, Chocolate on Purpose and The Asylum Seekers Resource Centre.

The Reboot webinar series is brought to you by the City of Sydney, and proudly supported by the Service NSW Business Connect program.

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