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John Groarke
In summary I am a mentor to services-oriented enterprises and early stage start-ups.
Please refer to my LinkedIn profile for an always up-to-date overview - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngroarke/.
In 2005, I decided to also pursue a ‘giving back’ strategy and I dedicate as much pro-bono time as I can to the support of small businesses. In particular; NSW Enterprise Workshop (closed), Women in Film and Television NSW, and now SBMS. I also mentor on these four initiatives:
#1 | CSIRO ON Prime - an entry level, part-time pre-accelerator that helps research teams validate their research and discover a real world application for it
#2 | Practera for Educators - Global Scope - Business Project Program - where small teams of multi-disciplinary international and domestic undergraduates from Western Sydney University and The University of Sydney work on a real-life business project for a local public or private sector enterprise
#3 | The University of Sydney Business School - Genesis Program - where the most promising start-ups from The University of Sydney's alumni, students and staff community are mentored to accelerate their commercial and social enterprises
#4 | INTERCHANGE - a virtual employability & entrepreneurship challenge designed to build the employability and resilience of university students.
I know that I can make a positive and valuable difference to service-oriented businesses, as well as any product business keen to introduce or improve services and/or solutions.
Skills:
- Planning-
- Online-
- Management-
- Marketing-
- Sales-
Industries:
- Education and training-
- Manufacturing-
- Professional, scientific and technical services-
- Wholesale trade-
- Administrative and support services-
- Information media and telecommunications-
- Hairdressing and Beauty Industry-
Spoken Languages:
State: New South Wales
Primary Locations:
- Central and North Sydney-
- Hunter and Central Coast-
- Illawarra and South East NSW-
- South & South West Sydney-
- Sydney Markets-
- West Sydney and Blue Mountains-
Locations by request:
- Far South West-
- Murray and Riverina-
- New England-
- North Coast and Mid North Coast-
- Riverina-
- Western NSW-
- (I will also travel to these areas and will be delighted to do so if you request that. Though I support mentees in these areas by Skype and that has been very effective.)
Mentoring available by:
- In Person, Face to Face in (New South Wales) or by Phone and online
Current Occupation:
Principal | JEGMC (John E Groarke Management Consultant) | www.jegmc.com Senior Partner | FindaConsultant | www.findaconsultant.com
Detailed CV:
In 2005, I decided to also pursue a ‘giving back’ strategy and I dedicate as much pro-bono time as I can to support small businesses. In particular; NSW Enterprise Workshop (closed), Women in Film and Television NSW, and now SBMS.
I also mentor on these four initiatives:
-
CSIRO ON Prime, an entry level, part-time pre-accelerator that helps research teams validate their research and discover a real world application for it
-
Practera for Educators - Global Scope - Business Project Program, where small teams of multi-disciplinary international and domestic undergraduates from Western Sydney University and The University of Sydney work on a real-life business project for a local public or private sector enterprise
-
The University of Sydney Business School - Genesis Program, where the most promising start-ups from The University of Sydney's alumni, students and staff community are mentored to accelerate their commercial and social enterprises
-
INTERCHANGE, a virtual employability & entrepreneurship challenge designed to build the employability and resilience of university students.
I know that I can make a positive and valuable difference to service-oriented businesses and early stage start-ups.
Summary
I have been a management consultant since 1980/1 working for global and local firms in senior client-facing and back-office roles.
Currently, I am:
- Principal of a consulting firm that works with services and services-led enterprises to develop sustainable and profitable enterprises. My whole approach is a mentor-based one and my clients are consultants, professional advisors and product businesses which want to add services and/or solutions to their portfolio.
- Senior Partner in a joint venture that provides a lead generation service for consultants.
I also:
- have provided business mentoring services to clients of the Australian Government’s Enterprise Connect initiative
- run workshops on consulting and professional advisory topics for some NSW BECs
- teach courses for the University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education on consulting topics.
Qualifications:
- Post-graduate Diploma in Computing Science - University of Glasgow
- B Sc (Computational Science & Statistics) - University of Dundee
