“While SME businesses tend to be lumped into one broad category, the transition from small business to medium business is significant and often difficult to navigate. Not only are staff numbers increasing, but the calibre, qualifications, experience, and career expectations of the team increase too. This contributes to the challenges of engaging, empowering and leading a high-performing team.

As operators in the SME space, lots of our early success comes from hard work, grit, resilience, and instinct. That can only get one so far. To truly flourish and push beyond to the next level, it’s important to learn the skills that the corporate leaders employ, and the Decinar program helped me do just that.

The research and insights, skilfully moderated by Ian McLean, gave me a better understanding of the psychology of the workplace, and helped me develop greater confidence to approach tricky situations. It provided an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded business people and know that my challenges were not unique.”

Managing Director, Empire Financial Group, East Perth, WA