UPSKILL - Strategic Business Planning for Growth & Impact in 2025

UPSKILL Professional Development:
"Strategic Business Planning for Growth & Impact in 2025"

As we step into 2025, many consultants find themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum: either feeling overwhelmed with client work or anxious about an empty pipeline.

Our first Benefolk UPSKILL session of 2025 will equip you with practical strategies to navigate these challenges and set your consulting business up for sustainable success.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to create a strategic business development plan that aligns with your capacity and goals
• Practical techniques to manage and leverage high client demand without burning out
• Proven strategies to build and maintain a healthy pipeline of ideal clients
• How to structure your business for sustainable growth while maintaining work-life balance
• Live demo for time blocking attracting, connecting and nurturing relationships

This UPSKILL has been developed specifically for Benefolk's purpose-led consultants and friends, working tirelessly in the social impact sector, but often feel caught between feast and famine cycles. Join us with the Benefolk vibrant community of purpose-driven business owners, all on a mission to amplify their impact without the burning out.

You will be supported by coaches/trainers Jodie Willmer and Rob Nagy from Happy Changemakers, who have worked with more than 350 individuals and businesses on business planning, service packaging sales and marketing, generating profits aligned with purpose and passion. Their guidance has helped clients generate millions in new income streams and grants, free up countless hours of freedom and peaceful night's sleep.

THIS TRAINING IS IDEAL FOR THOSE WHO: 

• Feel overwhelmed with current workload and struggle to maintain work-life balance
• Want to create more predictable income streams
• Need strategies to build and maintain a strong client pipeline
• Are ready to move beyond reactive business development
• Want to scale their impact without sacrificing service quality

Bonus: Hot Seats for 3 participants with live coaching during the workshop with Jodie and Rob.

ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE:

• 2025 Business Development Planning Template
• Ideal Client Qualification Checklist

TICKETS

• Benefolk Network Members - No charge. Please bring your team members along if you wish.
• Friends of Benefolk - $75 per person.

Here at Benefolk, our efforts are to build a wellbeing uplift across the social sector, including the many wonderful consultants and professional service providers. 
For this event - 100% of our ticket sales will go towards our flagship project, The Community Well – Social Sector Wellbeing and Resilience Hub, powered by Benefolk Foundation. 

ABOUT YOUR TRAINERS 

Hear from our most popular UPSKILL presenters - Jodie Willmer and Rob Nagy, co-founders of Happy Changemakers - who have been part of Benefolk community as trainers, consultants and also partners since its inception. They have helped many Benefolk consultants and professional service providers reduce their burnout by building strong and viable consulting practices, that in turn have a great impact in our social sector. Jodie and Rob's experience as business mentors and advisors spans across working with over 500 small businesses, committees of management, communities and stakeholders within the greater Victorian region, being Bushfire Recovery and COVID-19 advisors. Jodie and Rob's strong experience in the not-for-profit, small business and corporate sectors helps changemakers not only thrive in business, but in life.

Jodie and Rob's new book for purpose driven business owners, consultants & service based businesses "Package. Promote. Scale!" is due for release in early-2025.

CAN'T MAKE THE TRAINING, BUT WANT TO UPSKILL IN THIS AREA?
- Get in touch with Jodie or the Benefolk team at hello@benefolk.org  
- Join our mailing list to stay updates about upcoming events

WELCOME TO BENEFOLK COMMUNITY 
Benefolk (formerly The Xfactor Collective) is a community for social changemakers to achieve their impact without burning out. Benefolk has a pre-vetted national network of consultants and professional services, helps connect organisation leaders with services, and provides free resources through its sister charity, Benefolk Foundation. We're also a Certified Social Enterprise and B Corp!