The Business Resilience Breakfast hosted on Tuesday 18 February brought together local business owners and industry professionals for an insightful morning of networking and learning.

Dr. Kate Burk shared invaluable strategies on building business resilience, risk management, and performance improvement tailored to regional businesses.

Attendees had the chance to connect with peers, exchange ideas, and gain practical tools to strengthen their businesses.

Moira Shire Council extends sincere thanks to all attendees and our host for making the event a success.

Business networking and workshops like these play a vital role in fostering collaboration, innovation, and preparedness within our community.

We’re excited to continue supporting local businesses through the upcoming Business Resilience Workshops in March.

These engaging, hands-on workshops have been developed specifically for Moira Shire business owners and their staff.

Each session explores different aspects of business management, resilience and adaptability – so you and your teams will benefit more by attending both sessions.

These workshops are free to attend.

Topics to be addressed include:

• Adaptability and resilience; strengthen your resilience so you and your business can adapt to disaster and chaos.
• Business strategy and planning; how and why to adopt regular planning rhythms.
• Communicating for impact; communicate more effectively with others.
• Managing risk in business; tools to help you proactively identify and manage risk.
• Emotional intelligence; strengthen your emotional state, better understand and engage with others around you.
• Growing your business; strategies and tools to scale sustainably in any business.
• Post-Program support; where to find ongoing support for you and your team.

Kate Burke founded Think Agri Pty Ltd after identifying a need for corporate and institutional investors to have access to astute experience based advice when considering key agri-investment decisions. Knowing the right questions to ask is fundamental to sound decision making. Kate’s 26 years of experience forms a library of critical questions to ask about any agricultural investment.

Kate also recognised that leading farm families could further improve their performance by taking the lead from corporate business practices when it comes to business planning and reporting. This is especially the case for any farm business considering intergenerational succession or contemplating accessing external capital from sources other than traditional debt funding via lending institutions.

Kate is a highly experienced independent farm consultant with a PhD in agronomy. Kate spent time in the corporate sector as commercial manager of one of the largest grain producers in Australia and knows what it takes to run a profitable farm business.

This background enables Think Agri to offer the very best strategic advice and guidance to investors and family farmers alike.

Equally comfortable in boots or suits, Kate’s great people skills and high level of expertise can help you to thrive in the agricultural industry, so contact us today to find out more.

The Business Resilience Program is jointly funded by the Australian and Victorian Governments Flood Recovery and Resilience support.