Creative Entrepreneurship – The Artists of Commerce

Date		Sat 28 Mar 2009
Time		3:00pm
Venue		SLQ Auditorium 2 - Enter Level 2 through the security and cloak room. See Level 2 map here - Level 2 Map
Stream		Development and Design
Format		Panel session

3pm – 4pm
FREE

Meet six creative entrepreneurs; the artists of commerce.

Edgeware founder Michael Doneman interviews freelance photographer Jane Ryder, Mike Boyd from Colybar Keg Hire, freelance business writer Rebecca Leigh, Natalie Duncan from Qld Film Locations and Ron Crump from Human Productivity Consultants about the sustainable, meaningful and worthy businesses they have created.

	Michael Doneman - Michael is founding director of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship. He has a background in community cultural development which inspired developmental work in communities (including Indigenous and rural-remote communities) in enterprise development, vocational education and training, and information technology. In the course of this activity he developed considerable expertise in informal education, the ‘just-in-time’ provision of skills, networks and interactions necessary to meet individual and community needs. He is a longtime supporter of Denmark’s KaosPilots business school, and sits on the Board of KaosPilot International. Michael was a Senior Research Fellow at QUT from 2002-2005 and consults with the ATN University network’s new e-Grad School on knowledge transfer and research commercialisation. He founded the Edgeware model of ethical entrepreneurship development in 2006.

	Jane Ryder - Twenty-year-old Townsville photographer Jane Ryder left high school with no idea what to do with her life. Not wanting to go straight to uni, she picked up some casual work as a photographer with the Townsville Bulletin. Since then she has been developing a career as a freelance photographer with a focus on producing “real photos of real people”.

	Mike Boyd - In 2007, 19-year-old Brisbane-based entrepreneur Mike Boyd founded Coolybar Keg Hire, which specialises in mobile Keg Hire and Frozen Daiquiri Machine Hire for parties and special events. Mike is also the QLD Director of The Hive – a not-for-profit networking group that connects entrepreneurs. He organises free monthly events for entrepreneurs in South-East QLD to network, connect and be inspired by successful local business people. A Business Analyst at a Brisbane-based consulting firm, he is currently undertaking his fourth year of study in dual degree - Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Applied Science (Integrated Resource Management) at the University of Queensland. Mike is a founding member of the Sustainable Management Alliance for Research and Training (SMART) – Student Leadership Group at the University of Queensland.

	Rebecca Leigh - A freelance business writer who creates smart, fresh copy for websites, newsletters and corporate communications. Her specialty is authentic and engaging writing that helps businesses connect with their ideal customers. Her goal is to purge all business communications of lifeless corporate speak and empty hype.

	Ron Crump - Ron has absorbed a wealth of applied practical business and people experience through his roles as a leader, general manager, internal/external consultant and executive coach in hospitality, retail, service, power generation, manufacturing, insurance, finance and the public sector. Ron has worked as an executive, internal/ external consultant for the Public Trustee of Queensland, Suncorp, Electricity Commission of NSW, Arana Leagues Club, IAMA, RACQ, RACQ Insurance, Australian Bureau of Statistics, BP, BOC, Seaworld, Foodland SA, BSES and as the principal of Human Productivity Consultants. He was also president of Worklinks and was invited to the Advisory Board of Clubs Queensland. He has provided services to the AIM (Creative Thinking) and CPA (Activity – Based Management) Ron’s work as the principal of his own consulting business, Human Productivity Consultants, included a number of achievements including being chosen by BP to be their staff/franchisee development representative. One initiative involved the roll out of a joint BP/Centrelink program designed to get long-term unemployed back to work.

	Natalie Duncan - Mum, business woman, entrepreneur, Nat is courageous, stoic, enterprising, energetic, organized, creative, funny, level, egocentric, an opportunist, a risk-taker and a bundle of confusion wrapped in a façade of togetherness. She runs a very small business supplying locations to the film industry and is planning a future venture which focuses on the film industry with a Web 2.0 foundation.