Jane Tweedy

Work Mobile: 0490 102 194

Main Area’s Covered: The Hills, Blacktown

What is your role at WSBC & how long have you been with us?
Business Connect Advisor since 2015, and regular workshop and webinar presenter since 2016. Long serving advisor having seen over 2000 clients one on one. It means I’ve seen almost every issue many times before! This gives me broad, and with my training and testing, deep coverage.

What qualifications and business experience do you have?
I have extensive qualifications and business experience:

Mental Health First Aider

Herrmann Certified Practitioner and DISC Accredited

Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Certified Coach with CoachHub

Cert IV Training and Assessment (40116)

Cert IV Business and Personal Coaching

Master Applied Finance (with merit)

Bachelor of Commerce and Administration and MORE accredited and non-accredited training in business, sales, marketing, SEO, photography and more.

Business experience
Own businesses: FAQ Business Training, FAQ Business Consulting, Jane Tweedy Consulting Services, How to Job Search (current)

Volunteer Bendigo Community Bank Director and Chair HR Committee (current)

Executive Coach with CoachHub (current)

9 years small business advisor with NSW Government funded programs (current)

Previous small business ventures including property manager and investment, and wedding photography

Corporate roles as an Investment Analyst, FX and MM Dealer, Manager Customer Service and Reporting (Investments), Training Manager, a people leader of teams of up to 10 people

What is the best part/your favourite thing about your role?
Making business owners realise they DO have options, they have things they can do to change their current situation, and often these things are not actually that hard! I love people who attend training or advisory sessions, implement and get results that make a real difference in their business. Especially enjoyable where I see this business over many years, so I see them grow to new levels. Plus I love variety, and I definitely get that!

What do you find most rewarding when helping small businesses?
Seeing small businesses and their owners achieve levels of success they weren’t confident they could achieve. Helping them get unstuck, fill in any capability gaps, and see them implement changes and growth in their businesses.

What is your favourite inspirational quote?
You do you, unless you doesn’t work. Me!

What is the best piece of advice you can give a potential or existing business owner?
PLEASE use services like Business Connect! They’re there for you, and you may find you don’t know what you don’t know. People often come to me about one issue, which is a symptom of a bigger problem which needs addressing. Whether you’re new or experienced, you will take something away from a session with me (usually a huge amount!).

What is your favourite thing to do outside of work?
There’s an outside of work? When you love what you do, it’s easy for it be all encompassing! As a lifelong learner I do love to learn and test out new learnings to adapt to the real world. I do love travelling, especially to warm climates in winter to go snorkelling, visit theme parks or camping with friends in good weather.

What’s your favourite line to use as an ice breaker when meeting someone new?What do you love about what you do? or What gets you excited? That one can lead to some fun discussions, depending on how people take it!

Tell us your best joke:
Maybe because I have too much business stuff in my brain, I never can recall the punchlines! However, I get laughs at my sessions, and I’m sure it’s not just laughing at me, as I’m a kiwi!