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trusted by the accounting profession

Supported by associations and trusted by advisors across the country, Leaders in Business helps accountants deliver strategic advisory with structure, confidence and commercial value.
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connecting advisors building the future

Bringing together advisors committed to lifting the standard of advisory, learning from each other and raising the bar across the profession.
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advisory shouldn’t depend on instinct, it should run on a model

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Brent Szalay

Brent

STRATEGIC ADVISOR | MANAGING DIRECTOR | FCPA
Brent brings sharp insights, serious energy and a knack for cutting through complexity. He backs business owners and proves Bulldogs fans are relentlessly optimistic.
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Josh Vanderloo

Josh

STRATEGIC ADVISOR
If it involves footy, strategy or a whiteboard, Josh is in. With years in elite sport and business advisory, he brings sharp thinking, team-first energy and just the right amount of sideline banter.
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Mandi Bevan

Mandi

MARKETING
With calm focus, creative smarts and get-it-done energy, Mandi leads with heart and humour. Whether it’s a campaign, an adventure, a new album or a K-drama rec.
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Adrian Beales

Adrian

HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
People-first and globally minded. With strong roots in Colombia and fluent in Spanish, Adrian connects across cultures and conversations that matter.
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Marli Watt

Marli

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACH
Sunshine seeker and tea lover. Marli helps leaders shift what’s holding them back, with heart, insight and practical tools.
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Stacy Szalay

Stacy

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Playful, raw and impossible to ignore, Stacy fuels our marketing and culture with creativity, colour and fun. The kind of energy you’d bottle if you could.
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our why

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Advisory doesn’t fail because advisors lack skill — it fails because firms lack structure.

We built Leaders in Business and the Strategic Advisory Operating Model after seeing the same pattern repeated across accounting firms. Advisors were trusted. They were capable. They were already having strategic conversations.

But without a clear model, those conversations stayed informal, inconsistent and often undervalued. Clients left with good ideas but without clarity on priorities, decisions, or what came next.

Accounting trains you to be technically excellent. It rarely trains you to lead strategic conversations in a way clients can understand, act on, and rely on over time.

So we built what we wished existed inside practice. A deliberate way for advisory to be delivered clearly, consistently and in a way clients can trust.

our how

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Building a strong advisory offering doesn’t happen by chance. We enable advisory to be delivered clearly, consistently and at scale.
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1. A STRUCTURED MODEL
A clear progression into advisory — from first strategy session to confident, firm-wide delivery — so both advisors and clients know what comes next.
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2. TOOLS THAT MAKE IT DELIVERABLE
Practical frameworks, templates and diagnostics that turn insight into action, so clients leave with priorities, decisions and progress they can see.
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3. SUPPORT THAT MAKES IT STICK
Ongoing access to experienced advisors and peers, so good advisory doesn’t fade over time, it improves.

the advisory movement transforming firms from the inside

“It’s definitely put the structure in so that we can provide clients specific outcomes and specific actions to meet their goals, vision and purpose.”

Liz Shimmin

CEO, Bluebird Accounting
“From my experience, Leaders in Business offer the platform, framework and training support for Accountants to effectively support their business clients with this important service to add real value.”

Stephen McHenry CA

Founding Partner, McHenry Partners
“The framework and structure have made such a difference. It’s helped me show up with more clarity, give better advice, and really back the small business legends I work with.”

Ellena Amanatidis

Senior Client Advisor, SEIVA
"With the structure that I’ve learned over the last couple of days, it’s helped me be able to piece all the different pieces in my mind and put them in a logical sense to be able to package up and deliver to the client."

Kate Slater

CEO / Senior Client Manager, Camtech & Slater Financial Group Pty Ltd
"I've been. advising or talking to clients for 30 years, but doing it better is something that is a bit of a big driver for us to get some satisfaction out of it and take our clients to a better result."

Peter Knights

Principal, Knights Norfolk
“We can have structure around a product and that we’re actually valuing our services rather than just giving away advice and tools for free.”

Rachel Crowther

Director, Mintco Business Solutions

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