Small Business Skills Summit

The Small Business Skills Summit gives you one valuable day to step away from the day-to-day, look at your business with fresh eyes & focus.
About this Event

One Day. Six Expert Sessions. Practical Skills and Useful Connections.

Running a small business means there is always something asking for your attention. You are making decisions, watching the numbers, marketing the business, looking after customers, improving systems and trying to keep pace with changing technology, new opportunities and the everyday demands of running the business.

The Small Business Skills Summit gives you one valuable day to step away from the day-to-day, look at your business with fresh eyes and focus on what will help you move forward.

Join us at the Amora Hotel Riverwalk Melbourne in Richmond for a full day of practical learning, fresh ideas, networking and real conversations with people who understand the challenges and opportunities that come with running a small business.

Across six expert sessions, you will explore business strategy, AI planning, financial understanding, legal fundamentals, LinkedIn authority and practical marketing, with each presenter sharing useful knowledge and clear actions you can take back into your business.

This is not a day of vague inspiration or information without direction. It is for small business owners who want to learn, ask questions, make useful connections and leave feeling clearer about where their business stands, what deserves their attention and what their next move could be.

What You Can Expect

Throughout the day, our presenters will share practical ideas and real-world knowledge to help you:

• Make stronger and more informed business decisions.
• Understand what is happening inside your business.
• Strengthen the foundations that support your next stage.
• Improve the way your business operates.
• Understand the real cost of doing business.
• Create greater visibility, authority and marketing momentum.
• Use AI and emerging technology with greater purpose.
• Identify what deserves your attention next.

The aim is to help you cut through the noise, understand what matters for your business now and choose your next steps with greater confidence.

Networking Is Built Into the Day

Small business can feel isolating, particularly when you are the person responsible for making the decisions, finding the answers and keeping everything moving, which is why networking and real conversation are built into the Summit rather than treated as something that happens around the edges.

There will be time throughout the day to meet other business owners, speak with our presenters and create useful connections during morning tea, networking breaks, lunch, table conversations and the informal moments in between sessions.

You do not have to arrive knowing anyone or consider yourself a confident networker. Bring your business cards, come ready to start a few conversations and know that there will be plenty of opportunities to use them.

What the Day Includes

Registration, morning tea and opening networking begin at 8:30 am. The Summit starts promptly at 9:00 am and finishes at 5:00 pm.

Your ticket includes:

• Six 50-minute expert sessions.
• Morning tea on arrival.
• Morning and afternoon networking breaks.
• Lunch and afternoon tea.
• An expert panel and audience Q&A.
• Practical action planning.
• Time to connect with presenters and other business owners.
• Access to a complimentary professional headshot booth.

Meet Your Summit Presenters

Our six presenters bring experience from across the essential areas of business, giving you an opportunity to look at your business from several different perspectives while keeping the focus firmly on practical action.

Clive Enever — Enever Group

Strong Foundations for Your Next Stage of Business

Clive will help you understand where your business stands now, identify the foundations that need strengthening and consider the next steps that will support its future direction and growth.

Adrianne Allway — Clear North AI

The One-Page AI Plan for Small Business

Adrianne will help you move beyond simply experimenting with AI and create a clear, practical one-page plan for using it purposefully within your business.

Karen Hollenbach — Think Bespoke

Building Authority on LinkedIn Without Becoming a Content Machine

Karen will show you how to build professional authority on LinkedIn through a focused and sustainable approach that helps the right people recognise your expertise without requiring you to post constantly.

Sheralee Smythe — Sheraleeping

What Is the Real Cost of Doing Business?

Sheralee will unpack the costs behind running a business, helping you better understand your numbers, review your pricing and recognise what it really takes to operate profitably.

Steven Brown — Etienne Lawyers

Does AI Change the Legal Fundamentals of Business?

Steven will explore how AI is changing the way businesses operate while examining the legal fundamentals, responsibilities and protections that continue to matter.

Linda Reed-Enever — Enever Group

Marketing That Moves

Linda will help you turn marketing ideas into focused action, choose the activities that can move your business forward and create meaningful marketing momentum without becoming overwhelmed by everything you could be doing.

Together, these sessions will help you understand where your business stands, strengthen the areas that matter and decide what your next stage of business could look like.

Complimentary Professional Headshot Booth

Stacey from Allure Photography is a Melbourne photographer with more than 15 years of experience specialising in personal branding and professional headshots.

Stacey will be joining us with a complimentary professional headshot booth, giving Summit attendees the opportunity to update their professional headshot at no additional cost while they are with us for the day.

It is one more practical opportunity you can take away from the Summit and put to work in your business.

Who Is This Event For?

The Small Business Skills Summit is for small business owners at every stage, whether you are establishing the foundations, growing an existing business, changing direction or looking for a clearer and more sustainable way forward.

You may be a solo business owner, consultant, coach, creative, service provider, local business owner, startup founder or the person leading an established business and making decisions about what comes next.

You simply need to be ready to learn, connect, ask questions and take action.

Step away from the day-to-day, spend time working on your business and leave with practical ideas, useful connections and a clearer sense of your next move.