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Professional Development - Improving Your Business
Inspiration & instruction for landscape designers & contractors

Speakers;

Richard Kelly - Design development for projects, winning fee proposals, time sheets and designing within your allocated times budgets. Are you really profitable!

Addressing pragmatic issues and developing authentic memorable designs that are of our time. whilst creating presentations that have your clients embraceing your visions from the onset.

Know your product, creating construction documention that contractors must follow and not deviate from,  without your cleints project becoming cruxified and compromised!

Toni Christensen - is the principal of a book-keeping and administrative support company called My Back Office.com.  Toni has had extensive experience in outsourcing.  Prior to establishing mybackoffice.com Toni held a role as a Senior Finance Manager with Oracle Corporation.  In this role she was responsible for managing the outsourcing of financial functions for the APAC Consulting subsidiaries to a shared service centre based in Sydney and then Bangalore, India.

Toni will be talking about ways to keep your business in good shape.  Toni will share her experience gained with a range of businesses where she has provided book-keeping, administrative and marketing services www.mybackoffice.com.au

Adrian Swain - BASIX the Building Sustainability Index and the impacts on Landscape Development Application Plans.

Rob Willis - is the owner of Belrose Nursery on Sydney’s North Shore.  Rob is a horticulturist/landscape designer who grows and obtains unusual perennials, shrubs, grasses and trees.  He also sells many of the old roses which can be difficult to find elsewhere.   All of Rob’s plants do well in most areas of Sydney.  

Rob will be bringing a selection of new and unusual plants to the seminar and will suggest different ways in which they can be used in the landscape.

A relaxing, educational & inspiring afternoon to help improve
your design skills and client/designer relations.

Costs include afternoon tea.

Venue:  Greengate Hotel Cnr Pacific Hwy and Greengate Rd Killara NSW 2071

Time: 10 March 2009 4pm - 7pm

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