The coaches

Meet the Acuity business coaches.

Acuity's coaches bring a blend of commercial experience, strategic thinking, and practical guidance to help business owners achieve meaningful change.

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Steve Connell

Vision, culture, strategies, and operating structures needed for success.

Steve's accounting and business consulting career led into training and development. He's delivered leadership, sales and frontline service workshops and programs in Australia and Asia. He became a business coach in 1999. Steve works with businesses to establish the Vision, Culture, Strategies, and Operating Structures needed for success, along with the skills required to implement growth and change. A qualified Mindfulness teacher, Steve's committed to helping business owners deal with the stresses of the modern commercial environment, and live lives of purpose, focus and wellbeing.

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Oscar Pellizzon

Helping businesses grow while balancing performance with the energy required to sustain it.

Oscar, formerly a partner of a successful boutique accounting firm, understands the requirements of selling a professional service, and the need to develop referral relationships that generate new business. He now applies his twenty years experience helping businesses grow, and assisting owners and staff to balance the need to perform with managing the energy required to sustain it. As a trained Mindfulness instructor, Oscar shares a unique skillset with his fellow Acuity colleagues, in being able to assist clients cope with the stresses of business ownership in the twenty-first century.

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Steve Goddard

Leadership and management workshops with a focus on strategic planning for small to medium sized firms.

Steve, formerly a partner of a significant accounting practice, became a business coach in 2002. In that time, he has conducted numerous leadership and management workshops, specialising in strategic planning for small to medium sized firms. Steve has also completed an instructors course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and balances his significant commercial acumen with an acute understanding of challenges.

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Robert Bentley

Business coaching shaped by military and corporate experience, leadership development, and practical commercial insight.

Robert has been a business coach since 2003, following a successful military and corporate career. Robert has studied at Harvard Business School and also developed the Acuity Leadership Program in 2007. Known on social media as the Carpool Coach, Robert has also completed an instructors course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), so is able to assist his clients with the significant stress that can accompany business ownership. He is a founding member of Quorum, a shared economy of small businesses, and has authored two books, Small Business Wisdom, and RAPPORT.

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