Eric Tjoeng – CEO and Founder – Sydney
The 10 Australian Business Strategists & Experts to Watch in 2021, Growth, Future Proofing, Exit Board/Business Advisor, Business Strategist, Business Growth, Future Proofing and Exit Specialist, Business Speaker. Eric has been recognised as one of the 10 Australian Business Strategists & Experts to Watch in 2021 by the Australian Business Journal.
As an MBA qualified leading Business Strategist, Business Acquisition, Business Growth, Future Proofing and Exit Specialist, Eric’s passion is to help businesses achieve their goals by being part of the team and bringing in independent views and expertise to complement the SME team to produce exceptional outcomes cost-effectively. Eric is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders and a Certified Practicing Accountant.
Strategically focussed, being innovative, knowing the critical business drivers/numbers and smarter/more efficient way of running a business through sound leadership and teamwork are hallmarks of his holistic and pragmatic approach in helping business owners to achieve exceptional results.
Eric has an enviable track record in helping businesses to achieve outstanding results through a unique combination of skills, knowledge, experiences, insights and creativity in fine tuning the Business Strategy, providing Financial Road Map, improving the Target Marketing and Sales, Financial control, Human Resources and Operation Management.
Through the combination of his multidisciplinary education and experience Eric has successfully developed and implemented holistic and pragmatic business growth and exit methodologies (Strategic, Financial Road Map, and Business Key Drivers based methodology (SFB©)) to produce many great results for his clients including companies in the BRW Fast Starter List, Business Award Winners and Franchise Organisations.
Eric started his career with Deloitte Haskins and Sells Australia in 1981. Eric has had a long and successful career in Australian leading companies in various senior roles with the likes of AVIS, Jaguar/Rover, Audi, Daimler Chrysler and Hyundai, including being a General Manager of a $1.4 billion company. Leveraging on his holistic, multidisciplinary approach to achieve business successes before moving into management consultancy.
Eric joined CAD Partners, a leading SME Business Advisory/Financial Control Firm with more than 60 Partners in Australia and New Zealand as a Partner in 2005. Ten years with CAD Partners saw his progression to a Senior Partner and then Joint CEO, as well as being awarded “Australia and New Zealand Partner of the Year”, ” Best Performer”, “Marketer of the Year”, “Team Player of the Year” and “Community Contribution Award” by CAD Partners.
Eric founded BGES in 2015, with the vision of using a fresh, pragmatic and innovative approach in helping SME to achieve exceptional results with a great Return On Investment.
As a firm believer in lifelong learning, Eric obtained his first academic qualification in a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, which was followed by Grad. Dip. EDP (Nepean), Grad. Dip. Management (Deakin), MBA (Deakin), MA (MGSM) and Executive Coaching(MGSM).
He loves to contribute to the business community by being an active executive member of local business chambers, being on the judging panel of Business Awards at Local, State and National level and being a recognised business coach, mentor, and conference and business speaker. Eric founded BGES in 2015, with the vision of using a fresh, pragmatic and innovative approach in helping SME to achieve exceptional results with a great Return On Investment.
Key Expertise: Business growth: Business growth strategy and implementation
Scenario analysis
Financial road map
Profit, cash flow and business value improvement
Target marketing and sales
Strategic human resource management
Operation efficiency improvement
Business systematisation
Business sustainability/future proofing: Business continuity strategy and actions to cope with sudden major disruptions such as the GFC and COVID-19
Dynamic scenario analysis and cash flow analysis to cope with rapid changes
Future proofing strategy and actions.
Business exit: Business exit strategy and implementation
Profit, cash flow and business value improvement
Business valuation
Due diligence
Business sale information memorandum
Business Speaker
Passionate, thought-provoking, relevant, pragmatic tips Eric Tjoeng is an engaging SME business speaker, offering real-life practical examples that work through his successful engagement with SMEs that produce exceptional results, including placement among BRW’s fastest-growing companies and business awards.
Why Eric? - Eric is passionate about business growth, sustainability, and exit.
- Eric has an enviable track record in producing exceptional results.
- Eric has been recognised as one of the 10 Australian Business Strategists & Experts to Watch in 2021 by the Australian Business Journal.
- Eric’s presentation is interesting, sharing his wide knowledge and proven experience in plain English.
- Eric is engaging; he likes interacting with the audience and sharing provoking thoughts and possible solutions.
- Eric gives his audience some immediate practical actions to improve business outcomes.
Some of Eric’s key topics: - How a strategic approach to business growth and sustainability ensures high performance and exceptional outcomes.
- How strategic exit will get more for your business than you would expect.
- How to use innovative approaches to achieve super-profits of more than 90x.
- Soft issues and hard issues of business leadership and management – why they are critical to business sustainability and growth.
- Merger and acquisition: why, what and how to achieve the desired outcomes.
- How to achieve group goal congruent and divisional collaboration to achieve divisional and group success.