Tom comes from humble beginnings in regional Australia.  His family were in agriculture and small business going back four generations. He left school and home at a young age to pursue a bakery apprenticeship.  Once completed he backpacked across Australia playing football and working as a baker. His unique technical and food chemistry skills landed him in the thick of the baking and flour milling industries where he discovered an opportunity to open Australia's first regional pizza chain, Eagle Boys.  The business proceeded to become Australia and New Zealand's largest privately owned pizza company with over 350 stores, before being sold to investment bankers twenty years later in 2007, only to see it eventually collapse.

Tom is one of Australia's most outstanding retailers, entrepreneurs and inspirational leaders and has been appointed to several company and government boards including Brumby's Bakeries, Soul Origin,  The Ports Corporation of Queensland, Doc Popcorn (USA), Wallace Bishop Jewellers, The board of Brisbane and the AFL Commission. 

In demand as a keynote speaker, Tom draws on his experiences to talk to audiences about how to prepare their people for change and the reality of customers' changing needs.  With professionalism, research and attention to detail, he customises keynotes to meet client's demands. His straightforward, no nonsense approach endears audiences to be inspired to change and and cut through the clutter to achieve higher results at all levels. 

As a public speaker, he has travelled Australia and the world, thrilling audiences with his down to earth and sometimes hilarious approach to business and its many challenges, both highs and lows. His passion for business strategy, highly effective marketing and leadership along with "standing out like a zebra amongst horses", encompasses a unique style of speaker who has built a business empire more than once and lived to tell the tale.


SPEAKING TOPIC AREAS

• Beating the Big Boys

• Change / Evolve / Thrive

• How to Differentiate in a Vanilla World

• How to Stand Out like a zebra amongst Horses

• Looking through your Customers Eyes (What they Really Want)

• What Marketing Really Works for You?