Dane Hudson

DISCIPLINE, the not-so-secret sauce to achieving your goals!

Discipline is the secret sauce, or not so hidden key, to achieve your aspirations.  Research validates its transformative effects such as alleviating stress, boosting self-esteem and propelling you towards your loftiest goals—all within reach through surprisingly simple steps. If it is so powerful why do so many people avoid or give up implementing more discipline in their lives. The major reasons are:

• Lack of motivation: People need a powerful WHY to be the catalyst for change.
• Overwhelmed by the challenge as old habits are hard to break: “I am not a disciplined person” is a common excuse people use to avoid even commencing the journey.
• External pressures pushing them off course. Life has a way of getting in the way, regularly throwing up roadblocks.
• They simply do not know where to start.

Dane Hudson’s keynote puts forward compelling reasons to become disciplined and through his DISCPLNE framework, he provides the behavioural changes to create rituals and habits which will lead to greater discipline. This will benefit the individuals, and importantly, your organisation moving people from “passengers on the organisational bus” to engaged participants and drivers, assisting your business achieve its goals.

ABCs of Change Leadership. The six levers’ leaders must master to lead change and achieve goals through their teams.

There are many myths about leadership, one of which is that leaders cannot be taught.  Dane Hudson has over 30 years of experience disproving this myth having grown and developed hundreds of leaders in his corporate career and now as a CEO leadership coach.

His keynote is based on Dane’s life learnings having identified the six critical areas where leaders struggle most as they endeavour to lead change in their organisations. He shares entertaining and impactful stories from his career to reinforce the leadership behaviours that will yield the optimum outcomes for your business. Dane also appreciates that each leader is unique and have their own authentic style, so takes this into account with his insights and guidance.

Leading Beyond Borders. The four critical areas for leaders where leaders must focus to succeed internationally.

The attraction of expanding into international markets is exciting for many reasons:

• Your product or service may be performing well in your local market and so you logically anticipate success in similar markets.
• International markets offer significant potential and the chance to multiply your existing revenue and profit.
• Your leadership team, board and investors have confidence in your expansion plans and the forecasted returns.

However, the path to achieve success in international markets is often massively underestimated:

• Consumers/customers can be similar across markets but are generally more different than you expect.
• Business model in your local market may not be the appropriate model for this new market.
• Competitor landscape is often underestimated as they will have close customer relationships and may not be as compliant to labour laws as your company would be.
• Time to becoming cashflow positive is generally two to three times longer than forecast.
• Current team does not have the time to support an international market when things go wrong (which they will).

In his keynote, Dane, based off his 25 years as an international CEO, shares the four major areas of focus for leaders when expanding to multiple countries.