Lara always delivers a frank, lively and generous conversation which resonates, inspires, and, without fail, she always gives her audiences actionable take-away value that they can act upon to do better, change practices and deal with life’s challenges.

Lara’s experiences have built her resilience in tough times – she survived and came out the other side to successfully rebuild. All very relevant today. Lara is an avid disciple of wellness and well-being to promote a positive state of mind and she draws on this to deliver inspiring, uplifting content in her conversations. 

Lara can talk about the following topics:

• The pacific story of success: a compelling story of setting up a business as a one-man band, age 23, through to the sale of her 99% shareholding in 2008. Sharing key lessons learned along the way as well as offering practical advice and tips to encourage any aspiring entrepreneur or business owner.
• Business survival: how perseverance, hard work, and evolution are essential to the survival of any business. Lara offers her own insights and applicable advice into the reality of dealing with difficult decisions and taking decisive action during tough times without diminishing your potential.
• Licenses, ventures, and partnerships: focusing on the impact of forming alliances in business; ranging from relationships with the team, customers and suppliers to strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Leadership: how to maximise your businesses potential through the foundations of your leadership style and how it can impact directly on the performance of your team and your business. If you expect exceptional results you should be leading by example and in this speech Lara shares some great practical tips on how.
• The competitive games of international business: the world is a small place but international sales can be a big challenge for any business. Lara underlines the key principles behind successful international trading, including planning, logistics, investment, networking, and market penetration.
• Creating a culture of winning: creating the right environment and recruiting the right people are what can make a truly exceptional business. Lara talks about how the importance of developing a challenging, rewarding, creative culture can have a monumental impact on your business performance.
• Relentless sales and marketing: Sales and marketing are necessities to the success of a business and they must continually evolve. By strategically combining both efforts you can experience successful business growth. This speech covers the skills required for creating sales and maximizing opportunities for reporting and sales retention.
• Accelerated business growth: discussing the key principles to take your business model from small to medium size. Covering the importance of improvements in business strategy, planning, and measurement through to the emphasis of team and networking.
• Entrepreneurship: examining the fundamental knowledge needed to start a new organization. Lara covers topics such as fundraising, positioning, branding, recruiting, rainmaking, and business planning. The intended audience is anyone starting anything – from two guys starting the next Google to social activists. Based on: The Art of the Start.
• Innovation & product development: emphasising the importance of any business’s ability to successfully identify and launch new products in constantly evolving and demanding markets. Lara covers the whole process from product conception to the launch, brand positioning, and staying ahead of the competition.
• InnoExporting for growth: exploring strategies delivering simple, low cost, supercharge sales growth.
• Sustainability: like CSR, this is no longer a nice to have tick box exercise.