Time to grow your business

A new era of business education, training, coaching, and mentoring programs to help time and resource-poor Startups & SMEs reach their goals faster.

As if they had an extra hour in the day and day in the week.

Small-Medium Business

Growing your business while managing day-to-day operations can be challenging. It may feel you never have the time to work on your business as you’re too busy working in your business. You know you need to do something to help you get to the next level, however, you don’t know what you don’t know or may not know where to start. Don’t give the power away to a consultant or agency, build your own internal capability edge by letting us help you build your strategic agility to grow your business.

Partners

Elevate your community's economic development with our expert guidance. We'll help you harness innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation to drive decent work, growth, and job creation. Together, we'll build the confidence and capabilities of your business community, creating opportunities for success today and in the future. We create custom programs, highly personalised to your community and have high standards of measurement to ensure they’re transformational.

Startups

Whether you’re an early-stage startup seeking to engage investors, partnerships or attracting early adopters or a scaling startup that is actively raising funds, strategic partnerships or trying to increase your customer acquisition, you need to articulate the value of what you do to several audiences succinctly so that they want to take action. With limited resources, every action counts and whilst it may be easier to do it yourself, it isn’t always the quickest or most impactful. Let us help you get there faster.

25eight-economic-development-bcorp
 

We are a B Corp certified passionate team of people who provide business education, training, coaching and mentoring, but not as you know it. We’re different in a lot of ways, but we think these three things stand us apart from anything else out there:

  • Our service is highly personalised to the specific needs and goals of a business or business community; not a one-size-fits-all approach. We focus on providing the knowledge and skills you need to level up and achieve your goals, with an emphasis on learning and implementing actions that will help you meet impactful outcomes.

  • Our teaching and learning methodology, whilst evidence and best practice-based and developed by people with academic backgrounds in teaching and education, is different. It’s developed specifically for Startups & SMEs, who are time-poor. It’s hyper-personalised , it’s micro, it fits in with busy schedules, it’s fun and makes frameworks and concepts easy to understand and implement. We’re pioneering a new age in education and training. This is unlike anything you have done before.

  • We help with the tricky bits, helping you to apply your knowledge to get the results you need faster. Our experienced mentors help you to come up with those gold nugget ideas and overcome any obstacles. This could be choosing and implementing a CRM system, a workflow, a marketing campaign or an innovation program. We coach you to build your internal capability edge by empowering you and your team to build your skills and confidence and not have to rely on external agencies.

Why do we do this? Our Why

Imagine a world where there is decent work and economic development for all. Local communities are thriving because challenges are being solved through business and business is providing opportunities for the community. We’re big believers that business can be a force for good so we’re going to work hard to help your business thrive.

Small to medium sized businesses are the backbone of global economies and yet they often face the greatest hardships in changing markets. Research often indicates the failure of an SME is down to the lack of direction & planning, lack of market research or sales & marketing, lack of strategy or inability to execute, lack of knowledge and skills, or an inability to adapt to market changes in time. In our experience, in most cases, it isn’t due to the lack of competence of the business owner or leadership team, but the lack of time to invest in the above.

If only they had an extra hour in the day or an extra day in the week (25hours and 8 days, if you will).

That’s where we come in, we’re here to help Startups & SMEs adopt practices that will not only ensure their survival but will see themselves, their business and their community thrive.

 
25eight - Bcorp.png

Businesses we’ve helped: 7413

Individuals we’ve taught: 11282

Who we have partnered with

DIFvic white.png
Australia-Post-symbol.png
Group 4098.png
City_of_Ball_Logo.png
VictorianGovernment_logo_page-example.png
city-of-melbourne.png
0.png
0001-3470184922.png
logen.png
Unknown.png
Unknown.png
Xero.png
LaunchVicLogo_Stacked_RGB.png
r0_1_1200_676_w1200_h678_fmax.png
1472131891_rYnNX_.png