Australasia Update, March 2014
Christine Greiser, reports back on the latest news from the area:
Grant Field is voted in as new Chairman of MGI Australasia
In January MGI Melbourne, who had been a member of MGI since 2004, was acquired by PWC. Grant Field, Managing Director of MGI South Queensland and a former MGI Australasia representative on the IC was voted in as the new area Chairman.
Forthcoming meetings in Australasia
The Australasia Area Meeting will be held in Perth on 17- 18 July 2014. The theme of the meeting will be ‘“The tomorrow and beyond of the business and financial services industry”. This will be facilitated by “futurist” Mr Morris Miselowski from Eye on the Future (www.businessfuturist.com)
The yearly Audit Conference will be held in Brisbane date yet to be determined and will cover a range of topics relevant to growing the MGI Australasia audit capability.
New members in Australasia
With the departure of MGI Melbourne we have undertaken a membership prospecting campaign among firms located in Melbourne’s central business district and suburbs. Grant Field has sent qualified prospects a personalised tailored email. This activity has resulted in several expressions of interest and visits to these firms by Grant Field and Mr Des Caulfield (MGI Adelaide). A number of firms have indicated that they are interested in progressing to the next step of the process.
MGI Australasia future planning
Two objectives of the MGI Business Plan 2013 - 14 are to increase the traditional media profile of MGI, but also its social media profile. MGI Australasia has hired public relations firm, Red Agency (www.redagency.com.au) on a six month retainer to assist in the distribution eases, opinion pieces and generally increase the awareness of MGI expertise amongst the media.
Ms Anne Stubbs (Marketing Co-coordinator, MGI South Queensland ) will be working with key people at MGI Australasia to improve their LinkedIn profiles as well as increasing the number of followers of the MGI Australasia LinkedIn profile and increase MGI’s social media profile generally.
For more information contact Christine Greiser I [email protected]