Managing Partner – Business Dynamics, Perth, Western Australia & Chairman – Western Australian Small Business Development Corporation. Tim Atterton comes from a strong family business background in the North-East of England. Despite this pedigree, he enrolled in a Law degree, graduating in 1976. However, he soon determined that the legal profession offered few entrepreneurial challenges and little excitement!
In 1979, Tim joined the faculty of the prestigious and world-renown Entrepreneurship Centre at Durham University Business School in the United Kingdom on a one-year, fixed term contract. From 1979 to 2000 he held the position of Executive Director of the Centre where he was instrumental in pioneering some of the most innovative and exciting business development initiatives in Europe. In June 2000, he accepted an invitation to become Director of the BankWest Entrepreneurship and Business Development Unit at Curtin Business School and migrated to Perth, Western Australia. This unit works with approximately 2,000 small and medium sized enterprises each year, including many of Western Australia’s premium growth businesses. In 2006, Tim left Curtin Uni to concentrate on developing his own business interests. In 2002, Tim was invited to join the Board of Western Australia’s Small Business Development Corporation and, a year later, was appointed Chairman on the recommendation of State Cabinet. See Tim in action (5.6MB WMV file)

What’s so good about Tim...

• Despite his longstanding Business School affiliation, Tim regards himself as a “practitioner”, rather than an “academic”, and has been actively involved in establishing and managing a succession of businesses since the age of 16!
  
• Over the past two decades, Tim has worked with small and medium sized, independent businesses, and their stakeholders in more than 40 different countries.
  
• He has been contracted to work with many prestigious international organisations including the United Nations, the World Bank Group and the European Commission.
  
• He is widely acknowledged both nationally and internationally as a lively, insightful and highly entertaining public speaker in the areas of entrepreneurship, business re-vitalisation and growth.

Tim’s topics include:

• Insights into the characteristics of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs and the management practices of High Growth Businesses
  
• Stimulating Entrepreneurial Individuals and developing Innovative Organisations
• Achieving Sustainable Business Growth by moving from “strategic thinking” to “strategic planning”
• Management Development and the Management of Change within independent, growth orientated businesses
• “Financial Dynamics” – Understanding the numbers, improving bottom-line profit and building real net worth within a business
• Stakeholder “Relationship Management” – Adding value and building market share in the premium, independent business sector [for Banks and accountancy firms].

Some of Tim’s recent conference clients include - HBOS – The Bank of Western Australia; ANZ Business Solutions; BDO Chartered Accountants and Advisers; Pannell, Kerr, Foster; HLB Mann Judd; Australia Post; Lotterywest; Institute of Chartered Accountants; CPA Australia; WA Marketing Congress; Civil Construction Federation; Australian British Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Australian Tax Office; Australian Institute of Conveyancers; Australian Canvas and Synthetic Products Association; Westralian Holdings Ltd just to name a few.