Troy Hazard

Biography

There are few situations in the business world that Troy Hazard has not experienced and survived. A serial entrepreneurial, who has founded and nurtured eleven businesses over two decades, and has consulted to countless successful companies over the last 20 years.

Through his business career he has owned a diverse range of businesses including a recording studio, an advertising agency, a pizza outlet, real estate brokerage, property development company, leading franchise-consulting business, and a technology business.

These business talents earned him international respect, so much so that he was elected by the world`s foremost business leaders for the role of Global President of the Entrepreneurs` Organization.

It`s this same experience that gives Hazard such great value as a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and as the host on the hugely successful national network business television shows in Australia Inside Franchising and Don`t come Monday.

He is also one of the few Australians to crack the USA market with is own TV talk show. Getting` Down 2 Business airs in the USA on the BizTV Cable Network into 20 million homes each week 9pm EST.

And he is a regular Co-Host on The Big Biz Show on the CBS Talk Radio Network and the Business Talk Radio Network broadcasting to 1.5 million radio listeners, and simulcast on the BizTV Network in the United States.

Troy`s lessons from the edge provide businesses with potent and refined tools, a collection of which you will find in his Amazon bestselling business book, Future-Proofing Your Business: Real life strategies to prepare your business for tomorrow, today!

Publications

Future-Proofing Your Business:
Real Life Strategies to Prepare Your Business for Tomorrow, Today

After years as a consultant for some of the world`s biggest brands, Troy Hazard has learned crucial lessons on predicting potential business issues before you experience them.

Now Troy offers you the skills to prepare your business for a better future. Along with his stories of what works, he also shares his experiences of what doesn`t work-when companies stop looking to the future, and get stuck in the past.

Titles

Revenue Through Relationships: The naked truth on relationship marketing
Eighty percent of business owners believe they have a great relationship with their customers, when only twenty percent actually do. Why? Because business owners believe that when a customer comes in to their business to purchase a product or service that constitutes a relationship. They assume their customers care about them.

In this presentation Troy will reveal the naked truth and REAL meaning of relationship marketing.

He will demonstrate what defines best practice when you are building a customer relationship marketing program for your business and show you how you can get a program started easily and effectively.

Troy will offer examples of some of the better relationship marketing programs he has developed for some of the worlds greatest brands, how they worked, why they worked, and for whom they worked.

Business owners spend all their lives chasing more customers, when in fact the real revenue lies with those they currently know.

FutureProofing Your Business
It`s been said that until you`ve reached the point of total desperation you`ve never really experienced `the edge` in business. And Troy truly has lived on the edge on more than one occasion.

Ten start-ups in 20 years will guarantee that at some point Troy Hazard has felt that desperation. He has saved a business that was seven days away from bankruptcy. He bought an ailing internet business that was losing $60,000 a month and turned it around to being profitable within 90 days. And he has bought, sold and grown more companies before his 40th birthday than some business people would even consider in a lifetime. This entrepreneurial sprit and experience was recognized in 2006 when he became the leader of leaders as the Global President of The Entrepreneurs` Organization.

It is through these businesses and through working as a consultant for some of the worlds biggest brands that he has learnt the lessons on how to predict issues in business before you need to experience them.

It is this real world experience that has led him to truly understand how to FutureProof a business.

In his presentation, Troy will highlight lessons he has learned from being on the edge, and how to prepare your business for a better future. He will share stories of success, and he will also share his own personal experiences of what happens when you stop looking to the future, and get stuck in the past.

His mix of stories, client case studies, and personal experiences has kept audiences engaged in 16 different countries.

Leadership Lessons From The Naked Entrepreneur
Leading people is tough, particularly in tough times, and everyone has an opinion on how to lead and what makes a good leader. So, what is the best way?

Ask a leader of leaders.

Troy Hazard is a business veteran with ten start-ups in 20 years under his belt.

He has served as President on the Global Board of the Entrepreneurs` Organization (EO), the premier, peer to peer, global community, network and resource for entrepreneurs, with more than 6,600 members worldwide in approximately 108 chapters and 38 countries.

To qualify for membership you are required to own your business, have an annual turnover of more than $1million US dollars and be under 50 years of age. This group is made up of some of the world`s greatest business leaders, tuning over a combined $120 billion.

In short, Troy has proven himself in one of the toughest leadership roles on the planet.

In this session, Troy will share some of the lessons he learned as a leader of leaders, and as a leader of teams. This presentation also contains a collection of information from some of the planet`s brightest and most successful business leaders and lessons learned from Troy`s own businesses.

Troy will explain why he believes leaders are not born, they evolve. He will uncover the 4 key character traits that make up a good leader and offer real world business experiences that demonstrate how to improve your skills to maximize the impact on those you lead. Armed with this information you will be more focused, balanced, aware, and effective.

His 20 years experience in business has given him the opportunity to address many business groups around the world on a range of topics. This has earned him the title of Certified Speaking Professional, an international designation awarded by the National Speakers Association.