David Reid - David Reid Group
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Title: Owner
Business: Management consultancy business
Total employees: 9
Reporting directly: 7
Accomplishments
The David Reid Group is a management consultancy aiming to help growing businesses by focusing on five key areas – strategy, marketing, sales, people, and technology.
David Reid has grown a diverse and high-profile client base from the ground up at the same time as building a network of high-profile and highly skilled consultants to support that client base.
With no background in management consulting Mr Reid, started the consultancy five years ago and is now working with clients including BankWest, Australia Post and United Credit.
Mr Reid has also formed very strong alliances with business partners in China and the UK.
Career guides
• Getting other people in outside your skill set and recognising where your skill set starts and stops.
• Valuing people and relationships over money has been an inadvertent driving force behind the establishment and operation of Mr Reid’s business.
Personal/community
Mr Reid completed a BA of psychology and Asian studies at Murdoch University and a graduate diploma in export marketing at ECU.
He has been involved in his parents’ soup kitchen for four years.
He also has offered his consultancy services for free to the Rainbow organisation – an organisation helping people with mental illnesses better integrate with society.
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