KLEINHARDT BUSINESS CONSULTANTS   

Kleinhardt Business Consultants are a specialist business advisory firm to small and medium-sized business with offices in Cairns and Brisbane. Kleinhardt has been established for over 14 years and has assisted hundreds of businesses across numerous corporate sectors with practical solutions to increase their sustainability and efficiency, especially in regional Australia.

Business Advisory Services

Kleinhardt provides a range of business advisory services to our clients. Whether our clients are small or large, in Australia or around the world, we can suggest improvements in systems and structure which will lift profitability and improve performance.

Each of our consultants has a diverse range of experience and skills, which enhance the overall culture of the organisation. Our management style is very much geared towards a "hands on" approach where we focus on every small detail.

Some of the business advisory services that we provide include strategy development, market research and analysis, business planning, feasibility studies, project management, financing and capital raising, export market development,  organisational structuring and a range of other services.

Regional and Economic Development Services

Kleinhardt has built a reputation for insightful and practical advice for those concerned with regional, community and industry development. The firm brings to this field commercial skills, combined with knowledge of the academic theory and the latest in international thinking.

As with all our work the emphasis is on strategic, analytical and lateral thinking to bring to clients practical solutions. The firm's practitioners include Australian pioneers in the field of regional economic development, which only began to be recognised as a distinct field in the early 1990's.

Combined with this, the firm is part of the international network of practitioners, academics and policy makers through involvement with The Competitiveness Institute. This provides global reach in terms of the latest thought in the field.

Key staff members also have national Australian experience in industry policy development and knowledge of learning theory and social sciences critical to development of the collaborative models now recognised as being at the core of the intuitive learning and innovation driving successful regions and industries.

Business Sales and Acquisitions

Kleinhardt Business Consultants are registered real estate agents with the Real Estate Institute of Queensland specialising in the sale and acquisition of businesses. Kleinhardt offers its clients a range of services in the sale or purchase of a business, developed through years of working in the business advisory field that can add real value to a prospective purchaser or vendor.

Kleinhardt offers a licensed and experienced broker who will act on your behalf in the challenging businesses for sale arena. Our brokers can work with business owners to get a comprehensive valuation from outsourced professionals - based on market assessment and the historic and projected financials. A full marketing plan will be recommended, costed and presented to you for review. All enquiries will come directly to the business brokers who will co-ordinate all aspects of the sale.

This service includes handling all enquiries, obtaining signed confidentiality agreements, qualifying prospective buyers, conducting inspections, negotiating price and dealing with solicitors and accountants relating to contract requirements. Once the purchase details have been agreed the broker will work with our clients solicitor to draw up the final contract for sale.

The bottom line is, Kleinhardt doesn't collect listings - we provide the whole service!

Workshop Facilitation

Workshop facilitation for Kleinhardt management and staff is an integral part of the business improvement process that we provide our clients. The firm has highly developed and proven systems in workshop management, delivery and administration.

                                                 GRAHAM POON - PROJECT MANAGER

Graham Poon has worked in various roles and has successfully delivered a range of similar programmes in Australia and internationally. Below are details of some of those programmes:

• As the Marketing Contractor to the Guam Power Authority (GPA) from 1997-8 in Guam, Graham promoted its Energy-Efficiency Rebate Scheme and the need for lower energy use (Demand-side management) to the business community and public . Graham also delivered numerous workshops on the advantages of the use of energy-efficient equipment and the benefit to the island as a whole of the decreased use of energy and water resources.

• As Trade Commissioner with Austrade in Manila, Philippines, Graham developed, managed and delivered coaching workshops to hundreds of business participants overseas in the specialised area of pursuing opportunities with the Asian Development Bank. The success of these workshops led to an internal nomination for an Austrade award. Graham also delivered numerous workshops nationally around Australia over 4 years.

• As Regional Trade Commissioner, Austrade for the Northern Territory, Graham managed and delivered numerous workshops on international trade, often in conjunction with the AusIndustry Regional Manager, throughout the whole of the Northern Territory.