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Advisory Board

Performance Improvement

Julie Wise

Background

Julie's background is in business improvements and change. After building a highly successful career as an IT consultant, she took an opportunity to move into business improvements in the corporate world. Her most recent background has been with Westpac Banking Corporation, where she held several senior roles leading project teams in their retail, corporate and eBusiness. She demonstrates a particular talent in developing other leaders and building teams that continually exceed expectations.

Julie is now managing her own consulting company specialising in coaching business owners on operational efficiencies and helping them get the best from their energy and efforts.

Julie is an accredited member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is an alumnus of the Institute of Executive Coaching.

Julie's Top 5 Recommended Books

1.	Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki It simply is the best and most down to earth book written about money. In general, we over-engineer money looking for the magical product to our problems. We forget that money is a tool and that we need to know how to work with the, and use that, tool correctly in order to get the rewards and not the headaches.
2.	Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill< Like Rich Dad, it's one of my bibles that I make sure I read every year. Great book to blow away the cobwebs and provide that self-inspiration.
3.	French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guilliano This book is just sensible. Its what I grew up understanding and it clearly show that eating is for joy and pleasure. Not that I ever lost the pleasure of eating but I hope other people read this book and find that pleasure again as it's a wonderful indulgence right in our own homes.
4.	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Not only is this just a fabulous story to read for pleasure but it's a book of the wisdom of following your heart.
5.	A Jane Austen Novel - any of them I just love the strength of the female characters and am amazed at just how relevant the stories are today - 191 years after she died.