Smallbiz Makeover

Is your solo or small business ready to thrive in the 21st century? Looking to maximise the potential of your business? Ready to ramp up your productivity, leverage your strengths and tap into some creative thinking?

Changing times are a real opportunity for the prepared solo or small business. There's no need to settle for black and white - with WorkInColour's smallbiz makeover program your solo or small business can transform into a 21st century winner.

If you're looking for a personalised focus on your business needs - with one-on-one coaching to help define and redevelop your core strengths, identify your key challenges and build a program of action and accountability so you quickly achieve your business goals - then this program is for you and your business.

As client Andrew Cochineas said, 'Joanna is a great 'nemesis' - she got me moving on issues that I'd thought about but hadn't acted on for ages. The best thing was the power to think outside the square, look for the positive and creative for myself. Don't let life pass you by. Don't think it's too late to start. Talk to Joanna, one of the most inspiring people I've met.'

What's in the program?

In our smallbiz makeover program, you will receive:

  • 5 fortnightly 60 minute sessions face-to-face in the Sydney CBD
  • 20 minute phone session each alternate week
  • A comprehensive workbook full of tips, exercises and creative ideas
  • Email + phone chats between sessions

Sessions will cover 3 central modules:

  • your core strengths + business essence
  • your 3 greatest challenges
  • your goals + action plan for the next year

And your choice of any 2 of the following modules:

  • productivity
  • creative thinking
  • project planning
  • social media
  • presentations
  • difficult clients
  • your big issue or dilemma or opportunity

Contact us now if you're ready to transform your solo or small business into a 21st century winner.

  • 'Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.' - Ed McCabe
  • 'A company is creative when it's employees do something new and potentially useful without being directly shown or taught.' - Robinson and Stern, Corporate Creativity
  • 'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.' - Albert Einstein
  • 'To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.' - Soren Kierkegaard
  • 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' - Mary Oliver
  • 'We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.' - Joseph Campbell

Why choose a WorkInColour SmallBiz Makeover program?

Joanna Maxwell has been coaching for over a decade, but she also knows what it is like to leave a career in the corporate world having 'made it', in order to find her own successful small business. Click here for more of that story.

There is nothing 'airy fairy' about our coaching, just practical advice, inspiration and support. We draw on a number of tools and approaches, tailor-made for you and your needs. There is no forcing clients to fit our model at WorkInColour... you've had more than enough of that already at work!

Here's what clients say

'Joanna always looks beyond what I am saying and has the ability to really get to the heart of the matter and this helps me to work out which direction to take. What I really love is her creativeness and quirky ideas and metaphors.'Jodi Gibson

'I started my e-learning consultancy last July after many years of working in adult education generally and the community/not-for-profit sector specifically.  I realised that I needed help to plan/design/organise/manage/understand my business - and that's where Joanna came in. I didn't know what I needed to know and Joanna offered me a simple framework which helped to start the thinking I needed to do.  Joanna's approach is calm and flexible.  She is warm and friendly, professional and knowledgeable.  I would recommend her without hesitation and fully intend to avail of her services in the future.'Ann Brady, Learning Lines