Tom Potter from Eagle Boys Pizza

Who: Tom Potter founder of Eagle Boys Pizza
When: 7pm SHARP, Tuesday March 30th, 2010
Where: Greystone Bar, 7/166 Grey Street (Little Stanley Street) South Bank, BRISBANE *New Venue!*
RSVP: brisbane@thehive.org.au or on the Facebook event.
Cost: FREE!

Tom Potter founder of Eagle Boys Pizza

Tom Potter, founder of Australian owned Eagle Boys Pizza, left school at 15 and found himself jobless at 23. He opened his first pizza shop in Albury, New South Wales in 1987 and proceeded to build the business to become Australia and New Zealand’s largest privately owned pizza company.

Tom is a country boy, starting his business with a minimal education and very little money behind him. Tom built Eagle Boys to become one of Australia’s home-grown retail and franchise successes, through radical change, innovation and at times unusual business and marketing tactics. Along the way, Eagle Boys won various National Franchising Awards and Tom was awarded with the Australian Financial Review’s Young Business Person of the Year. He was chosen to give the valedictorian speech at his graduation class at Harvard Business School.

Tom is one of Australia’s most outstanding retailers, entrepreneurs and inspirational leaders and his straightforward, no nonsense approach endears audiences to be inspired to change and cut through the clutter to achieve higher results at all levels.

Tom’s website is: www.tompotterspeaker.com

We invite you to join Tom and The Hive team at our March event at Greystone Bar (Little Stanley Street- South Bank) on Tuesday, March 30 at 7pm (Sharp!). This event is FREE but you buy your own drinks.

* Register Free at http://www.thehive.org.au *

See you there!

Mike Boyd, Nick McIntosh & Walter Haas
The Hive Brisbane Team

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About the Author

Mike Boyd has been a serial entrepreneur and change maker for over a decade. He has founded, run, developed and mentored over a dozen businesses ranging in value from 0-$30M, in varying industries including entertainment, technology, professional services, e-commerce, education & not-for-profit. As an entrepreneur, Mike has a passion for business innovation, agile strategies, communication effectiveness and sales behaviour. Starting his entrepreneurial career at age 11 selling lost golf balls, he didn’t look back, going on to (co)found no less than 7 businesses before the age of 25. Sought after as a coach, consultant & seminar leader, Mike has worked with senior executives and teams at some of Australia’s largest organisations in the public, private and education sectors, and is known for providing engaging and thought provoking presentations that get to the heart of communication and leadership issues. Mike is currently the Director of Ambition in Action Education, the Director of The Hive Brisbane, the Founder of Cupstart Online Coffee, Co-Founder of Seventh Bloom, a frequent Business Speaker and sits on the board for a number of not-for-profit organisations. Keep up with Mike on Twitter @MikeBoyd