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About Simon Small
Simon Small the Corporate Coach and Master Facilitator has many years experience in operational leadership roles including 10 years service as an officer in the Australian Army. Since 1997 he has been conducting development programs and coaching assignments with individuals and teams. Simon’s early experience in the military provided him with the foundation for his later success.

A Graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, he served as a military commander, where he had the opportunity to hone his leadership skills. He was subsequently involved in training other officers in leadership and small team dynamics back at Duntroon. His broad theoretical knowledge and practical experience offers an unequalled ability to facilitate learning and behavioural change in the experiential environment.

Obsessed with the area of personal achievement Simon has used himself as a living case study, walking his talk. He has successfully balanced the raising of a young family with the challenge of building two successful performance development businesses and his desire for continuing education, achieving university qualifications in adult education, human resources, coaching and is a qualified personal fitness trainer.

Physically, he has completed multiple marathons, an iron-man triathlon, more than a dozen crossings of the Kokoda Track and numerous physically and mentally challenging events. Now working as an individual and team coach and facilitator, Simon is passionate about sharing this insight into what it takes to develop mental toughness and perform at your best.

Area of specialisation for g2G: Simon is the subject expert in coaching, facilitation and adventure learning.

About Guy Andrews
Known for his excellence at the elite level of competitive Surf Life Saving. Guy continues his drive for achievement in everything that he does. Recently retired from competitive Surf Life Saving his sporting career has seen him win numerous awards, including 3 x Uncle Toby's Ironman Super Series Championships, an Australian Open Ironman Championship and was the winner of the grueling Test of the Toughest competition.

A little known fact is that guy is also an Australian Age Triathlon Champion, and has world rankings in Adventure Racing. He competed for the first time in China in the World Adventure Racing Championships. His team managed to beat the World Champions on Day 2 of the 4-day event and finally came in 3rd out of 30 teams. Guy also competed in the World Solo championships in NZ recently were he beat all the European and N. American champions and placed 4th outright.

Guy is now regarded as one of Australia's best Adventure Racers. With a past like this what does the future hold for guy Andrews? He aims to carry on with his adventure racing and use his media profile to help raise awareness of the benefits of being active and its contribution toward the health of Corporate Australia and our children. Guy aims to become as successful in business as he has been in sport, and to use his success to inspire fellow Australians toward the road of health and personal fulfillment.

Area of specialisation for g2G: Guy is a consultant in Adventure Learning and Fitness.

About John O’Brien
John has specialized in developing relevant and accessible games, activities and adventures for corporate conferences and training events. His development of the concept of High Adventure Team Problem Solving Games is slowly sweeping the training world.

In 15 years of contracting to corporate, educational and community training organisations John has safely dispatched well over 35,000 abseilers. That’s a lot. John has gained repute as a major developer of sport rock-climbing in Queensland, putting up over 1,000 meters of new routes in one year alone.

You are unlikely to find anyone with more corporate adventure training experience.

He’s a vegetarian, nuts about cryptic crosswords and he swam in the Ganges.
When working with John always expect something that is safe, challenging and very different.

Odd spot: On a busy day John controls over 4 kilometers of rope as it runs through his right hand.

Area of specialisation for g2G: John is a consultant in Adventure and Team Performance Systems.

About Peter O'Brien
Peter O’Brien has a long history of involvement in the research, delivery, and successful implementation of Business Improvement processes. Since 1990 Peter has provided the intellectual firepower that has seen his business emerge as one of Australia’s most respected Corporate Development Consultancies.

Between 1987 and 1990 Peter was involved with the redesign and delivery of the RAAF’s Leadership Training, including the introduction of experiential and adventure learning elements. On leaving the RAAF college, Peter joined the UK based MaST Organisation, conducting the ‘Leaders to the Top’ program. After a year’s preparation, he led a team of ten senior corporate executives to the summit of Mt Aconcagua, the world’s highest mountain outside the Himalayas.

As a facilitator Peter has built a reputation as dynamic, entertaining and highly informative, however his skills are not limited to presentation. He has facilitated many high-level organizational re-design forums, and in one instance, amazed conveners by obtaining resolution from 30 managers on a $300 million governance agreement in under a day.

Peter’s driving passion is the application of cutting edge thinking to business, and he is constantly researching fields such as philosophy, physics, mathematics, linguistics and business. Using this unique mix of influences, he has synthesised an interconnected range of strategic concepts for dealing with today’s complex business environment, balanced with practical models for workplace implementation.

Area of specialisation for g2G: Peter is a consultant in leadership, team facilitation and program design.

About Eric Bailey
Eric Bailey is a former professional basketball player from the USA, and now lives in Brisbane Australia. Standing at 6 foot 7 this exciting and passionate presenter will energize your team or conference.

Eric was raised on the tough streets of downtown Los Angeles where, at the age of seven, he has diagnosed with a rare bone disease. He was told he would never play sport, that he would never amount to anything and to forget about an education. But on simple principles that Eric applied to his life he was able to set goals, stay focused, follow his dreams, and stay energized!!

Drawing from his experiences of life and death realities of growing up in a tough Los Angeles neighbourhood, the ups and downs of professional sport, and the transition of change from the court to the boardroom.

Eric will revitalize and give you and your team a dynamic presentation that will help your business unlock the power of its most valuable asset, its People!!

Area of specialisation at g2G - Electric and Passionate Motivational Speaker and coach.

About Dr Toby Ford
Dr Toby Ford is a leading expert in the area of corporate health risk management. He is a nationally acknowledged speaker and presenter on health, lifestyle, stress and motivation. With various television, radio and conference presentations he promotes the virtues of maintaining quality of working life, lifestyle, wellbeing and work/life balance.

After graduating from the University of Queensland Medical School and spending his residency at the Mater Hospital, Dr Ford spent time as a Flying Doctor and in suburban general practice. Interest in prevention of illness, early screening and detection were pursued overseas in the USA and the United Kingdom, giving a good grounding in many facets of worksite health.

Dr Toby is the founder of Ford Health Group a Corporate Health Provider for individuals, employees and organisations throughout Queensland and Australia. His clients include Port of Brisbane Corporation, Powerlink, Blake Dawson Waldron, MacArthur Coal, Minter Ellison, Hatch. He is Chief Medical Officer for Suncorp Life and examiner for other insurance companies.

The Ford Health Group are providers of all health assessment and management services for g2G nationally. We are excited to be partnering with Toby and his team to be able to bring best of bread health services to our clients

About Lincoln Amidy
Lincoln Amidy is a passionate person who aims to make a difference in people’s lives through a no nonsense and fun approach to life. Lincoln’s passion for a healthy and balanced lifestyle enables him to now be an innovative and informative presenter and facilitator. He now operates his own business, Pinnacle Corporate Health conducting corporate health presentations and team building events with companies all over Australia.

Lincoln’s aim is to provide companies with a practical approach to improving the productivity of their employees through a concentration upon their health and well-being.
In his career path Lincoln has been a teacher, operations manager, professional rugby player and spent 4 years with The Golden Door Health retreat as the director of their corporate health program. It has been this experience that has enabled Lincoln to evolve into one of the youngest, passionate and most exciting presenters in our time.

His presentations are extremely motivational, encompassing, educational, fun and set in a very relaxed atmosphere Lincoln is a passionate sports person having played rugby in England for two years, training and overcoming injury in Ironman Triathlon’s and today being a competitive cyclist.

Area of specialisation at g2G- Work > Life BALANCE

About Chris Kelly
Chris is a personal development specialist. Over the years he has simplified a way of combining a variety of skills in a purposeful and multi-layered approach to help people. His varied background and training provide clients with a valuable creative resource that can be used to bring about dynamic change at core levels of thinking, behaviour, health, values and human strategies.

Chris’s primary area of focus is in the area of mind, body and alternative medicine. He is on the Australian Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), is a qualified Hypnotherapist and Master Practitioner of NLP, is a certified Bowen Technique Therapist, and Integrational Therapist. Chris uses these skills to assist clients to uncover unknown or unconscious, self-imposed boundaries effecting performance and happiness. He provides ‘the coachee’ with ways of achieving real and positive change, mental flexibility, emotional balance and performance improvement in any area. He now runs his practice out of the Glebe Healing Centre - one of Australia's most respected centres of mind/body/alternative medicine.

As a coach, Chris combines all his tools to support individuals and groups through outcome specific activities to positively impact life, career, health and the ‘whole person’. Through this, increased productivity and high performance become a way of being.

Area of specialization for g2G: Chris is our consultant, advising in the area of mind/body/alternative medicine