
Knowledge Sharing Dinner Series
Sharing knowledge you can use right away to make informed decisions and make a real difference in your business.
You’re invited to join us for a Knowledge Sharing Dinner as a Guest of
Finance for Business
Scroll down for dinner dates and times and find out more about the Knowledge Sharing Dinner Series


The pathway to a successful business purchase, sale or merger – separation or a new beginning
9 July 2019, 6pm – 9pm Novotel, Glen Waverley
The pathway to a business purchase, sale or a merger can be a minefield for the uninitiated, with legal, financial, branding and transformation elements all vying for your attention. Missing any of these critical elements can not only derail the transaction – but it can also quickly erode business value.
Spend the evening with our panel of four professionals to dissect the risks and opportunities to enable you to drive greater value.
Covering legal elements such as the value of due diligence, the benefits of trade marks and the ability to transfer and sell them. Also understand how to assess the relative brand strength of the target business and how to commercialise this value. Couple this with the various tax pitfalls, to then round out with a keen understanding of how to successfully complete a business transformation with the integration of the people, systems and processes.

Using Technology to Drive Business Growth
13 August 2019, 6pm – 9pm Novotel, Glen Waverley
Successful businesses use technology to scale up and grow profitably.
If you are planning on growing your business, technology will be a fundamental part of your strategy; but successful implementation requires careful planning.
You have probably either lived through or heard the story of the unsuccessful IT project that not only fails to deliver on its promises, but also burns through serious cash. Such stories are far too common, but your business can avoid becoming another.
In this knowledge-sharing dinner specialists in technology, human resources, grants, and finance will explore the best ways to harness technology for successful and sustainable business growth.
You will find out how you can transform IT from a cost into a profit driver; and at the end of the evening you will have an action plan for how you can use technology to drive your business growth.

Risky Business - Managing the challenges that keep you awake at night
15 October 2019, 6pm - 9pm Novotel, Glen Waverley
With risks come rewards. In this Knowledge Sharing Dinner we will help and challenge you to actively manage your business around known and unexpected risks.
Whether it be staff who make you want to tear your hair out; debtors who just won't pay; damage to your brand from unhappy customers or natural disasters you simply couldn't have predicted.
We'll give you the legal, financial, brand management and insurance expertise to help end your sleepless nights.

Human Capital – the hidden key to determining the long term value of your business
12 November 2019, 6pm – 9pm Novotel, Glen Waverley
The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and the intellectual capital are managed by the human capital. You’d better get the human capital part right.” ― Dave Bookbinder Business Valuation Expert
In this Knowledge Sharing dinner experts from the area of brand culture, leadership, HR management and systems will share with you the key steps to finding, managing, developing, retaining and paying for the human capital you need to build the long term value of your business.
About the Knowledge Sharing Dinner Series
Synergy48 Group Knowledge Sharing Dinners are exclusively for S48 Group members and their personally invited clients.
All dinners are held at the Novotel Hotel in Glen Waverley from 6pm – 9pm. Numbers at each dinner are strictly limited to 32 to ensure a quality experience for members and their guests.
Every dinner in the series is based around Four Guiding Principles:
- Singular Focus: Every dinner focuses on exploring a specific business issue which SMEs have consistently identified as a significant concern.
- Multiple perspectives: We bring together four experts from four different industries/professions to provide multiple perspectives on the issue.
- Relevance and Significance: You’ll have the opportunity to explore the issue in depth with each of the experts to determine how it applies to your business.
- Capacity for Action: You’ll leave with a clear and prioritised action plan developed for YOUR business – NOT a generic “To Do” list.
What guests at previous dinners have said…
About Synergy48 Group
One team, one purpose: working together to help make SMEs more profitable and sustainable, for the good of people and the planet.
We’re a collective of independent quality tested business specialists, who work together strategically to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Every Synergy48 Group member has an outstanding brand reputation for quality services, customer service and integrity and has consistently demonstrated their commitment to our shared values of professional excellence, collaboration, truth and business for good.
PS Wondering where the name came from?
- Synergy is because by working together we realise the power of synergy 1+1 really does = 3 (or more).
- 48 came from the number of best practice factors or benchmarks we identified as being indicative of a thriving, successful and saleable business. Coincidentally it’s also a Chinese number for prosperity.