AMW Business Growth is a boutique business advisory, support and mentoring practice, based in South Australia, and owned / managed by Amanda Wood.
Amanda Wood established AMW Business Growth in 2016 and is the Principal Advisor/Mentor as well as Director of the overarching company (Business and More Pty Ltd). From hands-on experience in other businesses and other advisory roles, or as a senior executive, CEO and Director, Amanda well-understands the many pressures, responsibilities, delights and challenges faced by business owners and managers. Her extensive experience brings impact to her client-work on business strategy; business planning; business reviews and health checks; grant or tender bids; marketing strategy; and general business advice.
The “M” in our logo is intended to depict the friendly and helpful relationships we aim to form with our clients and partners. Please tell us if we are living up to this aim!
We aim to assist you and your business reach greater success through:
The BENEFITS you can expect from working with us include:
- Having a trusted and knowledgable friend or, as one client put it, “a buddy who understands business and really relates to us”. (Sharing the mental load might even help you sleep easier!)
- Relevant and useful business and management advice and services that are accessible, flexible and uncomplicated.
- Service delivery options to suit you – virtual (e.g. video or phone calls) or face to face, and also when convenient for you (And yes – even “strange hours” where that’s practical for us both).
- Improvement in your ability to think strategically about your business.
- Learnings from someone who has “walked the walk” through many business experiences, and continues evolving their contemporary business awareness.
- Greater clarity of your strategic options and what growth actions to enact.
Misc FEATURES of working with AMW Business/Amanda:
- Expect less “BS and box ticking” and more: Real conversations, ideating, problem-solving, strategising, planning, getting clear on action steps, and above all – challenging you with questions, findings, ideas or insights that stimulate your growth as a business leader.
- We are NOT – “algorithm masters” aka digital media experts, nor app developers, but we can probably introduce you to some of those after assessing your market strategies/aims and strategic need for such support
- We are NOT – lawyers or accountants – but we can introduce you to some of those after assessing your strategic need for such support
- We do NOT – make referrals to providers in return for hidden commissions (if we ever do, and that’s doubtful, it will be with your full knowledge).
- We may provide you resources like document templates, learning aids or research materials, for your business use – usually at no charge – or we may work with you on a fee basis to develop, or co-ordinate development of, such resources as best suited to your purpose.
- Deliverables may vary from brief mentoring conversations (with a few action notes), right up to major strategic review development, research and report-writing.
- We work mainly with established businesses but can also assist new or intending businesses (including not for profits and social enterprises).
- We have experience with clients with 0 – 100 staff, and across most industries, including start-ups.
- We charge by the hour for advisory/mentoring “sessions”
- For projects of more than a few hours we will negotiate a fixed budget with you.
- Sometimes we can offer subsidised or even free sessions depending on eligibility for funded programs e.g. the Southern Business Mentoring Program, or other funding programs.
Some comments from our clients…
“Amanda is a wealth of knowledge and during our first meeting she was easily able to identify, challenge and expand my thought process for what was going to benefit my own development, the strength and strategy of my business and my business proposition to others…”
“Thank you, thank you. You’ve given us so much to think about.
Revitalised us, in fact!”
“Amanda Wood’s engagement and commitment for the success of others is evident from the start. She is highly professional, engaging and focused in all that she does and delivers…”
“Amanda has been an invaluable support in turning my passion project into a business. She has accompanied me to several business meetings and provided advice in many areas. Amanda goes above and beyond in her role, I have felt supported at all stages of my business journey…”
“AMW’s advice has assisted me in understanding what I need to do and how I can achieve success in an industry I am so passionate about…”
“Amanda, as I said yesterday, I really appreciate all your efforts, and it is going to be good and exciting following the actions from the (Business Review) report…”
“Amanda has made me realise that I could put some useful and valuable information in my advertising (how my service rates in relation to National Quality standard). She has also given me an insight about applying for grants, and a great wealth of other information. I really appreciate the time she has taken to meet with me as well as to email me some documents afterwards.”
