Business Wisdom

Australian Business Owners Share Their Stories

Brett Kelly

Author’s Official Edition

Business Wisdom is a rare collection of insights from sixteen of Australia’s most successful business owners — including Mark Carnegie, Imelda Roche, Harry Triguboff, Collette Dinnigan, Lorna Jane, Tom Waterhouse and Mike Cannon-Brookes — in conversation with Brett Kelly, the founder and CEO of the global accounting network Kelly+Partners.

Brett delves into the life and business of each leader to find out what wisdom they gained from their years of hard work, how it has shaped their lives, and what leads people to feats of such extraordinary magnitude in business. As he uncovers, the life of a business owner rarely goes to plan, but it's always exciting. In Business Wisdom, Brett asks these titans in their fields questions like:

• Why does the business matter?

• How did you build up from two stores to three hundred?

• What is the art of selling?

• What have been the greatest challenges?

• What do you do to keep building your knowledge?

The result is a captivating set of candid interviews that reveal the mindset of Australia's most successful business owners. Each person and every story is unique, and in many cases completely unexpected.

This is the third book in Brett’s Wisdom Series. Brett writes a book on wisdom every seven years, reflecting on what he has learned through interviews with prominent experts in their fields:

1998: Collective Wisdom

2005: Universal Wisdom

2012: Business Wisdom

2019: Investment Wisdom

Business Wisdom is for every business owner looking to learn more about making a business meet your vision — and a must-read for everyone interested in the future prosperity of Australian business and society.

BRETT KELLY is the founder and CEO of Kelly+Partners, a professional speaker, and a best-selling author.

Brett holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Technology Sydney and a master’s degree in taxation from the University of New South Wales. He is a chartered accountant and registered tax agent. With more than twenty-five years of commercial and professional accountancy experience, he specializes in assisting individuals and families who own private businesses.

Brett founded Kelly+Partners Accountants in 2006 and, over nineteen years, has grown the business to become the premier private business specialist accounting network and the seventeenth-largest firm in Australia. Kelly+Partners has grown from two greenfield offices in Sydney, Australia, to forty-one operating businesses across forty locations in Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, Ireland, Philippines and India. The Kelly+Partners team is composed of more than 700 people, including 100+ partners, who service over 25,000 SME clients. The holding company, Kelly Partners Group Holdings Limited, successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on June 21, 2017 (ASX: KPG) and was subsequently made available through the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol KPGHF.

Kelly+Partners’ philosophy is to help clients “Be Better Off.”

Inspirational and insightful, Brett has presented to over one thousand audiences, ranging from the National Press Club in Canberra to youth, business, community, sales, and corporate groups. An excellent keynote speaker, Brett has the ability to captivate a wide range of audiences by making a potentially boring topic interesting, relevant, and practical.

Brett is married to Rebecca, and they have three children: Thomas, Nicholas, and Audrey.