Meet The Experts
#RealReach is designed as Australia and New Zealand’s leading collaborative coaching and training resource for real estate Principals. We bring you cutting edge and timeless information and practical solutions from the experience of our real experts.
Members have access to insight from all of these experts, and more. You can have a sneak peak at the #RealReach Member Site, or join now for full access.
Kevin Turner
Co-Founder, #RealReach
Kevin is best known today as the host of Real Estate UNCUT, a daily podcast dedicated to training and trends in the real estate industry around Australia and the world.
Before starting in real estate, Kevin worked in radio as an announcer, salesperson, promotions manager and was General Manger of various radio stations in Queensland and New South Wales. In 1988, he commenced his real estate career in Paddington, Brisbane.
While selling in real estate, he was ranked as top salesperson in Queensland and remained in the top 10 salespeople in the state until 1991 when he commenced with a major real estate franchisor as a sales trainer, business development associate and was appointed as State CEO 1992.
Kevin has been able to combine his radio and real estate careers to create a series of interesting and informative real estate programs, including the Real Estate Talk Show on commercial radio; Real Estate UNCUT, a daily internet show for real estate professionals, and Real Estate Talk, a new online show for real estate consumers that is now the most listened to online real estate show in Australia and New Zealand.
Kevin is also a regular contributor to Margaret Lomas's Property Success Show on Sky TV, a feature writer for Fairfax Digital and provides video tips for Australian Property Investor Magazine and Domain TV.
Adam Stewart
Business Risk and Estate Planning, Financial Life
Adam Stewart has been a financial planner specialising in personal and business insurance since 1996 and has an excellent knowledge of insurance and how it must be tailored to meet the individual needs of clients.
With a particular focus on, and insight into the needs of real estate Principals, Adam specialises in advising individuals, families and businesses in securing appropriate insurance protection tailored to their unique circumstances.
Adam holds a Diploma in Financial Services and is a Member of the Million Dollar Round Table, an international group that showcases the top 3% in the Industry.
Belinda Vesey-Brown
Brand Strategist and Founder, Brandonian
Belinda Vesey-Brown is passionate, perceptive and driven. She’s worked with hundreds of businesses to find their brand archetype, genuinely connect with their customer and fulfill their commercial goals.
An expert on all facets of branding, marketing, graphic design, web design and build, digital marketing solutions, and establishing and growing a dynamic business, Belinda shares her wisdom directly and as a speaker.
Her genuine enthusiasm is contagious, and her upbeat and engaging rhetoric tells the tale of a true passion.
Josh Cobb
Real Estate Marketing Strategist, Stepps
Josh is the founder and CEO of Stepps – a digital marketing agency focused on real estate.
Having spent 12 years in real estate before launching Stepps in October 2014, today Josh oversees digital strategy for top performing real estate teams and travels around Australia and across the globe helping real estate professionals understand and profit from social media, content marketing, lead generation and marketing automation with several speaking engagements each year.
Josh is also the host of Real Estate Pros – an iTunes top ranked weekly podcast.
Melissa Marsden
Founder, Communiti
Mel specialises in strategic workplace design for organisations of all sizes, creating environments that are responsive to your businesses strategic vision and business goals. The result: a highly efficient, productive and profitable workplace materialising your corporate values to your people and your clients.
The real estate industry provides unique challenges to workplace culture and office design, requiring blended insight to ensure all team members of a business are connected and working together, rather than in silos.
As the founder of Communiti, Mel also puts forward the value of collaborative solutions to business concerns.
Jacob Aldridge
Co-Founder, #RealReach
Over the past 12 years, more than 300 active growth businesses in Australia, the UK, and Asia-Pacific have worked with Jacob in his role as an international business coach, partner and advisor.
His love for the real estate industry dates back to May 2000, when he applied for (and won) a job on the front desk of a leading independent agency in Brisbane’s Western Suburbs.
After nearly four years there, working his way up to a Marketing and Office Management role, Jacob’s career progressed. He also spent time as the State Operations Manager for one of the leading Franchise Groups, before the opportunity to run his own business coaching company (with a niche real estate focus) gave him the opportunity to truly advance his commercial acumen and see the world.
As Director of Advisory at businessDEPOT, Jacob continues to work one-on-one with real estate businesses and principals, while also leading the development of Strategic Advisory services across Workshops, Group Programs, and Online business guidance.
As a conference Speaker and MC, Jacob’s experience includes: the Property Management Leadership Summit, various REIQ seminars, Key Person of Influence Australia, World Business and Executive Coach Summit, the Email Marketing Summit Australia, and wide-ranging business conferences in the UK, USA and around Asia-Pacific.
Aimee Engelmann
CEO, Beepo
In 2013 Aimee founded Beepo; a company focussed on helping businesses improve their bottom line through Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).
With teams in Australia and the Philippines, Beepo is one of the few independently owned BPOs that focus 100% on the Australian market (and with a specialist real estate industry team), and have Australian based account management.
Aimee is also a Board Member of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation (EO), and facilitated UQ Business School's Global Resourcing Phenomenon Offshoring course.
Carrie Payne
Estate Planning Lawyer, businessDEPOT Legal
As a member of the businessDEPOT legal team, Carrie works collaboratively with different advisors to best help them provide effective and appropriate solutions for tax planning, estate and business succession planning, and asset protection.
Her specialist interest in the area of estate administration has made her a sought after expert in that area for businesses across a range of industries, including real estate.
Carrie is passionate about client interaction and communication and ensuring that all parties to any legal engagement see value in the process.
Megan Kelly
Head of Superannuation, businessDEPOT
As director of superannuation at businessDEPOT and DEPOTsuperannuation, Megan is passionate about helping people take control of their future.
Through 15 years of experience in the specialist field of self-managed super, Megan has built a niche supporting small business owners with running their SMSFs.
A critical part of Wealth Creation for Real Estate Principals, Megan delivers on SMSF accounting, administration, taxation, compliance advice, liaising with the ATO on compliance breaches and strategic advice in relation to contribution and retirement planning.
Paula Forward
Director, RealHR
RealHR helps Real Estate businesses navigate their way through the ever-changing landscape of industrial relations legislation, to ensure they are compliant and have best practice systems and processes in place.
Paula's aim is to assist you to maintain compliance, whilst building high performing teams so you can achieve your organisational goals.
Paula's expertise and interests cover Industrial Relations/Employee Relations legislation and award interpretation, drafting employment contracts for the Real Estate Industry, Workplace health & Safety training, and employee grievance mediation.
Rose Kelly
Founder and Coach, Leading Focus
Rose Kelly brings her passion for excellence and her desire to maximise the potential of all to Leading Focus.
Using the experiences gained from over 3 decades as a real estate business owner, manager, leader, marketer, trainer, consultant and publisher, Rose now works with others to accelerate their own entrepreneurial journey.
Rose has an amazing skill to quickly and accurately cut through all the noise and clutter to expertly identify the pathways to success for individuals, teams and enterprises.
John Knight
Co-Founder, #RealReach
A real estate industry expert, John uses his business improvement and strategic planning skills to help his clients improve their position and boost their profits.
John helps his broad client base with his unique business improvement services, strategic planning skills and wealth of knowledge on compliance matters. As the Managing Director of businessDEPOT, John oversees an award-winning marketplace of business solutions, having grown from the original Accounting services to now deliver Advisory, Legal, Wealth, Marketing, and more through their Collective network.
Further to his business improvement offering, John provides company and business valuations for various purposes including company purchase/ sale, entity reorganisation and matrimonial or dispute resolution.
John is an expert in all things real estate and has built a reputation in the industry for being far more than just an accountant – he genuinely understands the needs and desires of real estate Principals.
In his role as Co-Founder of #RealReach, John brings his own experience and the specific expert contributions of his businessDEPOT team across categories including
- Accounting and Tax,
- Business Funding, and
- Succession, Sale and Exit.
Alan Dawson
Director, Real Estate Agency Broking
Alan utilises his extensive Real Estate background spanning over 37 years to offer quality industry advice around Real Estate Agency Broking.
During his career Alan has covered over 22 years in Franchising and held State Management roles with significant organisations in the industry. He is a fully licenced Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer and holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
Alan provides quality executive advisory, decision support and greatly assists with managing organisational change during the Agency sale or acquisitions process.
Craig Harrison
Director, businessDEPOT Accounting
As a Director at businessDEPOT Accounting, Craig works closely with businesses [and the people behind them] to identify key areas for improvement, and to implement strategies designed to help them reach their potential.
During 15 years in the Chartered Accounting profession he has provided a broad range of business consulting, taxation and accounting services.
Now specialising in Real Estate businesses around Australia, Craig helps Principals with business structuring, budgeting and cash flow planning, tax planning, and more.
Millie Aldridge
Business Coach and Personal Coach
A professional coach since 2013, Millie dives deep into the limiting beliefs, thoughts and emotional blocks that are holding each individual back and helps them transform their lives from the inside out.
Whether it be personal or business coaching, the relationship you have with yourself is most important. Creating a successful life is all about how well you can communicate and connect with yourself and in all of your relationships.
Millie works with individuals and teams, building their success in all areas of their lives including health, wealth and relationships.
Penny Tarrant
Director, Real Estate Recruitment Australia
Penny's desire to help experienced real estate agents came from working in the industry and the Corporate side of real estate with LJ Hooker, Ray White & Harcourts in growth and profitability.
With so many agents failing to achieve the level of $ return on their investment of time, and great Principals often struggling to connect with the best performers in their market, Penny helped establish Real Estate Recruitment Australia to help those who help so many others.
As a #RealReach Expert, Penny combines her current awareness of the real estate industry and its demands with her track record of performance and success.