Larry Gould is the chief executive officer of Australia-wide Business Training Pty Ltd. He is a certified practicing accountant who has extensive experience across a number of industry sectors ranging from banking to chemical manufacture and insurance to tourism over a 20-year period. During that period Larry has been instrumental in the development and implementation of a number of electronic accounting systems, the development, co-ordination and management of strategic planning and budgeting programs, the successful implementation of human resource and leadership strategies and the provision of effective solutions to a variety of business problems. Before launching ABT Larry was managing director of consulting group Longridge Hill Pty Ltd. Prior to this in 1996 he was the sole provider of the Victorian Employer's Chamber of Commerce and industry short course financial management program.

Australian businesses and financial advisory firms in particular face the most radical transformation in leadership and work practices in decades as they prepare for the impending "war for talent". In recent years insightful business leaders ... Read more