Nick Setchell
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Biography
Nick Setchell is CEO of Practice Strategies, a business improvement consulting firm that defined and developed RealTime CEO and "Fiscal Focus®".
Nick has analysed in excess of 1,000 businesses and worked with hundreds of CEOs and executives around the world to help them better understand their business performance and make better business decisions.
Practice Strategies has presented in excess of 500 workshops to CEOs and executives in the Australia, USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand. Nick has also run numerous coaching workshops for commercial bankers in Australia and the US.
Nick has held senior executive positions in business management since the 1989. For the past 10 years Nick has been running his own consulting practice primarily working with CEO and senior executives.
The concepts of RealTimeCEO have been presented to businesses in USA, Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand. As a speaker and presenter, Nick has been internationally recognised and awarded the TEC Australia "Mick Robertson Award" and "Speaker of the Year", the Vistage UK "International Speaker of the Year" award and has been recognized by Vistage USA as one of the top 12 speakers from a worldwide pool in excess of 1500.
Nick holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Nick is married to Iréna and has 2 children, Felix and Jasmyn. In his spare time he enjoys golf, tennis, theatre and collecting wine.
Comments from TEC presentations
- "Nick is simply outstanding, great concepts, great content, great takeaway tools and high energy"
- "Great content on key information and indicators that a CEO should be using"
- "Interesting insights into financial metrics that actually mean something"
- "Great tools to help bring about a new focus - fiscal and cultural"
TEC awards
- Speaker of The Year: 2008
- Mick Robertson Award: 2009
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Presentations
Subject Matter: Business Process Improvement / Lean; CEO-level Financial Decision Making
Suitable For: KEY; TEC; TECR;
Duration: 3.5 hours
RealTimeCEO
2020 Session Overview
RealTimeCEO is a fresh perspective on "whole of business” leadership that enables the CEO and key executives to grasp a true understanding of the real position of their business, thereby allowing them to act in real time to challenge and improve their future.
The RealTimeCEO framework establishes a culture that enables the business to combine a strong leadership skillset with powerful strategic planning while using plain English numbers to guarantee better decisions.
When RealTimeCEO becomes integral to the business culture, the CEO and leaders are able to:
• Implement plain English communication leadership philosophy
• Develop leaders of the future as well as managers of today
• Determine strengths and weaknesses of business performance
• Convert strategies into accountable actions
• Manage change to ensure improvement potential is realized.
RealTimeCEO - Contents
• Broad responsibilities of the RealTime CEO
• SON Communication:
- Connects Strategic vision to Operational response and plain English Numerical measurement
- Designed to remove SILO mentality
- Drives powerful leadership conversations
- Helps distinguish between leaders and managers
• Plain English Numbers:
- 6 powerful KPIs that tell you everything you need to know about your business
- Expert Decision validation – “Should We? / Can We?” using the Crystal Ball
• Case study to demonstrate interpreting the interaction of the 6 numbers to each other and in conjunction with SON Communication.
Nick can present the concepts of RealTimeCEO in anything from 3 to 4 hours. The average minimum time allocated by past groups is 3.5 hours. It is interesting to note that the most common post session feedback is that Chairs and members wish they had allocated more time.
The concepts of RealTimeCEO have been presented to businesses in USA, Australia, UK, Canada, and New Zealand. As a public speaker, Nick has been awarded the Tec Australia “Mick Robertson Award” and “Speaker of the Year”, the Vistage UK “International Speaker of the Year” and has recognized by Vistage USA as one of the top 12 speakers from a worldwide pool in excess of 1500.
