Zac is an award-winning business coach, consultant and strategist based in Auckland. In simple terms, Zac makes businesses better. His company Business Changing works with some of New Zealand’s leading companies and each year hundreds of owners, founders and senior managers attend Business Changing business planning & strategy workshops. Before he started Business Changing in 2011, Zac was the Managing Director of Barkers Menswear and before that he was the finance guy behind House of Travel and Flight Centre.

In this episode Zac talks about...

— the importance of managing your mental health as a business owner;

— why he reckons it will be 2024 or 2025 before we are anywhere near pre-Covid normal, whatever that will look like;

— the frustration for business owners who are not in control of their own destiny;

— how his personal life suffered as a result of prioritising business;

— how analysing his Dad's sales figures game him a great grounding in numbers;

— running his first business which was 100 percent pure profit;

— why he focuses on income not costs;

— Buying Barkers Menswear and how winning the All Blacks account was crucial in turning the business around;

— Why he left Barkers to go out on his own and set up Business Changing;

— how to grow and scale a business;

... and much more.