Practical budget frameworks you can apply immediately
Confidence-building presentation techniques
Real-world financial communication scenarios
Started in a small office in 2019, turned into something much bigger than we expected.
Honestly, we just wanted to help people stop fumbling through budget presentations. Six years later, we're still doing exactly that—just for a lot more professionals across Australia and beyond.
Our founder, Lachlan Thorburn, sat through a three-hour budget meeting in late 2018 where nobody could follow the numbers. Good data, terrible delivery. People checked their phones. Questions went nowhere.
He'd spent years in corporate finance and saw this pattern everywhere—smart professionals who knew their numbers but couldn't communicate them effectively. So in early 2019, he rented a small space in Tweed Heads and started running weekend workshops.
Word spread faster than expected. By mid-2020, we had a waiting list. Now we run programs throughout the year, with enrollment opening in autumn 2025 for our next cohort starting October 2025.
Most budget training focuses on spreadsheet mechanics. We focus on the human side—helping you explain complex financial information so people actually understand and remember it.
We work with actual budget presentations from participants. No generic templates or hypothetical cases. You bring real challenges, we help you solve them.
Maximum twelve people per cohort. Everyone presents multiple times. You get direct feedback from instructors and peers who understand financial communication.
We teach specific frameworks for structuring budget presentations, handling tough questions, and explaining variances without losing your audience halfway through.
Average Cohort Size
9-11 participants per program
Practice Presentations
Each participant presents 4-6 times
Program Duration
Six weeks, meeting twice weekly
We're a small team. Everyone who teaches has actually worked in financial roles where budget presentations were part of the job—usually the stressful part.
Lead Instructor
Spent twelve years in mining finance before joining us in 2021. She once had to present a quarterly budget to a board of directors who interrupted every thirty seconds. Now she teaches people how to handle exactly that situation—and about fifty others that come up in real budget meetings.
Program Coordinator
Handles everything from enrollment to scheduling to making sure our practice scenarios actually reflect current business environments. Background in operations management, which turns out to be surprisingly useful when coordinating a dozen professionals with conflicting schedules.
Applications open in April. We review everyone individually and usually fill spots by early May. If you're tired of budget presentations going poorly, this might help.
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