Redefining Success After Burnout: Lessons on ambition, identity and pressure from building a $200 million business and rebuilding afterwards.
What if the life you’ve been told to want - money, status, recognition, followers and success - is actually taking you further away from the life you really want?
Michele brings a rare perspective…
Personal Responsibility for Young Men: Ownership, discipline and resilience so that adversity and failure do not become identity.
What happens when we stop waiting for someone else to fix our lives?
Michele can have a powerful conversation about personal responsibility, discipline, resilience and the uncomfortable process of…
Bringing In an Operator Before a Business Stalls: When founders and CEOs should add hands-on operating help, and what to hand over first
Michele Mattiuzzi co-founded Harvey Norman's Business and Education Division and helped take it from zero to about $200 million in under two years, and today he steps into founder-led businesses as…
Decision-Making Before the Crisis: How operational discipline from counter-terrorism response translates into business decision routines that hold under pressure.
Service in a Counter-Terrorism First Response unit with the Australian Federal Police at 21, protecting two Prime Ministers, came before co-founding Harvey Norman's Business and Education Division…
Masculinity and Responsibility for Young Men: Examining courage, discipline, failure, integrity and relationships while questioning manufactured identities sold online.
Young men are being exposed to more opinions about masculinity than ever - but far less genuine guidance about what it means to become a good, capable and grounded man.
Michele can explore masculinity…
Scepticism Toward Online Authority: How young people and business owners can tell genuine experience from manufactured success and follower-driven credibility.
Social media has created a world where confidence can look like competence, followers can look like credibility and manufactured success can be sold as expertise.
Michele is deeply sceptical of this…
Early Warning Signs of a Failing Business: Declining P&L performance, departing key people, operational bottlenecks and leadership ego that owners overlook before a crisis.
Businesses rarely collapse overnight. Michele can reveal the warning signs owners often ignore long before the numbers become impossible to hide.
He can explore the signals he looks for inside a…
Lessons From the Luxury Car Trade: How premium buyers decide, and what high-ticket businesses can apply
Michele Mattiuzzi's family owned a luxury car dealership, and what he saw there about how premium buyers decide carried into the businesses he later helped build and scale across retail, luxury and…
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