Our Team

Oshi Kirk

Director/Principal Consultant

Relentless about problem solving. Total and brutal honesty, if that’s what it takes to grow your business.

Oshi has owned and managed successful businesses for over thirteen years and has leveraged this success in running her own importing business and now, the Business Consult Group.

From freight forwarding, materials handling and new brand development through to retailing and hedge funds management, Oshi is a business ‘all rounder’ and thrives on being ‘thrown into the deep end’ on business issues and opportunities.

With a focus on solid marketing planning and professional execution, Oshi offers proven business strategy often underpinned by market research (client/customer insights) and training for sales and marketing teams.

The brands and businesses she and her team work on today, truly come to life with solid growth and strong market recognition. Oshi has a well established network of dealers/traders in Australia and New Zealand, all looking for commercial opportunities and/or introductions to like-minded business people, all clients of the Business Consult Group.

Martin Brown

Design

Engineering customer satisfaction through intelligent Ui and UX design.

Martin is a multi-media production and placement specialist with a diverse history in product, system and user design across a variety of green and care industries.

Studying product design and marketing enabled Martin to merge the manufacture of products with the experience of using them to produce compelling narratives of their application to user life. This broad skill-set has been used to establish businesses in product design and manufacture, digital enterprise systems, retail design and fit-out, dining experiences and online products.

Phoebe Brown

Communications

Creating meaningful content to bridge the divide between individuals and the businesses they interact with.

Phoebe is a communications specialist with a strong background across the arts, medical and research industries. After receiving a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism and Public Relations, Phoebe has spent the past ten years working for a number of high profile arts and medical organisations, including the Gallery of Modern Art (PR, media and events), Queensland Theatre Company (marketing) and Mater Foundation—where she created engaging medical and research content to drive fundraising. Branching out to combine her passions for writing, marketing and public relations, Phoebe joined BCG in 2017.

Simon Dodson

Digital Strategy

Search Optimisation (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Digital Strategy and Media Buying.

Simon is a graduated media professional with 19 years’ experience in digital strategy, SEO, SEM, content management, journalism, design, data, large EDM journey marketing to broadcasting platforms and distribution from print, radio, digital, online, and has lead real‐time broadcasting mediums and detailed digital content strategy & SEO within large enterprise publishers and on‐line networks.

Blair McFarlane

Financial Advisor

Combining a financial background with a passion for business success to achieve the best possible outcomes.

After completing a Bachelor of Business degree in accounting and economics, Blair has spent over 25 years achieving successful results for a variety of businesses in various industries, including two successful start up operations of his own.

With experience in taking small businesses through the early stages of their development and overseeing their growth into major successful operations, Blair has an understanding of what is required to extract the best out of any business. Utilising his solid financial background and general management skills, Blair has been a key contributor to the growth and success of a variety of businesses in the automotive, wholesale and hospitality industries.

With a focus on cost management, product pricing, margin analysis, financing and cash flow analysis, combined with a passion to obtain successful outcomes for any business, he can provide the platform to kick start your operation, as well as the ability to analyse and expand your existing operation.

John Kirk

Project Management

Get it done, deliver on time and do it to a budget!

John has delivered business growth and property projects small and large for over thirteen years. From assisting Melbourne University build an offsite facility, to coordinating back of house systems for Seed Stores all over Australia.

John attacks the ‘pain and pressure points’ in business and takes on the projects that take business owners and managers away from doing what they do best - running their business.

Achieving the ‘Perfect hand-over’ for client sites after lease expiration is just one of the key indicators John sets out to achieve.