Dr Bernie Verbaan owns and manages Techno Economic Consultants Of Australia Pty Ltd. His academic qualifications include BSc, MSc MBA and PhD whilst his professional affiliations include CPrEng FAusIMM FIEAust and AIMM. He has vast teaching and consulting experience, won various awards and has numerous publications to his credit. Thousands of professional personnel throughout Australia and overseas have attended Dr Verbaan’s seminars. He has done in-house training for companies and organisations that include: Alcoa World Aluminium, BHP Billiton, Comalco Aluminium, Hamersley Iron, Western Mining Corporation, Western Power, Curtin University of Technology, Murdoch University, etc.

At a very early stage of his career as a chemical engineer Dr Verbaan became aware of the lack of meaningful financial and money management education in undergraduate schooling systems. Indeed, relatively few business owners or employees (other than accountants and economists) ever receive meaningful financial and money management education. This results in disempowerment that often prevents people from taking control of their own financial destinies. As a result they often become disadvantageously dependent on other people’s advice. During the last fifteen years or so, Dr Verbaan has successfully provided pragmatically empowering financial and money management seminars and services to people who lacked financial backgrounds.

The generation of sales revenue is a logical and necessary prerequisite to financial and money management. Dr Verbaan provides a range of highly effective sales and marketing management educational seminars and training systems. The emphasis is on developing sales and marketing strategies that underpin subsequent tactics. Spaced repetition training in sales and marketing skills over a period of time ensures master levels of competence can be achieved.

Poor state of mind management skills often results in business owners and employees experiencing chronic stress. As a result they do not think, feel or behave as effectively and wisely as do people who experience life in a calmer and more peaceful manner. The Harvard Business Review (December 2001) reports the following conclusions of a two year research program: “Of all the elements affecting bottom-line performance, the importance of the leader’s mood and its attendant behaviours was the most important”. “Managing for financial results, then, begins with managing one’s inner life so that the right emotional and behavioural chain occurs”. “Managing one’s inner life is not easy. For many of us, it’s our most difficult challenge”. “Emotional leadership is the spark that ignites a company’s performance, creating a bonfire of success or a landscape of ashes.” Dr Verbaan teaches state of mind management skills using a well proven approach that can, when understood, greatly improve emotional intelligence and mental wellbeing. Then in addition to being able to acquire things that money can buy, people can simultaneously get the valuable things in life that money generally can’t buy, ie wisdom, better relationships, greater creativity, peace of mind etc.