Ian Hutchinson

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Ian Hutchinson
self-leadership, work life balance, work productivity/fulfilment and lifestyle planning

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Ian Hutchinson (B.Bus, G.Dip.Psy, APS) is Australia’s leading Lifestyle Strategist®, and co-founder of The Work Life Project.

Since setting up Life by Design® in 1997 Ian has inspired and excited thousands of people, with his energising, fun and interactive style, helping them become happier and more successful in work, in life and the balance between the two.

Ian has a Bachelor of Business Degree in management and marketing, a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and has worked internationally with some of the world’s leaders in lifestyle planning. Before setting up Life by Design® in 1997 Ian was international marketing manager with Thredbo Ski Resort.

As a leading Lifestyle Strategist®, Ian’s innovative, but practical strategies has been profiled on national TV programs such as Reality Bites (ABC), Today Tonight (Channel 7) and The Today Show (Channel 9) and even international print media such as The New York Times.

Ian has worked with 5 of Australia top 10 companies, companies such as CBA, Toyota, ANZ, AMP, NAB, MLC, PwC, Boost Juice and McDonalds enhancing their ability to attract, engage and retain their best clients and employees through work life balance, productivity, work fulfilment programs and lifestyle planning.

Ian is author of “52 Strategies to Work Life Balance”, “The Lifestyle Planning System”, “The Lifestyle-Driven™ Financial Planner”, and the “New Generation Advisor program” – a world first, uniquely designed for financial advisors.

Ian’s is a natural entertainer (with a background in theatre sports), so his presentation style is dynamic, highly interactive but with a fun cheeky streak. He is motivational, extremely relevant and down-to-earth with real "take home" value. And as such, he is in demand throughout Australasia and all around the world and has presented programs in North America, Europe and even the Middle East.

Ian loves the mountains and the ocean, and his philosophy is “Life is for living – have a fun youthful attitude, keep things simple and above all do what you really love doing”.

Topics

All Markets

• Self-Leadership
• The Essential Strategies to Work Life Balance
• Retention Rules!

Specialised Financial Services

• Creating a Better Lifestyle for You & Your Clients
• Back to the Future: Fully Automated Lifestyle Planning
• The 10 Strategies of the New Generation Advisor

Testimonials

"Your presentation at our conference was rated ‘the most useful session’ by about 40% of respondents. That's very impressive considering we had 14 different sessions. Interactive and fun, everyone took something away for themselves and their business."
Commonwealth Bank of Australia

"Your performance was nothing short of outstanding. Your ability to grasp the group in your hand from the start and keep them until the very end was incredible. It was made even more apparent to me when so many of the group were talking at dinner about the topics you covered and the fun they had in your presentation."
McDonalds

"Best session of the conference - energetic, engaging, relevant... rated 90+%... Finally something of value to enhance my business & life"
Tribeca

"Outstanding. Ian was amazing, interesting and entertaining. It's not very often a speaker comes along that pleases everyone. 80% of attendees rated Ian as 'excellent' and the other 20% rated him as 'very good'. Most importantly what he said makes sense and is usable in every day life"
Financial Planning Association of Australia

"Today's work environment is such that there's little time to reflect on whether you want to be where you are, let alone whether you are who you want to be. This course pushes you to question both who and where you want to be and provides tangible tools to achieve both. Highly recommend."
Macquarie Bank

"At a time of year when people are usually slowing down, switching off and clearing out, with the help of Ian Hutchinson, we had 40 or so people, excited, motivated and interested in making plans. Any form of external training that TOWER undertakes needs to be very closely linked to current strategy and direction. Ian's ability to not only understand this need for business congruence but take it a step further and leave people feeling empowered to make a difference to that strategy is why we are eager to have Ian's 'Self Leadership' sessions become a regular feature of TOWER's People Development & Growth plans. The energy, relevance and professionalism of the sessions were commented on by all participants. We have a waiting list already for the next round of sessions. Thank You"
Tower Australia

"The support of yourself to our program really made a difference - in fact it turned a risk for us into a sure fire winner!"
AMP

"... Ian's energetic and entertaining style and obvious passion for the topic was evident in his interactive delivery style and the way he easily engaged the audience ."
Women in Finance

"The session was fun, entertaining well researched and gave participants a practical real life plan to follow once they finished the program. Ian's presentation was singled out as the highlight of the program"
Goodman Fielder

"…a perfect 10 out of 10"
NSW Dairy Corporation

"Your energetic closing keynote at Parliament House was one of the highlights of the day. Your humour, fun and lively audience interaction combined with a strong but real "take home" value was just what was needed. We will definitely be using you again.”
Meeting Industry Association of Australia

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