We believe thatlow costaccess to high quality training in business techniques can improve the quality of management of every business.
As small business owners ourselves, we know that most institutional training involves a high commitment of time, and cost, and the result does not always justify the effort for people like us. We believe that you will benefit from a new model of learning that puts you in control of what you want to learn and when you want to learn it.
We have invested in our education and knowledge base, and are able to contribute what we know to others who can use it, now that we can use the internet to share it. The software platforms that are used by major corporates can be made accessible to individuals and small business owners.
We want bizlearn.biz to become the home for a community of like minded professional mentors, teachers and consultants who believe in the "give to get" philosophy and want to contribute their hard earned knowledge to other business owners and managers. Any business topic is welcome, as long as it has a focus on really useful stuff that people need to know to run their business better.
We believe that improving small business performance is one of the best ways to improve the welfare of everyone on "spaceship Earth". After all, we will not live long enough to make all possible mistakes for ourselves. That's why we have education.
John Dierckx Profile
Written by John Dierckx
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:24
John Dierckx is a seasoned and multi-disciplined investigative, litigation support, business forensics, investigative, intelligence, and risk management professional. Throughout his career he has been involved in a wide range of fraud investigations, organized crime operations, intelligence (BI/CI), risk and security management assignments and civil litigation support projects. John has worked locally (Netherlands and New Zealand) and internationally through organizations such as the Netherlands Police, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Forensic Services Netherlands), Hoffmann Investigations(Netherlands), New Zealand Police, Corporate Risks New Zealand (SI) Ltd Dierckx & Associates Ltd and ARCIS New Zealand Ltd. He has successfully been involved in assignments and projects for clients ranging from small businesses and private persons to large multinational organizations, local and national government bodies.
Michael Taplin is the driving force behind bizlearn.biz. He spent the last 25 years as an independent consultant, owning and running successful businesses that trained thousands of people in large organisations. 12 years ago he left the Australian corporate scene behind to move to rural New Zealand.
This change of lifestyle meant getting close to the small business culture in New Zealand, and he has been a volunteer business mentor working through Business Mentor NZ. For 12 years Michael was a contract lecturer for Massey University; appointed a Teaching Fellow of the Graduate School of Business, he taught topics in both the MBA and Public Sector Management programs. This work took him into the small island nations of the Pacific where he made many friends.
