The Business Of School - Brought To You By Cole Connect

Kym has an excess of 25 years experience in the financial services industry, holds a Bachelor of Business, is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Planner. Over the years Kym has specialised in assisting schools to secure and enhance their financial position. Her diverse experience and broad knowledge enable her to create financial strategies to achieve her client's needs and long term financial goals.

With a robust background in both educational leadership and technology, Hayden Gyles from Veracross combines a passion for improving school operations with a deep understanding of client needs. Join us as we discuss the changing SIS landscape in Australia, share observational trends, and see how vendors are being evaluated and how schools are resourcing implementations.

Award-winning Speaker Trudy MacDonald from TalentCode HR, shares pearls of wisdom pertaining to Effective School Leadership. From School Councils, Strategies and Building a Culture of Performance, we discuss future trends that may impact the roles of school councils and leadership teams. Highlighting accountability practices, characteristics of high perfomance teams, and balancing strategy and operations, there is sure to be some insightful takeaways for everyone.

Join us along with marketing guru Timo Nieuwoudt from Digistorm as we deep dive into the School admissions and marketing arena. Digistorm has developed cutting-edge technologies to streamline school administrative processes. Let's find out how schools are navigating change management, structuring their Teams and how the Business Office can ensure their teams are using tools to the benefit of the school.

Discussing recent data and findings on school fee trends from their annual fee insights report, we speak to Anthony McCausland from Feesable. Some of the main challenges, tactics and strategies used by schools to communicate fee changes are discussed along with some valuable feedback from both schools and parents. Anthony founded Feesable out of a desire to create a simple solution to help parents understand school fees, and also to create a useful tool for assisting schools with their interaction with parents.

School boards, principals and business managers need to make well-informed decisions about financial risk and ensure the financial viability and sustainability of their school.

Join us as we explore the importance of the school enrolment process for school fee management and the impact of not getting it right. Including loads of practical information, we chat with Alice Carter from Platinum Collection Agency about the vital connection between the enrolment process and fee debt collection. Alice works closely with many schools to achieve cost-effective solutions to collect outstanding fees. Alice’s credit management experience compliments her work with schools, to enables her to provide advice about the enrolment process, including enrolments terms and split family arrangements.

Wicus Wessels has over 15 years of financial experience across many industries and sectors. As Audit Partner at Crowe Audit, he maintains specialist skills in the areas of external audit in the Education sector. Addressing the increasing strain of school finances is a critical issue that many educational institutions face. Wicus interacts frequently with many school leaders about their financial risks and performance, and we talk with him on topics ranging from debtor recovery to increase in payroll costs, to capital projects.

Keeping up to date on law changes is important for any organisation, and it's very important that schools understand the impact on their commercial, employment, finance, building development and enrolment activities.
To help us both understand recent updates to legislation and apply these practically to the business of school, we have with us in this episode our guest James Neate.

James is a partner at Lynch Meyer Lawyers and has 35 plus years of experience practicing in all aspects of commercial disputes, insolvency and recoveries.
James has wide experience working with schools and educational institutions. His experience includes providing advice in relation to fee collection and the negotiation of payment arrangements, as well as providing advice on enrolment documentation, terms and processes.

At Cole School Experts, we often see school payrolls with incorrect information, payroll staff spending valuable time searching for correct details, or payroll teams struggling to work effectively with other staff.