Business Profile 

Paradigm 2020 is a strategic business consultancy focused on the development of skills and initiatives designed to create a tangible, viable pathway to future business sustainability.

We adopt a ‘future driven’ approach which recognises the importance of dynamics, ethics, personal development and market harmonisation in the sustainability transaction.

This approach also acknowledges the need to be pre-emptive when addressing the future on the understanding that business dynamics, structures, resources, methods of operation and indeed the products and services we offer will be entirely different in the decades ahead and in most cases yet to evolve.

Mission

Our mission is threefold:

‘To provide business operators with the guidance, knowledge and perspective required to plan for and effectively manage change and future growth.'

 To facilitate the development of a management approach and the business practices necessary to deliver positive financial, environmental and social outcomes.'

 To enhance the capability and integrity of emerging business.’

Consultant's Profiles 

Tony Shaw

Tony is a business professional with over twenty five years’ management experience in the business services, retail, finance, sports management and hospitality sectors. His initial training was gained with a large firm of Chartered Accountants in Sydney starting work as an auditor then progressing to a role in receivership.

He then ventured directly into the commercial world helping Citicorp launch and market its personal finance division then spent time working for a prominent finance broker assisting small business secure leasing and development finance. His passion for the sport of yachting and an invitation from a personal acquaintance saw him move full time into the sporting environment where for ten years he managed a medium sized sail making firm helping it grow and rise to international prominence and marketing its leading edge products around the globe.

In 1990 Tony accepted an invitation to manage the administration of Australia’s 1992 Challenge for the America’s Cup a two-year project with a multi million dollar budget. Before moving to the Northern Rivers region in November 2000 he spent eight years managing a registered sporting club in Sydney’s northern suburbs, his final commitment being to take a lead role in the management of the 2000 Olympic sailing competition by training and managing a team of 35 volunteers and acting as the senior race officer for course area Delta.

Tony is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and has been instrumental in helping to raise over $375,000 in sponsorship and cash donations for the Sydney Children’s Hospital and Father Chris Reilly’s ‘Kids Off The Street' program. 

Suzanne Oram

Prior to moving to the Northern Rivers region in 2000, Suzanne worked for the NSW Department of Health for over ten years specialising in allied health programming and national and regional conference and seminar management. She is currently contracted to the Catholic Education Office and the Summerland Early Intervention Program establishing and managing educational programs for disadvantaged children and their mentors using her skills as a qualified Speech Pathologist.

She has worked with individuals and committees from both the private and public sector and with small and large budgets and is an experienced staff trainer with specialised skills in developing and recommending workplace solutions.