“For me, the Outstanding Business Person Award application and interviewing process forced conscious reflection on the knowledge, skills and experiences I’d developed throughout my working life.

It also required consideration of how those attributes are applied today as Managing Director of a 50-year-old family owned business. In short, my capabilities and how I applied them were measured.

I found the sum of my achievements both surprising and rewarding. The opportunity to review and analyse myself has refreshed and reignited my passion for ‘doing’ business and I feel that I am today a better business person for having completed the awards process.

Winning the Outstanding Business Person Award brought many opportunities - through speaking engagements I’ve added to my personal network; media coverage increased my personal profile as well as that of my business; and there have been invitations to become involved in worthwhile and meaningful business and community projects.

I am grateful to have been nominated for what is clearly a prestigious award, but also for the opportunity to revisit my career and celebrate what may have otherwise been unrecognised achievements.”

Keith Neuendorf,
Managing Director
The Neuendorf Group
(2006 Outstanding Business Person of the Year)