Learn the art of 'motivation design' to become an attraction employer, shape culture and make clever really happen in your business. Understand what really motivates people using science as opposed to the usual 'rah rah...'
"It's not their job to be interested - it's your job will be interesting..."
Approach your brand and marketing with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective without the day to day distractions that may be holding you back...
New business models, joint ventures, clever marketing, Amazon, AI, maybe even a couple of innovators in a garage... Hear about what will matter to consumers in the next five years from people with their fingers on the pulse!
Skate to where the puck is going (not where it has been!)
Imagine spending a few days with intelligent people, cutting edge thinking and room to breathe – what would that do for your business?Ā
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Elite Retreat is a five-star luxury event that includes everything; you just need to get there.Ā
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You will hear from established practitioners and leaders and use that thinking to discuss, debate and collaborate with fellow participants.
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This is one event that will continue to positively impact your business – long after the event is over.
GREAT IDEAS don’t emerge from an algorithm. They aren’t produced by a machine. They don’t happen when you are working at a break-neck pace; or when you are embroiled in the day to day. They are uniquely human, and they happen when you breathe, surround yourself with smart people and open your mind to new ways of doing things.Ā
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Be met at either Brisbane or Gold Coast airport by an air-conditioned Murray's coach to whisk you off to the five-star Sanctuary Cove Intercontinental Hotel.
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Freshen up and get ready for cocktails, canapes and conversation by the lagoon with some laid back entertainment to kick off your Elite Retreat Experience.
Start your day right with Yoga by the picturesque lagoon followed by breakfast in the ballroom area.Ā
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Today you'll hear from Dr Jason Fox, Samantha McLean, Steve Carroll, Nigel Dalton and more (see detailed agenda below).
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In the evening, you'll be treated to a sit-down dinner and fine wine - and afterwards enjoy dancing the night away with one of the popular local bands.Ā
If you didn't check out the yoga class on Monday you'll have a second opportunity to do so before breakfast on Tuesday.Ā
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Today's focus will be standing out from the crowd, creating new value and how to ensure you make progress once you get back to the office. You'll be hearing from Marion Farrelly, Scott Bateman, and Dr Jason Fox once again.
In the evening we set sail on a 131ft super yacht - YOT club.
After breakfast, it's time to head back to either Brisbane or Gold Coast airports in your private coach.
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But if you wanted to, you could hang around for a round of golf on one of Sanctuary Cove's award-winning courses. Or go shopping in any of the wonderful local boutiques.
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Be met at either Brisbane (yes WA, we thought of you)... or Gold Coast airport by an air-conditioned Murray's coach to whisk you off to the five-star Sanctuary Cove Intercontinental Hotel.
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Freshen up and get ready for cocktails, canapes and conversation by the lagoon with some laid back entertainment to kick off your Elite Retreat Experience.
If you didn't check out the yoga class on Monday you'll have a second opportunity to do so before breakfast on Tuesday.Ā
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Today's focus will be standing out from the crowd, creating new value and how to ensure you make progress once you get back to the office. You'll be hearing from Marion Farrelly, Scott Bateman, and Dr Jason Fox once again.
In the evening we set sail on a 131ft super yacht - YOT club.
Start your day right with Yoga by the picturesque lagoon followed by breakfast in the ballroom area.Ā
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Today you'll hear from Dr Jason Fox, Samantha McLean, Steve Carroll and more (see detailed agenda below).
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In the evening, you'll be treated to a sit-down dinner and fine wine - and afterwards enjoy dancing the night away with one of the popular local bands.Ā
After breakfast, it's time to head back to either Brisbane or Gold Coast airports in your private coach.
But if you wanted to, you could hang around for a round of golf on one of Sanctuary Cove's award-winning courses. Or go shopping in any of the wonderful local boutiques.
Dr Jason Fox is a bestselling author, leadership advisor and wizard-philosopher of ace repute. He is also a motivational speaker of a different kind.
He shows forward-thinking leaders around the world how to pioneer new and meaningful progressābeyond the default.
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His clients include the senior leadership teams of Fortune 500 companies around the world, and he works particularly well with sceptical audiences who have āseen it all beforeā. In 2016 he was awarded Keynote Speaker of the Year.
Maz Farrellyās content has been watched more than eight billion times worldwide. In her TV and film career, Maz engaged huge audiences making her shows the No 1 shows every time.
And, if you can stick a name plate on it and hand it over to loud applause, sheās won it ā BAFTAs, Logies, ASTRAS, Royal Television Society Awards, UK Comedy Awards, Bronze Rose De Montreux. If youāve watched it, Maz probably made it ā here in Australia, LA and London - the biggest shows in the world, with the biggest teams, the biggest budgets, the biggest audiences and the biggest stars.
Scott Bateman is the CEO of Kolmeo, property management software for the next generation of property managers.
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Scott has over 20 years of experience leading strategy and growth at some of Australiaās biggest companies, including four years leading growth and transformation at Australiaās biggest property manager, Little Real Estate.
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Scott holds multiple Masters degrees covering strategy and globalisation and is a graduate of the worldās most elite business leadership program ā the āAdvanced Management Programā at Harvard Business School.
Steve Carrollās career is one of epic proportions. He has held top-tier leadership positions with three of the worldās leading media companies ā including international media giants REA Group and News Corp ā leading, developing and inspiring hundreds of staff across Europe, Australasia and Asia.
As a respected global digital and real estate leader, Steve has been immersed in digital economies across the world and liaised with top tech giants including Google, LinkedIn and Facebook. He has been invited to speak at conferences worldwide on consumer behaviour, rising to a leadership challenge and charity entrepreneurship.
Samantha McLean is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Elite Agent and the Host of the Elevate Podcast.
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She is a three-time winner of the prestigious Mumbrella Publish Business Editor of the Year award and has led Elite agent to two gongs as Business Magazine of the Year in 2016 and 2020.Ā
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A sales and marketing professional with more than 20 yearsā experience she has held senior management roles in the past for companies like Optus, Cisco, British Telecom and PwC.
Nigel combines his role as Social Scientist at global consultancy Thoughtworks with a long-standing passion for the application of emerging technologies to a techno-social world, where the web, social media, NFTs, gaming, virtual reality, the FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) cartel, and blockchains seem ready to turn us (and the property industry) upside down.
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He has worked around the world in startups, scale-ups and enterprises - most recently as CIO then Chief Inventor of the REA Group in Australia, where his team developed solutions in virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning and media. He knows very well that being early, and being wrong, can look identical to the untrained eye.
Get set for a great day with breakfast waiting for you outside the conference room, with a range of hot and cold options and fresh coffee, tea and juice.
Meet your MC, Steve Carroll, who will provide a rundown of the day’s program including what to expect, speaker info and more.
‘Beyond the Default’
āDefaultsāāestablished ways of doing thingsāare an important element of any coordinated work. We need them. They save us time and reduce cognitive burdenāwe donāt need to think.
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But these days many real estate teams have become somewhat cursed with efficiency. Weāre so busy – sometimes too busy for meaningful progress – and so we seek quick fixes – āsuccess leaves cluesā – and familiar solutions that save us time, without realising we may be venturing closer toward irrelevance when it comes to tomorrowās consumer.Ā
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To remain relevant, we must know when (and how) to disrupt default thinking, so that we may pioneer new waysābeyond the default.
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In this session, we will explore:
Enjoy a coffee and a snack, catch up on your messages and meet new friends.
After the opening keynote, weāre betting you will have quickly switched out of operational mode (and the fixation on the immediate!) and into a mode that is far more open, curious and courageous – so that we might contemplate new possibilities beyond some of the established norms that may not have a place in the future.
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Dr Fox has promised to bring all of his wit, wisdom and insightfulness to a āfireside style conversationā with social scientist and well known real estate futurist and observer Nigel Dalton.
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This will be your opportunity to ask questions and get answers on some of the burning topics of today, including creative transformation, culture, the future of leadership, motivation design and more.
Head to MacArthurs Terrace for a gourmet lunch, mix and mingle with other participants.
Using what we have learnt in the morning sessions we will be splitting into groups and take a deep dive into one of several hot topics in the real estate industry – āTown Hall Styleā – to contribute to conversation and collaboration on the way forward.Ā
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These conversations will then be played back and debated with the broader group.
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(Topics and topic leaders will be announced soon!)
Enjoy a coffee and a snack, catch up on your messages and meet new friends.
Come ready to discuss your action items and lightbulb moments from todayās activities and conversations, and get curious about lightbulb moments from others.
Free time.
Tonight, weāll be serving up a three-course dinner with fine wines and fine conversation.
Weāre creating a special edition of Elite Agent for this event – but not in print. This is Magazine Live! – expect to enjoy some of the contributors and columns you see in the magazine brought to life in unique and creative ways.
Let your hair down, have a few drinks and dance the night away with one of the hottest Gold Coast bands who we have invited along for the ride.
Get set for a great day with breakfast waiting for you outside the conference room, with a range of hot and cold options and fresh coffee, tea and juice.
Steve Carroll will once again provide a rundown of the day’s program including what to expect, speaker info and more.
‘Attention! Your business depends on it’
āItās not their job to be interested. Itās your job to be interesting!ā
Maz says the day she realised this, she went from watching the most successful shows on earth, to running them. Think about it – in TV, if the show does not engage you in the first minute, youāve picked up the remote and youāve moved onto another channel.
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To a TV network – that can be millions of dollars down the drain. It’s the same in business. You may be brilliant or have the next best blockbuster of an idea, product or service, but if you can’t engage your audience, you’re dead in the water.Ā
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Using the techniques and psychology Maz has developed in the competitive world of TV and movie production, her job is to help you deliver clear strategic goals, better staff engagement, more strident leadership, smarter sales, more engaged marketing and social media, better negotiation, greater collaboration and improved corporate culture.
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āYou lose the white noise. I make you fascinating!ā
Enjoy a coffee and a snack, catch up on your messages and meet new friends.
Over the past 20 years, the rules of business and competition have been re-written.
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Eight of the worldās top 10 most valuable companies are now software companies, with four of those now worth more than USD $1 trillion.
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Tesla is worth more than almost all the other major brands combined despite selling only a fraction of the cars being purchased. In Australia, three millennials have taken just nine years to turn an idea for improving design tools into a company thatās now worth $55 billion.
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Regardless of the industry, radical new thinking creates opportunity and risk for everyone.
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So, how do you know how to capitalise on it?
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In a first for Elite Agent, Scott will be running a masterclass on organisational strategy and teaching you how to unlock new forms of competitive advantage, which we will use in the afternoon ‘case study’ session.
Head to MacArthurs Terrace for a gourmet lunch, mix and mingle with other participants.
Taking what you’ve learned throughout the event, Scott will return to facilitate a live case study to help you apply your new skills to a real-world, real estate scenario.Ā
In this session, we will look to find takeaways – the top trends in the future of buying, selling and renting property in the future.Ā
Enjoy a coffee and a snack, catch up on your messages and meet new friends.
‘Making Clever Happen’
How do you move forward with the knowledge you have just gained? How do you do great work – the work that has you creating new value for your teams and your customers? Actually innovating – not just talking about it. Leading, not waiting. Making clever happen.Ā
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Smart people require more than just a motivational pep talk, so in this session we will look at what really sustains motivation, solidifying the thinking that will unlock real progress when you get back to the office.
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Free time.
Head to the Sanctuary Cove Wharf, where your private charter aboard the 131 foot superyacht āYOT CLUBā awaits! Youāll experience 5-star hospitality, food and wine and entertainment set on the backdrop of the beautiful Gold Coast Broadwater. Be prepared to let your hair down, have fun, and dance the night away.
3 nights accommodation at the 5-star InterContinental Hotel Sanctuary Cove Resort (choose from single rooms or share with a friend)
Three-hour platinum private charter on a 131 ft SuperYacht (YOT club)
Breakfast, lunch and dinners plus entertainment included for the period of the retreat
Transfers to and from the airport to the hotel (for recommended flights into Brisbane or Coolangatta airports)
All sessions and breakouts on the 1st and 2nd of August
Optional morning yoga and fitness (places limited, so RSVP early)
"I highly recommend Jason Fox.Ā He is engaging, intriguing, and thought-provoking. Unlike any other speaker I have ever seen - and I have seen a lot!"
Leanne Pilkington
CEO Laing+Simmons Corporation
"I got so much inspiration and idea sparks from Maz speaking for just twenty minutes it was crazy. She is funny, witty, sharp and brings a fresh perspective to every idea. So smart! So switched on! Can I be her best friend right now and forever?"
Harriet Saunders
Head of Growth and Development, Laing+Simmons
"Everything Elite Agent does for the industry is incredible. Their content is relevant and on point, and their training is up there with the best."
Rebecca Halton
LJ Hooker City Residential WA
"With regular news updates, podcasts, and online learning opportunities - they are an essential requirement for anyone in the real estate industry - no matter what role you perform.
Kylie King
Harcourts Port Macquarie
I give you 5 stars for everything. I'm signing up for Elite Agent Pro and look forward to a long mutually beneficial relationship. I've been receiving your magazine for years, it's a great publication.
Michael Ziegler
LJ Hooker Devonport
Why Elite Retreat Is Easily The Best Investment you’ll Make In Your Business All Year…
Hey there,
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Sam here, from Elite Agent.
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Since we started Elite Agent back in 2013, weāve been to a lot of events in the real estate industry.
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And weāve often been asked about running our own events, but we were so busy supporting and promoting everyone elseās that we didnāt really have the space to create our own.
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Not only that – the last thing we wanted to do was to create something that looks and feels the same as other events (because we don’t really need more of the same, right?)
Now the world has re-opened, weāve decided to āzagā and create something new, fresh and different; and that’s Elite Retreat.Ā
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We love the idea of being able to learn from the best (our mantra for a long time).
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And we also love the idea of learning lessons from outside the industry.
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Weāre known for bringing the best of the best in programs like Transform to you virtually throughout the pandemic.
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We couldnāt be more thrilled to have the opportunity to bring some of the smartest people in the industry together, āin personā in a way that will truly help you to make meaningful progress in your business and continue to build your skills long after the event is over.
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So here it is, the āinauguralā Elite Retreat – and we want YOU to join us.
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Hereās why attending will be the best money youāll spend all year:
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Guaranteed focus: With so many distractions itās nearly impossible to focus on the strategies and tactics that will move your business forward on a normal day. Getting out of the office, away from the routine, will set you up perfectly to learn and improve yourself and your business.
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Innovative strategies: Our facilitators will deep dive into specific leadership, productivity and marketing strategies that will have you laser-focused on what really works – whether you are from a large office or a boutique agency. And our keynotes wonāt be on stage or on a zoom call for a fleeting moment – they are with us pretty much for the duration of the event, in person, so you can ask questions and really pick their brains.
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Smart people: In addition to our keynotes, youāll find some super-smart people at our events. Innovators. Rule-breakers. Dealmakers. Thought leaders. Disruptors. Youāll get to ask questions about how they made success happen and quiz them on their behind the scenes stories. (They are even likely to be seated at your table – or close by!)
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We are limited to 150 places and tickets are selling fast. If you have questions, please email me [email protected], or text me on 0448 849 415.
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See you there!
We have blocked out a number of Single Rooms as well as Twin Share Rooms. If you’d like to share a room with someone, or lets’ say have your team share rooms, then choose the share option.
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If you would like to share, but don’t have anyone to share with, choose the Share option and our retreat concierge will assist in buddying you up with someone suitable.
Yes, if you have booked a single room. We will be releasing a limited number of partner tickets for breakfasts dinners and other activities. (Text us for details.)
Definitely yes – this has been created to be a unique shared experience that will be talked about by your team long after the event has finished (it’s also a fantastic way to get buy-in for any type of change that you might be thinking about…)
Got a question we haven’t answered? Text us or email [email protected]
Single Room Ticket Price – $2,795
Share Room Ticket Price – 2,395
Single Ticket – No Accomodation $1,995
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Your VIP ticket inclludes:
š“ 3 nights accommodation at the 5-star InterContinental Hotel Sanctuary Cove Resort (choose from single rooms or share with a friend)Ā
š“ Three-hour platinum private charter on a 131 ft SuperYacht (YOT club)
š“ Breakfast, lunch and dinners plus entertainment included for the period of the retreat
š“ Transfers to and from the airport to the hotel (for recommended flights into Brisbane or Coolangatta airports)
š“ All sessions and breakouts on the 1st and 2nd of August (if you would like to attend the Sales Caffeine session on the 3rd of August, please contact us)
š“ Optional morning yoga and fitness (places limited, so RSVP early)
We have blocked out a number of Single Rooms as well as Twin Share Rooms. If you’d like to share a room with someone, or lets’ say have your team share rooms, then choose the share option.
If you would like to share, but don’t have anyone to share with, choose the Share option and our retreat concierge will assist in buddying you up with someone suitable.
*These flights are current as of 22 AprilĀ – and are subject to change by the airlines. Elite Agent Academy is an approved (Fair Trading) provider of CPD for NSW. Program is subject to minor changes.