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Just a quick note to let you know how impressed I was with your recent presentation on the Tools of Persuasion. I found the subject especially relevant, not only to our sales work but also in its application to all areas of our lives - from negotiating with children to the cut and thrust of a professional environment.

In addition, your relaxed presentation style enabled me to absorb the material easily. I noticed the high level of participant engagement and the way you handled their questions provided even more information and examples.

John, thanks once again for an engaging and relevant presentation. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to understand the foundation stones of human interaction.

Bill Dalgliesh 
Client Services 
Western Sydney Business Advisory Services (Basi)


I just want to take this opportunity to thank you again for your valuable and informative presentation. I have actually used your practical exercises already. And feedback from other delegates has been fantastic.
Reinhard Hacker
Customer Relationship Manager

John Baikie

  B.Com. (Hons); B.Econ; FCMA; CA(SA); FAICD; AMP (Harvard) Professional Speaker and Executive Mentor 

John Baikie mentors business owners, CEOs and senior executives through MPowering Pty Ltd. a privately owned executive development company. He is on the Australian Institute of Company Directors Panel of Mentors.  In recent years he has mentored CEOs in Sydney for The Executive Connection, the largest CEO development organisation in the world.

He has delivered executive development programs in the US, Australia, Asia and Europe for Executive Conversation Inc. a US based professional sales development organisation and, through MPowering Pty Ltd., currently presents and facilitates executive development workshops on personal development and business related topics,  including negotiation skills; finance; influence; persuasion; decision making; leadership, confidence and assertiveness.

John has held senior executive positions in a range of businesses for over thirty years including being Managing Director, Executive Director and Chairman of venture capital (“VC”) management, investment, insurance, IT, home building, construction, real estate, executive development and financial services companies, including three that were stock exchange listed companies.

He is a Fellow member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Professional Member and former Treasurer/Director of the National Speakers Association of Australia. He was previously a founding director of The Futures Foundation, (an organisation of Australian futurists), a director and treasurer of the Australian Association of Lloyd’s Members, a council member of the Harvard Club of Australia.

He has professional qualifications in accountancy, computers and business management in Australia, South Africa and the UK; university degrees in commerce and economics and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School in the USA. 

Migrating to Australia in 1985 he was appointed Managing Director of B.T. Innovation Ltd., a former Bankers Trust, listed VC company.  During his twelve years in the Australian VC industry he negotiated numerous business and technology acquisitions, disposals and capital raisings as well as being a founding director of the Australian Venture Capital Association; chairman or director of start up companies in VC, IT, aquaculture, engineering and medicine.

Prior to arriving in Australia, he was Managing Director of Sage Property Holdings Ltd. in South Africa, a large construction and real estate group of companies building over 2,000 houses each year and employing over 1,000 people; and Deputy Managing Director of the Sage Group, responsible for Group investments, venture capital, property and equity funds, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hertz car rental franchises and a Mercedes Benz distributorship. He was also Financial Controller of Feltex Ltd., a public listed textile manufacturing conglomerate;  a senior lecturer in accountancy at a South African university and a chartered accountant with Ernst and Young.  In Toronto, Canada, he was a computer systems engineer and salesman with IBM (Canada). John has long experience in the theory and practice of business negotiation having been responsible for negotiating innumerable transactions including major real estate and business acquisitions and disposals; leases; senior executive terminations and dispute settlements.