“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
Steve Jobs
From Leading Teams to Leading Your Own Business
Have you recently left the safety of a nine-to-five... the familiar structure of a corporate role... to step into the wild and wonderful world of entrepreneurship?
You’ve got leadership experience. You know how to get results, inspire people, and navigate complexity.
But building a business?
That’s a whole different game.
Business Leader Essentials is a three-month program designed specifically for people like you... leaders on the entrepreneurial journey who want to do it well, without losing themselves along the way.
We’ve walked this path ourselves, leaving senior roles and corporate careers to build successful businesses from the ground up. We know it's not easy... and we knew people like you would follow in our footsteps, courageously forging a passion led business, so we captured the lessons, the mindset shifts, the tools, the challenges, the best practices, and the “wish someone told me that earlier” moments... and we've wrapped them into this program so you don’t have to figure it out alone.
This isn’t about hustling harder or downloading another template.
It’s about building your business on a solid foundation of clarity, alignment, and conscious leadership — from the inside out.
You already have what it takes. Now it’s time to lead your business with the same conviction and vision you once brought to the boardroom.
But building a business?
That’s a whole different game.
Business Leader Essentials is a three-month program designed specifically for people like you... leaders on the entrepreneurial journey who want to do it well, without losing themselves along the way.
We’ve walked this path ourselves, leaving senior roles and corporate careers to build successful businesses from the ground up. We know it's not easy... and we knew people like you would follow in our footsteps, courageously forging a passion led business, so we captured the lessons, the mindset shifts, the tools, the challenges, the best practices, and the “wish someone told me that earlier” moments... and we've wrapped them into this program so you don’t have to figure it out alone.
This isn’t about hustling harder or downloading another template.
It’s about building your business on a solid foundation of clarity, alignment, and conscious leadership — from the inside out.
You already have what it takes. Now it’s time to lead your business with the same conviction and vision you once brought to the boardroom.
Key Objectives:
- Redefine your identity from employee to empowered business owner, with a clear vision of who you are, what you stand for, and what your business is here to do.
- Build a business model that aligns with your skills, values, lifestyle goals, and the kind of impact you want to make.
- Develop an entrepreneurial mindset to replace the habits, assumptions, and expectations shaped by years of corporate life.
- Understand the financial realities no one talks about including the psychological shift from receiving a regular paycheck to managing inconsistent cash flow.
- Clarify your ideal clients and market positioning, and learn how to communicate your value authentically and magnetically.
- Create conscious, values-based sales practices that feel aligned with who you are and support long-term client relationships.
- Design systems and structures that support flow rather than overwhelm.
- Strengthen your self-leadership capacity, so you can stay focused, resilient, and in integrity — even when doubt or comparison creeps in.
- Integrate mindset tools, rituals, and reflective practices that support your inner growth and outer success as a founder.
- Create your blueprint for growth — setting the direction for what comes next, with the foundations firmly in place.
Walk Away With
- A Strategic Business Blueprint: A personalised, practical plan outlining your business model, target audience, offers, pricing, brand messaging, and core operations — all aligned with your purpose, lifestyle goals, and strengths.
- A Clear and Confident Entrepreneurial Identity: You’ll know exactly who you are in business, what you stand for, and how to lead yourself with clarity and conviction — an anchor for making sound business decisions.
- Tools to Manage the Financial Transition: You’ll understand the hidden mindset traps of leaving a paycheck behind and gain tools, behaviours, and thinking models that support sustainable cash flow and grounded decision-making.
- Aligned Marketing and Messaging Foundations: Magnetic, values-based messaging that reflects your unique voice and draws in your ideal clients — without relying on manipulation or outdated marketing tactics.
- Confidence in Conscious Selling: A fresh approach to sales that feels like service — including scripts, frameworks, and reprogramming of any “ick” around promoting yourself or your offers.
- A Toolkit for Flow, Focus, and Self-Leadership: Rituals, mindset practices, and emotional intelligence tools to help you navigate uncertainty, regulate your energy, and lead your business without burning out.
Make the move toward becoming the business leader you dreamed of becoming.
Who Will Benefit?
This is perfect for experienced professionals who’ve recently left their corporate roles and are ready to step into business ownership — or are seriously planning to.
It’s designed for leaders who already know how to manage people, projects, and pressure, but want support navigating the mindset shifts, strategic foundations, and personal transformation required to build a business that’s aligned, sustainable, and uniquely their own.
This is perfect for experienced professionals who’ve recently left their corporate roles and are ready to step into business ownership — or are seriously planning to.
It’s designed for leaders who already know how to manage people, projects, and pressure, but want support navigating the mindset shifts, strategic foundations, and personal transformation required to build a business that’s aligned, sustainable, and uniquely their own.
Active Learning Format
Unlike passive online courses, our program is designed for active engagement and real-world application ensuring you get the most out of the program.
Over three months you'll experience a blend of:
Over three months you'll experience a blend of:
- self-directed learning
- interactive exercises
- practical application of business tools
- fortnightly group coaching and debrief circles via video conferencing
- personalised support and guidance with six 1:1 coaching/mentoring sessions
Accessible from Anywhere
This masterclass is delivered entirely online, making it accessible to entrepreneurs from any location. The program features a combination of self-study modules and live, interactive sessions where your insights and key learning will be unpacked in depth using the Socratic method.
This is not a passive program—it’s a dynamic, hands-on experience.
You’ll be equipped with practical tools and actionable strategies that you’ll have the opportunity to deploy in real-life situations between each session, ensuring your journey as an entrepreneur is both meaningful and immediately impactful.
This is not a passive program—it’s a dynamic, hands-on experience.
You’ll be equipped with practical tools and actionable strategies that you’ll have the opportunity to deploy in real-life situations between each session, ensuring your journey as an entrepreneur is both meaningful and immediately impactful.
Participation Options
Whether you thrive in a private, tailored experience or gain energy from shared growth, Business Leader Essentials offers two powerful ways to participate:
1:1 Mentored Experience – Personalised & Flexible
Perfect if you prefer to work at your own pace with individualised support. You’ll move through the program with me as your personal guide — offering mentorship, coaching, and insight tailored to your business, your mindset, and your vision. This is your space to go deep, ask the big questions, and receive direct guidance as you build your business from the inside out.
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Small Group Cohort – Connected & Collaborative
Designed for those who value shared learning and the momentum of a collective. In this intimate group experience, you’ll walk the journey alongside other emerging business owners — gaining fresh perspectives, exchanging ideas, and forming valuable connections. The structured format includes regular group sessions, reflective exercises, and ongoing guidance, so you’re supported every step of the way.
Next Cohort March 2026 |
*$5,000.00 pp
*Price excludes GST
Course Content
Module 1: Lose Your Employee Mindset
Set firm foundations for your business by supporting your internal shift from leading within a system to leading yourself and your own vision.
Theme: From Employee Identity to Entrepreneurial Self
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Unpacking your identity shift – who are you becoming as a business owner?
- Creating a values-aligned business vision
- Releasing outdated patterns from corporate life
- Mapping your purpose and unique value proposition
- Developing a grounded leadership mindset for business
Module 2: Business by Design
Shape your business model to reflect your strengths, goals, and lifestyle. It’s strategy — designed from the inside out.
Theme: Build a Business That Works for You
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Choosing a business model that fits (services, products, hybrid)
- Mapping out your offers, pricing, and revenue streams
- Aligning business goals with lifestyle and wellbeing
- Designing the client journey and experience
- Introduction to your strategic business blueprint
Module 3: The Money Shift
This is the conversation few people have — what really changes when you’re no longer drip-fed a paycheck.
Theme: Financial Foundations & the New Money Mindset
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Understanding the emotional impact of income uncertainty
- Budgeting, forecasting, and setting financial priorities
- Cultivating empowered money beliefs and behaviours
- Pricing with confidence and integrity
- Tools to track income, outgoings, and financial health
Module 4: Magnetic Messaging
Communicate your value clearly and confidently — without being salesy or scattered.
Theme: Speak to the Right People, in the Right Way
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Defining your niche and ideal client deeply
- Crafting your brand voice and messaging pillars
- Clarifying your story and why it matters
- Creating a simple, authentic content strategy
- Communicating your offers with clarity and consistency
Module 5: Selling With Soul
Sell in a way that feels natural, grounded, and aligned — turning conversations into clients.
Theme: Conscious Sales for a Purpose Led Business
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Reframing sales as service and invitation
- Building a simple, high-converting sales process
- Handling objections with confidence and grace
- Understanding buying psychology (without manipulation)
- Staying centred and connected during sales conversations
Module 6: Systems, Self-Leadership & Sustainable Growth
Close the program with the tools and mindset to grow with clarity, balance, and intention.
Theme: Structure, Flow & the Path Forward
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Introducing simple systems for flow and focus
- Time-blocking, task management, and energy alignment
- Integrating self-leadership and reflection practices
- Identifying growth opportunities and next steps
- Finalising your Strategic Business Blueprint
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Program Schedule
To ensure you learn and live what is presented, the information is released and discussed progressively over a three month period using various interventions, leading to deeper understanding, real life application and business growth.
Contact Hours
- Program duration: 3 months.
- Online modules and worksheets: ~2 hrs per week.
- 6 Group Coaching Circles: up to 1.5 hrs per session. (or tailored individual mentoring)
- Private coaching: 6 x 60 minutes
Delivery Methods
Our programs are based on the principle that “Learning is not Fast Food” participants are exposed to powerful concepts, principles and frameworks that have been continually tested and found to be the most useful tools for transformation. We have selected approaches that have been pioneered at Harvard, Stanford, The University of Sydney, the US Naval College and deployed personally by our team in their personal and professional lives.
Each module is based on the principle of "Triple Loop Learning" allowing for deep personal reflection that informs new behaviour. Group learning environments are know to heighten learning, allowing you to delve deeper into the principles presented.
Each module is based on the principle of "Triple Loop Learning" allowing for deep personal reflection that informs new behaviour. Group learning environments are know to heighten learning, allowing you to delve deeper into the principles presented.
Insights on Demand
Access videos and worksheets to level up your leadership. Access the resources online in the Blue Chip Minds Academy from any desktop or mobile device anytime you like.
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Group Coaching Circles
Join the team group coaching circles held via video conferencing.
This is a place to switch off from the demands of work and come together with your cohort to deep dive the content, maps, models and frameworks. Questions are answered and insights, wins and challenges are shared. |
Ongoing Support
Learning is a personal experience and is greatly enhanced with peer and individual coaching.
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Discover if this is right for you
If your wondering whether this program meets your development needs. I invite you to book a free discovery call to determine if the Business leader Essentials is a good fit for you. In this call, we’ll uncover exactly where you’d like to take your business, what’s holding you back and how the content can bridge any gaps.
Meet The Program Creator
After 22 years in banking and finance, I left my corporate career as a senior manager to build Blue Chip Minds — a business I’ve been leading successfully since 2013.
But this wasn’t my first leap; in my early 20s, I co-managed a small business after leaving corporate life the first time. I’ve also walked beside partners as they built their own ventures, and over the past decade, I’ve coached countless budding business owners through the messy, rewarding transition from employee to entrepreneur. Across all of these experiences, one truth stands out: starting a business is not just a professional shift... it’s a personal transformation. And those who don’t align their inner world with their business goals often find themselves burnt out, scattered, or stuck in patterns that no longer serve them. I bring a unique blend of financial insight, lived experience, and deep mindset work to the Business Leader Essentials program — and I’m not alone. Everyone on the Blue Chip Minds team has travelled this path in their own way. We’ve seen the fears that creep in after leaving a regular paycheck, the invisible workload that comes with passion-led projects, and the costly mistake of trying to run a business with a corporate mindset. This program is designed to help you avoid those traps — and instead, build something sustainable, meaningful, and aligned with who you truly are. Georgia |
GEORGIA ELLIS
Founder Blue Chip Minds
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"In my experience, it is a rare honour to meet a genuine, engaging, intelligent coach such as Georgia whose humanitarian drive ensures financial and reputational drives are secondary.' or perhaps 'As an experienced coach, Georgia holds a mirror for self-reflective learning, whereas other coaches become lost in their own reflection."
- Matt Needham Executive Manager Clinical Practice and Outcomes. Relationship Matters Australia
FAQs
Q: I am not based in Melbourne can I participate?
A: Yes! The program is delivered online - you can join from anywhere in the world if the timezone suits you.
Q: Are there any prerequisites to participate?
A: No
Q: Is this an online course?
A: We have a global community and have made the course accessible to anyone from anywhere. The course is a mix of self study (online modules) and live online group sessions.
Q: I'd love to do the course however I am experiencing financial hardship what can I do?
A: We offer scholarships and payment plans to approved participants. Apply here.
A: Yes! The program is delivered online - you can join from anywhere in the world if the timezone suits you.
Q: Are there any prerequisites to participate?
A: No
Q: Is this an online course?
A: We have a global community and have made the course accessible to anyone from anywhere. The course is a mix of self study (online modules) and live online group sessions.
Q: I'd love to do the course however I am experiencing financial hardship what can I do?
A: We offer scholarships and payment plans to approved participants. Apply here.
