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Alisdair Barr is a seasoned executive with a strong background in financial services, relationship management, and coaching and mentoring. He has held various leadership positions in companies such as Striver, Capacity Connection, and Colonial First State. Alisdair has also worked with prestigious organizations like Future Map and Commonwealth Bank. He holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Diploma of Financial Planning from Deakin University.

Experience

  • Striver
    • Sydney, Australia
    • Founder
      • Jul 2019 - Present
      • Sydney, Australia

      Striver is HR-Tech platform designed to help financial planning firms more effectively attract and recruit the best financial planning students and graduates for their businesses. Striver is the evolution of 10 years of learning helping match graduates with financial planning businesses resulting in nearly 1,000 successful placements. www.striver.careers

  • Capacity Connection
    • Sydney, Australia
    • Representative
      • Aug 2015 - Present
      • Sydney, Australia

      Capacity Connection (www.capacityconnection.com.au) has been in place for many years and was built out of the need for an administration service for a growing financial planning business in Southern Sydney. Over the years, the team has grown and the process has been refined and now is being offered to other financial planning businesses who are at a stage where they would like to free up some of their administration tasks to focus on the things they enjoy, that add value and increase revenue.

    • Director
      • Jul 2013 - Dec 2019
      • Sydney

      Grad Mentor (now www.striver.careers) works with some of Australia's finest tertiary education providers to find , select, interview and mentor final year graduates who are passionate about a career in the Financial Planning industry matching them with businesses who have growth aspirations.

  • Financial Planning Student Group Limited
    • http://fpstudentgroup.com.au/
    • Head of Advisory Board
      • Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
      • http://fpstudentgroup.com.au/

    • Representative
      • Mar 2014 - Dec 2014

      The Future Map program assists organisations to better engage their talent through providing practical and fun financial and life planning skills for their employees. Specific organisational benefits include improving retention of your key talent, attracting the best people to your organisation and improving your Corporate Social Responsibility position in improving the general health and wellbeing of the communities you and your teams live in.

    • Managing Director
      • Oct 2011 - Mar 2014

      The Future Map program assists organisations to better engage their talent through providing practical and fun financial and life planning skills for their employees. Specific organisational benefits include improving retention of your key talent, attracting the best people to your organisation and improving your Corporate Social Responsibility position in improving the general health and wellbeing of the communities you and your teams live in.

    • Head of Commonwealth Financial Planning Pathways
      • May 2007 - Oct 2011

    • National Sales Manager
      • Sep 2005 - May 2007

Education

  • 2006 - 2011
    Australian Graduate School of Management
    MBA, Executive MBA
  • 2001 - 2003
    Deakin University
    Diploma of Financial Planning
  • 1999 - 1999
    Edinburgh Napier University
    Bachelor of Tourism Management, Tourism/Business
  • 1995 - 1999
    Edith Cowan University
    Bachelor of Business, Marketing

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