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Phil Preston

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Hobart, Australia

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Business, Nonfiction, Self Help

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Lauren Groff, Lionel Shriver, Tim Winton

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November 2011

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Phil is a business innovation, transformation and change expert.

He's authored Connecting Profit with Purpose, launched two podcasts and recently featured in The CEO Magazine, CPA’s InTheBlack and the AFR report on purpose in business.

A Tasmanian who migrated to Australia(!), he’s been a singer / songwriter in a progressive folk / blues band; delivered his second child in a bathtub following his wife’s 20-minute labor; and attributes to his chocolate addiction to a great grandfather who helped set up the Cadbury factory in Hobart in 1921.

To explore working with Phil make contact via hello@philpreston.com.au or visit philpreston.com.au
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