Leadership

Rob Nixon launched Nixon Advantage (formally robnixon) in May 1994.  Since Nixon Advantage' s inception, Rob  has exclusively focussed on helping Accountants improve their financial position. He...

• Has undertaken extensive research on how the profession works (or does not) - dating back to 1964.
• Has interviewed 1,033 clients on behalf of 129 Accounting firms on what they want from their Accountant.
• Has delivered speeches, workshops and seminars at more than 1,100 Accounting industry events in 7 countries.
• Has written countless articles on how high performing accounting firms operate.
• Has benchmarked more than 1,000 firms against each other and authored or co-authored 4 leading benchmarking reports.
• Has developed products, methodologies and leading training programs in 4 separate businesses that still operate successfully today.

Rob is the leading worldwide Accounting industry expert. He knows why Accounts work, why they do not and what needs to happen for them to work more efficiently and profitably.

Email: rob.nixon@nixonadvantage.com

Colin joined the Nixon Advantage team in January 2008. He is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years' experience in helping Accountants develop and implement strategies to build better businesses. He...

• Spent 10 years in one of the fastest growing Accounting businesses in the UK.
• Lead a project in that business to set-up and launch a business consulting division.
• Trained Directors and Team members in that business to raise awareness of the new division and develop skills.
• Lead consulting assignments with business clients and worked on business growth and marketing engagements.
• Spent the last 10 years training, coaching and consulting to Accounting firms, both in the UK and, since 2002, in Australia.
• Has delivered speeches, workshops and seminars in the Accounting industries in Australia, New Zealand, UK, US and Ireland.
• Has developed content, products and systems for Accountants, including the industry leading, web based marketing and client development solution, TRUST.
• Most recently, has acted as a coach to a range of Accounting businesses right around Australia.

Colin is passionate about helping turn Accounting practices into Accounting businesses and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and is a qualified ACA.  He is relentless in the pursuit of improving the performance of every firm he coaches.

Email: colin.dunn@nixonadvantage.com

Michelle has been with Nixon Advantage since September 2010 and brings with her a wealth of experience in marketing, focusing on Branding, PR, Direct Response, Copywriting with the ultimate goal of Lead Generation. Recently returned to Australia she has spent four years working in the Middle East and two in the UK. Michelle has a Bachelor of Communications (Business) and an MBA. 

Email: michelle.henson@nixonadvantage.com

Working on business improvement and growth for 30 years, Owen’s passion is helping businesses realise their potential and throughout his career this has been the golden thread.

 Experience in:

• Systems (IT) improvement 
• External CFO consulting
• Running workshops
• Change management
• Business health checks
• Benchmarking
• Pricing Reviews
• Activity Based costing analysis

Owen assisted a NZ$500m turnover company to set up a Shared Service for IT and Accounting and supported them through a new system implementation as their Business Support Services Manager with a team of 30 reporting through to him.

3.5 years as a senior manager at EY in NZ in their consulting/advisory division working mainly on performance improvement and finance function improvement programs for their clients. He made a key contribution to growing this division during his time there.

Owen was a key team member at BearingPoint (previously KPMG consulting) in NZ working with clients during periods of significant change management and assisting them in improving their performance in both the public and private sectors

He was the Finance Manager at Canon NZ, focusing on growth, systems improvement and fast reporting.

He has six years experience at Price Waterhouse Coopers, UK, in their business growth division concentrating on creating business plans for their clients in addition to the traditional compliance work

He started out on his career working for a small 3 partner firm in the UK in their audit and business advisory divisions.

Owen is a NZ qualified Chartered Accountant, with an MBA and also is an Economics honours graduate.

Email: owen.howells@nixonadvantage.com