With a view to focusing in membership and networking, new vice-president of the Shepparton Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Michael Milburn is looking forward to bringing members together more often to discuss all the issues important to them.
Having established his human resource consultancy in the CBD a year ago and joining the chamber in the middle of last year, he was nominated for the role of vice-president last October.
His consultancy is aimed at assisting smaller businesses that don’t have human resources capacity, work their way through all aspects of HR, assisting their business grow. That along with working through the Covid assistance packages have been a lifesaver for many in the region. As those packages begin to drop away over the next few months, businesses that have been reliant on them will have to refocus.
“Helping businesses directly and through the chamber will be a priority,” said Michael.
Armed with a wealth of HR experience and qualification over 30 years across small business, big business, government agencies, as the economy turned down during last year, Michael took the opportunity to start his consultancy and has not looked back.
“One of the things that has happened is that a lot of business is now being done online with business making better use of technology.”
Still finding his feet on some of the bigger issues, his support to John Anderson, the President, will be giving value back to the members and he sees networking in particular as helping to drive the chamber forward.
“It has been a tough year and as the support drops off, it will continue to see businesses needing to take the necessary steps to stay ahead,’ he said. Michael feels he can help.
