behind closed doors

Past and current BCD Entrepreneur Members, you’re invited to an evening of honest conversation, connection, and community at Bar Torino on Hutt Street, and we’d love to see you there!

Whether you're deep in it, scaling something great, pivoting hard, or quietly plotting your next move, this is your chance to step into a room full of women who get it. Women who know what it costs to back yourself. Women who have sat with the same uncomfortable questions and figured out their own answers.

📍 Bar Torino, Adelaide
📅 Thursday 6 August 2026
⏰ 6.00pm – 8.00pm ACST

Come for the conversation. Stay for the community. Leave with more than you came with.

Current BCD Entrepreneur Members – tickets are on sale now via the Member Portal (link in the comments).

Past BCD Entrepreneur Members – email us at [email protected] for your registration link and code to purchase your ticket.

Not a past or current BCD Entrepreneur Member? Email [email protected] to learn more about our Entrepreneur membership offerings.

Running a business in regional SA? This is worth a look. 👀

The Office for Small and Family Business is bringing their Connect, Learn and Network events to towns across regional South Australia between May and July, and they're completely free.

It's a chance to meet your local Business Support Officer, find out what Government programs you might actually be eligible for, and trade stories with other business owners doing the work alongside you.

Access useful information and good company close to home.

Events are running in Loxton, Murray Bridge, Victor Harbor, Hahndorf, Kingscote, Port Augusta, Moonta, Clare, Tanunda, Naracoorte and Port Lincoln.
Find your nearest one and register here 👉 https://events.humanitix.com/sb-res

Tag a regional business owner in your orbit who'd find this useful! 🧡

You know what stresses you… but do you know why it impacts you the way it does?

Why can the same challenge completely derail you one day… and barely register the next?

Join James Pearson, Mindset and Leadership Coach, for an exclusive Members-Only BCD Webinar that uncovers the hidden drivers behind your stress, motivation, decisions, and behaviour.

James’ session will explore:
🔍 How your brain filters reality – and why people experience the same situation so differently
🧠 The hidden drivers shaping your behaviour, choices, and reactions
⚡ Why motivation can feel effortless one day and impossible the next
💬 What’s really happening beneath conflict at work and home
🌊 The true root cause of stress
🚀 How to identify and leverage your own Unique Inner Drivers

Understanding what’s driving you doesn’t just explain your patterns – it gives you the power to change them.

Members – register now via the Member Portal to secure your place.

Not yet a member? Email [email protected] to learn more about our membership offerings.

At some point, most business owners ask the question… “Will my business be ready for sale if and when the time comes?”

behind closed doors Entrepreneur Members – if you’re in this space now, or want to prepare for the possibility of selling your business in the future, join us for our Entrepreneurs' Workshop: Where to Start When Preparing Your Business for Sale, with Jane Carey of Carey Advisory.

Jane is an experienced business owner, former CEO of Edge Recruitment, board director, and founder of Carey Advisory, whose own journey has spanned business growth, succession, exit planning and helping organisations build commercially strong, sustainable businesses.

Expect a thoughtful, practical discussion designed as a starting point to better understand what “sale-ready” truly means, where you’ll gain insight into:
✨ What buyers are really looking for
✨ How to reduce owner dependence
✨ Strengthening financial clarity, systems and IP
✨ Building a resilient team, and
✨ The personal side of exit planning

You’ll also have the opportunity to connect and network with fellow behind closed doors Entrepreneur Members navigating similar business growth, leadership and future-planning journeys.

📍 BDO Australia - Adelaide
📅 Wednesday, 10 June 2026
⏰ 9:30am – 11:30am

Entrepreneur Members – register now via the Member Portal to secure your place (link in comments).

Are you a female Entrepreneur in South Australia but not yet a behind closed doors member? Email us at [email protected] to learn more about our Entrepreneur membership offerings.

behind closed doors warmly thanks our valued Partner, BDO Australia - Adelaide, for their generous support of this event.

For many business owners, growth brings a new level of complexity. The decisions get bigger, the stakes get higher, and the space to think out loud can become harder to find.

This is exactly the space the Women in Business Advisory Program is designed to provide.

With a 50% funded scholarship (and fully funded places for First Nations business owners), you’ll step into a room of peers who understand the reality of leading and scaling a business.

As one recipient shared, “My confidence has soared and my business has improved… it has been an absolute gift.”

With only a very limited number of scholarship places remaining for the 2026 Women in Business Advisory Program cohort, this is your last chance to apply!

If you’re a female South Australian business owner ready to connect, learn and grow, see the link in the comments to learn more.

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The Women in Business Advisory Program is an initiative of the Government of South Australia's Office for Small and Family Business, and the South Australian Small Business Strategy 2023 - 2030.

At some point, every business owner asks the question… what is this all actually worth?

Not just on paper – but in the eyes of a buyer.

Join Nikki Katz, 5 x Australia’s Business Broker of the Year, for a powerful Members-Only Webinar on how to sell your business with clarity, strategy, and integrity.

In this session, you’ll explore:
💰 What your business is really worth, beyond the headline number
🔍 Where hidden value lives and how to unlock it
🧭 Exit pathways that align with your goals, not pressure

Selling your business isn’t just a transaction, it’s a transition.

Members – register now via the Member Portal.

Not yet a member? Email [email protected] to learn more about our membership offerings.