Central Business Associates

Empowering Small Business through Collaboration, Community and Consulting

Central Business Associates provides a supportive, community-driven environment similar to a large company, offering diverse, values-based services, and strategic support tailored for micro, small, and start-up businesses.

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About Celia Newlands

Offering accountability & mentoring support for micro, small & medium businesses in the community

Central Business Associates, founded by Celia Newlands, provides consultancy and contractor services for sustainable business growth. This is complemented by the Sage Room Ltd Co-operative, which provides collaborative contract work, online courses, workshops, and mentoring opportunities.

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Services

General Manager for Small Business

As a Small Business General Manager, I am dedicated to helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance while growing your business. With extensive experience in managing and supporting small businesses, I can assist you in identifying areas for improvement, clarifying your goals, and fostering collaboration for mutual benefit. By leveraging my expertise in resource management, online support, financial oversight, customer relationship management, and general business strategy, I aim to transform your business from a solo operation into a thriving team. Let’s work together to ensure your business grows and flourishes sustainably.

Services

Small Business Surgery

Our Small Business Surgery service offers expert support and a fresh perspective to small business owners feeling isolated or overwhelmed. For $100 per session, you’ll receive up to 50 minutes of dedicated time to discuss your challenges, explore potential solutions, and gain clarity on your next steps. Our experienced and friendly team provides insightful advice tailored to your business values, helping you navigate obstacles and return to running your business with renewed confidence.

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Client Testimonials

“Celia has worked with my business for over 10 years, and owning Nurturing Confidence would be a lot lonelier and a lot more overwhelming without Celia consistently by my side along the way.

I was a one-woman show struggling to hold all the pieces together as my business grew. Celia stepped in, did the work to really understand the unique strengths and challenges of my business and what I wanted it to grow into. Celia set up processes that meant I could focus on doing the delivery that I excel at and over time increasingly step back from the business support work that I don’t enjoy (and am not very good at!). We worked together to bring in the right people to support our growth along the way.

As our General Manager Celia leads our processes and strategy to minimise the time I need to spend on the business, and maximise the value I can bring when I do have that time to spend. Celia consistently adds value through being my strategic sounding board and accountability partner and this allows me to really trust that our business is consistently aligned with our values and tracking towards our version of success.”

Amy Jackson

Nurturing Confidence: Leadership Coach/Facilitator Speaker.

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