Connecting with others

Mentoring and networking - are you interested in connecting with other professionals across the arts and business sector?

Free online mentoring program - Mentoring for Growth (M4G) 

Business Queensland’s Mentoring for Growth (M4G) offers eligible businesses free access to volunteer business experts who provide insights, options and suggestions relating to challenges and opportunities you are experiencing in your business.

 To be eligible your business must have:

• an Australian business number (ABN)
• Queensland headquarters or significant Queensland operations
• a business plan in place
• commenced business operations
• a specific business opportunity or challenge to discuss.

 Find out more and register your business for a mentoring session

 Tips and tools

 Ask a mentor article series

Ask a mentor article series is designed to help businesses better understand some fundamentals on different business topics.  Information from Business Queensland’s Mentoring for Growth (M4G) mentors on different topics, plus the opportunity to join mentors in free panel webinars

Visit Ask a mentor article series | Business Queensland for more information, tips, and webinar recordings.

Events and training finder – Australian Government

Are you interested in government run or government funded events and training for your business? These events can help you improve your business skills, learn about government grants or grow your network. Search events in Queensland 

Black Coffee – Indigenous Business Network

Black Coffee is a grassroots Indigenous business networking gathering held in regions around Australia each month.

Originating in Queensland but now across Australia, the goal of the Black Coffee movement is to provide a platform to connect micro and small business owners around Australia. Indigenous business owners and professionals, along with their supporters, get together and yarn with the aim to build relationships and grow networks.

Indigenous Business Gateway

Search and discover Indigenous business suppliers. 

Creating culturally safe workplaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Building cultural capability within your business is a continual process, encompassing cultural awareness, cultural competence and cultural safety.

Use Business Queensland's information, resources and tools as a starting point to help you:

• build awareness and cultural safety in your workplace
• provide support to First Nations employees
• help your business be better positioned to respond to your present and future workforce needs.

Queensland Indigenous Business Network (QIBN)

The Queensland Indigenous Business Network (QIBN) is a newly established Indigenous commercial network connecting local First Nations business owners to help build their business capacity, knowledge and to support each other.