Despina Karatzias

Despina Karatzias Hello! For more info and upcoming training programs visit: http://bit.ly/2viyZzQ Indeed excellence in life or business is not a skill its an attitude.

I help small business get clear on their purpose, get clear on their planning and get clear on how to integrate digital and social media marketing initiatives to win online. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do" that is a quote shared by the late Steve Jobs and I couldn't agree more. My business is https://www.instituteofexcellence.com/

Develop thy self and develop thy business

- I love doing both. A powerful word to keep us on task and accountable to the bigger picture. Excellence…seek it, celebrate it and aspire to live a life filled with purpose. As a lover of all things tourism and the small ‘passionate’ business community I serve the small to medium business owner or manager who struggles to figure out cost effective ways to maximise and grow their business through digital, social media, distribution and partnership marketing. I help businesses dominate in their industry by teaching business owners, marketing managers and entrepreneurs alike how to grow their online presence and turn those likes into LOVE and actionable business outcomes. If you are reading this thank you, I love you and here's to YOUR excellence. Love,
Desi xx

Final training of the week and month.All of it centred on taking back control.Control in mindset. Control in action. Con...
28/08/2026

Final training of the week and month.

All of it centred on taking back control.

Control in mindset. Control in action. Control in reaction.

An hour of power with business owners across City of Melton this morning. Three exercises, written live, and everyone left with one commitment for the next 30 days, dated and signed.

Because to break through anything, you have to stop working on the parts that were never yours so that the one thing you can change, and control, gets your full attention.

Happy Friday 🙏🫶

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are...
26/08/2026

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader” Dolly Parton

A fitting quote from an icon after spending the day in the company of female founders who are just that!

From kicking off the day with an inspired conversation on ‘what it takes’ to start a business with Sarah Poole | Founder Self-Abandonment Sarah Poole to delivering the final training session as part of the Eastern Innovation Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Program!

The new Practical Business Training & Mentoring training: Acting Up, The Next 90 Days, was a three-hour working session focussing on more signals and less noise to create a rhythm in businesses centred around Content, Sales, Delivery and Operations.

Thank you Allira Cundy Saloni Kochhar Robyn Swanwick ACEcD and all participants for your energy and contributions, until next time, thank you 🙏💓

Is change in your work/career calling or maybe the change is starting a business and something of your own?I’ve reinvent...
25/08/2026

Is change in your work/career calling or maybe the change is starting a business and something of your own?

I’ve reinvented my career and business more than once, sometimes by choice, and sometimes by sheer necessity.

And while reinvention creates opportunity, it comes with a cost and today, Sarah Poole has created the environment for us to talk honestly about what it takes and how to build, and then rebuild, again without self-abandonment.

Join us live on Instagram today at midday (AEST) - via Business Flow go here https://www.instagram.com/thebusinessflowco?igsi=bnF5NHQ3NGF5ZTUy or yours truly Insta here https://www.instagram.com/thebusinessflowco?igsi=bnF5NHQ3NGF5ZTUy

What about you, what has a new start cost you currently or in the past most, identity, energy, money, relationships, confidence… or something else?

23/08/2026

There’s flying direct… and then there’s the Regional Express Airlines “Milk Run”.

A glimpse of the journey home from Thargomindah to Brisbane:

XTG → CMA → SGO → WTB → BNE

Thargomindah → Cunnamulla → St George → Toowoomba → Brisbane.

Four legs. Five airports. One seat. And a front-row view of from the air. Take off, land, drop passengers off, pick up new passengers, take off again, land again and repeat. This was the route all the way to Explore Bulloo Thargomindah on Wednesday and then the same route back to Brisbane on Sunday which are the two days of the week this flight path operates.

There’s something pretty special about experiencing first-hand how these regional air routes connect remote communities across Queensland ✈️

If you’re looking for express this is not the fastest way from Brisbane ti Thargomindah and vice versa but possibly one of the most interesting 🛩️🫶🙏

Took the opportunity to play tourist this morning with hostess with mostest, Gillian to step out and Explore Bulloo visi...
23/08/2026

Took the opportunity to play tourist this morning with hostess with mostest, Gillian to step out and Explore Bulloo visiting the Bulloo River.

Also visited the original Thargomindah Hospital built in 1888 using local mud bricks and operated as a medical outpost until 1976. Today, the heritage-listed site functions as an automated self-guided tourist attraction featuring preserved wards, a morgue, and interactive displays. And of course seized the opportunity to soak up some of that beautiful outback sunshine before heading back on that Regional Express Airlines milk run back home ☀️🫶

Red dirt, blue sky and work I love 🫶The week that was starting with an inspired day in Brisbane visiting superstar touri...
22/08/2026

Red dirt, blue sky and work I love 🫶

The week that was starting with an inspired day in Brisbane visiting superstar tourism sister, Molly for an IRL interview and legend Chief DD from Outback Queensland perfect catch up before getting on my Rex Airlines tiny plane for my first IRL visit to the Queensland Outback landing in Bulloo Shire Council Thargomindah where I have spent the last few days sitting beside local businesses and together rolling up our sleeves and solving real operational roadblocks together using AI tools from the inside out!

And today, our office for the day, local community and business leaders spent their Saturday with me continuing the learning together over two workshops centred around Ethical AI for Community Grant Writing and Smart Social Media using AI.

Personally and professionally this experience, the incredible people I’ve met, the community spirit and the glimpse of life in the outback has been life changing and reaffirming.

Thank you for having me Thargomindah, I adored meeting and working with each and every one of you 🙏🫶

What do Training Girl and Balloon Girl have in common they both work day and night to help people and businesses be bett...
13/08/2026

What do Training Girl and Balloon Girl have in common they both work day and night to help people and businesses be better today than they were yesterday!

Spending all them years leading Global Ballooning Australia | #1 Sunrise Hot Air Balloon Flights taught me you can’t control the conditions, especially the wind.

You read it. You adapt. You learn how to navigate with it, not fight against it.

Business feels remarkably similar right now.

We don’t get to choose the conditions. We do get to choose how prepared we are for them.

AI is another shift in those conditions. It’s reshaping business from the inside out, operations, productivity, customer service, discovery and competitive advantage.

Today I had the privilege of delivering three hours of AI for Tourism 101 to this brilliant Beyond the Bays and Mornington Peninsula Shire tourism crew, building practical AI capability for what comes next.

The goal isn’t to control the wind. It’s to become better at navigating it.

And after today, this crew is better equipped for whatever blows in next 💪🙏🫶

InstituteOfExcellence

Spending the colder months learning and hibernating but mostly learning!Learning new things.Challenging old thinking.Bui...
11/08/2026

Spending the colder months learning and hibernating but mostly learning!

Learning new things.
Challenging old thinking.
Building new capabilities.
And preparing for what’s coming next.

Spent the day learning from The Institute of EI founder and GOAT of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness Mel Neil whist simultaneously enrolled in the Diploma of Artificial Intelligence, mind blown, heart expanded!

Technology may become more intelligent to help us be more efficient, innovative and apparently add speech bubbles to selfies quicker than it takes to send a text.

But while I’m helping business with the technology that is getting smarter, and become more efficient, I want to make sure I’m helping businesses becoming more human and I am under the wing of the most excellent teacher Xo

Committee Readiness 101 (Governance, Roles & Leadership Essentials) was today’s new Small Business | Tourism | Training ...
06/08/2026

Committee Readiness 101 (Governance, Roles & Leadership Essentials) was today’s new Small Business | Tourism | Training & Mentoring training unveiled.

Research shows unclear roles is the strongest single predictor of poor board and committee performance, ahead of experience or training and designing today’s training was built around solving that.

In the room we had leading everyday people making extraordinary contributions in their community representing everything from sporting, performing arts, mental health and diaspora communities from Poland, Phillipines, and Romania, to name a few, exchanging and sharing knowledge with one intention, be better than we were yesterday.

Thank you City of Kingston for the trust in delivering this workshop and thank you to the beautiful humans pictured for sharing your morning with me 🙏🫶

05/08/2026

Signature Small Business | Tourism | Training & Mentoring training, AI for Tourism 101 is scheduled to be delivered next week as part of the Mornington Peninsula Shire Small Business Festival thanks to the wonderful humans at Beyond The Bays Tourism 🌊🫶

This is good for any tourism and hospitality business who:

- Has tried AI but not sure it’s actually helping your tourism business?

- Wants hands-on in person interaction and looking to move beyond trial-and-error and start using AI in a clear, practical, ethical and structured way.

- Doesn’t just want to learn about AI, wants to build systems tailored to your business that you can implement immediately.

If any of the above sound like you come and join us for some Flinders AI fun next Thursday 13 August, 9 am to 12.30 pm via link below ⬇️

https://mpbusiness.com.au/event/ai-for-tourism-101/

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