Gareth D. Smith Training Consultant, Vue Consulting Gareth D. Smith has more than 15 years direct experience in sales, customer service, management and business development in retail sales and training.

Gareth’s financial services career started in the customer service team at Bankers Trust, where he was part of an award winning team providing him an early insight into service excellence.

Travelling extensively when possible Gareth swapped the financial services industry for Flightcentre where he learnt retail sales at the coal face. There he was a member of the successful Bondi Junction Flightcentre team placing 2^nd in the world for retail revenue and personally qualifying for Flightcentre’s Global Ball.

After September 2001 Gareth placed his love of travel industry on hold and moved back into financial services working as an Investment Executive at Macquarie Bank qualifying as a financial planner and entering the world of professional services.

In 2004 Gareth made the move to Brisbane Queensland where held a number of positions at MLC finishing as a relationship manager handling the top advisory businesses within the Garvan network.

In 2007 he joined Finsia, now Kaplan Professional education, as the Queensland Senior Business Development manager working with Australia’s leading financial advisory, banks, fund managers, stock broking, mortgage broking, legal and accountancy businesses transforming the Queensland business into a significant contributor to the Kaplan revenue budget.

Whilst at Kaplan Gareth discovered his passion for training with the underlying goal to raise professional service standards through Australia. In 2012, Gareth took his passion for training one step further joining the highly talented Vue Consulting team.

Vue Consulting provides exclusive training for the owners and advisers of Professional Services practices, primarily in consulting, finance, accounting, IT, law and recruitment.  The Vue Consulting team help professional advisers to be more successful with their technical skills by focusing on four key commercial areas – their use of time, their ability to find new clients, their revenue generating skills and their client advocacy processes.  Vue Consulting was founded with a mission to provide practical solutions to practical problems, within an Australian context.

Outside of Vue Consulting, Gareth is kept busy with two young children, plays indoor cricket and endeavours to keep his obsession with Rugby union under control. He is also the co-founder of Brisbane’s leading networking group for finance, legal and accounting industry the Emerging Professionals Network.