Find Your Financial Path Through Questions, Not Lectures
Most financial education starts with textbooks and theories. We start with your actual situation.
Our approach works backwards from where you are now. What keeps you up at night? What decisions feel urgent? We built a learning system that helps you find answers through guided questioning rather than generic advice.
Programs begin September 2025 with rolling enrolment through early 2026.
We Help You Ask Better Questions About Money
Instead of memorising financial formulas, you'll learn how to analyse your own circumstances. The framework adapts to whether you're managing business cash flow, personal investments, or household budgets.
Start With Context
Where are you right now financially? We map your current situation before suggesting any direction. Sometimes the answer is "do nothing yet" and that's perfectly valid.
Identify Real Constraints
Time, capital, risk tolerance, family obligations. These aren't obstacles to work around but factors that shape realistic solutions. Your constraints define your actual options.
Test Assumptions
Most financial mistakes come from untested beliefs. We'll walk through scenarios using your numbers, not hypothetical examples from outdated textbooks.
Compare Realistic Options
You'll learn to evaluate choices based on your specific circumstances. What works for someone else's business might be completely wrong for yours.
Build Decision Models
By the end, you'll have frameworks you can reuse. The models adapt as your situation changes rather than becoming obsolete.
Review and Adjust
Financial decisions aren't one-time events. You'll develop systems for ongoing evaluation and course correction when needed.
How the Decision Tree Method Actually Works
You won't sit through PowerPoint presentations about abstract concepts. Each session starts with a real financial decision you're facing or might face soon.
We map out your decision tree together. What information do you need? What are you assuming? Where could things go differently than expected?
- Sessions focus on one decision at a time so you can actually implement what you learn
- You'll work with scenarios from your industry or household situation, not generic examples
- Small group format means you learn from others' questions without wasting time on irrelevant topics
- All frameworks are documented so you can reference them later when making similar decisions
The approach works whether you're evaluating equipment purchases, investment opportunities, debt restructuring, or personal finance strategies. Decision-making principles stay consistent even when the numbers change.
Who Guides Your Learning Journey
Callum Brennock
Business Finance Specialist
Spent fifteen years helping small businesses analyse investment decisions. Now teaches the frameworks he developed while working with manufacturing and retail clients across NSW.
Sienna Thorvaldsen
Personal Finance Educator
Worked in financial counselling before transitioning to education. Focuses on helping people make decisions that align with their actual values rather than generic advice.
Petra Kovalenko
Risk Analysis Instructor
Background in corporate risk assessment. Teaches practical methods for evaluating downside scenarios without getting paralysed by worst-case thinking.
Program Timeline for 2025-2026
Foundation Module Begins
Four weeks covering decision-making frameworks and analytical approaches. You'll learn to map financial decisions and identify what information actually matters for your situation.
Specialisation Paths Open
Choose between business finance, personal investment, or household budgeting tracks. Each path applies the same decision frameworks to different contexts and scales.
Case Study Analysis
Work through real scenarios from participants or historical cases. You'll practise applying frameworks under time pressure and with incomplete information, just like actual decisions.
Independent Project Period
Apply what you've learned to a real decision you're facing. Get feedback on your analysis and decision framework. Optional summer break for those who need it.
Advanced Topics and Wrap-Up
Complex scenarios, multi-variable decisions, and long-term planning frameworks. Final session covers how to maintain and update your decision models as circumstances change.
Ready to Improve How You Make Financial Decisions?
September 2025 cohort opens for enrolment in June. Limited to eighteen participants per group to maintain the small-group format that makes the decision tree method effective.
Or contact us if you want to discuss whether this approach suits your current situation.