15 / 136
Business View Australia - June 2015 15
members by
lobbying with the government
and bureaucracy and by pro-
viding and facilitating direct in-
teraction between them. The
success of Consult Australia is
based on its constant focus in
identifying and exploiting oppor-
tunities for the benefit of the
functioning of its members.
Megan Motto outlines the future
plans of the association, “What was
considered a large firm even five
years ago is now a medium sized
player. We have got a lot of globalisa-
tion of firms and a huge amount of
consolidation in the market through
mergers and acquisition activity.
A lot of new international play-
ers have entered the market
so we are trying to
consolidate our
membership
and build
upon it,
deepen our
penetration
and engagement and
provide an ever wider range
of services at all levels within
those organisations to help them
run successful businesses.
On the influence front we like to
look at Australia’s place in the re-
gion, so in the future we will have
a greater regional focus because
our member firms have a region-
al focus, certainly our large firms
have a very strong regional focus.
We recognise it as a great area of
opportunity for our members and it
is particularly the Asian region which
is growing in its economic develop-
ment very quickly and the services
of our members will be in very high
demand and we will help them take
advantage of this opportunity.”