It’s that time of year once again: the release of our annual Top 50 Small Business Leaders Report. Congratulations to our 2024 Top 50 Small Business Leaders and their wide array of amazing achievements.
In this year’s report, you’ll find a catering company reimagining 60,000 years of Indigenous food culture (Gather Foods), a textile recycling service diverting old clothes from landfill (RCYCL), and an app reducing its users’ alcohol consumption (Mind The Sip), among many other inspirational small businesses from around the country. We also revisited 2021 Top 50 Alumni, Nicole Gibson, whose business Soka Tub has experienced significant growth since we last heard from her.
This year marks our eighth cohort of inspirational business leaders since the report’s inception, and our judges have once again had to choose from a wealth of high-quality submissions. A big thanks to this year’s judging panel, who, as always, have put significant time and effort into narrowing down a list of finalists. Our panel this year consisted of Angelique Woodburn, Claudia North, Jacqueline Burns, Jacqueline Cripps, Pulkit Agrawal, and previous ISB editor Tim Ladhams.
Tim has recently moved on to greener pastures, but we miss him and couldn’t have had the past eight Top 50s without him. Also integral to the Top 50 process is writer and journalist Karl Aguilar, who has diligently compiled the profiles of our small-business leaders for many years.
Thanks also to Business1300 and Commonwealth Bank for their generous sponsorship of this year’s Top 50 Report and launch event.
Australia’s 2024 Top 50 Small Business Leaders
Abby Stuart, Oi Cosmetics Studio
Adele Andrews, Australian Property Home Loans
Ally Shepherd, NormaMayHoney
Andrew Woodward, The Investors Way
Ange Chappel, Mind The Sip
Anton Guinea, The Guinea Group
Belinda Paul, RCYCL
Carla Rogers, Evolve Communities
Catarina Santini, CS Accounting
Celine Kaltoum, CSK Public Relations
Cheryl Lardner, Wishkeeper
Claire Goldsworthy, The Fashion Advocate
David Antonacci, Teeny Tiny Homes
Douglas Downer, Franchise Ready
Elliot Cohen, Pebl Payments
Fiona Holmstrom, STEM Punks
Gabriella Ptasznik, GRP Speech Pathology
Gerry Matera, Gather Foods
Hacia Atherton, Empowered Women in Trades
Harriette Dean, Baby Bot Bot
Jane Kilkenny, Fitness Energy
Jess McDonald, High Tees
Jessica Ritchie, Transformational Brand Lab
Jessica Staines, Koori Curriculum
Jules Brooke, She’s The Boss Group
Julia Buri, Crumbs Patisserie
Karly Eldridge, Stable-Ised Equine
Katelyn Wall, Wall’s Honey Co.
Keeley Johnson, Keeleys Cause limited
Kelly Groves, Small Business Hub
Kirsty Carvey, Galactic Donuts
Madelene Ragno, MADE. Marketing
Megan Pollock, Second Scout
Michael Jeffries, Naked Accounting
Miriam Holme, Flinders Accounting
Nikhil Daftary, Coral Healthcare and Moments
Rachel Condos-Fields, The WattleNest
Rachel Pietsch, Now You’re Talking
Renae Kunda, Cape York Motorcycle Adventures
Roz Kaldor-Aroni, Elato Pty Ltd
Sally Parrish, Board Coaching Institute
Sarah Macleod, Bourke St the Label
Sonia McDonald, LeadershipHQ
Sophie Brown, Sophie B Photography
Stacey Price, Healthy Business Finances
Suzanne Murphy, Exhale Moments
Taminda Polle, Cyber Is
Tom Ferrier, Greener
Tracie Ellis, TAE Projects
Zivit Inbar, DifferenThinking
Click here to download a full report.
