ROUNDTABLES
WEDNESDAY
24 June 2026
Our Roundtables are interactive, small-group sessions designed to bring together franchise professionals from across the sector. These sessions provide a valuable opportunity to share insights, discuss challenges, and learn from real-world experiences in a collaborative and confidential environment.
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Each Roundtable focuses on key topics relevant to franchising and are tailored to encourage practical takeaways and meaningful connections.
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No pre-registration is required - you choose your two Roundtables to attend on the day.
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Roundtable Topics and Facilitators
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1Roundtable
Franchise Development
Matching Franchisees with the Right Sites
Practical approaches to aligning people, property and growth timing.
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Nathan Bonney
Iridium Partners
2Roundtable
Franchise sales
Lead generation & franchise sales.
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Navigating digital lead generation to support quality over quantity.
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Sally Knight
Franchise NZ Media
3Roundtable
Franchise development
Pitfalls and strategies for successful site territory planning in NZ.
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How market analysis and good site selection can create speed-to-market advantages.
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Jeff Vassell
Geotech
4Roundtable
Franchise development
Coaches, police or performance drivers.
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Developing high impact Franchise Support Managers that coach, motivate & enable franchisee success.
Callum Floyd
Franchize Consultants
5Roundtable
Franchise development
Benchmarking and KPIs.
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How do you identify and measure KPIs relevant to your industry, to enable results-focused benchmarking.
Stacey Bree
Pit Stop
6Roundtable
Franchise development
Franchisee training.
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Building management and leadership capabilities of franchisees.
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Greg Nathan
Franchise Relationships Institute
7Roundtable
Franchise relationships
How to deliver an effective franchise conference.
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Delivering a franchise conference that engages franchisees, reinforces strategy & strengthens system wide alignment.
Shelley Trutsch
Waipuna
8Roundtable
Franchise relationships
Franchise Advisory Councils.
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How to establish an effective FAC that enables business growth.
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David Williams
Exceed
9Roundtable
Operations
Change management - leading franchisees through change.
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Practical approaches to leading franchisees through change.
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Jason Hill
Green Acres
10Roundtable
Operations
Identifying and mitigating at-risk franchisees.
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How to identify, manage and support underperforming franchisees.
Tony Pattison
Clean Planet
11Roundtable
Legal
Succession Planning / Exit strategies.
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Succession planning in franchising that safeguards performance and culture.
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Greg Paget
CFE
12Roundtable
International
International expansion.
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Diving into the international pond.
What to look for and how to prepare for international expansion
Stewart Germann
SGL
13Roundtable
Marketing - AI
AI-SEO
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Utilizing AI-driven SEO to transform your franchise brand, achieve consistency, scale visibility and compete in local markets
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Ronan Nicol
Storm IMC
14Roundtable
Marketing
National vs local - who owns what?
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Where should brand control sit?
What LAM actually works in NZ?
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Tracey Kravitz
Exceed
15Roundtable
Marketing
If you don’t control / understand the customer relationship, someone else will.
Why loyalty is more than just a reward.
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John Alexander Norrie
Tranxactor
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Ian Sutcliffe
Cashpoints
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