Financial Management for Creative Minds
Most creative professionals hate dealing with numbers. We get it. That's why we built a program that connects financial thinking with the way you already work—through projects, ideas, and real business challenges.
Explore Our Approach
Why Business Creativity Matters in Finance
Traditional finance education feels disconnected from how creative businesses actually operate. We've spent years working with designers, consultants, and makers who needed financial skills that matched their workflow.
Here's something we noticed: creative professionals already think in systems. You plan projects, manage client relationships, coordinate deliverables. Financial management isn't that different—it's just another system for keeping track of what matters.
Our programs start in September 2025 because we want enough time to build small cohorts. The goal isn't to turn you into an accountant. It's to show you how financial thinking can support the creative work you're already doing.
We focus on practical scenarios—pricing your services, managing irregular income, understanding which projects actually generate profit. And we do it through case studies pulled from real businesses in Australia's creative sector.
Project-Based Learning
Each session revolves around a business challenge. You might analyze a pricing structure for a design agency, or figure out cash flow for a seasonal consultancy. Real problems, real numbers.
We avoid lectures. Instead, you work through scenarios with other participants, testing different approaches and seeing what actually makes sense for creative business models.
Flexible Scheduling Options
Our autumn cohort runs weekday evenings or weekend intensives—your choice. Programs typically span three months, with some flexibility built in for project deadlines and busy periods.
You'll have access to materials for a full year after completion, so you can revisit concepts when they're relevant to your current business situation.
How We Actually Teach This Stuff
Start With Your Numbers
Bring your actual business data—or work with anonymized examples we provide. Either way, you're looking at real scenarios, not theoretical exercises that don't connect to daily operations.
Build Financial Intuition
We're not teaching formulas to memorize. You develop a sense for what healthy numbers look like, when to adjust your approach, and how to spot problems before they become emergencies.
Connect to Business Goals
Financial decisions support your bigger picture. Whether that's sustainable growth, work-life balance, or preparing to hire, we help you connect money management to what you're trying to build.
Designed for How Creatives Actually Work
I spent fifteen years in finance before shifting to education. What surprised me most was how capable creative professionals are with complex thinking—they just needed frameworks that matched their existing mental models.
This program emerged from conversations with over sixty Australian creative businesses. We mapped how they actually make decisions, then built teaching methods around those patterns rather than forcing traditional accounting approaches.