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your challenge

The multinational business world has never been more competitive or complex. The current economic climate has made it financially constrained too. Change is no longer the only constant, it’s accelerating.

Local leaders of foreign-owned companies are expected to do more with less time, budget, and autonomy, while balancing global demands from HQ with local market realities. At the same time, they must prioritise their people, customers, stakeholders, community, and the planet.

Now, more than ever, it’s critical to connect, calibrate, and crowdsolve with true peers and thought leaders, beyond your company, industry, and global headquarters.

The best ideas, strategies, and breakthroughs come from looking outward, not just inward.

you matter

As a leader of a foreign-owned business in Australia, your impact extends far beyond your company. You are a driving force behind a sector that fuels Australia’s economic prosperity and abundance.

Abundium connects leaders like you, ensuring this sector continues to thrive. Despite making up just 0.33% of the global population, Australia ranks as the 13th largest economy by GDP. Our ability to stay globally competitive and attract foreign investment depends on the strength, vision, and collaboration of leaders like you to sustain this position.

your opportunity

When growth is not optional, when your role and this market is so unique, when expectations are relentless, you need a high performance cross industry network designed specifically to make multinational growth easier.

Growth rarely comes easily, but Abundium is here to make it easier. We are Australia’s only network for the local CEOs and leaders of foreign owned multinationals.

Our mission is to make multinational growth easier by helping you scale your company, strengthen its culture, and accelerate your career.

Gain exclusive access to the insights, strategies, and connections that elevate both you and your team, enhancing your visibility, influence, and impact on the global stage.

your trusted network

At Abundium, you'll find a community of multinational leaders navigating local and global challenges together. We provide a psychologically safe space for authentic connections, where you can share openly and learn from peers who understand your unique position.

Here, we challenge conventions, explore new perspectives, and balance business goals with social responsibility. By joining us, you're shaping a more progressive, human-centered approach to multinational leadership.

your champion & coach

Leading a multinational business comes with unique challenges, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Abundium is your champion and your coach, equipping you with the insights, connections, and support to thrive in an increasingly complex world.

By joining Abundium, you’re not just gaining access to resources and networks. You’re aligning yourself with a new standard of leadership, one that balances profit with purpose, innovation with responsibility, and personal success with collective growth.

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membership

Accelerate growth for you and your team by connecting with peers, world-class thought leaders, political and regulatory influencers, and multinational leaders. Discover how our membership can propel your success.

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coaching

Unlock your full potential with our tailored coaching programs. Empower yourself and your team to overcome challenges, enhance leadership skills, and drive multinational success. Explore our coaching options.

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your emerging leaders

Fast track the performance, well-being, & careers of leaders in multinationals at Australia's only summit exclusively designed to supercharge CEOs & emerging leaders in foreign owned companies.

The Abundium Emerging Leaders in Multinationals (ELM) Summit 2025 unpacks the science of peak performance, resilience, & high-stakes decision-making, drawing insights from elite sports, top CEOs, & leadership experts.

Find out why you should be there on 14 May in Sydney!

your growth through experiences

Understanding the pressures and travel commitments of multinational leaders, we offer both in-person and virtual learning experiences. These are designed to achieve exponential growth and unlock innovative breakthroughs for you and your team.

Access on-demand content and insights from world-class management thinkers and Global CEOs, empowering you and your organisation anywhere, anytime.

an advanced vision for leadership

Leaders must go beyond thinking 'outside the box' and more regularly think 'outside the building' to overcome establishment paralysis and generate powerful innovation says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

This requires a new style of leadership. Kanter calls this ‘advanced leadership’ referring to the additional skills necessary to address messy, complex systems problems, where you can’t yet see the direction you’re going and there are so many opportunities to fumble.

delivering happiness

“I realized the purpose of life is about pursuing happiness, and that sustainable happiness comes from making others happy” Yuan said. Creating happiness is also a philosophy behind work culture at Zoom.

creating fearless organisations to drive growth & innovation

For over 20 years Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School Amy Edmondson has been researching what high performing teams from around the world across multiple industries do differently. The number one success variable based on the teams she and others such as Google have studied is what Amy calls 'psychological safety', i.e. creating an environment where people feel safe to take interpersonal risk.

the power of positivity

This one attribute is positive emotion, not to be confused with ‘positive thinking’ which has actually been shown to be detrimental to performance and well-being in many contexts.

winning in the australian economy

Peter Hartcher, political and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Peter provides his perspective on the year ahead for both domestic and regional issues impacting doing business in Australia.

excellence in leadership mindsets

Join us for a highly interactive 3 hours online experience with Dr. Peter Fuda, one of Australia’s true global thought leaders. Peter will reveal a range of practical frameworks and processes to help you transform leadership in our hybrid world of work.

becoming a talent magnet & multiplier

Liz Wiseman, NYT and WSJ best selling author, co-creator of Oracle University, Thinkers50 2013-2021, Founder & CEO, reveals four pathways for leaders to become multipliers, amplifying the smarts and capabilities of the people around them.

when business & science collide

Discuss with Dr Cathy Foley, Australia’s Chief Scientist, how to work with the scientific community to uncover new opportunities, bring innovation into your local market and take them to the world.

elite performance in the human machine era

Abundance or oblivion? How has the rapid rise of generative AI changed your perspective about the future? One thing is for sure, the relationship between man and machine is only getting stronger. Dr Andy Walshe has been at the forefront of human machine research and application since 2006, investigating how technology can fast track elite performance with individuals, teams and organisations ranging from DARPA, USA Olympic teams, and numerous global corporations. Prior to this Andy was the High Performance Director at Redbull training extreme athletes and artists to perform and create at levels beyond what they thought were possible.

winning in the australian economy

Discussion about uncertainties ranging from the changing nature of industrial relations, the uncertainty of the geopolitical landscape, ongoing concerns about cost-of-living pressures and more.

speaking truth to power

Join Megan Reitz, Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education UK, and 2021 #1 ranked Thinker in Thinker50, as she explores with us what needs to be said, and how we can better hear what needs to be heard.

purpose powers business transformation

During this Abundium Masterclass with Fred we will explore four of those challenges: disengagement, disorganization, disinformation and disillusionment. In Fred’s disarmingly calm yet provocative way we will discuss ‘why your job is not your job’, ‘why a leader has no followers’, and the notions of ‘response-ability’ and ‘success beyond success’. Ultimately, Fred will share his solution to these challenges we face drawing on his life’s work and research from his days as a Professor of Economics at MIT to now.

what others say

"it's so refreshing to be engaging outside my industry environment"

District Leader ANZHealthcare

"the full team have been impressed by the quality of the content & found it extremely useful"

APAC CEOConsumer Goods

"a fabulous group of ceos of multinationals, I find it very valuable to have this group of supportive peers, who are very open about their triumphs and challenges"

Alumni CEO memberTechnology

"it is more critical than ever for leaders to find people they can confide in, that understand the unique requirements of their role, and can help them explore new ways to do things"

Vice President ANZPIFMCG

about abundium

We are a high-energy, forward-thinking network built for multinational leaders in Australia. Abundium fast-tracks your success by helping you grow your business, amplify your impact, and navigate the global matrix with confidence.

As part of Abundium, you play a key role in testing, refining, and launching new solutions for your global organisation, ensuring your achievements get noticed by HQ and your influence extends far beyond Australia.

founders

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Rich Hirst Co-founder & CEORich Hirst equips multinational leaders in Australia with strategies for exponential growth and high performance. Drawing from his experience with 1,000+ CEOs globally, he helps you navigate the unique challenges of leading a foreign-owned company in Australia. At Abundium, Rich provides tailored insights to enhance performance, well-being, and sustainable impact, giving you a competitive edge in Australia's dynamic business landscape.

Rich Hirst Co-founder & CEO

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Dani Matthews Co-founder & Chief Growth OfficerDani Matthews helps multinational leaders drive sustainable growth and impact across the ANZ & APAC region. She leads Abundium’s CEO network and is passionate about facilitating high level human connections to ignite positive change. Honoured as an Adjunct Associate Professor (Industry) at UTS Business School, she brings cutting-edge insights on modern leadership to help you create lasting change.

Dani Matthews Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer

we make multinational growth easier

australia's only cross-industry network for CEOs & senior leaders of foreign-owned companies that fast-tracks the performance, well-being & positive impact of multinational leaders & their teams

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your challenge

"the greatest future breakthroughs will come from leaders who encourage thinking outside the building"

you matter

your opportunity

your trusted network

your champion & coach

your emerging leaders

your growth through experiences

what others say

"it's so refreshing to be engaging outside my industry environment"

"the full team have been impressed by the quality of the content & found it extremely useful"

"a fabulous group of ceos of multinationals, I find it very valuable to have this group of supportive peers, who are very open about their triumphs and challenges"

"it is more critical than ever for leaders to find people they can confide in, that understand the unique requirements of their role, and can help them explore new ways to do things"

about abundium

founders

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