Joseph Wheeler

Entrepreneur, Marketer, Musician, Project manager, Social entrepreneur

As an aspiring social entrepreneur I delivered my 1 minute pitch to TEDx Southbank 2014 and won a Deloitte mentoring package to help make it happen. "Over the past 2 years the rate of youth unemployment has been on the rise. It currently represents just under 40% of all unemployment in Australia. Young university graduates trying to enter any kind of creative industry, are finding it more and more difficult to find work. The general stipulation is you need experience to get a job. But you can't get the job to get the experience. Meanwhile 42 percent of small businesses failed between 2003 - 2007 & the statistics haven't improved much since then. Now amongst the many reasons these small businesses have and continue to fail is a lack of quality in their branding, design, websites & marketing. The kind of work that these young graduates have spent the last 3 -6 years training for. What if there was an enterprise bridging the gap between these two sets of frightening statistics. What if they could deliver precisely what these businesses need to remain competitive in today's marketplace while also enabling and encouraging young artists to not only receive the experience they so desperately need for that next step in their career but while also receiving fair pay for fair work. I want to build that bridge."

Business Consulting, Digital Marketing, Public Speaking, Strategic Marketing