Ryll Burgin - Sales and Marketing Manager, Director
Ryll Burgin has been growing small and large companies for the past 16 years. Her background experience includes growing up, literally, in her own family's businesses; holding a Bachelors Degree in Business; being responsible for the marketing of up to 120 companies at one time and leading teams of marketing consultants working with every kind of business you could imagine - from florists, to manufacturers, to professionals, to builders, to plumbers, to restaurants, hotels, hospitals, property developers, real estate agents, software companies and many more.
At the ripe old age of just 24 with $1,100 to her name, Ryll started her own business planning company called Your Business Partners with Nic Clark. Ryll added value to hundreds of small business people in South East Queensland, became a public speaker, grew her company to some 400 clients, including flagship clients like Suncorp and OptusVision, helping them plan their growth. After successfully selling that business she went on to work in the USA for just under 5 years.
While in the US Ryll worked once again with Paul Dunn of Results Accountants Systems and developed a knowledge base product called 'Businesses Getting Results', 2,000 pages of marketing, management and business development strategies for Accountants to share with their clients in an effort to grow their client's businesses and add more value. 'BGR' as it became known, was delivered via accountants all over the world to the SME market. She went on to become the Global Brand Manager [or 'Results Accountants Network', a branded membership program that included BGR, unique access to a worldwide online community of accountants and was designed to promote a new breed of accountants around the world. At that time, under Ryll's sales and marketing programs, 'RAN' became the largest independent network of accountants around the world.
Ryll continued her success in the US with highly successful branding agency VIA, launching new brands, new products and new companies during the dot com boom in San Francisco and revitalizing the existing brands of $400M and $1B enterprises in various industries. Her work took her from San Francisco to New York to Portland Maine, to Boston, Columbus, Ohio and Orlando, Florida. Through Australian advertising agency, De Pasquale, Ryll has since brought that international experience to some well known Australian brands such as Mathers, Mincom, The Myer Centre, Tourism Queensland and Corporate Express. Ryll was also the Founder of stepUP Strategies, a strategy, systems and planning focused consulting business.
However, by far Ryll's greatest accomplishment has been creating stepUP Foundation - a non profit whose purpose is 'shifting the future of humanity' by educating and exciting teenagers about what's possible for their futures in business and in life. Under Ryll's leadership stepUP has now worked with just under 6,000 teenagers — 40% of whom are underprivileged or at risk - with 98% of teens reporting stepUP was the most 'empowering experience of my life'. Ryll has successfully expanded stepUP across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Approximately 20000 teens are expected to participate in stepUP's programs globally.
Ryll has brought Rob Nixon, Michael Sheargold and Nic Clark together with a view to creating THE most effective business services Franchise in the world. A Franchise that shares its success with all involved including Franchisees and those that need it most — the future entrepreneurs and leaders of Australia, New Zealand and later the world — our teens. She is also the creator of the 10XKNOWLEDGE BUILDER range of business information and enhancement tools later available online.
