Darren Bourke
With thirty years’ experience in the business arena successfully navigating his own personal journey to success, Darren has a keen eye for identifying what makes successful entrepreneurs and businesses tick. Darren has a passion for work-life balance, and an innate ability to communicate his elusive formula for success to the business owners he coaches and mentors.
Having earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the prestigious Melbourne University, and a post-graduate Chartered Accountant qualification, Darren’s introduction to the corporate world came first as an accountant with major international accountancy firm Deloitte, then later as a Business Services Manager with leading firm Pitcher Partners.
In 1998 after a decade honing his business skills as an accountant, working in situ with publicly listed and private companies, Darren left the world of accounting to pursue his dream of running his own business, entering a partnership in start-up Melbourne-based recruitment agency, Caden Consulting.
In 2003, Darren then embarked on a new journey; establishing Business Influence, a consultancy dedicated to dramatically improving the performance of small and medium businesses through consulting, coaching & mentoring.
Throughout this period Darren also developed a strong social conscience in dedicating four years of philanthropic work with The Reach Foundation outside of coaching hours. Reach’s aim to help at risk youth inspired Darren to act as a volunteer mentor to young Reach Leaders who dreamed of starting their own business through 1-1 mentoring, group sessions and business incubators.
In establishing Business Influence, Darren searched internationally for established proven coaching models. While there were promoters and franchises out there, there was nothing that provided a template for success.
Without a proven model available, Darren set about to create a unique model from the ground up that would deliver money, time and lifestyle. His model was crafted over many years with the goal of creating both sustainable business success and a leveraged lifestyle.
A passion for business and people culminated in the 2015 publication of his book The Fourth Moon. Expounding his four tried and tested universal elements of business success — Strategy, Implementation, Maintenance, and Leverage - Darren has worked with close to 1,000 businesses to develop clear strategic direction, improve productivity, build leading teams, significantly increase profit and business value; all while enhancing the work-life balance of the entrepreneurs behind those businesses.
While still enjoying coaching and mentoring his stable of private clients, Darren now seeks a new challenge in inspiring Business Coaches through Coachtopia. Coachtopia is exclusively for Business Coaches seeking to play a bigger game and delivers this via applying Darren’s unique business model for sustainable success.
Listen to the podcast
To learn more about Darren, listen to his recent podcast with Andrew Ford from Social Star who interviews successful corporate escapees.
EPISODE 14 - AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BUSINESS COACHES' COACH. HOW DARREN BOURKE ESCAPED CORPORATE AND AN UNFULFILLING BUSINESS TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE LIFESTYLE BUSINESS: COACHTOPIA