Jane’s story

Jane Tweedy has a personal mission in life to leave the world a better place, by empowering and educating a million people to achieve success in their business and careers, so they can be the best versions of themselves. This may sound pretty far fetched, but if you meet Jane you’ll know that her passion is high, and she genuinely means it. Each one of us can ‘be the change’.

An entrepreneur at five

Jane grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. Selling pumices in front of a holiday house when she was a five year old, is where the entrepreneurial spirit first showed it’s head, and at six years old Jane was already volunteering raising money for charity.

University and corporate work

Jane went to university (Victoria University of Wellington) studying commerce and concurrently worked at McDonald’s as a shift manager (with secondary functions like store training manager and payroll/administration manager).

This cemented her view that experience is more important than paper qualifications (yes despite the amount held!). Jane went on to work at some of Australasia’s big four banks, and as the sole investment analyst of the NZD5.5 billion EQC Natural Disaster Fund.

Small business and directorships

Over time Jane started small business ventures including wedding photography, property investing and resume writing. Jane has also been a committee member and director guiding strategy, and is currently a Director on a Bendigo Community Bank board (Hawkesbury – Richmond and North Richmond branches). But it wasn’t until starting as a Small Biz Connect Advisor / Business Connect Advisor with Western Sydney Business Centre that it all became clear – a need to help business owners to kickstart their business, or move it to the next level, but on a global scale.

The formation of FAQ Business Training

Combining on-the-job experience with bite-sized training (when needed) makes sense, and this is where the idea for FAQ Business Training came about. Although the market appears saturated, Jane identified core needs that were not being met – a need for trusted and accurate information, less spruiking while keeping training affordable for more people, and most importantly, filling in the key gaps in knowledge to stop small business owners being ripped off, or failing, through the use of ‘experts’ that simply aren’t. So here we are, a business based on values of transparency, trust, customer needs and helping people to do it yourself (DIY) or outsource with confidence. 

‘International Bestselling Author’

In 2018 Jane shared a slightly expanded version of this story as a chapter in the ‘Amazon International Bestseller’ #BetterWoman BetterWorld. This turned out to be an ‘interesting’ learning experience. It was re-released in 2019 as a paperback book under a new anthology Empowering Women.