Sally-Anne Ferguson

CEO at InnerOrigin

Greater Sydney Area

About

Business Strategy, Leadership, Financial Projections, Marketing, Sales and most importantly Putting Plans into Action and producing Results! I have a kind heart, a fierce mind and a brave spirit! Entrepreneurial years and experiences, in small business, corporate and in my own enterprises have taught me one main thing...you must believe in yourself, and that just saying you believe in yourself is not enough, belief needs to be real, and it must be felt in every cell of your body. It will be tested, but it will also be magic. Relationship Building and creating a Collective Culture are the two things i am most passionate about. An environment in which each person can develop and implement their own leadership skills, and truly live out our own unique and full potential. I integrate all of my Experiences, Learning, Business, Nutrition and other Wellness qualifications into all decisions i make, and have learnt that one thing trumps all skills....and that is learning to listen to your own intuition. I choose to actively show up every day, ready to grow, listen, learn, lead and achieve. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity" Amelia Earhart

Experience

  • Founder and CEO at InnerOrigin Pty Ltd
    2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

    Founded in Australia November 2016, InnerOrigin is a fast growing Revolutionary Online Wellness Marketplace offering the best available health and wellness products and services. InnerOrigin is a movement of like minded individuals who care about transparency of ingredients in the products they use and consume, and it is a platform for those seeking a clever, new age way to shop. Our community of Suppliers, Affiliates and Consumers are all empowered by InnerOrigins business eco system, which provides an innovative and collaborative opportunity for all. InnerOrigin is a marketplace securing a sustainable and positive future.

  • Managing Director at Azelle
    Aug 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Managing Director at Marrs
    Aug 2006 - 2013 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Embraced the role of Managing Director in my family's business. Retail and Commercial Curtains, Blinds, Shutters and Soft Furnishings, mobile service to the home or office. Lots of fun with a lot people and moving parts..... Office/Showroom, Sales consultants on the road, installers out on location, and a sewing manufacturing fatory/workroom. We designed, manufactured and installed amazing window furnishing solutions. I made a decision to decrease the moving parts, and focus on what we did best. Over the next two years created a license manufacturing agreement for the workroom - transitioning from our own workroom, created a retail franchise system with PWC for the mobile showrooms to the home, launched an online store for readymade window furnishings, cushions and Manchester, and retained commercial operations (hotels, schools, hospitals, retirement villages, nursing homes) within the main business. A regular editorial contributor to Home and Design magazines, and featured weekly on channel 9 Top Design TV series

  • Area Manager and Operations at ALDI Stores Australia
    Mar 2000 - 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    After relocation with ALDI to Indiana USA for one year to train and learn the ALDI business overseas, we returned to open ALDI Australia. A busy and successful schedule of fitting out stores, opening stores, hiring, training and promoting store management and staff, creating and settling in business systems, and retaining responsibility for the performance of many stores revenue and KPI achievements. As a team we disrupted the supermarket industry in Australia. My stores were always in the highest performing, and was the first to break and set new productivity benchmarks.

  • Managing Director at Home Style Interiors
    1997 - 2000 · 3 yrs

    Aged 19, and having always wanted to work for myself, I started 'Home Style Interiors' providing soft furnishing and window furnishing solutions to the Sydney domestic market. Like all good first time businesses...I ran Home Style Interiors from the home garage.....often burning the midnight candle, but happily independent and learning all things business..... while completing University Business Degree.